Sentences with phrase «as small lengths»

This is because as small lengths of rope unravel during play, they will act as a sort of «doggy dental floss!»

Most collars extend up to about 6» so if you get one that starts around 14 - 16» as the smallest length, then you should be good as the dog grows.

Not exact matches

Today, though, as Hillary Clinton prepares to unveil her plan for universal health insurance, I want to concentrate on the lengths that small businesses go to insure their employees.

Zanzibar chillies, as they appear in the market in a dry state, are small, red, thin, carrot - shaped fruits about an inch in length.

Italian rice is graded according to length (short or long), shape (round or oval) and size (small, medium or large), as well as wholeness (broken grains are appropriately downgraded).

Smaller distances between players allows them to exchange passes at a shorter length, and as the ball moves quickly between positions, it's difficult for the defenders to get close enough to tackle their man.

Thin wires allow for only a small amount of current, but can be suitable for speakers, so long as they are only short in length.

Right now, your baby is about 3.5 inches in length (9 cm) and weighs only about 1.5 ounces (43 grams); as much as a small chocolate bar.

-LSB-...] Once the eggs were dry, I assembled the sensory bin, twisting small lengths of pipe cleaner into curls as inspired by Powerful Mothering's bird - themed Pincer and Fine Motor Practice.

It is unnecessarily small as there is space to lengthen its design by at least 3 - 4 inches in length and several inches in width.

These newborn clothes are seriously small, and usually only the tiniest newborn babies will fit into this size for a few weeks, so in general don't worry about this size unless the newborn is more than 5 weeks premature as they are the only babies who will use this size for any great length of time.

For the rest of the celebration, kids and parents held their small lengths of ribbon with one hand as they played on swings,...

Really successful social networking - based campaigns generally seem to work with the strengths of the medium rather than treating it as just another broadcast tool — organizers engage their friends and followers one - on - one and at length, fostering commitment among (at times) relatively small but strong groups.

Using feather length as a proxy for nutritional status in birds, the researchers were able to rule out the possibility that smaller birds were less well nourished than their ancestors.

Now waves have a certain wavelength, and common experience of such waves as may be seen, for example, on the surface of the sea tells us that an object which is very much smaller than the length of the wave has no appreciable effect upon it.

Regarding baseballs, the problem is that the fovea can focus on only a very small area — only about 2 degrees of the visual field (or an area smaller than your thumbnail held at arm's length)-- so as a pitched ball moves closer it can easily slip into your peripheral vision as it becomes larger.

This is limited, in turn, by the smallest possible distance that can be defined in the universe, referred to as the Planck length, which is 10 - 20 of the diameter of a proton.

There are many, many more sources of science information and the fact is that if we were still publishing print articles that were of the same length that we had back in those days, and if we were largely illustrating the magazine with lots of black and white photographs and small fine line drawings — as wonderful as those are — the fact is it would not look very appealing to most of the people, who enjoy Scientific American and benefit from it now.

Fishermen call them keepers: the mature fish above the legal minimum length that end up in the ice chest, as opposed to the small fry that get tossed back.

Sensors small enough to work effectively as part of a MBAN might not have the size needed to carry a battery powerful enough to operate a Bluetooth radio for any significant length of time (without completely sapping the battery).

To test the concept, scientists have built two small satellites called cubesats that will practice lining up in orbit to construct a single telescope with a focal length as large as the distance between them.

«As length scales become smaller from several hundred miles to a few tens of miles, we discovered the point at which geostrophic balance becomes no longer valid — meaning that sea level is no longer useful for calculating ocean circulation,» said Qiu, professor at the UHM School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST).

Although an adult Raochestes chalazodes is typically about two centimetres in length, it enters the narrow openings of the reed bamboo internodes with considerable resistance as the openings are even smaller — often less than 5 to 10 millimetres long and 3 to 4 millimetres wide.

For instance, telling us that 3 billion years ago the Moon would have appeared as big as a saucer held at arm's length, compared with a small coin as it does now, they add: «It must have been heartbreakingly lovely.

Although the adult frog is small, under 25 millimetres in length, it enters the bamboo with considerable resistance as the narrow openings are often less than 5 to 10 millimetres long and 3 to 4 millimetres wide.

At smaller size and length scales in nature, however, such as those involving atoms and photons and their behaviors, classical physics falls short.

He saw an enormous amount: that small species lay fewer eggs than large ones; that some build webs and some hunt; that some spiders» eggs are parasitised; that spiders «shed a complete skin, not excepting even the jaws»; and that young spiderlings throw out a length of silk and use it to float off on the wind — although he saw this as a hunting technique, a madcap aerial pursuit of winged insects, rather than, as we do now, a means of dispersal.

Materials • Two «two - by - four» or similar size wood planks, about one half meter long works best • Small plastic tub with lid • Sand or another dense material to fill the tub • Water • Freezer • Books • Ruler • Protractor • A carpeted area or a rug that can get damp (or a protective covering, such as a large plastic trash bag) Preparation • Make sure that the pieces of wood have surfaces that are similar in roughness and are about the same length and width.

If the sum of all the edge lengths is smaller, the bubble will shrink, as the team reports tomorrow in Nature.

