Sentences with phrase «years of fiddling»

Years of fiddling with those latches and constantly rubbing the cabinets in the same place took its toll.

I remember after eight years of fiddling around at platform building when I finally decided I simply had to become published.

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Professor Rachel Dutton, along with postdoctoral researchers Ben Wolfe and Julie Button, has spent the past several years mapping, analyzing and otherwise fiddling with the microbial communities in 160 different kinds of cheese rind.

«This year, however, (OPEC's) production curbs will increasingly have to make do with playing second fiddle to a Texas - sized wave of U.S. shale growth,» Stephen Brennock, oil analyst at PVM Oil Associates, said in a research note Wednesday.

Years of self - described «fiddle - faddling» with valves and wires in the back of his real estate office paid off with Marotta's 1968 invention of the Mr. Coffee coffeemaker.

But at that time in history there was a lot of «fiddling around» with calendars and again the date of the new year was floated to coincide with the Solstice.

Popularized by Walter Knott at his Buena Park farmstand — years before Knott's Berry Farm morphed into Southern California's second - fiddle amusement park — this blackberry - raspberry hybrid boasts large fruit and a tart - yet - sweet taste that brings together the best qualities of both its parents.

Over the years, I've fiddled with dozens of variations, and each November, I thrive on coming up with new, creative ways to eat it, but this year, I just wanted to do something simple and classic, which is exactly what this Sage and Leek Stuffing is.

That said my point was that saying the Sixers haven't beaten a Kyrie team since 2012 - 2013 is kind of misleading, you and I both know there are lots of teams the Sixers didn't beat in that time span, and the fact that Kyrie played 2nd fiddle to the best player in the world during three or four years in that stretch only further exaggerates his ability to singlehandedly down the Sixers.

The 33 - year - old swapped west London for north London this summer in a # 10 million deal at the end of June after playing second fiddle to 23 - year - old Thibaut Courtois at Chelsea last season.

No words of wisdom from the wenger faithful then... to be honest am not even feeling vindicated after 5 years of saying enough of this deluded nostalgist just shocked at the mid table football the 8m quid man now serves up... his exit will need to be followed by at least half a dozen of his hapless progeny... and boards short termist disrespect to fans means they will have to cough up a packet if this team is going to get back to the top of European football... the 3m quid consultant needs to disappear up the orange man's tax fiddling backside as well...

Pedro Rodriguez spent three years in the same squad as the Chilean and they both had to play second fiddle to the likes of Messi, Neymar and David Villa but they both chipped in with a decent amount of goals and assists.

They have a shelf life of 8/10 years at the very top if they are lucky so who can begrudge them the opportunity to make hay whilst the sun is shining... am not saying Sanchez is not money driven but the way the guy plays i can mortgage my life he actually enjoys the game, enjoys wining first and foremost then money comes 2nd... like the author of the article rightly pointed out, he was in Messi's shadow at Barca and could not express himself fully, now he is at a club where he is the main man and given a free role and license to express himself and i very much doubt if he will want to go to a club like Madrid (as been rumoured in the dailies today) to relieve the bad experience he suffered at Barca because let us face facts, he is never going to displace CR7 as the main man, so even if Madrid sells Benzema or Bale to make room for him he will be back to the same position he was at Barca, this time he will be playing 2nd fiddle to CR7 so my guess is all the Madrid talks is been fed the press by his agents to drive a hard bargain when contract extension talks resumes.....

The 24 - year - old is yet to score a league goal for the Blues this term and spent the majority of last season playing second fiddle to Diego Costa, while he is now behind summer signing Alvaro Morata in the pecking order.

After years of playing second fiddle to his countrywomen, K.J. Choi found the spotlight at the Masters

Greedy Stan Kronke is only concerned with making money, and if Usmanov sells up then we are in it deep cos Wenger will continue to steal a living from the club as will that clown Walcott.We are also rans, there is no real desire to spend a penny more than necessary and every year Wenger fiddles around at the edges of the team but never really completes the job, I'm sick of watching the same game over and over, Wenger waving his arms about but doing the like for like subs on about 70 mins as usual while Bouldy sticks to his vow of silence, we are a joke among the top teams, and if Wenger signs a new deal then I may have to take a 2 year sabbatical cos I'm sick of the man and his bu # * ~ $ t press conferences,

Reds boss Brendan Rodgers has previously insisted he has no intention of allowing Agger to leave this summer, however the 29 - year - old made it clear at the end of last season that he is unwilling to play second fiddle at the club.

He had therein played second fiddle for the season after which he was shipped out to the Giallorossi on a two - year loan contract which is due to expire at the end of this month.

The 30 - year - old joined in 2014 in the middle of the row over whether Iker Casillas should start or not, and played second fiddle to the Real Madrid legend.

For a new years present i would like a Tommy V and Gibbs «fit as a fiddle» for the remainder of the season!!!!

Personally I'd like to see him stay as a back - up for whoever comes in to replace Mathieu Flamini but I can understand why — at 32 — he wouldn't want to spend his remaining few years playing second fiddle, especially while he remains the captain of Brazil.

Cech who has spent 11 years in between the sticks for the Blue's is unwilling to play second fiddle to new - boy Thibaut Courtois next season and Chelsea are prepared to grant Cech, one of their longest serving players, his wish by letting him leave to any club of his choice.

