Sentences with phrase «than a handful as»

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Almost three decades after launching the company as an indie film production house with little more than $ 300 and a lot of youthful enthusiasm, he and co-founder Seaton McLean and a few other early shareholders had all become rich beyond imagining on the strength of a handful of lucrative properties, including HGTV, the Food Network and the spectacularly successful CSI franchise.

(A handful of states, including Alabama, Arkansas and Minnesota, mandate even less than the federal minimum wage, which was established as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and contained exemptions for some poorer states.)

Like many, he points to the CSeries, which is expected to be ready for test flights in June, as far more important to the company's long - term success than a handful of big deals in the business line.

Hogan brought about 25 AmerCable employees to his session — more than 10 % of his work force — as well as a handful of his investors, all of whom worked together to generate goals that employees could commit to because they had created them for themselves.

This is a cool strategy, and one that can earn you a decent ROI, but there are a handful of disadvantages for SaaS companies that make it less than ideal as a long - term marketing solution:

As Pein shows, the world where a handful of billionaires own more wealth than the majority of the world's population is not just the stuff of fantasy, it's the world we're living in.

While other companies are claiming to have started drone delivery services in other countries — such as one that launched in Iceland yesterday — very few have delivered more than a handful of goods, or are available to more than a few people who live in places where drones can land easily.

Of the many shortcomings of the pre-Fed currency and banking system, none struck sincere reform proponents of all kinds as being in more dire need of correction than the tendency of the nation's bank reserves to flow into the coffers of a handful of New York banks during seasons apart from the harvest, combined with the annual (and occasionally mad) harvest - time scramble for those same reserves.

Indeed, world currency markets have roared back to life lately after years of hibernation, with a handful of monetary policy surprises — including the European Central Bank (ECB)'s bigger - than - expected bond buying program and the Federal Reserve (Fed)'s delay in raising rates — leading to rising volatility, as the chart below shows.

Still, Google's broadband Internet service Google Fiber, which offers broadband service 100 times faster than the national average, is also small scale in that it is only offered in a handful of metropolitan areas in the U.S. Despite Fiber's developmental nature, it has already prompted traditional broadband providers such as Comcast and AT&T to amp up their offerings to the same 1 - Gbps that Fiber offers.

More Spray Tan than Substance Start - Ups offers a handful of genuinely valuable moments — an insider's peek at when employee - turned - entrepreneur Kim Taylor decides to leave her job and start a business of her own, for instance; or when the unfocused upstart Ben Way mentions to an investor that he has over 40 companies, which comes off as amateurish bragging.

In A Handful of Dust, Waugh treats adultery as something ugly and frivolous» more an expression of anomie than of lust.

Further, as no one was quoted, it's impossible to know if the single reference to the meeting is nothing more than an aggregate of the author's handful of experiences at the beginning.

Part of the magic of cooking traditional Indian cuisine is that it doesn't have to be about hunting down specific ingredients to make it authentic in a Western sense, such as powdered garam masala, you can use just a handful of ingredients at hand to whip this up quicker than you can say; Holy Haryana.

If you eat more than a handful per day, you may want to take digestive enzymes as you eat them.

This recipe, which utilizes often discarded broccoli stems, as well as a healthy handful of grated cheddar cheese, is not quite as good as the Watt's version, but it's certainly easier to make these than to hop on a plane to Durham every time I want a little taste of the South.

Also known as pulao, this luxurious rice dish can be made with a handful of ingredients in less than an hour.

I will probably eat them by the handful as a snack rather than as a cereal as I don't drink milk and don't like almond milk.

You may always take a handful of the fruits out of the bag and puree or mash them as needed; keep these prepared fruits in the refrigerator for no more than 3 days.

For more than a decade, Hospitality Design magazine has annually honored a handful of designers, architects, brand executives, and owners as our Wave of the Future — those who are young enough to be considered visionary, but tested enough to be accomplished.

They aren't exactly detox food, as they are made with medjool dates — dried fruit is off the menu — but if you are going to have a splurge, these are far better than diving headfirst into a handful of Christmas chocolates.

Haas» second season in F1 didn't quite reach the heights of their debut year which saw a handful of top six finishes and served as a campaign in which the team firmly established itself as a key player in the midfield rather than a new squad just there to make up the numbers, something we have been accustomed to with other new teams in recent years.

Some may argue that he bought more than a handful of flops but a lot of the players were bought as promising youth.

As for the roster, they have only a handful of above average players who a) are under contract for 2018, and b) will be younger than 29 in September.

