How To Use A bit In A Sentence
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You see that you're undershooting and so, leaving the throttle as is, you attempt to flatten your descent path by lifting the nose a bit - and you enter the region of reverse command.
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Divide half the mixture between 4 glass bowls, then sprinkle with a few fresh raspberries and a bit more crushed honeycomb.
The Sun
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We were a bit unlucky with the group.
The Sun
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My knee has swollen up and it is a bit stiff.
The Sun
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Commander Laurel D' ken smiled wryly as the blue haired officer said to Allison, ‘We'll need to nursemaid them a bit but I think they'd be able to manage well enough.’
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When I ask if he spends money on anything really extravagant, he looks a bit uncertain.
Times, Sunday Times
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We drove a mile or so to Shipley Glen, a wooded hillside where a bit of family fairground fun awaited.
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I thought he had a bit more sense, but no.
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Methone is a bit bigger than Anthe, at 3km (1.8 miles) in diameter, it too was discovered by the Cassini imaging team in 2004.
Tom's Astronomy Blog
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Alaric got a bit annoyed at how long we took to leave becuase of the guinea pigs - I didn't know weather to be sympathetic or laugh when he got narky about it :/
Snell-Pym » Guinea Pigs!
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It was a bit too clean and antiseptic to be really considered an evil lair.
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The screen is a bit of overkill because the audience is not that far from the center of action on the hot shop floor.
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Yes, the gearbox was a bit saggy and I was alarmed at how much pressure the brake pedal needed to do an emergency stop, but other than this, all was well.
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Hmm... a bit of Googling produces this short book review by Charles Solomon, which has the line: "As an essayist, Didion lacks the hyaline profundity of Susan Sontag or the classical erudition of Marguerite Yourcenar ...
Making Light: Open thread 136
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People were gulping down sundowners, women seemed to be, rather disinterestedly, sipping their drinks and picking up a bite.
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The conference has become a bit of a squeeze this year.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her desired outcome was a bit of money to help with major structural repairs.
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He is engaged in a bitter struggle with his rival to get control of the company.
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Why be all miffy and hissy and in a bitch-slapping mood guys, about not being in the military when you can do the work you like in prisons and police forces?
See, it's not all about the election today.
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The building used to look a bit fancier, and much more decorative, but it was never rebuilt.
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You may be trying to invoke the ‘echos from the supernal world’ but they're everywhere and where-ever people say they're doing magic there's a bit of truth there.
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But that makes me sound a bit glib.
Times, Sunday Times
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The terrestrial planets in our solar system all have very specific spectroscopic fingerprints that tell us quite a bit about their atmospheres.
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Lastly, I am a bit of control freak with a blistering pace when it comes to work.
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I was always a bit arty-crafty.
Times, Sunday Times
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Paul's being a bit evasive about this job.
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I'm still feeling a bit cranially sprained, mind you, but the cat seems perfectly happy to be spending a snow day on the couch with me, watching S3 of Mission: Impossible.
The Snowpocalypse Continues
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I stuck some in once when we were a bit short and the old bat threatened to stop it out of my wages.
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Only a bit of string looped round a nail in the doorpost held it shut.
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There were points where it could be a bit cheeky and fun.
Times, Sunday Times
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I try to teach them a bit of Cockney but it's a lost cause.
The Sun
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The premise kinda sounds interesting and it has a good cast, but it also sounds a bit too overdramatic and emo …
Anime Preview: Spring 2010 « Undercover
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They are now locked in a bitter custody battle over their three children.
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Depending on the size of your pippy bag, the proportions will be all wrong, and it will look a bit like a three-dimensional stick person with a huge bloated hydrocephalic head, but don't worry about that.
Hooting Yard
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I'm feeling a bit edgy about the exam tomorrow.
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But if you're just play-acting, RP is all a bit of fun, along with the humorous OOC asides.
"Grow till tall. They all, in the end, will fall."
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She'd do anything for a bit of pin money.
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It didn't break, but George was bleeding and had copped a bit of a shiner.
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Early plans for a bit of work were killed off when he lost his job.
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It had this atmosphere of being a bit fusty, musty and middle class.
Times, Sunday Times
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The idea is to give them a bit of puppy love.
The Sun
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I've been overdoing things a bit recently. I really need a holiday.
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I had a sirloin steak, with béarnaise and frites, which they contrarily call chips, and a bit of salad.
