Sentences with phrase «couple of degrees»

How is it that if the temperature of the planet changes a couple of degrees, still well within its recent historical range, it's a catastrophe.

Yes, with hypothermia just a couple of degrees away, with water rising and no help in sight, Clare and Russ manage to forget about his wonderful wife (the woman he truly loves, the woman who helped him through posttraumatic stress syndrome) and finally give in to three novels» worth of lusty longing.

Finding that golden sunshine, those rays of warmth to help point you in the right direction, maybe only changing course by a couple of degrees.

I love to use a probe thermometer as I tend to stress through the entire cooking process if I can not see it going up every couple of degrees.

Would you like a couple of degrees from sunny Canberra?

Adding a warm mist humidifier will not only add moisture to the room but warmth as well, making her nursery a couple of degrees warmer than the rest of the house.

«Independence — you have to go a couple of degrees out, and this actually does that.

For mammals, it is a couple of degrees lower.

A forest, she knew, would require more than a couple of degrees of warmth to thrive.

Anyway, I'm halfway through my first winter living on a boat, so this is nothing: the outdoor temperature in Berlin right now is only a couple of degrees colder than my bathroom.

The steering wheel's weak servo - motors struggle to push even a couple of degrees.

However, if you look carefully at the photos of the opposite sides of the car in our previous post and in the current ad, the rear wheel on the driver's side seems to have a couple of degrees of positive camber that is not shared by the rear wheel on the other side.

The most noticeable being that the roof is now sloped downward in the rear by a couple of degrees.

You would say the Maxx is softly sporty; the SP25 is harder - edged by a couple of degrees.

Adjusting a home's temperature a couple of degrees at night or when no one is home can save up to 15 per cent on bills, the Ontario government said.

(For instance, the interest - only and negative - amortization loans that were tied to balloon interest and / or principal payments a few years after the original lenders were safely a couple of degrees of separation away from their customers.)

Her temperature will usually drop a couple of degrees just before she goes into labor.

Her body temperature will also drop a couple of degrees, from 101 or 102 degrees to about 99 degrees, although this does not happen in all dogs.

If the temperature goes a couple of degrees ABOVE normal, you have been real sharp and caught a beginning problem and you need to call your veterinarian right away.

It's difficult, for instance, to convey the critical nature of climate change in terms of ocean temperatures rising a couple of degrees Celsius (a figure I use here only to make a point).

, Brought both in for vaccinations and the Doctor wouldn't do our Chihuahua until the next week, as she got herself too excited and raised her temperature a couple of degrees.

Temperatures on the islands are usually a couple of degrees cooler than expected at their latitude.

Because of winds and sun, there's a difference of a couple of degrees between each terraced level and the Inca probably used these to experiment with crops, domestication of wild vegetables and hybridization of new crops.

As well as the wide variety of soft corals, there is bubble coral and all kinds of other colourful stuff that you'd need a couple of degrees in marine biology to label.

However, temperatures will only drop by a couple of degrees and most divers are still comfortable in a shorty.

Because the trees at these locations are so close to the threshold for growth, if the temperature drops just a couple of degrees during the growing season, there will be little or no growth and therefore a loss of sensitivity to any further cooling.

But this is over ~ 30C temperature difference; over a couple of degrees the difference in the average is going to be pretty small.

What that as context, a drop of a couple of degrees C looks pretty large.

The uncertainty is whether this, when applied to the real world, is a trivial effect (say the lowest outlier position), if there is a couple of degrees warming coming (an average position, where warming will have some observable effects within a decade or two) or 5 + deg C (the highest outlier position, where significant and rapid change would occur, and where detrimental effects probably significantly outweigh beneficial ones).

At stake in this fight over a couple of degrees is potentially billions of dollars.

Once the atmosphere has «mixed out» and reached its upper - limit temperature, the ambient air temperature tends to remain within a couple of degrees of the day's maximum temperature for about four hours.)

(A big volcanic eruption will knock global temperatures down a couple of degrees C for a coupe of years).

In addition to ensuring that it doesn't get any warmer than the couple of degrees that are already baked in, he explains how we must also adapt to Eaarth by reimagining and localizing our systems — energy, food, economic — and shares hopeful and compelling stories of communities already making this transition.