If a goalkeeper as trustworthy and experienced as Claudio Bravo could have such a disappointing season in goal for City, there could have been no guarantees about this then -23-year-old Brazilian who had played less than two full seasons for Benfica, including just a handful of Champions League games.

For one thing, only a handful of players — most of them superstars such as Michael Jordan, Karl Ma - lone, David Robinson, Barkley, Clyde Drexler and Kevin Johnson — get to the line more often than Marciulionis, and only the Mailman shoots more free throws per minutes played.

Pogba is also more than happy to remain in Manchester, and knows that his price tag — which would be well in excess of # 100million — is only within reach of a handful of European teams — as he would no consider a move to China at this point of his career.

The return of Andre - Pierre Gignac is a massive boost for Didier Deschamps, as the France international will be a real handful for the United defence, especially in the air, where United have looked unstable on more than one occasion this season.

September 2017 has seen the return of my business, different products and new ideas I have been trying my best without much success, I've been to the Google Digital Garage for help using their services as a group and 1 to 1, I feel I have more underestanding but still only a handful of sales, I have started my own web site and feel that I'm on the computer more than actually making anything.

If your child is a handful, if you spend your days saying «no, no, no», if you find yourself parenting in a way that you aren't proud of (as we all do, more often than we would like to admit), then let me suggest that maybe it isn't your kid, and maybe it isn't you.

I think the attendees painted themselves into a corner, and except for a small handful, were acting as they were to defend, as you say, their decision to be there more than defending Nestle per se.

Note, though, that the «Learning from Obama» e - book / guide to the 2008 online campaign continues to do just as well — it's actually been downloaded a handful more times so far this month than the new book.

A handful of legislative leaders agreed to reveal incomes - most surprisingly, Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., who admitted making more than $ 250,000 as CEO of the nonprofit Soundview Health Center.

John Major had to deal with a very significant Europhile tendency in the parliamentary party and in those days I used to come across Europhile activists frequently, they were probably a majority in the constituency I lived in.Now however I doubt more than 20 % of our parliamentary could be classified in any sense as Europhile and amongst the activists that I meet they are rarer than Hens teeth, even on this blog there are only a handful.

He can be sharply critical even of those closest to him, a mercurial person whose admiration is reserved for a handful of people, including both his father and former president Bill Clinton, whose politics Andrew came to see as more practical than his father's.

These men and women also allow flexibility, often giving a little bit of money to a lot of different companies rather than going all in on a handful of companies as many big firms do.

The deep 3 - D map also revealed young galaxies that existed as early as 12.5 billion years ago (at less than 10 percent of the current universe age), only a handful of which had previously been found.

The results are published as the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaches, with MDG4 (to reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under - five mortality rate) unlikely to be achieved by more than a handful of countries.

Health care officials and aid workers attempting to trace the progression of the Ebola virus disease outbreak that has claimed more than 2,800 lives so far (pdf) have come to rely heavily on a handful of disease - monitoring Web sites that act as pivotal hubs for processing information.

Being able to study quantum systems with a large number of components — or «qubits,» as they are often called — also has important implications for future quantum technologies, as Carleo points out: «If we want to test quantum computers with more than a handful of qubits, that won't be possible with conventional means because of the exponential scaling.

Rather than send a million emails in hope of a handful of responses, make a million articles that will be perceived as relevant enough by the search engines to get top billing for a handful of searches and by a person to click through and contribute ad revenue.

We will continue to learn more about nutrition as science progresses, but we should have a better foundation than a handful of unexplained statistical correlations on which to act in the face of uncertainty.

Isabel Marant was one designer that was able to (as usual) inspire more than a handful of summer projects.

I would describe myself as hershey bar complexion, voluptuous and perfect for the man that wants more than a handful.

With understated fatalism rather than Titanic - size hysteria — at once slapstick and ice - cool — McKellar tracks a handful of average but bizarre Canadian earthlings as they prepare in small, banal, personal ways for extinction, then links them in a bigger human whole.

They're both strong actors and obviously share chemistry, they just never get much more than a handful of insults and declarations of love to develop an entire relationship and it falls a bit flat as a result.

This is never so clear as the handful of times Super Troopers 2 returns to old bits, which more than anything else remind us nothing in this new film is remotely as funny as the first one.

That makes no sense at all — I could name a handful of movies that would be as good as, or better than the official selections.

If Streep's role as Pankhurst is showy enough, or, let's be honest, if she speaks more than a handful of lines, she'll secure a Supporting Actress nomination.

In the end it is even less than a Reader's Digest - like synopsis as it simply skips over entire episodes and rather focuses on events from a handful of episodes from the beginning and end of the season in question.