Sentence examples for bit of a tail from inspiring English sources

They were both faster than me, and it sent me into a bit of a tail spin – the thought that my slow mile would keep them hanging around.

The result, added Ruy Teixeira, a Democratic political demographer, is "a little bit of a tail wind" to offset stiff economic headwinds.

"There was a little bit of a tail wind, but this is frustrating because you work hard to get here and then this happens". Knowles was unable to recover in the 300 hurdles, where with a 38.16, which also missed the cut.

"We are starting to see a little bit of a tail-off in light manufacturing," Mr. Joerres said.

Microsoft opened up the necessary APIs to allow developers to write extensions for the editor and by now, the community has built over 1,000 extensions already (though obviously there is a bit of a long tail here).

"It was a bit of the tail wagging the dog," Mr. Goff said.

She endured intense pain before she could extract her tail, and even then she left a bit of the tail behind.

JOHN BARLOW, a British expatriate in Galicia, the rain-swept region of the Spanish north-west that gave birth to Franco, has an odd ambition: to eat every bit of a pig, from its tail to its snout.

"There's a bit of tail wagging the dog," said Robert Smith, a conservation biologist at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology at the University of Kent.

The marketers made a brilliant move in refusing to reveal more than an eye or a bit of tail in the previews, because the first full-on shot of Smaug made my jaw drop.

By then, not much was left of the specimen but bones and hair and a bit of tail.