Sentences with phrase «relatively large areas»

I've spent the best part of a century, living in and visiting a variety of relatively large areas and spending time there.

In its normal state, a cell's DNA is distributed in the cell nucleus over a relatively large area.

The finding, reported in today's Nature, suggests that although fig trees may require a relatively large area to reproduce successfully, they also may be better than other trees at coping with isolation or habitat fragmentation.

The problem with the watch is that, again, a finger - stick calibration is required, mainly because glucose is extracted indiscriminately and variably across a relatively large area (> 3 cm2) of skin and is considerably diluted before it is analysed.

Because the district covers a relatively large area, there is considerable diversity among the schools.

However, even accounting for the relatively large area of the GCM's computational elements (400 km × 500 km), Figure 2 shows that the GCM still overestimates precipitation frequency.

With regard to wildfires, see Western U.S. Forest Wildfire Activity: «Thus, although land - use history is an important factor for wildfire risks in specific forest types... the broad - scale increase in wildfire frequency across the western United States has been driven primarily by sensitivity of fire regimes to recent changes in climate over a relatively large area.»

Not exact matches

And if you live in any relatively large metropolitan area, you've probably used it at least a few times to find a job, an apartment, a couch or even a date.

For a capital city, Raleigh is relatively inexpensive to live in, while boasting most of the opportunities and events expected in larger metropolitan areas, including pro sports teams, a large college sports scene, great food and drink, and citywide events nearly every weekend.

Amazon executives say they are looking for a large metropolitan area with strong job growth, an educated labor pool, proximity to universities, relatively affordable housing and a strong transportation system.

It gets high scores for its clean air (an indicator in which it tops all metro areas), relatively large proportion of foreign - born residents, and low homicide rate.

The building has a relatively open design with classrooms and meeting rooms and a large area in the back used for religious services.

For someone looking to kill or terrify large numbers of civilians, chemical weapons are fantastic - they deliver shocking, horrible effects over huge areas for a relatively modest investment in fuel and ordinance weight.

Wealthy areas can generate large amounts of revenue from relatively minor increases in property tax rates due to high property valuations.

The acreage where waste is buried is relatively small, he said, but the risks are significantly higher because the dump sites are spread across such a large area.

«Disadvantaged areas already tend to receive higher funding, so the pupil premium would be relatively smaller for a deprived local authority and relatively larger for a more affluent local authority,» said the report.

The large tan splotch just below and to the right of the South Pole is the two - hundred - mile - wide Schrodinger crater, one of the few areas on the moon that shows signs of relatively recent volcanic activity.

The combination of small size and relatively large surface area allows heat to dissipate quickly enough to protect the animals» neural tissue.

Two areas in which NSF proposed large cuts for 2018 were its prestigious graduate research fellowships and a long - running program that helps states receiving relatively small amounts of NSF funding.

A 2002 study using MRI scans showed that brain areas keeping aggression and impulsive behavior in check were relatively larger in women than in men.

Ultrathin sheets of a new 2 - D hybrid perovskite are square - shaped and relatively large in area, properties that should facilitate their integration into future electronic devices.

They live in large family - centered pods that tend to stay in one relatively confined area.

Smaller particles have a relatively larger surface area, compared with their volume, making them much more chemically reactive.

A boat can «mow the lawn» over a large area in a relatively short period of time, while stationary recorders on the seafloor have great temporal coverage, but they record only within a certain range of the hydrophone,» said Selene Fregosi, a researcher at the Cooperative Institute for Marine Resources Studies, Oregon State University and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Newport, Oregon.

The effort is relatively large because of our planes being deployed worldwide, and not always in easily accessible areas.

Certainly possible in Australia where there are large areas of relatively undisturbed forest with plenty of potential prey... there have been consistent sightings in the Blue Mountains area west of Sydney over many decades which suggest that rather than just an isolated zoo escapee or over grown pet there may be a breeding population, which would be a bit of a worry for us bush walkers!

