Sentences with phrase «measured at a hair»

I did find it to be ever so slightly short waisted on long - waisted me, measuring at a hair over 15 3/4 ″ from shoulder to waist, and a tiny bit large in a waist (but I'm being very nitpicky here).

Not exact matches

Next you head into the supermarket (remembering that you had to actually dress up, do your hair, fix makeup etc. to do this) and wander the aisles wasting time looking at ingredient lists and trying to remember if the gums, preservatives and additives have dairy / eggs in them... taking the rolls to the counter, working out whether or not you want to go through the self checkout or keep a checkout operator employed for a few more years... pay... get back in the car... find somewhere to buy bottled water for the dogs... drive 50 km home... unpack dogs and buns and suddenly getting up, stretching... wearing whatever the heck you like with your hair in the air, no makeup, dogs within a hard stares range in case they feel like eating the furniture while you are working and that slow measuring out, baking etc. doesn't seem so time consuming any more.

For about a minute, running on half a hair dryer's worth of power, the orbiter - cum - probe beamed direct measures of the planet's atmosphere, along with final probes of its gravity and magnetic field, to mission control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.

Hair samples can be used to measure the effects of asthma on the cortisol levels of women during pregnancy, according to research presented today at the 2015 AACC Annual Meeting & Clinical Lab Expo in Atlanta.

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new device that measures the motion of super-tiny particles traversing distances almost unimaginably small — shorter than the diameter of a hydrogen atom, or less than one - millionth the width of a human hair.

Levels of a hormone when measured in hair can significantly predict the likelihood of pregnancy in women undergoing in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment, scientists at The University of Nottingham have revealed.

As part of the study, Cherney measured the isotopic composition of tail hairs from a mother - calf pair of African elephants at the Toledo Zoo.

Wael Al - Delaimy, a research fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, and his colleagues analyzed how much environmental smoke people absorb by measuring nicotine levels in the hair of 114 bar and restaurant workers in New Zealand.

Measuring the stress hormone cortisol in the moose's coat was used as a method for appraising the long - term effect of the deer ked on the health and welfare of moose, but Madslien found that in general, there was little connection between the number of deer keds, the weight of moose at the time of slaughter and the level of cortisol in the hair.

«Doctors tend to put little faith in hair - saving measures with questionable outcomes, but that doesn't mean there are not options out there that patients can try,» advises Mario Lacouture, MD, director of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center's Dermatologic Care Center at Northwestern University in Chicago.

Other highlights in this section include: Pablo Larraín's THE CLUB, a mordant morality tale set in a sleepy Chilean coastal town, which won Berlin's Grand Jury Prize; CHRONIC, Michel Franco's uncompromising study of grief and isolation, featuring a revelatory performance by Tim Roth; brothers Tarzan and Arab Nasser's feature directorial debut, DÉGRADÉ, a smart drama that moves seamlessly between humour and despair, set in a women's hair salon in Gaza; the European Premiere of George Amponsah's intimate documentary THE HARD STOP, revealing the story of Mark Duggan's friends and family following his death after being shot in a «Hard Stop» police procedure in 2011; Jonas Carpignano's engrossing feature debut, THE MEASURE OF A MAN which won Vincent Lindon Best Actor at Cannes Film Festival, MEDITERRANEA, an ultra-topical tale of two young African men from Burkina Faso who, in search of a better life, make the difficult and dangerous trip across the Sahara desert and Mediterranean Sea to reach Italy; the drama MUCH LOVED, Nabil Ayouch's searing, no - holds - barred look at the world of prostitution in Morocco; David Evans» thought - provoking documentary MY NAZI LEGACY, which raises the harrowing question, «What if your father was a Nazi?»

At 8.5 x 5.0 x 0.33 inches, the LG G Pad 8.3 is a hair larger than the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 8.0, which measures 8.3 x 4.9 x 0.3 inches.

At 10.7 x 6.9 x 0.5 inches, the VivoTab Smart is a hair thicker than the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2 and Dell Latitude 10, which measure 10.3 x 6.5 x 0.4 inches and 10.8 x 7.0 x 0.4 inches, respectively.

As the hormones are known to be present in hair, at least in humans, Ouschan reasoned that measuring glucocorticoid concentrations in dog hair might represent a way of diagnosing Cushing's disease without causing the animals unnecessary distress.

Measuring the distance apart and speed of 2 satellites in space orbiting the earth to the width of a human hair with no margin for error [damn those drift recalculations], and taking into account unknown factors with respect to the true values for water depth, water weight at different salt concentrations, ice depth magma flows, volcanic activity etc [ie making a lot of guesses], plus taking human motivation on board [like CO2 increase must melt ice surely] can give you an accurate measurement of the volume ice in Antarctica.

To measure it at the same location every day, you would need a hygrometer, which in earlier days made use of the moisture - sensitivity of a hair, and by now of for instance condensators.

It's super thin and light, measuring only 13 mm thick and weighing in at just a hair over 2 lbs.

The MateBook X Pro measures 14.6 mm thick at its thickest point, which is just a hair thinner than the MacBook Pro, though it's worth noting that the Huawei laptop has a tapered design compared to the continuous thickness of Apple's.

I made myself up at ninety to look much like Nolte's mug shot with hair all askew, except that I had a goofy smile, a blacked out a front tooth and I stuck two bandages in a cross formation on my right cheek; I was also four days unshaven, just for good measure.