Sentence examples for alone pick up from inspiring English sources

Yup, that's a student company winning a Fringe First for a production of an extant play – work that wouldn't even be considered for review any more, let alone pick up awards.

"We have a long way to go to hold onto the seats we gained last time, let alone pick up many more.

With app stores like Apple's and Google Play pushing 1 million apps in total each, we have long passed a point at which it is very hard for most general interest apps — for example, weather apps — to make it big, let alone pick up much traction at all.

If they still don't leave your baby alone pick up your baby and say, "My iggy sweetie".

Lights black out and return; another man stands alone, picking up the thread of the dance on the bare stage.

Similarly, romantically primed women volunteered for activities such as working in a shelter for the homeless, rather than spending an afternoon alone picking up rubbish in a park.

It is dense with hurried young epicures and hedonists, in pairs or alone, picking up dinner on the run — chili-lime shrimp ($36.75/lb)., Italian tuna ($12.50/lb)., grilled vegetables ($14/lb).

Records from the city's Department of Parks and Recreation show that park rangers alone picked up 30 abandoned dogs in Prospect Park last year, more than they handled in all the other parks in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Staten Island and the Bronx combined.

There is more fatuous wittering from McDonald's, which even has the nerve to attempt a tone of wronged outrage, saying that "in 2009 we spent over £2m on staff labour alone" picking up ­litter.

It is dense with hurried young epicures and hedonists, in pairs or alone, picking up dinner on the run — chili-lime shrimp ($36.75/lb)., Italian tuna ($12.50/lb)., grilled vegetables ($14/lb).

Airport fever screening alone picked up 40 (83.3%) of 48 of all imported cases identified by the active surveillance system.