Sentences with phrase «less than a dusting»

In fact, Hannan puts forward the theory that no chap sporting anything less than a dusting of tumbleweed has defeated one with a head full of hair.

Not exact matches

It's calculated that after two years of use, one - third of a pillow's weight is dead skill cells, dead dust mites, and other less - than - desirable leftovers.

In other words, the choice which Life requires of our considered action is a great deal less complex than at first seemed to be the case; for it is reduced to a simple choice between the first and last stages of the successive alternatives which we have been able to define: the rejection of Being, which returns us to dust, or the acceptance of Being, which leads us, by way of socialization, to faith in a Supreme Unity — opposite directions along a single road.

by adoringly humbling himself under the extraordinary — all the more passionate is the offense, which at last can not be contented with less than getting this thing rooted out, annihilated and trodden in the dust.

It's not just that it would be much too small for any human being to see - theorists predict that it will weigh billions of times less than a typical dust particle, and will have only the briefest of lives.

This approach was possibly less labor intensive than grilling the chicken, and I also didn't have to go outside in a dust storm to grill.

Roll out dough to a thickness of less than ⅛», frequently lifting up dough to dust with flour to prevent sticking.

The minimum space requirements for barn - raised chickens include clean air (less than 10 parts per million (ppm) of ammonia), 15 percent of the floor space must have litter for the hens to dust - bathe, perches must be provided at 6 inches per bird, and at least 20 percent of those perches must be elevated.

@NY Gunner I appreciate what your saying about the «things that we cant change» but forums like this are for blowing ooff steam and getting things off your chest about the subjects that are arsenal related that eiether please or offend people, It clear that Wengers best days are well behind him now and in my own humble opinion it would have been less tragic for him to move up or elsewhere on a high rather than let what he has acheived fall to dust.

When the dust settles, 13,660 kids will be kicked back into the regular CPS system, where less than 9 percent of all high students meet college readiness benchmarks on the ACT.

«Solid surfaces are easier to clean, are typically less toxic, and hold dramatically less dust than carpet.»

The natural fibers used to fill these pillows also maintain a more hypo - allergenic aspect than their competition since micro-organisms like mold, mildew and dust mites are less likely to build up in the pillow's breathable inner core.

In less than 30 seconds, the 38 - year - old grandstand concert venue at the New York State Fairgrounds imploded this weekend into a massive pile of rubble and dust.

GEDDES, N.Y. — In less than 30 seconds, the 38 - year - old grandstand concert venue at the New York State Fairgrounds imploded into a massive pile of rubble and dust.

That dimming is best explained by dust particles less than a micrometer in size, Boyajian says.

The thickest dust disks are most prominent for the youngest stars, less than 100 million years old.

Dim objects called brown dwarfs, less massive than the Sun but more massive than Jupiter, have powerful winds and clouds — specifically, hot patchy clouds made of iron droplets and silicate dust.

The HOSTS Survey has determined that the typical level of zodiacal dust around other stars — called «exo - zodiacal dust» — is less than 15 times the amount found in our own solar system's habitable zone.

One of the most important of these is erosion by fine bits of windblown dust, even though the Martian atmosphere is less than 1 percent as thick as Earth's.

We now know that the atoms making up everything visible in the cosmos — from galaxies to planets to clouds of interstellar gas and dust — represent less than about 20 per cent of the total matter out there.

By observing infrared light, which is less affected by cosmic dust than visible light, and exploiting the excellent conditions at ESO's Paranal Observatory, the team was able to get a clearer view of this region than ever before.

Telescopes peering back in time to less than a billion years after the Big Bang have spotted individual galaxies with dust that weighs hundreds of millions of times as much as the sun.

That means it appeared to be less than two meters in diameter, contained so little dust as to remain virtually transparent, and lasted just slightly longer than five seconds, which is the low - end cutoff duration for logging a dust devil in a day's record of observations.

These sand grains are coarser and less reflective than the fine dust that gives the brighter regions of Mars their ruddy appearance.

Firefighters who responded in the first two days of the World Trade Center disaster and those who worked at the site for six months or longer are more likely to need sinus surgery than firefighters whose exposure to the site's caustic dust was less intense or shorter term, according to new research published in the American Thoracic Society journal Annals of the American Thoracic Society.

