Sentence examples for fewer dials from inspiring English sources

The instrument panel had fewer dials and knobs than today's economy cars.

Tech products should be about as complicated as a toaster: just a few dials and a two-minute learning curve, owner's manual optional.

When they finished recording "Country Blues" and a half-dozen other tunes, Lomax turned a few dials and played the record back.

The bank's culture has to be "modified", said Jenkins, which made it sound like a matter of tweaking a few dials when surely he knows it's the work of half a decade at least.

2014 should be the year where all marketers stop the practice of incrementalism – adjusting last year's plans up or down, turning a few dials here and there.

Instead of hurtling 100 mph up into empty space, our pilot just spun a few dials, pulled back a knob, and the plane lifted Jetson-syle straight up into the air before scooting forward.

What the Stiglitz commission ultimately concluded was that it's necessary to make a few sustainability dials on the dashboard simply raw data — registering things like a country's carbon footprint or species extinctions — until we figure out how to give the effects approximate monetary values.

By the end of last summer, Talkington says, she could log on to a Nest portal and, with a few keystrokes, dial down the next day's demand by nearly 5.7 megawatts.

To be sure, a few stories dialed back the utopianism.

In a lifetime even experienced collectors see few enamel dial watches because they're made in such small numbers they can make exotica such as tourbillons and minute repeaters seem commonplace and they rarely make it to retail outlets.

The data screen of the new model is nestled in a smooth swath of dash, and there appear to be fewer knobs and dials on the console than in the 2012 model.