Sentence examples for poor bit from inspiring English sources
I don't believe you can force people to visit Avebury – or the Orkneys for that matter – but it seems a pretty poor bit of patronising to not at least make strenuous efforts to encourage them.
Twice they come at pace, but some sturdy tackles and, at the death, a poor bit of handling from Sione Fanua see their chance of a famous yet entirely attainable victory disappear as the referee signals for time.
"After half-time we had a poor bit of play and we gave England the lead.
It was a poor bit of defending all round, with goalkeeper Jason Brown failing to cover the near post with his body never mind glory, although television replays suggested O'Connor had been offside.
Rubbish!" The poor bit of paper would be scored with his marks, and he'd turn to me and say "Get so and so on the phone!" I got very wise to his moods, so I would pretend the number was engaged, or the man wasn't there, and then an hour or two later, he was rational again.
The "good" bits were poor, and the poor bits were awful.
"People go to work and their household is managed by this new servant class of young people from poor bits of Europe.
It goes even further than the engineers, saying that building new ports in poor bits of the country would bring jobs and revitalise run-down cities. Ministers seem to be taking these arguments seriously.
"If we don't succeed in restoring sound fundamentals in most of the euro zone, this crisis will come back," admits a senior European politician.What the scheme is not is a giant leap towards a common economic government, with the power to siphon huge sums from rich to poor bits of the union.
Where an actor will only see moments that don't work in a take and wish for another chance to improve it, the director may be delighted knowing that the poor bits are not needed while the other bits, which are needed, were good.
Blackburn manager Gary Bowyer: "We are disappointed, I was pleased with how we passed it about but we have undone ourselves with two poor bits of defending.