And while Martian winds can kick up sky - blotting dust storms like those that plagued the Spirit and Opportunity rovers this summer, the atmosphere of Mars is 100 times less dense than that of Earth.

With the help of citizen scientists, the research team has identified seven dust particles and residues - less than 1 millionth of a metre across - that are consistent with interstellar dust, which they have documented in an academic paper entitled «Evidence for interstellar origin of seven dust particles collected by the Stardust spacecraft» and published in the journal Science.

As a result, astronomers believe that it may be too massive to have formed like a planet from the circumstellar disk of gas and dust that enveloped 15 Sge when it was less than a hundred million years old.

For the same reason, infrared astronomy enables researchers to observe cosmic objects through large clouds of interstellar dust that scatter infrared radiation substantially less than visible light.

On November 4, 2010, NASA's EPOXI mission flew at a close distance of around 435 miles (or 700 kilometers) by Comet Hartley 2, which was then an active short - period comet with jets of gas and dust coming off its sun - lit end and which completes an orbit in less than 6.5 years.

The halos around quasars — the brightest and the most active objects in the universe, they are galaxies formed less than 2 billion years after the Big Bang; they have supermassive black holes in their centers and consume stars, gas, interstellar dust and other material at a very fast rate — are made of gas known as the intergalactic medium and extend for up to 300,000 light - years from the centers of the quasars.

The quantity of dust introduced would be far less than the number of particles that exist higher up.

«American Wedding» is more focused than the other films, centering mostly on the crowd favorites and leaving the other less notable characters in the dust.

When the dust settled on Monday, BoxOfficeMojo reported that less than half a million dollars separated the two opening weekend grosses.

The world of «Zoolander» - which features the madcap adventures of less - than - ingenious male models played by Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson - doesn't seem suited to a gender politics dust - up.

The game's less - than - amazing game design combined with the fact that it launched at the same time as Assassin's Creed III led to the title ultimately being lost in the dust.

When the dust settled not long after its release, Jack the Giant Slayer had grossed even less than John Carter, albeit on a slightly lower budget.

It sold over 1 million units in less than 2 months Criticts are still prasing 3D World meanwhile, Knick - knack - pattywack is getting left in the dust now that the other games are arriving.

Only when the dust of a dramatic weekend of political wrangling had settled did they discover that the true effect was less than that.

The Forester has tiny dust covers behind the headlight bulbs (just round caps maybe 5» diameter and less than an inch tall) which I'm not able to use because the bulb (with the heat sink) is too long, so I can't attach to those like the Instructable recommends.

Drivers of far lesser Focuses than the one we're off to dust seem keen to show the old - timer what they can do but there's no point responding: apart from embarrassing the «new hotness» RS, there's nothing left to prove.

They have far less visual dust than metalic / semi-metalic brake pads.

Give Superchips a call, and for less than # 500 they will give your nice new RRS TDV8 Ultimate a sprinkle of fairy dust which will give you 321bhp and 600lb / ft of torque.

It's worth pointing out the roads were coated in a fine dusting of talcum - like sand and felt noticeably less grippy than UK tarmac, so it'll be interesting to see how it fares here.

A small paperback novel with no interior color will cost less than a hardcover book with a full - color interior and a dust jacket.

Full disclosure: long AA & ARNC for my clients and me (Note: Aleph Investments, LLC, is dust on the scales in this fight, representing less than 0.01 % of outstanding shares.)

Most litters made largely from paper or plant / vegetable matter tends to be cleaner — less dust and tracking — and require less maintenance than clay - based products, so cats get more use out of the litter and their owners have to change the box less frequently.

Less tracking of litter around the house, no dust, less smell, and it lasts for a long time, so much longer than regular clumping litLess tracking of litter around the house, no dust, less smell, and it lasts for a long time, so much longer than regular clumping litless smell, and it lasts for a long time, so much longer than regular clumping litter.

Pay less than $ 15 for a 40 - pound bag and enjoy hard - clumping action, no dust, and superior odor control.

I was checking out all the food because we are about to go from puppy to adult food and the girl at my local store said Fromm Lamb and Lentil was suggested by a vet she knows because it has less dust than regular dog food but it was just the lamb and lentil variety.