Sentences with phrase «longer than objects»

Black - and - white pictures or toys will keep your baby's interest longer than objects or pictures with lots of similar colors.

Not exact matches

«Related businesses» are defined as activities related to or ancillary to the charitable objects but can also be unrelated activities as long as substantially all (more than 90 %) of the persons employed in the profitable activity are volunteers and not remunerated.

As long as the poor remain objects of volunteer trips rather than joint subjects in a common enterprise of faith, it's never going to be mission.

God chose to have the Israelites to carry out His judgment, rather than instantly, to achieve two goals: 1) punish sin and 2) provide a real and long lasting object lesson.

When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object; but I do not believe, this courage I lack.

As she addresses the ball with one waggle, takes her customary one practice swing and then launches a Titleist nearly 310 yards (about 20 longer than her normal drive), you realize that this is perhaps the most efficient transfer of energy from a moving object (her clubhead) to a stationary one (the ball) that you have ever beheld.

If the long object is longer than a height of the bench top, you simply cut it to the length so it can sits flush.

Avoid small objects: Don't let young children play with buttons, coins, safety pins, magnets, batteries, balloons, small rocks, or anything with parts smaller than 1 1/4 inches around or 2 1/4 inches long.

Sooner or later you're going to pass over another country, but at the Karman line, you're moving more than 17,000 miles / hr, making enforcement when the object is in your «airspace» sometimes seconds long.

I don't object to having some time limit on joining to vote in the leadership election but 1) that should be made known when people join and 2) six months is far too long — it should be no more than one or two.

He'd been touched by scandal, but he'd also been described, more than once, as Teflon — a rare immovable object in Albany's raucous political climate, thorn in the side of governors and mayors who'd long since come and gone.

Haumea is an interesting object: it rotates around the Sun in an elliptic orbit which takes it 284 years to complete (it presently lies fifty times further from the Sun than the Earth), and it takes 3.9 hours to rotate around its axis, much less than any other body measuring more than a hundred kilometers long in the entire Solar System.

Because you have to use a radio wavelength that is smaller than the dimensions of the object you are trying to locate, radar relies on high - frequency waves, just a few inches long (higher frequencies have shorter wavelengths).

Shortly afterwards, the volunteers perceived touches on their elbow and fingertip as further apart than they really were, and took longer to point to or grasp objects with their hand than before they used the tool.

Because different routes around the massive object are longer than others, light from different images of the same Type Ia event will arrive at different times.

A long - standing maths puzzle has 1223 new solutions, more than doubling the number of possible paths three objects can take as they orbit one another

Scientists have long known that babies like looking at faces more than other objects.

XMM - Newton is on a distended orbit that takes it one - third of the way to the moon; this keeps it out of Earth's shadow long enough to stay pointed at — and collecting photons from — the same faint object for more than a day.

If those objects are bigger than Jupiter, longer exposures with NICMOS could reveal them as faint points of light, notes team member Glenn Schneider of the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Although the consequences are roughly comparable in either case, an important difference is that objects in the solar system that circle far away from the sun on long - period orbits before returning, such as comets, would hit the earth at much greater velocities than close - orbiting (short - period) bodies, such as asteroids.

The amount of redshift (z) is determined by the apparent wavelength of the spectral lines from this object by (1 + z) longer than that of the rest frame wavelength (i.e., when it is static object with respect to the observer).

External forces beating up the ancient moon may explain how it once maintained a magnetic field for more than 400 million years — longer than scientists had thought such a small object could be magnetized.

Astronomers kept finding more objects between Jupiter and Mars, though, all of them much smaller than Vesta and Ceres, and by the 1850s «planet» no longer seemed a reasonable term for all of them.

But Irwin Shapiro, an astrophysicist at the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., who chaired the 2010 Committee to Review Near - Earth - Object Surveys and Hazard Mitigation Strategies for the U.S. National Research Council, says that ground - based observatories such as the planned Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) on Cerro Pachón in Chile are better value for money than space telescopes, because they last longer and are less expensive.

Why these objects are so much brighter than ordinary supermassive black holes has long puzzled researchers.

PASADENA, CALIFORNIA — The solar system has gained a new extreme object: L91, a small, icy world with one of the longest known orbits, taking more than 20,000 years to go around the sun.

Warm air is lighter than cool air, so any object filled with it will rise, as long as the lifting power of the air counteracts the weight of the container.

Millimeter waves, which are shorter than microwaves but longer than infrared, create a revealing picture that can highlight items and determine the precise chemical makeup of an object.

Nevertheless, the adult dogs still showed more interest in both the real puppy and the furry AIBO, investigating them sooner and for a longer time than the other objects.

So rather than manipulating objects just a few millionths of a metre across, twisted radio waves could be used to manoeuvre objects several millimetres long.