Times, Sunday Times
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If head-to-toe leopard seems a bit too Big Cat Diary to appeal, then a waterproof rucksack or bumbag in the same print are an easy way to add a distinctive touch to a more classic outfit.
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Certain animations are still a bit hitchy, especially involving Mayer's car, but there's still time to resolve those before release.
AdventureGamers.com
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There's nothing at all wrong with a bit of human imperfection here and there.
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Larger butter pieces (not huge, of course, but quite a bit larger than “wet sand”) result in a flakier biscuit.
2009 March | Baking Bites
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I have quite a bit more to say on this, but I'm gonna let you guys stew for a bit before I continue.
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The children were starting to get a bit fed up.
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They were a bit more seedy and sleazy, which was what I liked.
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One of you may turn out to be a bit of a caner.
The Sun
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It also has superb golf courses, so if you're a bit of a golf widow, leave him to tussle in the bunker while you slink off to the spa - it's connected to the hotel by a subterranean tunnel.
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It's not entirely accurate - the book is a bit darker than that, but there is a fair bit of lovable eccentricity to the characters.
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‘Break, break, break,’ for instance, is a bitter poem on unrecompensed, pointless loss, but it achieves its power and makes its point very indirectly, largely through structural implications.
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This contact of his had passed on to him a list of slightly disreputable jewelers and watchmakers in the area, on which I was rather impressed and a bit taken aback to find my appearance.
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The czar looked a bit edgy, but his son the czarevich seemed confident.
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The trek was a bit monotonous at times - I wanted to go faster - but it was relaxing, enjoyable and worth the sore backside.
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Marcus Aurelius's hair stands energetically up, a nimbus of corkscrewing locks, not a bit like the conventional signs for hair that plaster so many Roman marble crania.
The Forever City
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I found it a bit of a strain making conversation with her.
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If they come in close and start getting a bit tasty, then they find I can hand it out too.
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Defensive tackle is a bit more of a crapshoot, but the one thing they must make sure of is that whomever they take has a brilliant mind.
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A bit of background about me - I do hardware, firmware, and driver development by profession, so I think I'm qualified to provide a guess as to what and where it went wrong: for any computer, there's the initial "bootloader," which is what we commonly refer to as
Discussions: Message List - root
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He plays David as a charismatic rogue - someone the audience is supposed to recognize as a bit of a scoundrel, but like nevertheless.
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But King George's smile was a bit awry tonight.
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The one who liked the girls a bit too much. peteyboosh I agree with Pat: composting (Ray should not compost old cheese and tortillas), social cropdusting requires attention at Ediible Geography.
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His wife shopped him to me with a bitter complaint about his clothes bill.
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The remaining three evolutionary forces are nonadaptive in the sense that they are not a function of the fitness properties of individuals: mutation is the ultimate source of variation on which natural selection acts, recombination assorts variation within and among chromosomes, and genetic drift ensures that gene frequencies will deviate a bit from generation to generation independent of other forces.
A Disclaimer for Behe?
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Some of his jokes are a bit too near the knuckle for my taste.
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But it may be a bit ultra violet for most.
The Sun
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He is a bit upset by that, that anybody thought he was wanting to leave just for one half-time where I was more direct with the players than I have been for a few months.
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I find her attitude a bit peculiar, to say the least.
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Rub a bit of peppermint oil directly onto your forehead; it acts as an antispasmodic.
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Hale and hearty, though aged, strong-featured, with the tough and leathery skin produced by long years of sunbeat and weatherbeat, his was the unmistakable sea face and eyes; and at once there came to me a bit of Kipling's
A Winner of the Victoria Cross
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All the more perhaps for that, she was born sagacious, which is a less pleasing, but, in a bitter pinch, a more really useful, quality.
Erema — My Father's Sin
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I am thinking about taking one row of raspberries away, maybe exchange the other one as well for a newer kind with bigger berries in, so we can have a bit more room for flowers along the allotment border.
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I tried that noise she so often used in her interrogatives and she chittered a bit.
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Silence is the rule for our heroes, and that means a bit of extra claustrophobia to scenes that would otherwise be totally generic.
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You notice that your breathing has speeded up a bit.
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Their movements have a likable jazzy syncopation, a bit of relaxed jive.
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He looked a bit worried when I sat down at the table and produced a bunch of inhalers, some pills, a bottle of cough syrup and some throat lozenges and proceeded to stuff them all into my mouth…
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But I do know there is a greater prospect he will seek a bit of equity in the distribution of investment and development of infrastructure than the present triumvirate.
