Sentences with phrase «smaller distance from»

But estimates for the much smaller distance from the Sun to the galactic plane — an imaginary plane bisecting the Galaxy like the layer of jam in a sponge cake — have failed to match up.

This instrument consists of a conductive tip that is placed at such a small distance from a conductive sample that a current flows between the tip and the sample.

Move up and down briskly, lifting your back only a small distance from the floor.

The cottage is situated 100 meters from the beach, a small distance from all ameneties in a very quiet place at the end off a small road by the trees.

The cars show a number of jagged edges and the details on the track are lost beyond even a small distance from the car.

A man - made island, Myrtle Beach has been separated from the continental United States since 1936 by the Intracoastal Waterway, forcing the city and area in general to develop within a small distance from the coast.

Not exact matches

From a distance, a Canadian SME may avoid places like Jackson because they're small communities with the sort of insular business networks that tend to characterize such cities.

Nate lives in the small town of Grande Prairie, Alberta (population: 68,000)-- a four - hour connecting flight from Vancouver — and we'd spent our entire relationship dealing with the toll the long distance was taking on our hearts and bank accounts.

However easy it is to demonize and to hate from a distance (I won't provide links, but, trust me, the demonization and the hate was quite evident online), it's a bit harder to do so in the context of a small college, where habits of conversation are encouraged, where people talk the talk (even if — sinners as we all are — we don't always walk the walk) of fairminded openness to the truth, and where Others (not «The Other,» which, as a colleague rightly suggested, is too abstract) are people we encounter day in and day out.

It then landed again a few hours later, bouncing a smaller distance the second time before finally landing about a kilometre from the original landing area (the comet is rotating as well as moving fast).

Visualise from a distance you all are just small critters on a tiny planet you call earth.

One of [the whale's] peculiarities it is, to have an entire non-valvular structure of the blood - vessels, so that when pierced even by so small a point as a harpoon, a deadly drain is at once begun upon his whole arterial system; and when this is heightened by the extraordinary pressure of water at a great distance below the surface, his life may be said to pour from him in incessant streams.

He lived, by his own desire, in a small tent out under the olive trees a short distance from the home.

The incarnation says in the words of history, not only with the words of longing: The infinite mystery which silently surrounds you does not rush towards you so that you will flee from it into your own familiar little life until it overtakes and destroys you in death; it is not only the judgment which orders your small world from the distance and judges Its guilty finiteness.

As this Age of Great Enlightenments contnue onwards the Kingdom Domains of God does progressively teach one and we are taught from its outward creviced distances toward almost absolute finiteness or the very very smallest of distinguishable degrees, God will allow our students and teachers of such studies to meaningfully create manly made biologic mechanisms for the betterment's welfare of all our physical needs and trade orientated desires.

No doubt you have gazed up at the sky on a fine winter's night and, like innumerable human beings before you, had an impression of a serene and tranquil firmament twinkling with a profusion of small, friendly lights, all apparently at the same distance from yourself.

I booked a small hotel room walking distance from a...

Although the food may travel a shorter distance, it comes from a larger number of smaller sources to deliver shoppers the local quality food they demand.

serving of Vertical Water has approximately 1/3 the calories, 1/3 the sugar and travels less than 1/3 the distance from forest to table (that means that Vertical Water has a smaller carbon footprint, it is exclusively sourced and bottled in the U.S.).

In the distance white smoke billowed from the small chimney of Tiger Stadium.

They should be encouraged to climb stairs or explore smaller spaces while the parent supervises from a distance.

For instance, if your child is afraid of spiders, you might add a very small, non-threatening spider to the story (one that keeps its distance from the hero).

I'm planning to go all natural, I really wanted a home birth, but we live on a smaller rural island quite a distance from a hospital and midwives will not attend births where we live.

«Some of them have been small, others large, but together they have turned the party inwards rather than outwards, looking to the past rather than to new ideas, resting on easy rhetoric rather than taking hard decisions — and above all seeking to distance ourselves from our time in government, rather than building on it, in terms of both policy content and political culture and dynamic.»

He also sought to distance himself from any suggestions of a plot against Mr Corbyn, insisting that it was a small faction of right wing MPs who had been guilty of attempting a coup.

