Sentences with phrase «larger than the sand»

The particles are small (slightly larger than sand) and are light so they are easily kicked out of the litter tray or «scattered» around, but these particles do not roll so where ever they land is where they remain.

A sand tray typically measures four - feet by three - feet, making it no larger than the sand tray therapy participant's field of vision.

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Since then, China's state owned refining company, Sinopec paid more than $ 4.5 billion for a 9 % stake in Syncrude, the largest oil sand producer in the province.

It is clearly an analogy to indicate a large number, rather than an actual indication of an infinite number (by the way, the number of stars in the Universe must be infinite) unless Tropher believes there are an infinite number of grains of sand on Earth.....

Come along and enjoy the larger - than - life spraying flowers, water cannons and your own sand play area with hands - on, built - in fun.

Jordan he said in private, should have «a larger future than a few thousand square miles of sand».

«Sand winning can be even worse than «galamsey» because they can degrade a large short in land in short time because it goes very fast.

Now, first - of - their - kind field tests in the western Sahara reveal that the fields — generated when windblown sand grains rub together — loft desert dust much more effectively than previously recognized, creating larger and longer lasting storms than wind alone.

Because the snake essentially follows its own tracks through the sand, the amount of slip generated by its motion is small, allowing it to move through the sand using less energy than the sandfish (Scincus scincus), whose movement pattern generated a larger fluidized region of sand around its body.

They found that the site is much larger than first thought — since 1968, shifting sands have exposed a further 150 square metres of remains.

Analysing 151 lineae, they found that the flows behave more like dry sand than liquid water, and the patterns look like those made when sand tumbles down dunes on Earth, just on a larger scale (Nature, doi.org/cgkp).

«Other options like rail or truck are not feasible for the transportation of large quantities,» said Elizabeth Shope, anti — tar sands advocate with environmental group the Natural Resources Defense Council, in a conference call with reporters, noting that such alternative transportation more than triples the cost of moving tar sands oil.

The walk out to Pluto, a speck of dust ten times smaller than our sand - grain Earth, would be nearly a half - kilometer, and along the way you'd be lucky to encounter any of the planets: Even the largest, Jupiter, would be no bigger than a small marble.

So, if there is a planet in the gap and there is no dust larger than a grain of sand farther out, we have provided a challenge for traditional planet formation models.»

This microbiome (the population of all the microorganisms and their genetics in the large intestine) consists of more bacteria than stars in the sky and grains of sand on the beaches, and is the hottest topic in the fields of functional medicine, integrative psychiatry and peak performance right now.

Acha and iburu cereal grains are another name for them mostly consumed whole, perhaps because of their small size (Jideani and Akingbala 1993)-- each seed is only slightly larger than a grain of sand.

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Early in each chapter you gain the ability to build a large chest that automatically stores more items than just your small starting inventory capacity, so you're never left worrying about carrying too much and having to drop something or return to base to drop off a load of blocks of sand.

«What we managed to do is to get our microresonator and combine it with a semiconductor laser, which is the size of a grain of sand, essentially, and out of that get even higher - quality laser light than you can get with these much larger laser systems,» he says.

I took both the four - cylinder and V - 6 Trailhawks through more than an hour of trails made of sand, rock and obscenely large rocks that were unlike any off - roading I had done before.

A simple framed sandbox requires little more than a trip to a large hardware store to pick up some cedar timbers, sand and gravel.

Moreton Island, just a 70 minute ferry ride from Brisbane, is the third largest sand island in the world, yet fewer than 100 residents call the island home.

We think there is no better place for students to learn about the great outdoors than on the world's largest sand island - Fraser Island.

It is mostly sand bottom rather than reef, which does not attract a large variety of fish.

Home to ancient Mayan ruins, the world's second - largest coral reef, pristine ecological reserves and more than 100 miles of white - sand beaches, the Mayan Riviera is a renowned tropical paradise that has become the country's top vacation destination.

Voted «Best Island» by the readers of Conde Nast Traveler for more than 20 years, Hawaii's second largest island is famous for its charming towns, scenic drives, diverse natural landscape, and miles of sparkling white sand beaches that are continually voted among the best in the world.

This is one of the most geographically diverse of the islands, too, with soaring mountains (including Mauna Kea, which at 33,000 feet from the base of the ocean floor to its peak is quite a bit taller than even Mt. Everest), active volcanoes, lava - sand beaches, lush rainforests, the largest city outside Oahu (historic Hilo), a significant swath of desert plains, and sunny beaches lined with plush resorts.

Not only is it the largest sand island in the world — 123 kilometres (76 miles) long and 22 kilometres (14 miles) wide — but it's the only place on Earth where tall rainforests grow on sand dunes at elevations of more than 200 metres (656 feet).

At some dive sites you have hard corals, at others it's mostly soft corals, and with such a large number of islands you find many different ecosystems including seagrass beds, mangroves, shallow reefs, deep drop offs, black sand, plus there are more recorded species of fish in Raja Ampat than anywhere else.

Rest assured, there's a whole lot more to the Algarve than just amazing surf spots, historically - fascinating Roman artefacts / remains, countless stunning beaches, the world's largest sand sculpture event, an array of marine life, a staggering choice of menus...

It has more than 8 miles of unbroken sand beaches with very large parking lots and is one of the more popular beaches for locals and visitors alike.

Other than enjoying the amazing white - sand and crystal - clear water beaches in the area, you will be able to visit fantastic attractions such as the renowned Cuevas del Drach caves, featuring one of the world s largest underground lakes.

The key issue here — far larger than the debate over a 17 % or an 84 % excess emissions per [barrel] of tar sands oil vs. light sweet crude — is highlighted by, [but] not put into full energy and climate context by, the compelling and depressing Charles Homans Foreign Policy article [link].

But for most activists, the largest issue was climate change as oil from the tar sands emits more carbon than conventional sources.

As tar sands oil has a much larger carbon footprint than conventional oil, climate change legislation targeted by Prop 23 would limit California's imports of high - carbon fuels — fuels that would likely include toxic tar sands oil from Alberta.

silt unconsolidated or loose sedimentary material whose constituent rock particles are finer than grains of sand and larger than clay particles

On the contrary, Figure 1 is a conservative estimate of potential emissions from tar sands because: the economically extractable amount grows with technology development and oil price; the total tar sands resource is larger than the known resource, possibly much larger; extraction of tar sands oil uses conventional oil and gas, which will show up as additions to the purple bars in Figure 1; development of tar sands will destroy overlying forest and prairie ecology, emitting biospheric CO2 to the atmosphere.

The oil that would have flowed through the Keystone pipeline, extracted from a large sedimentary basin that includes the well - known oil sands of Alberta, has a higher carbon footprint than other, lighter crude.

Beetle kill wood has accounted for the largest amount of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in the province, more than all of the province's human activity combined, more than motor vehicle emissions, and nearly double the output of Alberta's oil sands.

But the tar sands are unlikely to make a large impact on overall supply of liquid fuels because their supply is likely to be rate, rather than total resource limited.

In reality, the activists, especially in Canada, look less like grassroots groups than like subsidiaries of large U.S. institutional donors, many with billions of dollars of assets — organizations that have funneled colossal amounts of money to anti-oil sands groups over the past decade.

Alberta's economy is much more diversified than it used to be however it is impossible to replace the revenue generation of the Canadian oil sands, the world's largest pool of untapped oil reserves.

* The Port Stephens community broke its own world record on Saturday for the largest «Human Whale», with more than 1000 locals and holiday - makers joining in the formation of a 150m Humpback on the white sands of Fingal Beach.