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Choose a white form if you want to add a bit more light to proceedings but, in my humble opinion, speckled purple is the best.
Times, Sunday Times
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It's a bit unexpected not to include any measures of syntactic complexity - even something as simple as mean sentence length.
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This relationship is also honest, but you keep it a bit more circumspect because you know this person is going to follow in your footsteps.
Christianity Today
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Deep navy, in contrast, is less demanding, and leaves a bit more colour in a blonde's cheeks.
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Back in our world, custom has perhaps staled Shakespeare's infinite variety a bit.
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He's managed to stay calm and controlled when the other slebs have been going a bit mad, and just got on with the winning.
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This softly pigmented wax will help shape brows and give them a bit more color to look fuller.
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I think he was a bit miffed.
Times, Sunday Times
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To be back and be sharp takes a bit longer.
The Sun
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She tossed her mane a bit hither and then a bit yonder.
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I'm looking forward to the Gehry building, though, even though it's been watered down a bit from its original design.
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I am not a bit anxious about my battles, If I am anxious I don't fight them, I wait until I am ready.
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If your next record's a bit iffy, you're forgotten.
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Sorry, that was a bit of a goof on my part!
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There were subtle lines on the forehead - just making it all a bit worse!
The Sun
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With a bit of luck, this will finally spell the end of those unforgiving hipster trousers.
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He's not the fastest player on the books and occasionally he can be a bit casual and sometimes gets caught in possession.
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All the while their mother snorted, shuffled about a bit and then went back to sleep.
The Sun
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It is all a bit unnerving.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘I want to come back when it's a bit quieter,’ I shouted over the din of amplified music, throbbing diesel generators and rattling joy rides.
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His mother and father thought Jim was a bit of an oddball too.
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She made one or two snide remarks about their house which I thought was a bit unnecessary.
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The final section of the traverse was a bit of a challenge: delicate, balancey moves with next to nothing for hands or feet.
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As you can see in the photo they're kind of smirking a bit 'cause I snapped their picture with my phonecam.
Archive 2008-04-01
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Your essay gets a bit confused halfway through when you introduce too many ideas at once.
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Quite a bit of tablet weave, where you weave a pattern into the fabric, has been found.
Times, Sunday Times
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I seems like his stance is the same, he has just tinkered a bit with the numbers and specifics.
Obama Pulls Back on Social Security Plan - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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I feel like the popular conception of Freddy Krueger might be a bit different than what you guys are going for here because Freddy Krueger, popularly, is Henie Youngman as a serial killer.
Producers Andrew Form and Bradley Fuller On Set Interview A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET – Collider.com
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You skin looks a bit slack and grey.
Life Without Work
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The man played idly with a deck of cards, shuffling and re-shuffling with a bit of a smirk on his face.
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She's getting old and she tends to ramble a bit.
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There has been a bit of a hoo-ha in recent years about how your blood type influences the type of person you are.
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Beck, who has a PhD in erotology - the study of how art, literature and cultural behaviours influence human sexuality - is a bit of a virgin expert.
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Rampant Victoriana tends to be a bit too fussy for me, but there were some lovely bits of jet and marcasite jewelry that called my name.
Runaway, Jersey-style
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A steady stream of self-released mix tapes and videos - all adhering to the group's cartoonishly horrifying aesthetic, all a bit more deranged than the rest - increased the buzz and kept the conversation going.
In concert: OFWGKTA at U Street Music Hall
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It was a bit like the rowing boat trying to make headway against the flow of the river near the weir.
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They were however a bit thirsty as far as fuel was concerned due to their 4 giant 4125 kilowatt motors, and never reached production.
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Anthony has brought a bit of structure and organisation and a bit of discipline to training.
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One seemed to be defiant and the other seemed a bit weepy.
The Sun
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Nakamura even gives them a bit of an Odd Couple twist: Buddha is frugal and kind of uptight; Jesus goes with the flow.
License request day: Saint Young Men
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FK - pressure-cook would be the best way, but you could try boiling it with plenty of water so that it becomes really mushy, then blend it in a mixer to make a thick soup. or you could use a regular slow-cooker that you get in the US, except that it would be a bit time-consuming:
Gujarati Dal (Healthy Lentil Soup)
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Supporting characters with their own solid fan base is a bit of a scifi phenomena and Atlantis is the poster child for this kind of fannish behavior.
Supporting Atlantis: An Interview with Kavan Smith : SF Universe - SF Universe is your Science Fiction central. From SciFi television to movies to books and more. All the latest news, reviews and insights from SciFi experts.
