They suggested things would have been different had they just shown a little more effort.
I'm not saying spend hours in the hairdressers, but a little more effort than usual is required.
With a little more effort and a slice of luck, he will become Britain's first triathlon medallist at an Olympics.
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But at least you can look out when you do the upside down, it is a little more effort than (unintelligible) on the ground.
Giving real incentives to business, through the market, requires a little more effort, and a little less trust that some other external pressures will do the job.
And you might have an occasional itch to tell this co-worker to put a little more effort into his or her appearance -- for his or her own sake, of course.
"A little more effort by member states to control projects properly and retrieve misused funds could go a long way, particularly in this time of economic difficulty, " said the EU's Audit Commissioner Algirdas Semeta.
Customers began to shift accounts to other credit-card firms, a process that requires little more effort than picking up the post in the morning.
Commissioner Terri Mascherin, a Chicago attorney, said the effort "could have shown a little more backbone" in repealing laws and statutes that were archaic or of questionable constitutionality.
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"I'll definitely make an effort to play a little more in Europe, " he went on.
On one such occasion, Adebayor was sent through and should have done more to test Taylor than offering a weak effort that the keeper had little trouble in collecting.
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