Sentences with phrase «few fractions of a degree»
But in warm - blooded species, which continuously regulate body temperature, the task is more difficult: The brain must be tricked into thinking the local temperature — which it senses through clues like blood flow — is too hot so that it lowers the body temperature a few fractions of a degree.
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However, fewer than 40,000 American students, on average, receive bachelor's degrees in computer science each year, meeting only a fraction of the...
There is perhaps a fraction more weight to the steering, but there's still a slightly artificial manner to the way it self - centres and, in fact, during those first few degrees of lock when you turn into a corner.
As to cooling the earth, well, a tiny fraction of a degree maybe, and even then it would take a few hundred years.
Indeed, it is a tiny fraction of the expense of the Kyoto Protocol, for example, which is expected to shave off just a few tenths of a degree of temperature rise over the next hundred years.
Few seem to focus on their appropriateness as the means of creating a temperature anomaly accurate to fractions of a degree dating to 1400AD and 1000AD respectively.