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bit

A bit is an amount, usually a small amount. There's quite a bit of money. Where did it all come from? There was a little bit of blood when she brushed her teeth. Her mouth opened just a tiny bit. I'm a little bit nervous. She saw the shop a bit farther up the road. She slowed down a little and then a bit more until someone saw her. I see him quite a bit. At the second practice, I was a little bit more ready. He felt quite a bit older. A bit is a small piece of something. Try not to have bits of cake on the floor when you eat. He listened to her as Mary told bits and pieces of her story. Scrape up any browned bits from bottom of pot. The car was blown to bits by the bomb. A bit is a short time. I'm going to relax for a bit. A bit is the amount of information coded by a 1 or a 0 in a computer. Even the best 24-bit scanners suffer from noise. A bit is a sharp tool that spins to make holes. Drill a hole slightly smaller than your hook with a 1/16-inch drill bit. Slide the router bit into the slot, turn on the motor and guide the tool along the jig. A bit is a metal bar that people put in a horse's mouth to control it.

bit

(= spot) a small piece or quantity of something a spot of tea a bit of paper a bit of lint I gave him a bit of my mind a small fragment of something broken off from the whole a bit of rock caught him in the eye piece of metal held in horse's mouth by reins and used to control the horse while riding the horse was not accustomed to a bit (= piece) an instance of some kind it was a nice piece of work he had a bit of good luck (= moment, mo, minute) an indefinitely short time wait just a moment in a mo it only takes a minute in just a bit a unit of measurement of information (from binary + digit); the amount of information in a system having two equiprobable states there are 8 bits in a byte the part of a key that enters a lock and lifts the tumblers the cutting part of a drill; usually pointed and threaded and is replaceable in a brace or bitstock or drill press he looked around for the right size bit (= bite) a small amount of solid food; a mouthful all they had left was a bit of bread (= snatch) a small fragment overheard snatches of their conversation (= act, routine, number) a short theatrical performance that is part of a longer program he did his act three times every evening she had a catchy little routine it was one of the best numbers he ever did

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Simple sentences

The radio is a bit loud.
Please take the pants in a bit.
I bit my lip.
Rather than light-hearted and cheerful men, I'm attracted to sober men with a bit of a dark side to them.
Isn't it a bit small?
You speak a bit too fast for me. Could you speak a bit more slowly, please?
I know you've been waiting a long time, but could you wait just a little bit longer?
The dog bit my hand.
I don't want to lose my ideas, even though some of them are a bit extreme.
You could at least try to be a bit more polite, even though it's not like you.
With so many people around he naturally became a bit nervous.
Your proposal is a bit extreme.
Let me give you a bit of advice.
You bit the hand that fed you.
She bit into the apple.
Please turn down the volume a little bit more.
You could try and be a bit more civilized.
How about adding a little bit more salt?
Could you please speak a little bit more slowly?
I was disappointed to see that my bonus was a bit less than I was expecting.
A mosquito just bit me.
Can't you bring down the price a bit?
I need a bit of sugar.
Miss Baker knew that the young man would have to leave very soon, so she decided to ask him to move his car a bit, so that she could park hers in the proper place for the night before going to bed.
Let your food cool off a bit; don't eat it while it's hot.
Why don't you rest a bit?
It's a bit cold, though.

