Sentences with phrase «up of a handful of people»

Immediately, the misapprehension that mobile teams are made up of a handful of people was quashed — HARDlight's office proved that idea wrong straight away.

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Independent developers — often just a handful of people and sometimes just a single individual — are popping up faster than mushrooms in a Super Mario game, and they're taking a big chunk of the pie through a thousand little slices.

In the short - but - punchy talk that was recently recommended on both the blogs of both top VC Brad Feld and prominent angel investor Joanne Wilson, Forman offers a handful of tips to companies that want to both make themselves appealing to that vast pool of talent that actually wants a life outside work, and get up to date on cutting - edge people management practices, including:

But looking at the data showed that when a new Twitter user signed up to follow a handful of accounts, that person was much more likely to stick around.

A lot of people still think of the pharmaceutical industry as a free - spending behemoth that counted on a handful of brand - name drugs such as Lipitor, Viagra and Prozac to make up for all the misses.

JPMorgan drew up plans in 2012 to focus on middle - market banking and now has about 50 people in the investment bank dedicated to this group of clients, having hired local, senior, experienced bankers in a handful of regional centers over the past three or four years.

«There are probably a handful of people, five to seven people, who if they just picked up and went, you would see that in the revenue stream,» said Kevin Sullivan, the state's revenue services commissioner.

God created Adam from a handful of dirt and his spouse from a rib; Talking snakes; trees that bear fruit, that imparts knowledge and eternal life; a global flood, that required a pair of each organism on earth, be stuffed onto a boat; people who lived hundreds of years; a man who was swallowed by a fish, only to be spit up 3 days later, unhurt; a tower god was afraid might reach heaven; a woman who is turned into a pillar of salt; talking donkeys; unicorns; satyrs; a leviathan god creates and then does battle with; a zombie messiah, who was actually god incarnate; zombie Saints who left their graves and wandered about the town; belief in a circular, flat earth.

A handful of people started showing up every week to worship in the living room of the Banks House.

I sit and watch a handful of people up the front do everything, while remaining in my seat.

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This salad is almost too simple (yet delicious) to write up a real recipe for it but for MoFo sake: Strawberry Sunflower Sprout Salad 1 handful of fresh Spinach Greens 3 ripe Stawberries sliced 1 handful of fresh Sunflower Sprouts sliced Cucumber chopped red cabbage drizzle of agave nector drizzle of balsamic vinegar ground black pepper And people say that a Vegan diet is too boring?

That said, I have a handful of recipes that I do fall back on when family parties come up or we have people coming in to visit OR on the rare occasion when I just need a quick dinner and there's nothing already made in the fridge.

You're also going to ask the one friend who you know will show up on time to bring a bag of potato chips and a bag of pretzels to go with the kimchi dip, the one friend who you know is going to show up late and feel guilty about it to bring one of those little cases of clementines, and ask a handful of random, reasonably responsible people to bring bars of chocolate, dealers choice.

He is trying to stir up enthusiasm, but while there are thousands of fans around the stadium, there are only a handful of people wandering about the Fan Village.

With the Tinkerman famously not being much of a tinker after all in a campaign where he only made a handful of changes to his starting line - up, many people attributed Leicester City's success last year to the luck they had on the treatment table, which made it all the more unfathomable.

But it is completely hilarious imagining a handful of people up and down the country, sighing, stripping off and going for a quick jog.

«We hope to have a handful of people outside each event to prompt those turning up to consider the conflicts of interest involved in attending events sponsored by a baby milk company.

Now imagine if it weren't just that handful of awful people and instead, an entire internet's worth of awful people, and you have an idea of what Chrissy Teigen puts up with when she posts photos of daughter Luna.

Their blog was read by maybe 30 people on an average day, but among that tiny audience was a handful of more prominent writers, and the videos of past Sotomayor speeches they unearthed began to climb their way up the media food chain.

«The result of this has been huge sections of the British media defended their friends in the so - called main parties and the offensive, idiotic statements made by this handful of people have been lifted up and presented to the Great British public as if they represent the view of this party, which they do not.

There were no big victory speeches to the handful of people who showed up.

Several senior politicians from Gordon Brown downwards, or upwards, tell me they can attract big crowds at a book festival or at a meeting of Make Poverty History, whereas if they deliver the same speech at a party meeting only a handful of people turn up.

