Sentences with phrase «very nick of time»

But, as Popper points out, this reductionist passage was written in the very nick of time, for it was in the same year that Chadwick announced his discovery of the neutron and Anderson (1933) first discovered the positron.

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This gap has now been filled, and very much in the nick of time too — as it's been a warm summer.

In the very first chapter, the main character is rescued in the nick of time by a classmate as a drunken partygoer attempts to violently force himself on her.

While bus may be the cheaper option for you to travel we often hear a lot of complains from our guests that the public buses are never on time, they take too long of a time to travel hence the nick name «chicken bus» as it literally stops every 100 meters, they are slow and uncomfortable without air - conditioning, safety and security concerns for your luggage and hand luggage, and more than anything the schedules change so frequently that they are very unreliable.

I love a good design challenge though, and fortunately, we were able to spruce things up just in the nick of time, and without spending very much moola either!