Movie subtitles

Would you like to wait a bit? I'll bring Yoon's clothes, wanna wear that?
It seem like you like that girl. You must been embarrassed a bit.
He bit, but I'm immune.
My name is Sonia Dupri.'m pregnant.they bit me, but I'm immune.
Well then, please come with me for a little bit!
And with every new individual timepiece, a little bit more time ran out for the age of oriental predominance.
But maybe there was just a bit too much that was commonplace about the way that Ming China was governed.
Hey, maybe we should see if there's anyway I could get transferred someplace a little bit closer to home, like uh.
Um, heh, um, um, look, maybe, maybe sometime Elder Cunningham and I could, could talk to you, maybe tell you a little bit about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints?
Now comes the part of our story that gets a little bit sad.
I want to get to know the girls a bit better.
That we could get romantic a little bit?
I just pushed her a little bit on the bed, just jokingly, like pretending that I'm like scaring her.
I was kind of a bit shocked because I didn't think she saw me as that kind of person.
Uh, yes. Well then, please come with me for a little bit!
I am a bit confused by the colour, because this white colour does not fit.
It then drops a bit, rises again to an even higher maximum and finally drops back to zero.
Isn't this a bit cold? - No.
A bit long.
All else is idle talk for frustrated intellectuals a bit like you.
These people are hotheads a bit quick-tempered, but they cool down as quickly.
You might want to keep it down a little bit, huh?
However, it seems that we've spoiled you a bit.
Yes, but that complicates things for us a bit, now, doesn't it, you know, being as we can't cross swords with the Guardians and so forth.
Ms. Davenport, taking the leap from the monster we see before our eyes to the Blessed, who have ruled this world from the shadows for centuries, isn't that a bit of a stretch?
I'd like to, but it's a bit complicated.
Yes, sir, 2:30, maybe a bit earlier.
I watched a bit of the rehearsal.
The thing is, there's a bit of a new rule.
You know, things get a bit out of control.
I need you to phone my folks, I want you to tell them that I'm fine and everything's OK, that I'm just going to go travelling for a little bit.
They don't do anything without each other, so they go out and look for a dead body in the first season, and Scott gets bit by a werewolf.
Do the right-side brakes on your dad's SUV squeak a little bit? Yeah.
And if he just nicks you a little bit, you can't move. Come on.
What Allison doesn't know is that Derek was protecting Scott when he bit her mother, so Allison, you know, is really bitter. What do we do now?
You might see a side of Derek that involves love a little bit.
Have the other teams arrived? We have come a bit late, other team members have already completed the adaptation training a month ago.
Although I'm a bit different from him, what do you think of me?

News and current affairs

Today's Chinese leadership has adopted that bit ancient wisdom to currency management.
In fact, the government may even have contributed a bit to the good economic data by announcing a serious effort to consolidate Germany's own public finances - a prerequisite for investor confidence.
The Democrats have a bit wider set of interests, including support for health care, education, training, and infrastructure.
After all, such people argue, the average African would be a bit less poor.
Even Saddam is smart enough to avoid this trap, so he and Iran's ayatollahs will posture and grandstand and thus move oil prices up a bit.
NEW YORK - We know quite a bit about Iran's nuclear program, and what we know is not encouraging.
Could the answer be a bit of both?
Or perhaps Putin is just a bit cannier.
The draft constitution would enhance the policymaking powers of the Union, with a bit more majority voting in the Council of Ministers, and a stronger role for the European Parliament.
There was, as one banker charmingly conceded, a bit of asymmetry between what bankers were being paid and what their banks had lost.
It seems unlikely that not a single central bank analyst was the least bit worried about the massive growth in credit and leverage at the time.
But, as many other well-meaning cities and countries have discovered, cutting CO2 significantly is more difficult than it seems, and may require quite a bit of creative accounting.
It all sounded a bit like a series of job applications - the war for President Barack Obama's ear.
And, because big bubbles last for many years, predicting them means predicting many years in the future, which is a bit like predicting who will be running the government two elections from now.
A longstanding sidekick of Cheney, Rumsfeld traveled to Baghdad in 1983 and 1984 at the behest of former Bechtel Corporation President George Shultz, then passing a bit of non-corporate time as US Secretary of State.
Unfortunately, no US politician appears willing to explain this bit of common sense to the American public.
With a bit of temporary help, perhaps lasting around five years, farmers can build up enough wealth to obtain inputs on a market basis, either through direct purchases from savings or through bank loans.
After all, providing care is every bit as important as providing cash.
But financial markets were glued to the speech he gave in Jackson Hole, Wyoming on August 26. What they heard was a bit of a muddle.
Run on a standard climate model, this would reduce temperatures so trivially - about 0.00002oC in the year 2100 - that it is the equivalent of postponing global warming by the end of the century by a bit more than seven hours.
As China attempts to tighten its grip on Hong Kong, Li is showing independence, and China's new rulers - who, true to their communist roots, believe firmly in top-down control - do not like it one bit.

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