Sentence examples for bit of a blessing from inspiring English sources

"It doesn't make up for everything, but to get it done before this upcoming weekend is a little bit of a blessing".

On Sarbanes-Oxley, the legislation that arose from Enron and other scandals, Monks says its "a little bit of a blessing, and a little bit of a curse.

Her father, who runs a recording studio, gave her guitar lessons and shaped her musical taste, which was "a bit of a blessing and a bit of a curse," she said.

He discovered this when he was diagnosed with an overactive thyroid due to the heart drugs he takes, and was deemed temporarily unfit for work — "which turned out to be a bit of a blessing because I had to change [from jobseekers'] to employment support allowance".

"It's a bit of a blessing that one of the hottest young actors on the planet at the moment happens to look like Sherlock Holmes.

"It's going to be a bit of a blessing that we're playing away from home for a lot of that period," Smith continued.

"It's a little bit of both a blessing and a curse.

"It's a bit of a mixed blessing," he concluded, "because every time the word goes out about what a hidden jewel we are, we're a little bit less hidden".

Receiving a slab of wall is a bit of a mixed blessing: you need a crane to load it on to a van, so the pick-up alone costs at least €2,000.

Answer: in the now six-year-old flop "City Slickers II".A bit of a mixed blessing, then, this gold-plated door stopper, and more so when set against the subsequent success of some of the failures, the losers whom Oscar turned down.

Having an overly famous brand name can be a bit of a mixed blessing.