Sentence examples for achieved a bit of from inspiring English sources

The band achieved a bit of notice in 1998 when its cover of the Dead's "Sugar Magnolia" appeared in the 1999 Julia Roberts film "Runaway Bride".

He also achieved a bit of notoriety for spinning the puck on his stick during a failed penalty shot attempt against Tuukka Rask.

Mr. Shalhoub, who has an Emmy of his own, said that in his guest spots Mr. Turturro (above right with Mr. Shalhoub in a scene from the winning episode) had achieved a bit of acting magic.

The threat in Darfur is that the violence will soon jeopardise the continuation of humanitarian support for the refugees and destabilise a region that had only recently achieved a bit of equilibrium, if not exactly peace.

I recently have achieved a bit of notoriety after scoring two successive hat tricks; how do you keep yourself grounded when you are successful?

It was as if, by redeploying patterns traditionally associated with heavy-duty, hard-wearing garments onto barely there, light-as-air fabrics, Chiuri has achieved a bit of the alchemy she often refers to in her show notes.

Finally, partner idealization may help people feel that they did achieve a bit of the heaven so many of us seek– that is, to find one's soul mate, even if that soul does not necessarily have a golden aura about them.

She argues that curious, big-brained mammals, dolphins might explore puffer fish, and may accidentally expose themselves to a bit of the toxin, but is extremely sceptical of the notion that dolphins are dosing themselves intentionally, with such precision to achieve a bit of numbness without accidentally overdosing.

Concentrations of 2−3 nm neutral particles and ions decreased by approximately the same factor, and their concentration minima were achieved a bit later than those of smaller particles.

You can only hope that the game's publisher, Electronic Arts, makes up for not spending a few million dollars more on initial development by releasing an extensive downloadable add-on that allows the game to achieve a bit more of its considerable potential.

Figure 9 shows the signal to noise (SNR) required to achieve a bit rate error of, as a function of user density, at a rate of    TMTR code and a rate of EFMPlus code, applied to an EPRII optical channel.