Sentences with phrase «as small flies»

Samples collected from northern mires and boreal forests are never boring if one studies neglected groups such as small flies,» says Jukka Salmela.

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Stratollite can fly commercial payloads the size of a small bus to 150,000 feet of altitude, making it possible to quickly and steadily provide services such as weather forecasting, military surveillance or disaster recovery.
Between the massive, spacious seat, the incredible food, the impeccable service, and the large, comfy bed, there's simply no better way to fly (except in a private jet, and paradoxically, those might not be as comfortable because they're so small).
As it turns out, abroad came knocking on his door, first in the form of a Swedish distributor, which began with small orders, and then, in early 2013, a large Spanish firm, Groupas Varagoza, which wanted to represent Flying Monkeys across Europe.
The A380 superjumbo has struggled to make money for Airbus as the airline industry trend switched to smaller, twin - engine planes that still have the ability to fly long distances.
The aim of the weigh - ins, which might be more familiar to travelers who have flown on small planes, is to update nearly decade - old data on average passenger weights as it expands its route network and needs to accurately forecast payloads and how much fuel it requires.
Investors should stick to larger companies at least until the end of June, as the enforcement of stronger supervision against the financial markets could raise their wariness for high - flying smaller firms, according to Wu Kan, a fund manager at Shanshan Finance.
The small gnats fly to it in admiration And sing, fascinated, as I weave them into it And drink their song, my hunger slightly abated.
When you fly nearly every week you know exactly what to wish for: A compact, recently - bathed person who smiles as you take your seat, listens to music or sleeps as you fly, and makes pleasant small talk as you land.
And then the sound becomes more open, the machine gains speed, small splinters fly as the bit bites through the last solid stuff and spins and whines with singing ease.
Like several recent books in the same vein (Thomas Eisner's For Love of Insects and Piotr Nasrecki's The Smaller Majority, for example), Attenborough's Life in the Undergrowth explicitly sets out to change the way in which people see and think about all manner of creeping things that creepeth upon the earth, as Leviticus puts it, and some that fly, too.
Then we would drop small objects on the spinning surface and respond with delight as they flew off in all directions.
If you're struggling with the parchment paper flying up and sticking to the meringue, just place small smears of meringue on the baking sheet at the corners as «glue» and stick the parchment down.
I avoid recipes with small yield, as we just fly through stuff way too quick at this point in the game!!
That means it has even outpaced the remarkable rise of other infant formula producers, both big and small, such as Bubs Australia, which has risen more than four times to 83 cents in the same period, Bellamy's which has rallied from $ 3.81 to $ 18.30 and The A2 Milk Company, which has flown from $ 2.44 to $ 12.11.
My friend flies as a hobby, I think I'd ride in his small plane and pretty much no one else's.
It's a small thing, but as much sense as it makes and as obvious as you would think that would be, I still see plenty of edge rushers flying up the field and giving quarterbacks lanes to take off running if the blitzer isn't able to bring him down.
As a parent flying solo with such a new baby, my only alternative was a child seat (as pictured above in this post, and unsuitable for such a small infanAs a parent flying solo with such a new baby, my only alternative was a child seat (as pictured above in this post, and unsuitable for such a small infanas pictured above in this post, and unsuitable for such a small infant.
It could amount to action as significant as the imposition of a no - fly zone or be restricted just to small arms.
«While we know that gas can play a small part as a bridging fuel as to move to greener sources, the government's decision to sign off upwards of 30GW of new gas simply flies in the face of warnings about the consequences of a «dash for gas» on both consumer bills and legally binding climate targets»
When one adds the fact that these crew members are flown from their homes to the place where they join the ship and back home afterwards at the expense of the company — and are provided free accommodation and food whilst on board — the basic wage of $ 250 per month ends up as a very small proportion of the overall reward package.
A 26 - year - old instructor and two teenagers were flying in a small plane when it lost power and made an emergency landing on an oceanfront beach, flipping over as its nose hit the sand, the police said.
She thought about working for NASA like her father, even going so far as to design a fruit - fly experiment for the space shuttle's Get - Away Special program, which allowed schools, clubs, and professional societies to design small experiments to be flown to space.
The increased risk of extinction occurred because at small population sizes, as the flies spent more time being vigilant and less time eating, populations that declined could not quickly rebound.
After attaching a small helium balloon to a moth to balance out the electronics» weight, Bozkurt and Amit Lal, his Ph.D. adviser at Cornell, discovered they really could fly the bug, as if its own brain were sending signals on how to move.
The relatively small backward and forward motion of the fly rod sends the line streaking through the air as far as 236 feet, the current record.
By early 2017, the agreement calls for the companies to stop distributing methomyl fly baits to general retailers such as hardware stores, and to stop making small containers.
