Sentence examples for bit of a blast from inspiring English sources

It's a bit of a blast from the recent past, being the lead track on 2011's Music from Saharan Cellphones released on Sahel Sounds, the excellent label run by Christopher Kirkley.

Fears of "World War Three" may feel like a bit of a blast from the past – but with the phrase trending across social media and appearing in the comments of serious security analysts, people are clearly giving it some thought.

This week's App Smart column took you into the wonderful world of retro apps — apps that give you a bit of a blast from your past by emulating things from yesteryear.

Because it wasn't a safeguarding issue, they had no duty to report it, and I can see why they didn't – but I did have a bit of a blast at one of the directors: "Bloody hell, you've made me look like a right chimp!" The only thing it would've changed was that Jac-Henry would still have been punished, because he hit somebody, but Georgia may have got a punishment as well.

The past several weeks, however, seem to be a bit of a blast from the recent past.

Stick your arm out of a car window at 70mph (110km/h) and you get a bit of a blast backwards.

Soon it evolves into grim, heavy footed music punctuated by what seem like bits of pastiche: a blast of Mahler?

The guys from NimbleBit (developers of Tiny Tower, the game handpicked by Apple as iOS Game Of The Year) are on a bit of a tweeting spree tonight, blasting out two big ol' gems of knowledge in as many hours.