While the study was limited to 26 lions in a single geographical area, the study area was unique among mountain lion studies in that the authors were able to track mountain lions along a gradient of human presence that included relatively remote areas of the Santa Monica Mountains and also areas within the second largest metropolitan area of the United States.

This means that even relatively small marine - protected areas could be effective in protecting the top - level predators and allowing coral reefs to more fully recover from coral bleaching or large cyclones which are increasing in frequency due to the warming of the oceans as a result of climate change.

The results suggest that, in regions where relatively large, intact wilderness areas remain (for example, Africa, Australia and South America), conservation of the remaining large - scale refugia is the priority.

The Dry Valleys form the largest, relatively ice - free area on a continent otherwise buried under ice.

Site J was chosen unanimously as the primary landing site because the majority of terrain within an area that size has slopes of less than 30 degrees relative to the local vertical and because there are relatively few large boulders.

Primates have been relatively safe in the Amazon basin, but climate change and the construction of large hydro - electric dams and the rise of enormous soy plantations in the area are taking a toll on primates.

This relatively sudden rise of normal sea level occurs when storm winds and tides combine to transport large volumes of water to coastal areas.

Methods: In the experiments, the researchers dispersed or spread the vanadium oxide catalyst on a support of titanium dioxide to create a relatively large surface area with more reactive sites.

So those two systems tend to be relatively more out of balance than most for most people, and of course most of the people that work with me are in the United States, I do have some folks in the international areas and on different continents, but this is very reflective of our society at large.

Both short and long heads have relatively large physiological cross sectional areas in comparison to other muscles of the upper body but similar fascicle lengths.

The deltoids (anterior, middle, posterior) have a relatively large physiological cross-sectional area compared to other muscles in the upper body.

However, the report notes: «Despite the relatively low numbers of principals reporting unfilled vacancies in individual curriculum areas, there are still fairly large numbers who report that they have difficulties in suitably filling staff vacancies across all areas of the curriculum.»

For example, a small group of pupils gathered in a spacious library for a lesson where they will be largely sedentary will require more heating than a large group of pupils conducting a physical education class in a relatively small area.

After years of frozen salaries, the busy 2014 session saw large pay bumps for beginning teachers and relatively small raises for veteran teachers — but those raises came at the expense of teacher assistants and classroom supplies as well as cuts to other critical areas of education spending.

An examination of Table 7 reveals that there are relatively large differences between these two sets of documents in the content areas covered, especially in the Foundations of Literacy area.

The rear seats fold down to provide a relatively large and flat load area but not really big enough for the Ikea run.

Although one of the lighter SUVs among this year's contenders, the fully loaded CR - V Touring nevertheless weighs 3,481 pounds (1,579 kg) and has a relatively large frontal area for a 1.5 - liter engine to deal with, even one with a turbocharger.

It has a lot of storage in the back trunk / hatch area, and I can even move relatively large furniture.

Large majorities of those under age 30 say it is «very important» for libraries to have librarians as well as books for borrowing, and relatively few think that libraries should automate most library services, move most services online, or move print books out of public areas.

For this study, we presumed that if a relatively small percentage of employees work for small businesses, then most businesses operating in the area are likely large corporations, which may not bode well for a new business» ability to thrive.

Tenants profit due to a strong area that is well trafficked and has a large population with relatively high incomes.

ACE's main impacts are through guiding the donations of relatively casual donors (who take their giving seriously, but aren't able to or don't want to be involved in setting the direction for the organizations they donate to) and through interacting with and advising existing animal advocacy organizations.100, 101 We don't have the resources or capacity to fund large amounts of work in new areas, either by doing the work ourselves or by helping set up organizations to do it or funding grants.

It is a good idea to confine the puppies to a relatively small space, because the larger the area the puppies have to play in, the more likely they will forget where the papers are.

Unfortunately, they now also require the pups» being vaccinated against K9 Influenza since outbreaks of the disease are more likely to occur in areas where large groups of dogs are in relatively close contact, which meant that Missy & Buzz had to get that shot.