Sentences with phrase «shorter than the second»

For example, without this mechanism, people wouldn't be able to distinguish that the first syllable is shorter than the second in a word such as «papa» [sounds like pa - pah], says Alluri, the study's first author.

«Given the gratings» thickness of a millionth of a millimetre, the interaction time between the mask and the molecule is roughly a trillion times shorter than a second.

Not exact matches

They asked participants to create a six - second scary short — promising a chance for the winner to develop the idea with Roth — and received more than 15,000 submissions.

Remember to keep it short and sweet; many people will become uneasy if a handshake lasts for more than a few seconds.

«Research suggests that there's been a drop from 12 to eight seconds... shorter than the attention of the average goldfish, which is nine seconds.»

That's two seconds longer than a Vine loop and seven seconds shorter than the max - length Instagram clip, and that's not by mistake.

May we have your attention, please: The average American attention span is now one second shorter than that of a goldfish.

Tankers exiting Vancouver harbor must transit through the shallow Second Narrows channel during «high slack water» — a short tidal window of about 20 minutes that provides loaded tankers with less than two metres of under - keel clearance.

Bar 8 - Fail, failure breakout high of yesterday second entry sell, possible high of day, but low probability so swing or wait, but always in long, limit order market, sellers scaling in above, buyers below, both scalping, magnet above, low probability short, probably buyers below, and sideways more likely than down

In addition to those three elements, keep your pitch shorter than 30 seconds, and make sure it is relevant to the conference.

Perhaps that shouldn't be surprising, since Facebook says you pay for a «view» when a video is displayed in a user's news feed for 3 seconds or more, even if the person doesn't actually click on the video to watch with the sound turned on, while YouTube says you pay for a «view» when a viewer watches 30 seconds of your video — or the duration if it's shorter than 30 seconds — or engages with your video, whichever comes first.

They may be able to raise short - term rates less than they otherwise would because now they have this second dial to tighten monetary policy.

One of the most heavily shorted stocks in the market, RH, reported better - than - expected second - quarter results Wednesday afternoon, sending shares soaring more than 30 percent in Thursday's premarket session.

President Donald Trump drew short shrift from key economic allies after he offered a second temporary exemption on metal - import tariffs rather than the permanent waiver most are demanding.

In short, unless the Court is prepared to think about this issue with greater care than was evinced by the Ninth and Second Circuits» and there is little in its opinions of late to suggest that it has the moral imagination to do so» the question will be not how far we slide down the slippery slope of legally sanctioned killing, but how fast.

In short, I am claiming that Hartshorne is a more thoroughgoing personalist than Brightman, and that any version of personalism which does not treat Hartshorne's thought as personalistic is missing out on the most important corrective to and up - dating of personalist metaphysics and epistemology in the second half of the 20th century.

Even though I perceive one - twentieth of a second all at once, I, and my awareness, are still in time, because my specious present is of only finite duration, and, in fact, of much shorter duration than I.

Yet Crump may really be the better Crump, for his inner discords and second birth; and your once - born «regal» character, though indeed always better than poor Crump, may fall far short of what he individually might be had he only some Crump - like capacity for compunction over his own peculiar diabolisms, graceful and pleasant and invariably gentlemanly as these may be.)

In the second half, we really didn't try at all to do something other than wait out the final whistle and although Villa tried to show some spirit they are really short on quality.

No one has been able to catch the Yankees for the first wild card or hold on to the second wild card for anything more than a short burst.

I remember waiting in my car, a «65 Bug, six volts short of being able to handle anything more than the stock AM stereo, on a break, listening to Mark Leiter finish his second complete game in as many starts, wondering if he was the ace the Giants had been looking for.

His punch isn't necessarily all that powerful, but it is damned effective for two reasons: First, his arms are so long that they usually get to a pass rusher's chest quicker than they're used to; and, second, once he gets his hands on a guy and fully extends his arms, it's hard for the rusher to be able to reach out and get»em off because their arms are likely much shorter.

1) GK — better 2) LB — same, possibly better if Gibbs improves, Monreal has plateaued 3) RB — better as Bellerin will only improve 4) CB first pairing — same, as the BFG is getting older but he can't get shorter or slower, 5) CB second pairing — better since we didn't have a pair last year 6) DM — better as Arteta is now back up and Coquelin should get even better 7) Box to box — better if you think Ramsey and Wilshire still have room to improve and are still being kept out by Carloza 8) LW — better, Sanchez might not get too much better but Welbeck is an improvement on Podolski 9) RW — same if Theo moves up front but Ox and Gnabry have lots of room to improve 10) CAM — same 11) Striker — better as Giroud / Theo is stronger than Giroud / Sanogo

On a breezy Athens night she finished a dull fifth in the long jump, each of her last three legal jumps landing shorter than the previous one after she had leapt 22» 53/4» on her second attempt.

