Phrases with «eyeblink»

Sentences with «eyeblink»

  • Twenty - five years is a mere eyeblink in the story of Egyptian, Mayan or even medieval English art, but it is a long time in the modern or (weasel word) post-modern context, and if one is given a single programme - a mere 55 minutes - to bring the story up to date from where The Shock of the New left off when we finished making the series, one is bound to fail. (theguardian.com)
  • But findings from deep drilling in the Songliao Basin show that the climate swings on land were far more drastic, with average annual temperatures going up or down by as much as 20 °C over tens of thousands of years — a geological eyeblink. (science.sciencemag.org)
  • Richard Thompson, now professor emeritus of psychology, biological sciences, and neuroscience at the University of Southern California, trained rabbits in what is called eyeblink conditioning, in which the sound of a musical tone is paired with a puff of air to the eye. (discovermagazine.com)
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