Sentence examples for test a little from inspiring English sources

Isn't the test a little bit too easy?

"We have seen a bottom that the market is probably going to test a little bit," said Laszlo Birinyi, global trading strategist at Deutsche Bank.

Afterward he uttered a sigh of relief that he had passed the test: "A little shaky at first but soon got used to the music.

But we got some younger guys that we have to test a little bit, and they have to step and learn the position and learn what they have to do to get better.

After the debacle with the Advanced Automation System, the F.A.A. adopted a much more modest approach to modernizing air traffic control -- a strategy Mrs. Garvey, the administrator since 1997, sums up as "build a little; test a little; deploy a little".

"There's no big project corporate-wide that says we must reinvent all these businesses," said Chris Miles, director of advertising for the grocery business at Kraft in Northfield, Ill., but he says there is a goal of "raising the bar on creativity, taking more risks, be more arresting and engaging, maybe test a little bit less".

The Democratic hegemony is being tested – a little.

Until midsummer, that is, when the techies tournament-tested a little gizmo, called a pendulum tester, that measures not the C.O.R. but, rather, how long (in microseconds) a little weight lingers on the club face after striking it.

Tim Dowling recently joked in the Guardian that scientists had discovered "a genetic marker for gullibility... they can find out exactly how gullible you are just by testing a little bit of your spit".

"When you come to Manchester United you are tested a little bit – the players will be the first ones to test him when we get him training because they'll want to see what he can bring," he said.

Next time, we're going to have to make sure that the next clever financial idea grows a little slower or is tested a little earlier.