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Try to improve your lifestyle a bit at a time.
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The ride can feel a bit harsh at times but cabin noise is low.
The Sun
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The Chief Inspector has suggested a complete overhaul of the good book, reducing it to a pacier 250 pages, a greater focus on “Floods and brimstone and other cool stuff” and a possible rewrite by Dan Brown to “Sex the whole thing up a bit.”
Archive 2008-10-01
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If I wanted to find blogs written in Welsh, then I have a bit of a challenge ahead of me.
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I couldn't stand there and risk someone being a bit shirty with him so I touched him lightly on the arm and indicated that he should stand on the right.
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Check from time to time that the liquid has not completely evaporated - there should be just enough left to make a bit of a sauce with.
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(Not to be confused with what we call cookies)To serve Devon, or Cornwall clotted cream would desecrate a good southern biscuit (and be a waste of the cream really, I prefer it on saffron buns)a bit of plain cream, fresh butter, and cane syrup poured over a hot biscuit is ambrosia.
Scones, Cream and Jam - a West Country cream tea
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A perfect mob of street urchins, loafers, shop-men and bar-keepers who could spare a bit of time, lined up in front of the Palace Hotel and watched the plaid-coated, gray-capped visitors in short knickerbockers and golf stockings puff their pipes around the bar and call for "Porter and h'ale, 'alf and
The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras
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Going upmarket, I can go into Dear Soup except on busy days, as the tables are a bit close together and sitting beside a slurper is an ever-present danger.
A table for one | 世論 What Japan Thinks
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After a bit of a stickybeak at the Queen's Scottish residence of Holyroodhouse, we made the most of the remaining daylight walking the length of the Royal Mile through the Old Town back to the castle, stopping by the Heart of Midlothian.
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I thought he was a bit of a fruitcake or an odd fish.
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But as I was mulling this a little later, I was suddenly struck by one of those things that was probably already obvious to everyone else: There are a handful of strange inflection points where rock nerd culture and mass culture are in eerie synchrony for a few moments before skittering off in their respective ways for a bit — and one of them was my early teens.
The (Rock) Stars Are Aligned
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I sat for a moment, wondering what on earth Kip would have done to me once he learned - if he did not already know - that it was I who snitched, when something stung the side of my face a bit.
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So this show proved to be a bit of a departure.
Times, Sunday Times
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He's still a bit wobbly after the operation .
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A little wool, a couple of knitting needles and a bit of time and lives can be changed.
The Sun
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Labour is naturally a bit shell-shocked finding itself out of office for the first time in 13 years.
Times, Sunday Times
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Last time I took my pulse, it was a bit fast.
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On paper, we're a one-person-one-vote nation; in reality, we're more than a bit of an oligarchy, in which a handful of wealthy people dominate.
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Unfortunately she has to work and then has class after work which is a bit of a bummer.
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Annoyingly, the Critical Care was at the bottom of this mug, requiring a little bit of inginuity from Irwin here - namely ramming his paw in and jiggling about a bit.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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I was a bit depressed by our apparent lack of progress.
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It's a bit like telling ghost stories.
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I'll just go and nose about a bit.
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The hummus was creamy with tahini and lemon, although the pittas were a bit dry.
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I do sometimes wish we could flag posts that are in some way related to post flags, when I'm feeling a bit daffy, which is always.
MetaTalk
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Rihanna is real clingy, a bit two clingy saying he cant talk to other women, even though there just friends! but he is also in the wrong for doing it!!!!! like ye dnt go round beatin up women no matter how bad they are! gooddd like … buh i LOVE chris brown so im natt sayn nethn!
Chris Brown Rihanna Break-Up Following Alleged Assault
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He doesn't mean any of us impoliteness, but he needs a bit longer to warm to us.
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The conference has become a bit of a squeeze this year.
Times, Sunday Times
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The criticism is valid up to a point, but television channels are a bit like human beings: none are wholly good or bad.
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I felt a bit like a torpefied Superman a lot of times - Ireland is my Cryptonite, when I'm there I can't do anything, I have to be outside the country.
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She's been a bit edgy lately, waiting for the exam results.
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The colour is a focal point on one wall and adds a bit of personality.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of course, professional framing costs a bit more than buying a frame at Wal-mart and doing it yourself, but with something that really matters to you, its generally a good idea anyway.