My research indicates that the Siberian peat moss, Arctic tundra, and methal hydrates (frozen methane at the bottom of the ocean) all have an excellent chance of melting and releasing their stored co2.Recent methane concentration figures also hit the news last week, and methane has increased after a long time being steady.The forests of north america are drying out and are very susceptible to massive insect infestations and wildfires, and the massive die offs - 25 % of total forests, have begun.And, the most recent stories on the Amazon forecast that with the change in rainfall patterns one third of the Amazon will dry and turn to grassland, thereby creating a domino cascade effect for the rest of the Amazon.With co2 levels risng faster now that the oceans have reached carrying capacity, the oceans having become also more acidic, and the looming threat of a North Atlanic current shutdown (note the recent terrible news on salinity upwelling levels off Greenland,) and the change in cold water upwellings, leading to far less biomass for the fish to feed upon, all lead to the conclusion we may not have to worry about NASA completing its inventory of near earth objects greater than 140 meters across by 2026 (Recent Benjamin Dean astronomy lecture here in San Francisco).

The K2 mission offers long - term, simultaneous optical observation of thousands of objects at a precision far better than is achievable from ground - based telescopes.

Although the parallels with science fiction are obvious, the object — designated 1I / 2017 U1 («Oumuamua)-- is quite a bit smaller than Rama's fictional 34 - mile (55 - kilometer) long cylindrical mass and (probably) not an alien starship.

The rest of the Oort Cloud, which is thought to be a storage lot for long - period comets, extends out a hundred or even a thousand times farther than these objects.

Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and other similar facilities to discover a new rotating neutron star, which is claimed to be one of the most extreme pulsars ever detected as its spin period is thousands of times longer than any such objects found so far.

But if you wait for the sunset, the sun looks red because the blue and ultraviolet light is scattered away by tiny particles.The new study suggests the objects causing the long - period dimming of Tabby's Star can be no more than a few micrometers in diameter (about one ten - thousandth of an inch).

«This means the pulsar took much longer to reach its current position, and so it is a much older object than we had believed,» said Frail.

The most elongated objects we have seen to date are no more than three times longer than they are wide.

Class Action Lawsuit No Longer the Case The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that merchants who object to having to accept American Express debit and credit cards must settle their dispute through arbitration, rather than banding together in a class action lawsuit.

A SKYPE date for a long - distance relationship will hopefully help you see the object of your digital affection sooner, rather than later.

The graphics are both slower and less crisp than its Xbox 360 counterpart, but the worst thing of all is the incredibly long loading times between levels, between cut scenes, while entering menus - and even whilst picking up objects.

It's tremendously insightful work from a director who has long appreciated actors» bodies as more than aesthetic objects.

Set children on a classroom quest to find one object shorter than their string and one object longer than their string.

9 • solve one - step problems involving multiplication and division, by calculating the answer using concrete objects, pictorial representations and arrays with the support of the teacher • recognise, find and name a half as 1 of 2 equal parts of an object, shape or quantity • recognise, find and name a quarter as 1 of 4 equal parts of an object, shape or quantity • Compare, describe and solve practical problems for: lengths and heights [for example, long / short, longer / shorter, tall / short, double / half]; mass or weight [for example, heavy / light, heavier than, lighter than]; capacity / volume [for example, full / empty, more than, less than, half, half full, quarter]; time [for example, quicker, slower, earlier, later]; • measure and begin to record the following: lengths and height; mass / weight; capacity and volume; time (hours, minutes, seconds) • recognise and know the value of different denominations of coins and notes • sequence events in chronological order using language (for example, before and after, next, first, today, yesterday, tomorrow, morning, afternoon and evening) • describe position direction and movement including whole half quarter and three quarter turns PLUS MANY MORE OBJECTIVES!

How it ended up as an object of mild ridicule associated with desperate, attention - seeking celebrities rather than a serious sequel to the phenomenal McLaren F1 is a long and painful story Gordon Murray — captain and opening bat for McLaren at the beginning of the project — would probably rather forget.

With more folding options than the Paper Airplanes World Championships — Google it, it exists — the 60:40 split seats in the Jazz can re-arranged to swallow objects 1280 mm tall and 2480 mm long, as well as create a flat load bay area and, should you wish, a sofa.

But, like Pogue, he objects to the weight of the device, «Curling up in bed was more comfortable with a 10.2 - ounce Kindle than with the weightier iPad,» and the backlit screen, which may prove tiring when reading a long book.

Well, if there was one of these under the tree, it just might help (as long as the objects weigh no more than one ounce / 28 g).

Think of it this way: it takes a lot longer to push or pull something heavy up 1,000 feet than it takes the object to fall that distance.

ultimately deliver more long - term happiness than material objects, when we reflect on them.