As small as it is, however, this «pseudo-RNA» has the very large task of protecting the full - length Makorin1 RNA from destructioAs small as it is, however, this «pseudo-RNA» has the very large task of protecting the full - length Makorin1 RNA from destructioas it is, however, this «pseudo-RNA» has the very large task of protecting the full - length Makorin1 RNA from destruction.

Although the bolts had the same thread and were almost the same length as the old bolts, they were 0.7 millimetres smaller in diameter.

Formally, small - world networks show a ratio γ defined as C / Crandom of ≫ 1 and a ratio λ defined as L / Lrandom of ∼ 1, with Crandom and Lrandom the clustering coefficient and characteristic path length of a random organized network of similar size (Watts and Strogatz, 1998; Sporns et al., 2004).

These young fish are sometimes as small as three centimetres in length, while sea lice themselves can be close to one centimetre in diameter.

To study this, the researchers worked with different colonies located in Patagonia, Argentina, and measured the length of both outbound and inbound laden ants, as well as the effect of experimental wind (generated by computer coolers in the field) on larger and smaller ants.

Sensitive detectors can tell if the length of the arms of a LIGO detector varies by as little as 1/10, 000 the width of a proton, representing the incredibly small scale of the effects imparted by passing gravitational waves.

In terms of size, Sertich said that Lythronax was smaller than T. rex, reaching around 30 feet in length as opposed to 40 plus feet.

«Back in 2011, my student Xiaoshu Chen, who has worked with us again on this study, figured out how to make vertically oriented gaps as small as 1 nm over a centimetre length scale.

«Modern humans (in Africa) developed the bow and arrow, as well as spear throwers, which allowed hunting at arms» length and often focused on smaller prey.»

Methods: Diphenylphosphine ligands, which consist of two phenyl (C6H5) substituted phosphorus centers separated by a carbon chain of variable length, produce gold clusters with extremely narrow distributions in size; that is, the synthesis route produces a large quantity of clusters with the same number of gold atoms as well as a small number of clusters with similar numbers of atoms.

The technological challenge is to detect minute changes in the length of the arms as small as 10 - 18 meters (many times smaller than a proton!)

Nanotechnology refers to manipulating the structure of matter on a length scale of some small number of nanometers, interpreted by different people at different times as meaning anything from 0.1 nm (controlling the arrangement of individual atoms) to 100 nm or more (anything smaller than microtechnology).

As smaller genomic scaffolds tend to be over-represented by DNA from environmental sources (DW unpublished observation) we also conservatively excluded any candidate region that was located in a scaffold smaller than 5 Kb in length.

The length of time for fermentation of commercial yogurt (both regular and Greek) is so short (one person in the dairy industry told me that it is an hour or even less) that thickening agents are sometimes even added to commercial yogurt to give it the look and feel of yogurt that has been fermented for much longer such as would happen with yogurt made on a small dairy farm or in your kitchen.

In summary, it seems likely that the increases in muscle fascicle length that happen as a result of eccentric training lead to greater increases in high - velocity strength, smaller increases in RFD, and greater increases in strength at long muscle lengths (by a shift in the optimum angle).

For the Fish: * 1-1/2 pounds firm fish filets, such as catfish, monkfish or cod * 2 Tablespoons fish sauce * 1 Tablespoon finely minced ginger * 2 teaspoons ground tumeric * 1/2 teaspoon salt * 1/2 teaspoon pepper * 2/3 cup rice flour * 2 - 3 Tablespoons oil * 1 cup coarsely chopped fresh dill, feathery tops only (remove the thick stems) * very small bunch green onion, cut into 1-1/2 - inch lengths (about 1/2 cup)

The shirts are same as of usual kameez, but their length is slightly smaller than other paired with wide ghaira salwar, round from the top and tight at the bottom.

Now, for the past six years, I have had seven dresses that I always wear for formal events (black - tie, weddings): (1) a long sleeved, high - necked, knee length black lace dress by Lover, whose darts I removed entirely so that it falls straight from my shoulders to hips to knees in a very loose, comfortable cut (no need to pull any waists in, and I can eat as much as I like) that I made an underskirt for, so it can also be calf length (2) an ivory version of the same above, with the optional lace underskirt (3) an amazingly intricate ivory leather macrame flapper dress uner which I wear a dark brown long, stretch singlet dress (so comfortable again)(4) a vermillion small V - neck, long bell sleeved, straight cut, long, widens - at - the -(just above ankle) hemline dress I sewed in the most gorgeous lace for twenty dollars (5) a burgundy lace version of the vermillion lace dress in (4)-- for the same price (6) a knee length, Romance Was Born silk shift three sizes up so it sits away from the waist — again — its all about «a'll the better to eat dinner with, my dear», in a huge, wild sunflower graphic print before graphic prints were trendy: it's giant sunflowers against an intense turquoise background (7) a calf length caftan cut dress that I made from Japanese printed silk my mother had bought and kept for sixty years (it's just a giant square with a hole fro my neck and two for my arms, and has the best drape EVER owing to its being silk)

Only one small complaint I am 5» 2» and they are very long so they bunch up at knees and ankle - and as far as I can see they don't come in lengths.

The shirt length can be longer or small but the medium shirt is trendier as much short.

After trying on the coat, I noticed how well it fit as a small (I have an average build) but had some trouble with the short inner sleeve length where the thumbs are inserted.