Sentence examples for a poor bit from inspiring English sources

Twice they come at pace, but some sturdy tackles and, at the death, a poor bit of handling from Sione Fanua see their chance of a famous yet entirely attainable victory disappear as the referee signals for time.

"After half-time we had a poor bit of play and we gave England the lead.

It was a poor bit of defending all round, with goalkeeper Jason Brown failing to cover the near post with his body never mind glory, although television replays suggested O'Connor had been offside.

I don't believe you can force people to visit Avebury – or the Orkneys for that matter – but it seems a pretty poor bit of patronising to not at least make strenuous efforts to encourage them.

The "good" bits were poor, and the poor bits were awful.

Blackburn manager Gary Bowyer: "We are disappointed, I was pleased with how we passed it about but we have undone ourselves with two poor bits of defending.

The first, from south to north in the early 20th century, left behind people in the Mississippi Delta, which is now the poorest bit of the country.

However, the repetition coding scheme is not preferred as it provides a poor trade-off between bit error rate and data rate.

Cech's muted return The Chelsea legend got a bit of a poor reception by his former supporters.

Presenters Sam Nixon and Mark Rhodes were a bit of a poor man's Mel and Sue, but the kids seemed to love them and this show was all about the kids – albeit some bloody precocious ones.

For that, mercifully, the TV cameras are switched off.The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, a brand-new award, is a conscious attempt to sprinkle a similar kind of stardust onto engineering, which has long worried that it is seen as a bit of a poor relation to more academic science.