Sentences with phrase «between the raindrops»

The major differences between the two samples were related to timing: snake bites tend to last longer than raindrops do and there are longer spaces between snake bites than there are between raindrops.

Like always, after a few minutes it started pouring, but with the perfect skills of my boyfriend we still could make these shots in between the raindrops.

This year it seemed as if the esteemed Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan had managed to walk between the raindrops of this out - with - the - old edict, as his new film, The Wild Pear Tree, was dropped into the line - up as a late edition and, rumour has it, with material excised by request of the selection committee.

Not exact matches

It stands to reason, then, that we don't really need to choose between «tears» and «raindrops» — for, from the Homeric perspective, if Zeus were to weep, what else would it look like?

Using data provided by T - Mobile, Aart Overeem of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute in De Bilt and his team came up with an algorithm that measures the difference between the expected signal strength and weaker signals received when raindrops interfered.

By measuring the size of the largest raindrop imprints (inset) in ash that solidified soon after an eruption 2.7 billion years ago (pocked slab, main image) and comparing them to the imprints made by drops of various sizes and momentums in lab tests, the team estimates that the density of Earth's oxygen - free atmosphere 2.7 billion years ago most likely ranged between 50 % and 108 % of today's air and was certainly less than twice its modern density — a thickness insufficient to offset the dimness of the sun at the time.

Some pulses rebound off the forest canopy, while others slip between the leaves like raindrops and ricochet off the ground.

With warm tires and on dry blacktop, take - off often is a brief and shrill shouting match, but as soon as the first raindrops fall, the chip - controlled guardian angels work overtime by means of diligent torque distribution (between the rear wheels) and cautiously dosed torque vectoring (by momentarily decelerating those two wheels that are closest to the apex).

And in between you get a transition between the two that depends on the details of the raindrop's acceleration to terminal velocity.

In any rainstorm there are fewer first and last raindrops than those which fall in between the first and last.