Animals preying on undispersed seeds are typically small insects, such as flies, beetles, and moth larvae, with limited mobility.
But according to Michael McKeown, a developmental geneticist at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, fru's presence in nine small clusters of fly nerve cells — including several previously mapped by Hall as «courtship centers» — may begin to give researchers «a handle on how the neural circuits that generate complex behaviors are put together.»
By exploring how creatures in nature are able to fly by flapping their wings, Virginia Tech researchers hope to apply that knowledge toward designing small flying vehicles known as «micro air vehicles» with flapping wings.
As we begin to develop planning and control algorithms for flying cars, we are encouraged by the possibility of creating robots with these capabilities at small scale, Rus says.
Understanding postcopulatory sexual selection has traditionally been difficult, due to the challenge of observing events within the reproductive tracts of internally fertilizing species — from those in organisms as small as a Drosophila fly to as large as a human.
A more advanced system would allow accurate tagging from greater distances, which would be more effective as small drones can be inaudible when flying further than 60 metres away.
Fruit flies are small insects that are often used for genetic research as they reproduce quickly, are easy to breed in laboratory conditions and share many of the same fundamental mechanisms and pathways found in more complex organisms such as humans.
«The catalogue of genes involved in immune defence responses is well conserved among different bee species regardless of their level of social organisation,» explained Dr. Robert Waterhouse from the University of Geneva and the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, «but it is much smaller than in solitary insects such as flies and mosquitoes that often live in more pathogen - rich environments.»
As the neutron star shrinks, it spins even faster, eventually causing small fragments to detach and fly off.
The fruit fly equivalent, small though it is, acts as an effective stand - in, with the added advantage of allowing researchers to rapidly assess genetic and chemical influences because of the fruit fly's short lifespan.
Their relative velocities, as inferred by the redshifts of their light, are so high that these clusters should be flying apart, because each cluster's visible mass is much too small to hold its galaxies together gravitationally.a Because galaxies within clusters are so close together, they have not been flying apart for very long.
Just as large volcanoes cool the planet by ejecting massive amounts of small particles into the stratosphere, one sunshade geoengineering proposal would involve using high - flying airplanes to release small particles in the stratosphere that would scatter sunlight back into space.
Small stray blades of wheatgrass are going to fly right into the pulp bucket without being juiced if you try sending them down your juicer chute as - is.
Something called «Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth», also known as SIBO, tends to fly under the radar, but can be especially problematic in athletes who have been consuming a traditional high carbohydrate diet, because bacteria in the gut tend to feed quite readily upon sugars and starches.
Small children played marbles next door as Howitzer - like guns went off and drones flew around and were fired at by soldiers with automatic rifles trying to shoot them down before they could drop grenades.
As for the flight, the vet gave him a go BUT although he was small had to fly in cargo because it was the airline's policy so I was so freaked out about it.
She provides Mary a tour of the school, which stands many stories tall, containing devices as ordinary as elevators (Mumblechook points out that electricity is, after all, a form of magic) and as fantastic as bubbles that carry students to their classrooms (In one of the classes, the filmmakers fit in a small homage / jab at a famous, British child wizard, who's tormented by a flying broomstick that he can't control).
You play as a small triangle - shaped ship and fly around a pixelated world trying to find victory amongst evil asteroids and nefarious ships which mean to do you harm.
Whether they are infinitely small or cosmic in width, these realities take us for a spin as Strange flies through each and every one of them, each more strange and terrifying than the last.
2:00 am (11th)-- TCM — Roberta Apparently the studio still didn't trust Fred and Ginger to carry a film after their debut pairing as second leads in Flying Down to Rio; this time they're second leads behind Irene Dunne and Randolph Scott, but at least Dunne and Scott are decent actors and Roberta has a fair bit of charm outside of Astaire and Rogers, due in no small part to a solid score by Jerome Kern and Otto Harbach.
Those remarks constitute a small portion of «Set», as most of the time it remains true to its title and lets us play «fly on the wall» during the shoot.
Sean Wilson explores the difficulties writers face when their opinion flies in the face of the popular consensus... Film journalists such as myself frequently get slammed for daring to criticise a movie we hated: we didn't make it, we had no idea of the stress involved in organising a small army of cast and technicians -LSB-...]
As to why I've flown nearly halfway around the world to this small Spanish archipelago of banana plantations and lava rock sprouting from the Atlantic just off the northwest coast of Africa, well, I like to think it's because Porsche wanted a driving venue just as volcanic as its new sports caAs to why I've flown nearly halfway around the world to this small Spanish archipelago of banana plantations and lava rock sprouting from the Atlantic just off the northwest coast of Africa, well, I like to think it's because Porsche wanted a driving venue just as volcanic as its new sports caas volcanic as its new sports caas its new sports car.
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