Sentences with phrase «than a handful when»

Before you know it, Bilbo's comfortable home is filled with dwarves — thirteen of them (don't worry if you can't remember them all — you'll be doing well to remember more than a handful when the movie is over)-- who turn his cozy home into a wacky dinner party then present him with a contract to become the group's burglar (Gandalf's idea, naturally).

Not exact matches

When she saw a handful of early - education products sell more than 100,000 units each, she knew this was a market that would serve one of her elegant financial models well.

Burnie Burns, cofounder of Austin - based Rooster Teeth, a production company with 300 - plus staffers that produced the made - for - YouTube sci - fi comedy Lazer Team and its upcoming sequel, still remembers being dumbstruck almost a decade ago, when Rooster Teeth consisted of little more than a handful of friends, by what the service offered: «They completely changed the game in terms of the ability to monetize video with pre-roll advertising.

He began working with HubSpot in 2007 when the company had a handful of customers and fewer than 10 employees, helping the HubSpot team with rapid sales and marketing strategies that have grown the company to more than 30,000 customers in 90 countries.

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.

When fresh herbs start to grow like weeds in the late summer months, there's nothing better than using handfuls of them...

I have found this to be especially crucial when working from home (due to frequent grazing) and now having a mini person, simply because I am not always interested in making myself lunch and would rather eat another few handfuls of trail mix and a piece of toast than make a mess and wash dishes.

Except when winter has been so hard and cruel that the ground hasn't been snow - free for more than a handful of days for months (plural).

When it comes to snacking on game day, things get a little fancier than a cup of yogurt or a handful of almonds, but I still try to keep things healthy.

appreciative he's with us and not in opposition when on song he's more than a handful.

He's so good that even when he's on cruise control, he's more valuable than all but a handful of players in the league.

The way Le Prof reacted after that miss Im sure he wont be giving you no more than a handful of chances when our injured wingers return.

Breastfeeding your baby when you've got older children to look after can sometimes be a handful: your attention is split between the children and toddlers demand a little more focus than you can sometimes manage with a baby latched on.

It came in more than abundantly with OK who I pumped religiously around the clock every two hours for, it came in a tiny bit, but not much, with the singleton who was also way too early to attempt to save, and it came in even more abundantly than for OK with MK, even though I only pumped ever three hours and made sure I got at least one six hour stretch of sleep a night, and my worst oversupply problem of all of them was with YK, who I only pumped those first few days a handful of times when I felt up to it.

I keep some on hand for those days when I'm in too much of a rush to prepare anything since it's better to munch on fruit than a bag of chips or a handful of cookies.

We should better ensure that a new agenda will be pursued whereby every member will have the opportunity to vote in the primary so that it will be more representative of the thinking of party members which ordinarily it supposed to be than when you have a handful of people who turned opportunists overnight and could not see any objective than maximising their returns.»

Folks other than a handful of Democratic Party insiders ought to have a say in who holds elected office, especially when there's an open seat involved.

In 1975, when St. Louis encephalitis struck Chicago, more than 500 people contracted the disease and 47 died; the next year only a handful were infected.

I've worked with more than a handful of clients who were using essential oils at the advice of the Internet, and were very disappointed when all of their digestive or skin problems weren't resolved through essential oils.

- Nuts and nut butters — while most almond, cashew, walnut and other nut based trail mixes or nut butters tend to be much healthier than the average peanut butter, they are also very high in heated oils (which produce cell - damaging free radicals) and inflammatory omega - 6 fatty acids — which can tend to dump inflammation on an already stressed athlete's body when overused to the extent most people implement such sources (by the handful and heaping spoonful).

Founded in 2002 when a handful of Northern California businesses first signed on to support environmental causes, 1 % for the Planet has grown to more than 1400 member companies who are financially committed to creating a healthier planet.

Other than a handful of currently - active athletes who have come to our facility for training, I can't think of a single person who, when asked what they're goals were, mentioned anything about strength.

When I started this whole adventure I never dreamed I would have more than a handful of women paying attention.

