From our few minutes in the driver's seat, the C-MAX Energi certainly felt edgier than the Prius, but not quite as satisfying as the Focus Electric.
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From our few minutes mashing the controller, it seems that timing and position are more important than ever with such fundamental mechanics, and ones that we picked up pretty quickly.
Unless we soak our tables for many minutes and scrub our hands like surgeons, we can't kill all the bacteria on our skin, and what is left behind to survive and multiply are the stronger and more resistant germs.
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As soon as I saw the image on the back of the camera I fired-up my laptop and quickly wired it to our editors with minutes to spare before I was needed to photograph Jessica receiving her gold medal.
And when we left a book behind in our room at Mandarin Oriental, Singapore, the staff emailed us within 10 minutes of our departure offering to send it on to our next location.
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We came up with our Core Values as a staff exercise last year (we just tacked a few minutes onto our weekly marketing meetings over a period of about three months).
"We shut our petrol station for a few hours on the advice of the police, and closed the shutters at the front of our store for around fifteen minutes last night, during which time our customers continued to shop, " they said.
This took up about 35 minutes of our time, but which one worked better?
It's on our plate and 20 minutes later it's gone and we have an empty dish.
Then, minutes after our deadline, in response to an e-mail sent to James D.
At 10 minutes past our scheduled start time, we had five butts-in-chairs out of 16.
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When we requested an additional luggage holder, it arrived at our door within ten minutes.
The search yielded several choices, including the one only minutes from our house.
When I tell Amanda Mills that I paid off my monthly credit card balance minutes before our call, she laughs.
Perahia also gets into some fascinating granular specifics about rhythm: Listen to his demonstration (about 10 minutes into our studio session) of rhythmic emphasis.
Typically, we know who is who within minutes of our introductions.
At least three of us on the ForbesWoman team have promised Harper five minutes of our precious and busy days to toning up and slimming down.
To sum up: in the space of a few minutes, our take on this man has flipped and rolled over, twice, and nothing is quite what it seems.
If we can't get our hamburger within five minutes -- if we can't get on the plane within 30, 40, 50 minutes after going through, you know what happens.
"If they have a problem and their line stops, ten minutes later our line stops, " says Emil Hassan, Nissan's North American senior vice president for manufacturing, quality and logistics.
Every few minutes I shook our driver as his head nodded down towards the wheel.
She's going to be in our studios for a few minutes to get us caught up on this historic event.
They always have the lowest interest rates plus it usually takes less than 20 minutes to get our loan approved.
"Nobody wanted to play big minutes, especially our two big guys (Anthony and Smith), so everything worked out great, " Woodson said.
For example, years ago, my partners and I were given 30 minutes to make our case in front of a senior executive.
"After making those six changes, we needed 20 minutes to find our rhythm, " said Heynckes, who will step down at the end of this season and be replaced by former Barcelona boss Pep Guardiola.
When we left a few minutes later, our transformation went in the opposite direction, or silk purse into sow's ear, since after several delicious blowsy hours of la vie en rose, our beeping cell phones signaled the impatience of the world outside.
"Well, the first sign that my new state university academic adviser job was a bad move was the fact that my future boss arrived 35 minutes late for our interview, breezing in after taking two of my future co-workers to lunch, " recalls Carmin Wharton, founder and CEO of e-BlackWomenNetwork.com.
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