Both also represented a bit of a break from the tried-and-true method of spending money to achieve Premier League status.
And they were having a bit of a rough time, as she tried to keep up with his drinking, unsuccessfully.
To its east, the EU has tried a bit harder to promote political reform, due in part to the demands of its ex-communist members.
We know it's a difficult place to come, they're fighting for their lives, the pitch is a bit bobbly and we tried to get it down to pass it.
One of her Democratic rivals in the New York City mayor's race had tried a bit of wry gallantry after both started answering a candidate-forum question at the same time.
"We tried a few different plans and one towards the end kind of worked where we just tried to bowl a little bit shorter to him and get one to hold up, " North said.
We tried to play a bit of a territorial game, but it didn't come off.
This year, our team tried something a little bit new and went skeet-shooting.
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It tried to reverse a bit yesterday.
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"I was a little bit disappointed to see that they hadn't tried to engage retailers to try to figure out a solution that risked less backlash, " Mr. Wansink said.
All in all, we have to say it did feel a bit more comfortable than the set we tried on for the first time roughly this time last year.
Over the years however some sticky-fingered guests have tried to claim a little bit of the Waldorf magic for themselves, checking out with hotel items as a souvenir of their stay.
Once I absent-mindedly put a bit of SodaMix in the water before I tried to carbonate it.
"Over the summer I've tried resting and then doing a bit of work, but it's still the same, " he said.
But Nintendo tried to milk the NES a bit too long and was blindsided when Sega introduced its much more powerful Genesis system in 1989.
And, by the way, when I say asking folks like me to do a little bit more -- we've tried that before, too, under Bill Clinton.
"I thought I could have done a bit more in the tie-break, tried to be more aggressive, but she's number four in the world for a reason, " said Robson.
We re-leveled the platform and tried again, tightening the gap a bit from our first pass.
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While it didn't make any of the games we tried unplayable, it did feel a bit less comfy than, say, an Xbox 360 controller.
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Merloni has tried to anticipate market trends, sometimes a bit too eagerly.
"Obviously, if you lose probably your best bowler of the series, everybody has to step up a little bit and that's what we've tried to do, " he said.
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Could you address that and clarify a bit whether the United States would like to see Assad tried as a war criminal or prefer to see him seek asylum?
When she tried them later, she came around a bit, but spent more time saying the silicone grippers pinched her nose than reveling in the potential future applications of such technology.
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We tried to move the brake lever a little bit down and we're now looking at the possibility of making a bigger brake lever to see if this is better for me.
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"We tried to put the points on the board a bit too early before building the pressure, " he said.
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"The woman had tried to smoke out the wasps by lighting a bit of cardboard and blowing it out and putting it under a board, " he said.
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"It was a little bit lucky but at the end of the day we tried our best to force our luck in the game, " Iraq's German coach Wolfgang Sidka said.
And you know, we tried to give him some medicine to make him breathe a little bit better.
"We've seen, bit by bit, a reduction in monies coming into the sector and voluntary organisations have tried to plug the gap, but that isn't sustainable into the future, " she added.
For them, they would yield political setbacks and so they've tried to establish organizations like the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to try to push back a little bit.
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