In response to the recent corruption cases against public officials which continue to rock state and local offices, and perhaps in an effort to distance himself from the corruption which ensnared a member of his own small network of close colleagues, Senator David Carlucci (D - Rockland / Ossining) joined Executive Assistant District Attorney Itamar Yegeri to announce a comprehensive plan which aims to prevent campaign finance improprieties through new regulations on campaign spending and donations.

Rather, he refused to distance the party from its coalition with the Conservatives and pledged that the Lib Dems would be on the side of small business.

«About ten years ago, when the transport system in the country was terrible, especially at a small village called Kam 19, hardly would you see a vehicle plying on our road, the distance from the houses to the mortuary was far, so I was carrying dead bodies, those days I was charging GH cents 20.00 per a body, it was very heavy but I needed the money so couldn't resist the job.

Smaller parties can only distance themselves from larger coalition partners to a limited extent.

And even if it could, it can't communicate or launch while under water (it may actually be able to launch from a small distance under water but assume that it will be beyond that).

The split in planet types they found could come from small differences in the planets» sizes, compositions and distances from their stars.

The technique was previously used to distinguish the wood of closely related species, or populations of the same species from different countries, but this is the first time that DART - TOFMS has been used to identify the source of samples over such small distances (less than 100 km).

They also have to be at the right distance from this small cool star to allow water to be in liquid form.

It orbits a red dwarf — a small, cool, faint star — at 2.6 times Earth's distance from the sun.

The ability to send large amounts of energy across greater physical distance to in - motion platforms from low cost charging plates could one day allow the technology to expand beyond small consumer electronics like cell phones and begin powering bigger things like automobiles.

By attaching small data - logging packs with motion sensors to the backs of four colugos, researchers found that it takes one - and - a-half times more energy for the animals to climb up a tree and glide from point A to B than it does for them to move the same distance through the trees.

By studying core samples taken from the river delta, the research team, led by Zhen Li of East China Normal University in Shanghai and colleagues, detected patterns and sizes of charcoal to indicate fire distance (small particles can travel farther than 100 meters, whereas larger ones stay put) as well as pollen to deduce the presence of either crops or nonagricultural flora.

Since the charge is concentrated over a small distance, it would create a strong electric field, perhaps enough to ionise the air and create a luminous discharge that travels up away from the ground — explaining the orbs, flames and aurora - like sheets of light.

At a distance of 415 million miles (668 million kilometers) from Earth, Jupiter offered spectacular views of its colorful, roiling atmosphere, the legendary Great Red Spot, and it smaller companion at farther southern latitudes dubbed «Red Spot Jr..»

If the particle is traversing a smaller distance (from the neutrino's perspective) in the same amount of time, its speed dips below that of light, preserving relativity.

No telescope yet can spatially distinguish an exoplanet from its star; the distance between them is too small and the brightness contrast too large.

«Detecting small motions from the victim's heartbeat and breathing from a distance uses the same kind of signal processing as detecting the small changes in motion of spacecraft like Cassini as it orbits Saturn,» said James Lux, task manager for FINDER at JPL.

But it might be decades before the more home - bodied six - armed sea stars return to the area, since their babies can only crawl small distances away from their mothers.

Moreover, they often report other traits, linked to the sensory environment: for instance the ability to perceive small details in a picture or to detect a very soft sound coming from a distance.

But as trackers got smaller and battery life went from days to weeks and then months or years, it became apparent that sharks crossed huge distances, even oceans.

A small fraction of these, in turn, could have been Earth - like, meaning they met such criteria as harboring water and existing within a habitable distance from their suns.

Vincent Blondel from the Université Catholique de Louvain, in Belgium, and colleagues conclude, among other things, that predictions that the world would shrink into a small village have not completely materialised as distance still plays a role.

They estimated that their gravitational change occurs 46,000 light years out from the centre of a large galaxy and half that distance for a small galaxy.

Among the new additions to the catalog are several small, probably rocky planets that reside in the habitable zone — at a distance from their star that allows liquid water to exist on their surface.

Researchers from the University of Liverpool have spotted the equivalent of smoke - rings in the ocean which they think could «suck - up» small marine creatures and carry them at high speed and for long distances across the ocean.