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Though her color palette has brightened over the years and animal heads have shrunk a bit from cartoonish proportions of earlier years, her distinctive style soft paintings she calls "cutes" and her choice of subject
NYT > Home Page
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His small, exquisitely crafted pictures could look a bit twee.
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But, try to get him to base jump after you're done bungeeing, well, then you're just being a bitch.
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I felt a bit claustrophobic in the tiny room.
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I have been finding the BBC a bit vanilla of late and will check out Channel 4 news instead.
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His work is thus marked with a bitter irony which permeated not only the substance of his theory but also its method.
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After Colette left he cleared his throat and looked through a newspaper, his long fingers scrabbling a bit at the pages.
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After a bitter internal struggle the Apaches turned down the deal.
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Seems like these two crave a little normality - and a bit of ketchup.
The Sun
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There is jaunty fairground music playing but one of the rabbits looks a bit mournful.
The Sun
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Vodka has very few congeners and bourbon has quite a bit.
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Crikey readers have contributed a lot of stories on circulation rorts, fiddles and the like over the past week or so, but here's another tale, a bit historical, which would be hysterical if it wasn't serious.
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Don’t you think you’re going a bit far in presuming this is a hoax?
FBI Investigating Possible UVa Hate Crime at cvillenews.com
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She lived in a bit of an imaginary world, she says.
Times, Sunday Times
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Still, it's a fine way to introduce kids to some great music, though perhaps not your youngest, as the modernization is a bit dark.
Critic's Corner Wednesday
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Perhaps the next thing he should try is to lighten up a bit.
Times, Sunday Times
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A bit of mentorship, and a bigger budget, might have eased things along.
Times, Sunday Times
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The next number, ‘Coffee's Cold,’ relies on a bouncy ragtime groove with just a bit of swing.
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Lo and behold, get a bit of nicotine down him and a nice cappuccino, and you can't get a word in edgeways.
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She'd been a bit too lavish with the salt, so the soup didn't taste nice.
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Baxter's a bit of a tweener - not big enough to lead block, not quite fast enough to be the every down back in the NFL, despite his productivity in college.
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I still find the whole working from home thing a bit of a task.
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He will entertain spectators and add a bit more quality to our batting.
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She went a bit odd and had to be put away.
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But he will take a bit of baggage with him onto the first tee today.
Times, Sunday Times
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You notice that your breathing has speeded up a bit.
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Since WWII, they have bombed 21 countries and I think the "Rest Of The World" is getting a bit jack of it.
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It's all very much of its time, and sounds a bit dated now, but Beats and Pieces holds up well, as does Find a Way (with excellent vocals by Queen Latifah).
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They keep me grounded, and if I ever get a bit big headed, I'm not too big for a clip round the ear!
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Apparently there's some kind of oxidization going on, and the result is that after you eat something made with these pine nuts, you experience a bitter taste in your mouth that can last for a few days up to three weeks.
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I'm of the personal opinion that anyone who writes a bit of music with six flat signs is just plain showing off.
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He claimed his goal was "tinged with a bit of disappointment" and rued the fact that United had only partly exploited their opportunity.
Manchester United worried by Wayne Rooney injury after draw at Bolton
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When I make dinner now and my children barely touch a bite, I see dollar bills going in the trash as I scrape the dinner dishes after the meal.
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Everybody is athletic enough to make that last-ditch tackle or cover that gap when someone is a bit tired.
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If Khouri is as mentally unstable as the article implies then that's a bit harsh, don't you reckon?
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The head doorman is a bit of joker and you can have a laugh with him but it's not advisable to upset him too much.
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It was a bit of a comedown in that we had to pack up everything and then spend 48 hours homeless - living in other people's spare rooms, our car packed to the gunnels with all our worldly possessions.
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The children whined, splashing each other and Knazarath a few more times, but then followed the guard to the bedroom obediently, if a bit noisily.
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But that one was a bit boring.
The Sun
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If a student is in debt or a bit cash-strapped they shouldn't put themselves at risk.
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But all in all, what with the weather and a degree of jadedness occasioned by a bit of sleep disturbance, it's not been a thrilling day.
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It is nice to get a bit of the "other side" of the story ... my version of World History taught in freshman year of High School, al; though not strictly anti-Catholic, nevertheless really downplayed the accomplishments of the Church.
Weird Things
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In that context, I found phrases like these kind of disconcerting and hard to read: the passions of his bewildered heart … a maelstrom of melancholicaly erupted emotion … causing a bit of the guilt to spatter through his brow … that would never permit his repression, never allow for nothing short of predetermined apocalyptic salvation.
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