Sentences with phrase «of a postage stamp on»

There is nothing worse than being half asleep and struggling to make out an image the size of a postage stamp on a video monitor.

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Everyone seems to be forgetting one simple fact: Does anyone want to do any of that stuff on a postage - stamp - sized screen that sits on their wrist?

He likely remembers the price paid for his first car, the rent on his first apartment, and the price of gas, a loaf of bread, a movie ticket, and a postage stamp.

One of the properties, a 2,650 - square foot home on a 0.4 - acre postage stamp of land, closed for roughly $ 14.5 million, a lofty sum that breaks down to nearly $ 5,500 per square foot; the average price per square foot in Palo Alto is $ 1,000.

A British - born son of Yemeni immigrants, Hamed is a huge draw in England and in his parents» homeland, where his face is plastered on everything from schoolchildren's composition books to postage stamps.

That said, due to the total incompetence of AW and his recruitment team he has run out of time and we will be left with a disgruntled player on our books who will leave next year for less than the cost of a postage stamp

I love the Arsenal and have supported them all my life, I'm afraid that the club has gone downhill ever since leaving Highbury, yes I know it was a postage stamp of a ground but we were great on it and some of the greatest players played for us there, Rocastle (God rest his soul) Brady, Supermac, George, Bergkamp and Henry to mention a few.

What I know about these rules or how to circumvent them can not be written on a postage stamp as I'd literally never heard of them till yesterday.

Their collective football knowledge could be written on the back of a postage stamp.

Gallo blamed the failure on the county Board of Elections for mailing the acceptance forms late and claimed in court that a postage meter stamp dated the day of the deadline should suffice even though an official postmark is dated the day after.

One dose every two years should bolster immunity against rabies among these iconic animals immortalized on several of their country's postage stamps.

Called «Sprites,» each is a 4 - gram flake of circuit - board just 3.5 centimeters on a side, packing solar panels, computers, sensors and communications equipment into an area equal to a U.S. postage stamp.

Photons are faster and cooler than electrons, but no one has been able to bend useful frequencies of light around the tight corners needed to navigate the million turns on a computer chip the size of a postage stamp.

Transparent transistors on glass Transparent transistors on this postage - stamp size glass have speed characteristics rivaling some forms of silicon transistors.

I have higher hopes for the Metabolomx test, which has 130 different molecular sensors printed on a postage - stamp - size piece of plastic.

A postage - stamp - sized «camera on a chip» and microscopic microphones may form the basis of a videophone that could be worn on wrist.

The electronic array sits like a postage stamp on the ganglion layer, stimulating the cells directly with a small amount of electricity.

By arraying nearly 18,000 genes on a glass chip about twice the size of a postage stamp and recording the expression patterns of those genes, researchers have obtained detailed molecular portraits of...

TESS will stare continuously at each of these observation sectors for 27 days before moving to the next sector; over the course of one year, this will give TESS coverage of almost one entire hemisphere, with postage stamp data on approximately 100,000 stars.

(That might be a bad habit to have... I'm a stationery hoarder...) And then, fast forward to the first week (or second if I'm late) of December of the next year, I go through my address book and write greetings, and put a Christmas postage stamp on the envelopes and off they go, winging their way across the country!

The stamps on the outer envelope were more than just for postage: The nine carefully chosen stamps helped tell the couple's story and tie in the details of the wedding.

In a much - discussed article published in December, The Atlantic editor - in - chief James Bennet summed this argument up well: «When you do nt have to print words on pages and then bundle the pages together and stick postage stamps on the result,» he wrote, «you slip some of the constraints that have enforced excellence (and provided polite excuses for editors to trim fat) since Johannes Gutenberg began printing books.

The postage - stamp on this envelope commemorates the nationalisation of the Suez Canal in July 1956.

Women's Rights, «Monday Night Football,» Sesame Street, and disco are among the 30 subjects that are competing this month to appear on 15 new postage stamps commemorating the people, places, events, and trends of the 1970s.

There was no way to tear down the school and build a new facility on the site because of what Crawford calls a «postage - stamp» sized lot.

New Guernsey postage stamps — The Editor describes a new set of stamps which feature examples of pre-1950 cars / Flanders, motor industry pioneer — The story of this remarkable man — perhaps the world's first automotive engineer — is told by Finbarr Cony / Hispano - Suiza in California — Ian Fraser took his H6B on the Hispano - Suiza Society's International Tour in northern California / The AJS car 1930 - 33 — This well known motorcycle manufacturer also briefly produced cars as Michael Worthington - Williams explains / 1949 Jaguar Mk.