Or when he is sensitive enough to the emotions of the 5 year old (who plays him like a fiddle, I might add) and allows her to come out of a situation pride intact.

I wish I'd seen this video years ago, as I wasted a lot of time fiddling with unnecessary noodles.

Albans) drew the ire of influential billionaire and future Senate coup architect Tom Golisano by fiddling with his BlackBerry during a meeting earlier this year.

«Tax change is one of the greatest causes of complexity, and having two major fiscal events a year encouraged government to keep fiddling about with the system, while frequently not allowing enough time to consult on planned changes.

HUMANS were fiddling with climate thousands of years before the onset of agriculture — albeit unwittingly.

I've been experimenting with micellar water formulas quite a lot over the last year and while the concept is simple enough in theory, it took quite a lot of fiddling and refining to create something that is lovely in reality.

Besides, being the founder of Fit As A Fiddle and having worked in retail for 4 years including enterprises like Reliance Brands, I am also a full - time shopping expert for a US - based app called MEZI.

This time of year when my crafting routine is in overdrive, I spend countless hours in front of the computer fiddling with Christmas Silhouette cut files.

Won the Illinois State Fiddle Championship when she was 12 years old; that same year she was voted Most Promising Fiddler in the Midwest by the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America.

Why It's Paul Bettany's Movie: Creation is a biopic that seemingly exists to give Paul Bettany a major leading man role, rare for him after years of playing second fiddle to the likes of Heath Ledger (A Knight's Tale), Russell Crowe (A Beautiful Mind, in which Crowe romanced Bettany's future real - life wife, Jennifer Connelly), and Russell Crowe yet again (Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World).

The former portions are dominated by all sorts of guitars, banjo, mandolin, harmonica and fiddle and are delightful, varying from a gentle country / bluegrass feel (the lovely opening «Ten Years Later») to at times a more rock - inspired approach (as in «Riding to the Ranch»).

Opening with the 13 - year - old Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) fiddling with his wand beneath a blanket, the theme of self - discovery unfolds along jagged, de-romanticized lines like the rough rhythms of an Irish lyric or, more to the heart of the matter, a Mexican folk tale, all of blood, dirt, and heroic fervour.

They hate movies, but who can argue with that considering that a typical critic may see 100, 150, 200 or more each year, most of which are without originality, full of clichés, with actors who phone in their performances and who play second fiddle to car crashes, helicopter gunships, and crashing music?

The government's focus should be on investment in the thousands of early years providers in England, not fiddling with 160 grammar schools to appease a couple of dozen back - benchers.

Assuming it's true — state officials seemed to waffle, fiddle, and redefine when asked tough questions by reporters — this would go a long way toward explaining why Texas has for years had a rate of special - ed placements below just about every other state in the union, and far below a handful of jurisdictions (such as Massachusetts) that are pushing 20 percent.

Two years later, Ford has revised the Fusion with only minor fiddling of equipment, and that's OK, as the Fusion remains one of our top choices in the highly competitive midsize sedan market.

After many years of playing second fiddle to better marketed and often better equipped smartphones from OEMs such as Apple,...

At just three years old, children already see cats as playing second fiddle to dogs, suggests a new study of kids» responses to animals.

I wasn't a fan of Apps Edge on last year's Note 7, but the new app pairing feature allows you to pin two apps together to instantly launch into split - screen view — a much quicker and easier process than fiddling with the Recent Apps screen.

Of course, given that I spent the vast majority of my year with Android, I have come up with viable cross-platform alternatives — Google Docs is pretty good, and Mealime is great, too — but it still feels like Android apps play second fiddle to their iOS counterpartOf course, given that I spent the vast majority of my year with Android, I have come up with viable cross-platform alternatives — Google Docs is pretty good, and Mealime is great, too — but it still feels like Android apps play second fiddle to their iOS counterpartof my year with Android, I have come up with viable cross-platform alternatives — Google Docs is pretty good, and Mealime is great, too — but it still feels like Android apps play second fiddle to their iOS counterparts.

In terms of other products: PC games platform Qzone record 611 million month active users — up 5.9 percent year - on - year and 1.4 percent quarterly, while its Tencent Weibo microblog — which so often plays second fiddle to Sina Weibo — recorded 81 million active users per day.

If you happen to be sitting on any of the cars listed in the HAGI Index as having strong growth potential, like an E46 BMW M3, a rarer example of the 993 - generation 911, or even an A80 Toyota Supra, you're likely going to want to keep it as fit as a fiddle for a few years while fending off buying offers from speculators.

Of the four fiddle leaf figs I've had over the years, none are still with me.

I've had the same fiddle three for three years, and a smaller bush for about five and I'm so proud of them.

Am curious, did you put the fiddle leaf figo ver the years in the exact same spot and all of a sudden this one has taken off?

I shared one of my sad fiddle leaf sagas (a different fiddle leaf) a few years ago and unfortunately, that one didn't make it.

A mixture of faux greenery and real plants always works well and our fiddle fig Phil is still going strong for almost a year now.

I've worked for 11 years at a nursery greenhouse with all kinds of green plants, including the fiddle leaf fig.