Sentence examples for is a bit of string from inspiring English sources

Tie extremely tightly and make sure there is a bit of string dangling over so that you can pick your tea bag out without scalding yourself at a later stage.

The complication when fielding the second string is a bit of rustiness, those missing fractions of instinct that come with players who are in the groove.

Colonel Bob Stewart, the former UN commander in Bosnia and now MP for Beckenham, said last night: "Whether we can actually get out before 2014 is a bit like asking how long is a piece of string.

A resource is a bit string of length n (default n = 64) and can be altered into another resource by rotation from right to left.

And yes, it was a bit of an Australian second string.

A plastic bag – the sort you might take a goldfish home in from a funfair, half-filled with water – is balanced via a bit of string with another bag, filled with what looks like urine.

As depicted in Figure 1B, a resource is a bit string, and as an abstraction of metabolic activity an individual has to reproduce the bit string as a temporal output (expression) pattern of its gene regulatory network.

The MACCS fingerprint is a bit string registering the presence or absence of structural features (MACCS stands for Molecular ACCess System, originally developed by Molecular Design Limited, now Accelrys).

A fingerprint is a bit string indicating whether a chemical structure contains a particular chemical fragment.

The patronising assumption is that the pop listener can't feel an emotional connection to a song if it doesn't have guitars on it; that a pop song's brilliant longing can't be communicated unless the voice delivering it is grizzled and has been recorded using two tin cans and a bit of string.

And on the altar, very reverently placed, intensely there, is a dead kitten, an eggshell, a bit of string".