The internet lit up on Tuesday after writer Brian K. Vaughan made this announcement: «Unfortunately, because of two postage stamp - sized images of gay sex, Apple is banning tomorrow's SAGA # 12 from being sold through any iOS apps.»

Unlike a bookstore where you encounter books in their actual size, on Amazon and the majority of online sales platforms, your book will be represented at postage stamp size on a screen.

Terrific visibility, even at postage - stamp size, a fetching character, a focus on one emblematic bit of story, and a crystal clear idea of who the readers are.

Postage stamps are.02 cents, Albert Einstein is working on a new Theory of Gravity, gasoline costs.12 cents per gallon and a concerned Tulsan holds an in - home meeting to help animals in the community.

The problem is that all the energy bars and micro-transactions have a nasty tendency of coming with them; plus the fact that you often find yourself playing on a screen the size of a postage stamp.

With today's advances in technology, cartridges are now capable of holding dozens of gigabytes of data on a cartridge the size of your average postage stamp.

First, Poland announced that the Witcher 3 hero would be featured on one of their official postage stamps.

Hundreds of products to put your artwork on ranging from real US postage stamps, canvas prints, invitations and business cards to shoes, iPhone cases, necklaces, t - shirts, mugs and even skateboards, just to name a few

One of Marks's summer 2015 exhibitions examined the Hairy Who, a faction of Chicago Imagists whose work drew directly from vernacular art, comics, and ecstatic pop culture, and who, in the 1960s, helped introduce Darger, Martín Ramírez, whose drawings appeared this year on a series of U.S. postage stamps, and Joseph Yoakum, a creator of fantastical landscapes, to the mainstream art world.

This kind of presentation is a little much for the small work currently on display; it makes their show of Jean - Frédéric Schnyder's landscape paintings Landschaft (Landscape) I - XXXV (through February 26) look like postage stamps in a space capsule.

His interest in the iconography and function of postage stamps led him to create a series of works on paper mapping Europe in the years between 1848 — 1871, when the continent was still a patchwork of minute independent states.

(1) The works became widely known (one appeared on a 1980 United States postage stamp) and influenced two generations of hard edge and Minimalist art.

Faith Ringgold, «American People» series, # 19 — U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of Black Power, 1967, oil on canvas, 1.8 x 2.4 cm.

The system is made up of a postage - stamp - sized sensor that is placed on the incoming power line to a person's home and software that analyzes the spikes and patterns in voltage to identify and monitor the energy use of each device.

This means that producers on average will pay about $ 0.75 per barrel (less than the price of a postage stamp).

This Pollyanna view of fossil fuel alternatives and efficiency, which makes going green seem cheap and easy — little more than the cost of «a postage stamp a day» — has provided the justification for green - policy advocacy that has overwhelmingly focused on pollution regulations and carbon pricing while ignoring serious investment in energy research and development.

One could easily argue that email is more sustainable; but an issuance of novel postage stamps seems a small price to pay for shining a light on the wonder of the heavens and instilling a little awe of nature.

Today the UN will is offering a set of 6 postage stamps on the theme of climate change.

The UK does not put its name on its postage stamps, on the ground that it invented postage stamps so it's up to the rest of the world to distinguish itself from the original — and generally nowadays the UK does include a medallion portrait of the Queen as an identifier.

He is the author of two internationally bestselling books, an Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth and You Are Here, and has been commemorated on Canadian postage stamps, Royal Canadian Mint coins, and on Canada's newest five dollar bill (along with fellow astronauts Steve MacLean and Dave Williams).

That means you'll save on postage stamps, help eliminate piles of paperwork, be kind to the environment and avoid late fees.

• Proactively greet customers and accept their mails including letters and parcels • Provide information on required stamps on letters and items according to their sizes and weights • Affix postage on items and letters and inquire into any special instructions • Arrange for insurance coverage of large or / and fragile items and obtain customers» signatures on forms and receipts • Sort incoming and outgoing mail into appropriate piles according to their addresses • Map routes to determine the shortest and safest way to destinations • Deliver mail and parcels to intended recipients and obtain signatures on receipts • Store undelivered parcels and mail in designated areas and provide customers with information on why they remained undelivered

When it comes to the substantive knowledge that informs divorce mediation practice itself, you could write it all down on the back of a postage stamp.

Adding its new Code of Ethics image to a custom postage stamp enabled the Missouri Association of REALTORS ® to promote the centennial on all its mailings.