Sentences with phrase «period of a few minutes»

Is this normal, and any advice on how to get him to nurse, even if it's only for periods of a few minutes?

But even ordinary G - class stars like our own have been known to double in brightness for a period of a few minutes to a few days.

Using the multiple measurements, they were able to reposition the images to create an estimate of what the activation over a period of a few minutes would look like.

This means holding your dog for a period of few minutes without your dog trying to run away.

Not exact matches

The satellite captures a full view of the western world every few minutes (shown below during the same time period).

The goal is to get potential customers to spend an extended period of time on the site — at least a few minutes — and to get them to tell their friends by electronically sharing the petition and the video.

(These can be stored in the freezer for a longer period of time, just thaw for a few minutes before eating.)

In the past he has been able to play 20 - 22 minutes per game and be moderately reliable, for a short period of time (a few weeks or months).

A knee injury in December saw Sergio Agüero miss the busy Christmas period appearing in 4 games fewer than Sánchez and in terms of actual playing time the Arsenal man has completed 600 minutes more than his opponent.

However, with that said, everything fell their way in the second period and we shouldn't discount the fact that they were atrocious in the opening 45 minutes and were they to begin Saturday's clash with Blackburn in the same manner, we wouldn't be rushing online to stick a few quid on another stunning second - half comeback, despite their heroics seven days ago, especially without the safety net of St James».

Or let your child crawl into another room, assuming it's a safe place for her to be unsupervised for a brief period of time, and wait a few minutes before following her.

We are currently in the middle of the 3 month growth spurt so he seems to feeding very frequently and for long periods of time at the minute but I am sure this will only be for the next few days.

He'd told her she was fat and would end up even fatter like her mother to finally get rid of her, it was cruel, but I can't say I felt bad for her, she only cared about herself and used people for whatever period of time so it's no big suprise that she's done so well with only a few minutes on TV.

Then, a few minutes later, he'll become frantic and want to nurse for a longer period to get some of the higher calorie hindmilk that satisfies his hunger pangs.

All of us, babies and adults alike, wake up several times every night for brief periods (anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes).

A recent time to eat study, «Impact of School Lunch Period Length on Meal Consumption», found that compared with students who had a least 25 minutes to eat their meal, students with fewer than 20 minutes to eat were significantly less likely to select a fruit (44 % vs. 57 %).

Live - tweet (v.): to engage on Twitter for a continuous period of time — anywhere from 20 minutes to a few hours — with a sequence of focused Tweets.

The red box shows periods of «cardiac freeze,» when her heart only beat a few times per minute.

David Thomson, Carol Mclennan and Louis Lanzerotti of AT&T Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, claim that the flow of particles in the solar wind shows periodic variations on timescales of a few minutes, which exactly match the periods of vibrations of the Sun's core (Nature, vol 376, p 139).

Over the seven - day study period, participants had significantly fewer minutes of daily sedentary time and more daily minutes of active time than controls.

In addition, compared to some alternative technologies, most treatments can be delivered in short daily doses of a few minutes over a period of weeks, rather than sessions of an hour or more.

High intensity interval training (HIIT) is a low volume type of exercise regime that incorporates short bursts of near maximum intensity followed by momentary recovery periods done over the course of just a few minutes.

That said, my personal opinion is that unless you're doing intense cardio for long periods of time (45 — 60 minutes or longer) every single day, most people don't need to worry about catabolizing muscle — provided they also do strength training a few times a week and eat right every day — i.e. get an adequate supply of macronutrients (protein, carbs, fats) and micronutrients.

Dip your testing paper into your favorite fragrance oil and then wait a few minutes, and then an hour this will allow you to smell the change in your oil over a period of time.

The whole workout should always start with few minutes of worming up followed by a short (1 - 4 minutes) very intense exercise such as jumping, running, walking upstairs or uphill, pushups, etc. interrupted with short periods of rest (medium intensity exercise) which should be two times shorter than intense exercise.

Daily suggested dosage of liquid extract for painful periods and PMS is 10 - 25 drops every 5 minutes and then every 2 hours, for next few days, or until pain has subsided.

If you're concerned about losing steam, move through an interval plan that consists of five minutes of jumping, alternating with one - minute rest periods; it will take a few minutes longer, but you'll keep up your momentum and enthusiasm the whole way through.

From the start, the film sweeps away the period choreography of the conventional literary adaptation, sweeps it away so thoroughly that for the first few minutes I thought that this Wuthering Heights must be set a hundred years after a nuclear strike.

The film is a wildly mixed bag, seeming to hit its stride every few minutes only to be undercut by prolonged periods of stupidity and redundancy.

It's just as clear that October Sky recovers for an admittedly captivating final stretch, with the emotional punch of the film's final few minutes ultimately confirming its place as an above - average period piece.

The first few minutes of the film are what you might expect, quiet, stuffy, and period.

She asked her students to transcribe the notes into their notebooks during the first few minutes of each period so that they could focus on listening and speaking rather than writing once she started the lesson.

In high school, they might not have seen their friend all day, and a few minutes to catch up at the start of the class means they won't be disruptive later in the period.

Building in a few minutes at the beginning of class for students to speak can impact the learning for the rest of the period.

Make sure that your class takes a few moments every 20 minutes to stop what they're doing, stand up and stretch to restore circulation, relieve tense muscles, and break up periods of inactivity.

Exit tickets are given at the end of a class period, and should only take a few minutes for students to complete.

Three to five questions make for a good exit ticket, and students should be able to complete the whole thing in just a few minutes at the end of a class period.

It's a few minutes after 7 a.m. on a drizzly Friday morning and math teacher Jonathan Winn is standing just outside his first period classroom yelling at the top of his lungs, his voice reverberating across campus.

The teacher unions are trapped in archaic organizational models characterized by buildings and districts that are too large and too fragmented, compulsory attendance, the 180 - day school year, the 50 - minute period, age - grouping of students in 13 discrete grades, few performance or standards - based activities, and inaccurate assumptions about the dangers of privatization.

Last fall Farmington's two middle schools joined the district high school in transitioning to fewer, longer periods during the day — four 80 - minute classes, instead of nine, 44 - minute classes.

Informal cooperative learning consists of having students work together to achieve a joint learning goal in temporary, ad - hoc groups that last from a few minutes to one class period (Johnson, Johnson, & Holubec, 2008).

Over a 48Â hour period with a few screen - on moments for checking progress (and a 10 minute in - use period as my daughter grabbed it to use a paint program) Â I measured 46 % fall in battery usage of which 5 % was due to screen - on time.

In my moderate usage cycles — which consists of a bit of gaming, emailing, chatting, and web browsing a few times within a 10 - 15 minute period — I'm getting more than a day's worth of battery life.

Web - based videos play ine, though depending on signal strength and how big the video file is, you may need to give videos a period of anywhere between a few seconds to nearly a minute to buffer.

Repeat this routine several times over the next few days, extending the period of time that you're away up to 30 minutes.

He can be a little vocal if he's not ready to be in the crate for an extended period of time, but always settles down within a few minutes.

Gradually accustom your new dog to being alone by leaving your home briefly then returning, repeating this several times over a period of a day or two and gradually increasing the alone time from a few minutes to a half hour to an hour.

The owners who played with their cats for longer periods of time reported fewer behavior problems (on average one behavior problem, compared to the 2.25 behavior problems reported by those who played with their cat for only one minute at a time).

After the dog has stopped for some period of time, just a few minutes or several seconds, depending on how severe the problem is then call her over to play a game, do some training or even get a massage.

S tep 7: If they can get along with just a few feet of each other for short periods of time, you can try to leave them alone for just a few minutes.