Sentence examples for a tad behind from inspiring English sources
'a tad behind' is a correct and usable expression in written English
You can use it when you want to describe how something is slightly behind or lagging. For example, "We're a tad behind schedule, so let's make sure we're back on track soon."
England are just a tad behind that pace.
But now, Ms. Steinem, a seminal figure of the women's movement and a founder of Ms. magazine, had to be asked a question that some feminists might consider a tad behind the times.
But after reducing a triple flip to a single midway through her short program, and finishing a tad behind the music from "East of Eden, Kwann was in the same position as usual: atop the standings.
It might also just mean that the weird, sideways movement of the jobless claim numbers from late March to May made identification of the actual peak tricky, and so the American economy is just a tad behind where Mr Hamilton thinks it is.Nate Silver, statistical wunderkind, seems to be suggesting that this latter possibility is the right one, and that labour market numbers will soon turn positive.
He was second in the 400 in 49.91, a personal record, and just a tad behind Servite's Julian Lujan (49.70).
So, having come to feminism pretty late -- and only, really, because my body had changed so much as to make certain men treat me differently thanks to being more "conventionally" attractive -- I was a tad behind on the whole issue of privilege and the spectrum of shame, abuse and misogyny that surrounds online conversations today.
What connects the dots — in the community debate about overhauling the Police Department, and now in the sense of vulnerability in a city that usually feels tidy, if not a tad smug, behind its liberal ramparts — is a riptide of guns.
But when he was making his 2006 debut These Streets, largely comprised of songs he wrote while still at school, he was still a tad damp behind the lugs.
With an industry still a tad damp behind the ears, untainted by the avarice of its nascent prosperity, Brimble was offered a generous contract for gaming soundtracks: a 4% of net profits percentage cut was on the table.
Philipp Lahm ventured that his team were "no longer used to going behind", which sounds a tad patronising but also rings unmistakably true.
The second-smallest state, behind Rhode Island, Delaware is a tad out of the way, by East Coast standards.
