Sentences with phrase «become less accurate»

Because of the method of sampling they become less accurate the further back you go.

They still showed too little decline and, unfortunately for their boosters, the fiddling caused them to become less accurate on other climate metrics.

When you drink your shooting will become less accurate but time is slowed down so you have a bit more time to take a good aim and shoot.

Because sometimes when you come up with a name for something it evolves over the years and the name may become less accurate.

First, as the decades have passed, «local» has gradually become a less accurate way to describe, much less to organize, public education in America.

So, mammography will become less accurate.

Ketostix will become less accurate as your body gets keto - adapted.

And if those triangles get too narrow, they also become less accurate.

Conventional ground - based radar systems are expensive to run, become less accurate at determining position the further away a plane is, and are slow to calculate an aircraft's speed.

However, it's not uncommon for thermometers to become less accurate over time, and a misreading of even 5 degrees can mean a failed batch of candy.

Home prices change constantly, so this list may become less accurate over time.

That system becomes less accurate the further a spaceship gets from Earth.

Blurred Bodies As we age, our sense of touch becomes less accurate — some elderly people have a tough time reading Braille, for example.

In recent years, Inuit communities that have long paid close attention to the climate have said their traditional forecasting methods are becoming less accurate.

Increased Surgical / Anesthetic Risk Obesity poses an extra anesthetic risk because drug dosing becomes less accurate.

The CoC becomes less accurate with heavy amortization or in a rising market.

Not exact matches

However, that approximation is less accurate over large movements or over extended periods of time, where growth in fundamentals and compounding effects become important.

The older information becomes the less relevant and accurate it becomes.

«In the past, the problem was that the faster we ran the machines, the less accurate they became.

Today's parents have less time than ever, so we're focused on becoming a go - to resource for easy, accurate answers — whether it's for raising babies, disciplining toddlers, traveling with kids and everything in between.

He or she will probably take a blood test or a further urine pregnancy test just to confirm your own results... although this is becoming less routine as home pregnancy test results are so accurate these days!

In recent years, buoy - based measurements, thought to be more accurate as buoy sensors are in direct contact with the ocean surface, have grown in frequency, while ship - based measurements have become less common.

An editorial in this month's edition of Global Heart (the journal of the World Heart Federation) asks «are we living in the final days of the stethoscope» — a question being asked due to the rapid advent of point - of - care ultrasound devices, that are becoming increasingly accurate, smaller to the point of being hand - held and less expensive as the years roll by.

The formation, isotope ratio and size of the clumps — less than 50 atoms in diameter — become, in effect, a clock, says Valley, and verify that existing geochronology methods provide reliable and accurate estimates of the sample's age.

For this reason, the conspiracy even led some authors to suggest that, rather than being due to dark matter, it may be due to Newton's law of gravity becoming progressively less accurate at large distances.

It's also accurate to say that the movie revels in having a straight - up B - movie plot that, in the hands of this first - time feature director and his lead, becomes a pitch - perfect example of how to get more out of less.

While we argued that recent XOOM sales estimates didn't render the XOOM a flop, if Motorola did in fact build nearly a million tablets and sell less than 100,000 units, «flop» might become an accurate descriptor.

However, that approximation is less accurate over large movements or over extended periods of time, where growth in fundamentals and compounding effects become important.

A better, and more accurate description is to say the oceans are «becoming less alkaline».

When there isn't much to gather, hunting temporarily becomes rather important, even if providing less than 10 percent of calories in other times — and one aspect of hunting, accurate throwing, has a nice long growth curve.

Ed Fix The equipartition law, like all such empirical laws, is a statistical approximation that becomes less and less accurate as the population of gas molecules becomes smaller.

Sometime in the last twenty years tree rings were somehow elevated from a reasonable guide to dating and a less reliable guide to general precipitation and became supposedly highly accurate tree nometers.

So it would be more accurate to say that the UK has become less cold - due to warmer winters which have the greatest variance of any season - rather than become notably warmer overall.

Of course plotting accurate instrumental or observational records becomes progressively less feasible as it is taken further back in time.

«While the data for both years are highly accurate at a national level — and when broken down into major demographic groups like gender and age — they become less reliable at the regional level where we get down to sample sizes of c. 100 to c. 200 peopleâ?

Studies have shown that teens who participate in abstinence - only programs are less likely to use contraception when they become sexually active than peers who receive medically accurate sex education.