Stuart tells the story of an applicant with a fantastic resume who followed up «a handful of times,» even traveling to San Francisco and meeting Stuart in person for an informational interview.

But in recent years, potentially older artifacts have turned up at a handful of sites, including Monte Verde in southern Chile and the Debra L. Friedkin site in central Texas, suggesting that people lived in the Americas long before the Clovis technology turned up.

Because there are only a handful of people qualified to train clinicians in many new therapies, the task of getting tens of thousands of mental health practitioners up to speed on evidence - based therapies through traditional in - person training is a nearly impossible challenge, Stein said.

She was the first person to fill this position at Google after the company got caught up in a handful of privacy debacles that included Street View cars collecting user e-mails, passwords, and URLs.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Up to 60 % of people with chronic insomnia may get relief from just a handful of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) sessions, according to research presented at the annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies.

Up until now, I have only fully revealed this trick to a handful of people.

People tend to underestimate how quickly a «handful of nuts» here and a «couple of chips» there can add up.

When comparing pull - ups to muscle ups, the latter is considered to be more of an achievement since they are harder to achieve and only a handful amount of people can do so.

Like Scrabble — life presents you with a handful of different options to the person next to you, and you work with them to come up with a completely different result to your neighbour.

By signing up with eHarmony, you ensure that only a handful of potential matches will see your profile picture, so you won't turn up in a hundred people's search.

Unfortunately, there are a handful of deceitful people out there, so keep your guard up for a little while longer when meeting people online.

Sign up to be in the best place with people who are looking to find their There are only a handful of rock art sites in the Eastern United States that have been developed for education and public access.

Some people might think that this is one of those situations where an actor says he's going to retire, but ends up coming back for a handful of encores.

For the handful of important people who warrant close - ups, intense hand - to - hand combats with knives are a frequent occurrence.

On the television side, a handful of performers and TV shows picked up double wins including Transparent (LGBTQ Show of the Year and TV Performance of the Year — Actor for Jeffrey Tambor), The People v O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story for TV Drama of the Year and TV Performance of the Year — Actress for Sarah Paulson and Kate McKinnon earned two wins; one for her melancholy musical performance of «Hallelujah» on Saturday Night Live the week of the Presidential election and as the Wilde Artist of the Year (in a tie with Hamilton «s Lin - Manuel Miranda).

A similar ersatz, too - late populism motors The Big Short — the movie begins with a quote from Mark Twain — though the cognitive dissonance it produces is even more dizzying than that generated by The Other Guys «closing credits: The handful of fact - based finance guys the film tracks, who saw that the economy was headed for calamity and made billions of dollars while millions of people lost homes and jobs, are held up as conscience - bearers.

In the years running up to 2030 and beyond, some experts suggest that an increasingly digitized economy will be built around small, agile companies, employing just a handful of carefully chosen people.

How many front list authors go on tour and report back about hosting events where a handful of people showed up and only a few copies of their books were sold?

This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.

They involve time to set up, travel time, and the time in the store and can result in only a handful of people showing up and even fewer sales.

Meaning the embrace of the western ebook players is the luxury of ex-pats and the handful of people who have been to Europe or the USA and have set up accounts while there.

If you are an amazing writer, and you have a good cover and get a handful of reviews up, people will start buying and then sharing your work.

There are a handful of people out there who could load up on SR and truly stick with that for the long haul.

Investigators from Puppy Love Campaigns, who are a small handful of people in the UK who have direct, undercover contact with these people and see their tactics up - close, know this hard and nasty reality.

While it is true that everyone has their own unique palate and way of eating, there are a handful of foods that frequently show up as people's favorites.

Little Corn, especially, is real Jack Sparrow territory, with all the obligatory desert island trimmings, white sandy beaches, crystal waters lapping, etc... The set - up is rustic, to say the least, and you may be one of only a handful of people there, ideal for a group of friends in search of a little piece of paradise.

Mission variety is pretty good; ranging from finding your way to an elevator to reach another level of the ship to making your way to the hibernation chamber to wake up the chief engineer who is one of less than a handful of people onboard the ship that can realistically help your character avoid extermination from an incoming squad of soldiers; not to mention the zombies.