The reigning King of New York is playing second fiddle to his newest teammate, but he's the only other man in the league with shorter than 10/1 odds.

The season before last 14 15 we did better with the points than last season even though we came second from last season we know we conceded many goals from set pieces and were very short on goal scoring the logic of this season was to fix the defensive department and the offensive department by introducing a defender to reduce the amount of goals conceded unless holding is to be the man we havent us of yet fixed the problem on the offensive department we all know the only offensive player is chuba apkom well else we have not addressed the problem so in reality I do not except Arsenal to finish the season with more than 70 points and personally think minimum point required to win the premier league is 85 points have we got that in our squad it will remain to be seen if chuba and holding are enough for a key to unlock the season we will soon find out but I think MR wenger is gambling with the introduction of new manageress which lives us with Liverpool and Leicester and who will take the points off united chelsea and city the next 6 games should give us the indication to what may happen to the long run for the new year

Both College of Charleston, which took care of the ball better than anyone in the Colonial, and potential second - round opponent Clemson, which plays relentless interior defense despite not having a player over 6» 9», could stop the shorthanded Tigers short of a measuring - stick Sweet 16 game against top - seeded Kansas.

Nice enough shirt, but could they not just have used any combination of the home / away shorts and socks rather than bring out a second pair of navy shorts and white socks?

You make good points Ttg, if all three lost their pace who I will pick will depend on where I want them to play in my team, they will probably all be useless as wingers so I would pick Theo to play as a second striker in a 442 because Theo consistently makes the kind of short runs Townsend and, to an extent, Lennon can only dream of but if I must use them as Wingers then I'd pick Lennon as he is more two - footed and passes better than the other two.

The 24 - year - old is capable of playing across the midfield and his creativity ability is second to none — he has produced 54 chances in Serie A, which is more than any Empoli player and currently just three short of Chelsea's chief creator, Willian.

The Gunners have been in this position before and Bettingpro.com noted that they were actually shorter than their current odds of 11/2 after 10 games last season and that Arsenal were just 7/4 favourites at this stage in the 2015 - 16 season before finishing second to Leicester City.

The short answer is «better than last season `, but that's a bit of a cop out answer, so here we go — I think we'll finish second, which is highest I've predicted since I started doing these a few years ago.

Second births are generally shorter and easier than first births.

In Bromley and Enfield, Labour candidates fell short by a margin of less than the Women's Equality party votes, while in Richmond the Liberal Democrat / Green alliance saw off the Tory challenge for a second time.

But the ultimate ask should include a pledge not to primary if they come up short at the convention, or finish worse than second.

In the context of an election, particularly with a short European style campaign, the second is a lot more important than the first.

However, it only produced short bursts of maser radiation that lasted less than one thousandth of a second.

Researchers have found that short gamma - ray bursts — those that last a couple of seconds or less — have brighter afterglows than the simple, reigning model of afterglow emission predicts.

Some information stays with us for only a short time — generally no more than a few seconds unless we do something with it.

Since the 1990s, theorists have thought that bursts shorter than two seconds originate when neutron stars merge to create a black hole.

There are two classes of GRBs based on the duration of their explosions: a) shorter than 2 seconds, and b) longer than 2 seconds.

But little information exists about «short» bursts, lasting less than a second.

Scientists spotted a phenomenon called a short gamma - ray burst, a brief spurt of high - energy light, less than two seconds long.

It was the first time scientists pinpointed a short gamma - ray burst (lasting less than a second), which probably occurs during a collision of dense neutron stars.

The exact periods of your longer and shorter pendulums may be slightly less than 1.7 seconds and 1.2 seconds, respectively, because of friction and because their lengths were less than 70 cm and 35 cm (due to strings being used to tie to attachments).

Indeed, only a few GRBs have ever been seen in our galaxy, but these have been of the «short» variety, which typically last less than one second.

The researchers flashed five gray disks paired with uniform half - second tones and asked subjects if the fourth tone was longer or shorter than the others.

Although the robots pump their legs much faster than the insects (40 times a second, as opposed to no more than 10 for the insect), the strokes are much shorter and, moreover, the robots are a hundred times heavier than the insects.

Close - up shots in contemporary movies can be up to three seconds shorter than ones in which a small face appears at a distance.

And it is high - frequency waves, with short periods of vibration of less than one second, that tend to affect low - story buildings.