Sentences with phrase «once gives us the length»

The Earth spinning around on its axis once gives us the length of a day, and a complete orbit of the Earth around the Sun gives us a year.

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I once got on a bus to go to the opera: when I asked for the nearest bus stop to the Gaiety Theatre, the conductor said, ah, you'll be going to see Turandot, and proceeded to give me at some length his opinion of the production: an experience surely unimaginable in London.

Cool wraps are the same width throughout its length but the ends are cut on a diagonal to give a more attractive look once tied.

Once Haller meets his dead companions things pick up, and we are given good if quotidian explanations of time dilation, length contractions and their experimental verification.

Teachers whose preparation programs focused on the work of the classroom, provided a supervised clinical experience, and gave them the opportunity to engage in the practices of teaching were able to drive greater learning gains for their students once in the classroom than those who did not receive the same kind of clinically oriented preservice training.56 Prospective teachers who had a longer clinical experience reported greater confidence in their teaching abilities and were more likely to say that the length of time they spent as a student teacher was adequate, compared with their peers who had shorter clinical experiences.57

A year ago, the Volvo XC90 SUV showed how quickly Volvo could gain market share once it unveiled truly modern vehicles, using the scalable platform architecture (SPA), meaning one basic design can be modified for longer wheelbase, overall length, height and width; the only fixed measurement is the front wheel - t0 - dash ratio that gives the car much of its identity from the side.

The maximum length of this meta description is greater than it once was — now around 300 characters — suggesting it wants to give readers more insight into what each result will give them.

Despite the pain of their separation, and despite numerous misunderstandings and frightening arguments, they made a plan that protected the child, gave the father extensive visitation time until the mother left the U.S., protected the father's right to have more time with the child as the years passed, handled transportation for visits realistically, provided for the child having access to health coverage in the mother's home country, arranged for visits through Skype calls for the absent parent at least once a week, planned for the mother to bring the child to the U.S. to visit the dad at least once a year if the dad could pay for the plane tickets, planned for the dad to pick the child up in Europe for a traveling visit at least once a year, if affordable, and increased the length of the visits with dad, as the child got older.

To help you understand how long visitors are staying once they arrive, you are given a detailed breakdown of the length a visitor stays.