I love the statement earring trend but I've only worn something other than my studs a handful of times since the boys have been born - when you have a cousin who's ears were destroyed by a baby tugging on her hoop earrings (remember them?)

There were more than a handful of times in Houston when I would be knee deep in some sort of issue and realize, «Oh my gawd.

When given the option to choose between a handful of colors I often gravitate towards the brightest, prettiest color even though it's much harder to wear than choosing the same item in a neutral color.

It is hard to remember how few serious film critics held podiums twenty years ago (when Time magazine carried more influence, for that matter, than all the rest of the media combined — among the handful of moviegoers who read reviews at all).

Rather than just having their video / DVD stolen, they'll find modern technology will play a part when they accidentally sync to a handful of other devices including those of Diaz's mother and even the mailman!

Other than the warden's office (which could have literally been shot in another corner of the cell block) there are only a handful of exteriors when the prison guards start firing into the cell block.

While there are a few twists and turns, and a handful of aggressively lengthy cutscenes, plot is decidedly not the focus of Xenoblade Chronicles X. Rather than forcing you through a set of linear plot beats, the game lets you decide when to take on any given story progression mission for the chapter you're on.

But the most notorious episode of pubescent female hysterics occurred more than 300 years ago in the rolling farmlands north of Boston, when a handful of girls, ages 9 - 20, launched an infamous chapter in American history: the Salem witch trials.

As states develop their initial ESSA plans, most informed observers agree that only a handful will do much more than check the box on federal requirements (e.g., state's duty to act when localities consistently ignore failing schools or groups of children who have no good options).

When he arrived at that meeting, he expected a handful of agitated parents, but more than two dozen showed.

When Miles took over the principalship of Sterling Elementary in July 2017, she realized that staff retention was one of the school's most pressing issues, as only a handful of staffers had been at the school for more than five years.

Furthermore, it makes no sense to defund public schools, which 85 - 90 % of kids attend, for the benefit of the 5 percent that attend charters, when only a handful perform better than public schools, while most do the same — or worse.

When we last saw the Toyota GT86 GT4 racecar, it was campaigning in Britain's grueling 24 Hours of Silverstone with only a handful more horsepower than the stock car's 200.

When the Ford Escape debuted in 2001, there was only a handful of small crossovers in existence — today, there are more than 20.

The 8 - series brought a handful of new technical features to the brand, including dynamic stability control, an aerodynamic drag coefficient of less than 0.3 g and the automatic lowering windows that move down an inch when you close the door.

I don't think we'll ever go back to a time when big publishers give marketing help to more than a handful of authors.

In some ways, the current state of digital publishing is even more mysterious to indie writers than when the doors first opened on publishing a handful of years ago.

On a random note, less than a handful of people raised their hands when asked if they knew who Tezuka was.

I hadn't written more than two pages, however, when Handful began talking in the first person.

This time, when comparing only the earnings of «New» authors who debuted after 2010, we see that below a tiny handful of mega-selling Big - 5 debuts (like Veronica Roth), far more «New» indie authors are making a good living from their Kindle e-books than their «New» Big - 5 peers.

When digital publishing first began experiencing its major growth spurt only a handful of years ago, many critics argued that a digital book was no better than its print counterpart, mostly since many e-publishers at that time were simply creating an identical page format on a screen - based devices.

It gets pretty close — especially when you fully embrace Jelly Bean 4.2 — but until Google Play is furnished with more than a handful of 10 - inch specific apps the iPad and its choice of 275,000 wins the battle.

When they believed in a handful of volunteers that were trying so hard to make a difference in the lives of these animals, we began to believe in us and we have gone to accomplish so much more than we ever imagined.

So, as far as I understand you were around World Nomads when there were only a handful of employees - how have things changed since then other than your continued disdain for suits?

There's less than a handful known copies which sell for ridiculous amounts of money when they go up for sale.

The trailer above for the Flash & Thunder multiplayer DLC for Killzone 2 was oddly MIA when yesterday's announcement and handful of screenshots arrived, but better late than never we always say.

There you're rarely faced with more than a handful of enemies at a time and even when you are they're all as fragile as you (Bosses being an exception, of course).