Sentence examples for the poor bit from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

The first, from south to north in the early 20th century, left behind people in the Mississippi Delta, which is now the poorest bit of the country.

Much of the park is therefore likely to remain unoccupied for a while; and a large empty space in the poorest bit of London, randomly interspersed with sports venues that may or may not be used, may prove uninviting.Leaving a government agency in charge of the park may not be not the best way forward.

The richest bits of the city got richer at a much faster pace than the poorest bits.I'm not sure that is a bad thing however.

Climate change was getting worse, mankind was responsible, and most regions especially the poorer bits of the world were going to suffer.

In part, this is because these are in the right place: many of the cinemas built in Britain between 1900 and 1940 sprang up in the poorer bits of cities, where their audiences lived.

Democrats, meanwhile, have leapt to the defence of federal transfer payments, and continue to put their hopes for the poorest bits of rural America in government-led economic development.

A Nobel laureate who likes to penetrate the poorer bits of the world, Sir Vidia's descriptions of taxi journeys dominate over interviews.The author starts by noting that he spent five months in Uganda in 1966 (at Makerere University in the capital, Kampala).

But the English are growing visibly cleaner, and we may hope that in a hundred years they will be almost as clean as the Japanese".Just as public-health reform in 19th-century industrial England and America concentrated on the need for basic hygiene, so do today's efforts at curbing disease in the poorest bits of the world.