Sentences with phrase «so about the tenth»

And so they are around ten microns in size, and the width of your hair is around a hundred microns, so about the tenth of the width of a hair,» stated Mullen.

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I liked her stories about her mother and her family, as she clearly appreciated them very much, but the folksy gimmick of having a business lesson followed by a memory started to grate after the tenth lesson or so.

So when we read about the tenth plague in light of Jesus on the cross, we can see that God is not to be found in the destroying angel who slaughters babies out of revenge or because of the sins of a proud and self - righteous ruler.

«The difference between everybody from tenth place to the last one is about five points so, as I said, we know every match is going to be a final for us.»

Speak to any doctor [about whether]... a patient... on the verge of kidney failure and his heart is so weak and has become so big and also has cancer... will be able to do one - tenth of the things that Nana Akufo - Adddo is doing.

Considering we are seeing this giant black hole's activity from a time when the universe was only a tenth of its present age, astronomers are puzzled about how it could've grown so big so fast.

Their search was sensitive up to distances corresponding to about twice the orbital periods of these so - called hot Jupiters, or about one - tenth of the distance between Mercury and the sun.

Women have only about one - tenth the testosterone of men, so they're unlikely to be susceptible to the winner effect.

In addition, only about one tenth of the mined uranium ore is converted into fuel in the enrichment process (during which the concentration of uranium 235 is increased considerably), so less than a hundredth of the ore's total energy content is used to generate power in today's plants.

So that [is] all it does, it goes straight and it tumbles, straight tumbles, about a second usually of swimming straight and then tumbling for a tenth of a second.

The number of so - called safety - significant events reported to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, for example, averaged about two per plant per year in 1990 but had dropped to less than one tenth of that by 2000.

An Escherichia coli bacteria (or E. coli bacteria) is typical — it is about one - hundredth the size of a human cell (maybe a micron long and one - tenth of a micron wide), so it is invisible without a microscope.

Charon, first spotted in 1978, is so bulky compared with its parent — about one - tenth the mass of Pluto — that scientists regard the Pluto - Charon system as a double planet.

Your bones and joint health are ruled by the tenth house, so increase your calcium intake and ask your doctor about which vitamins you may need.

I did Lauren's first gynecological exam and Pap smear when she was seventeen, and I can't help think about how she graduated in the top tenth percentile of her high school, earned a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and received a full scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania, but ended up attending the local city college so she wouldn't leave her single mom alone.

When I was in tenth grade, my dad took me to Annapolis to see the Navy band play a concert, and for about three weeks, I was determined to get in shape so that I could apply to the Naval Academy.

Women produce about one tenth of the amount of testosterone as men do so a sudden surge of additional testosterone can be significant.

So now that I've given you the underlying plot, or parts of it anyway (there's a lot going on in the tenth entry of the Marvel cinematic universe), I want to talk about the reasons to see this movie... in theaters... THIS weekend.

While they're funded with public money, they generally operate outside of collective bargaining agreements (only about one - tenth of charter schools are unionized) and other constraints that often prevent principals in public schools from innovating for the good of their students (so the argument goes).

So in this tenth blog I am going to tell you about a classroom in Fresno where student learning is truly what the work is about.

It automatically checks for spelling and grammar and that kind of stuff, which is nice because it actually allows me to talk about the writing rather than these minutiae of mechanics that, to me, aren't really the focus of tenth grade English... [But] it's sometimes hard... a kid quoted a bible [sic] verse... and his was a mess because it came up with so much because it was like «chapter 1.»

So while it feels quicker than the IS F and about as rapid as the RS 5, its 4.5 - second 0 - 100 km / h time is at least a couple of tenths slower than the other two Germans.

Chevrolet is quick to mention that's quicker than the Jetta TDI DSG, although they fail to mention it's only by one - tenth of a second, and I doubt the kind of person that would buy a compact diesel cares all that much about how fast it gets to highway speed, so long as it actually does get there.

Airing a show about old folk complaining and casting an adorable geek or an action star that looks suspiciously like Bruce Willis to host it is funny the first time, but not so much the tenth.

I'd say it's the best RPG of this console generation, but that's not saying a whole lot (when the previous best game in my book, XIII - 2, was about tenth or so over the time - frame to indie and handheld games).

Then a friend told us about a space on Tenth St that was bigger so we moved.

Natural oscillations (mainly solar) and variable non-CO2 forcing like aerosols have caused fluctuations up to + / -0.1 C about that trends so no one expects it to follow the CO2 curve more closely than to within about a tenth of a degree, but the overall rise remains 1 C (+ / -0.1 C) and the overall CO2 forcing of 2 W / m2 is consistent with that.

On the Moon, the effective buffering depth is ~ 1m, which for comparison gives about a tenth of the buffering capacity of the Earth's atmosphere, while the sol is of course ~ 29 times as long, so the temperature swing of the lunar surface is much greater, reaching ~ 120C during the lunar day.

Are you somehow gifted with second sight so that you just «know» precisely what GAST was (within the tenths of a degree Celsius necessary to support all of the vast range of conclusions that are being made about global warming and its causes) so that you can state that it was in fact cooler?

So - called soil respiration has increased about one - tenth of 1 percent per year since 1989, according to an analysis conducted by PNNL of past studies published in Nature.

If countries were to start right away and build really fast, so that they installed a trillion watts of gas - fired electricity generation steadily over the next 40 years, that would still add about half a degree Fahrenheit to the average surface temperature of the Earth in 2112 — that's within a tenth of a degree of the warming that coal - fired plants would produce by that year.

So far, it has been defined by the German standard that limits the heating and cooling load to 4,755 British thermal units per square foot (or 15 kilowatt hours per square meter)-- about one - tenth that of homes built to current U.S. codes.

Sam Glover: So, A, something needs to be on the page in front of them within about a tenth of a second, but everything needs to wrap up in a quick enough time that we don't have time to go, «Ah, forget it.»

Overlawyered just celebrated its tenth anniversary, which so far as I know (though someone may come along to prove me wrong) makes it the oldest blog about law.

And if Twitch is seen as the new cool kid in town, which Ninja did an amazing job and so did CNBC of painting it as that when they're talking about the monetization opportunities on the platform and Twitch Prime and all these things that sound so much more exciting than a five - second pre-roll that you wait to skip and in return you get 50 percent of a tenth of a penny or whatever it is on YouTube.

So, with only a few days to go before the arrival of the iPhone 8, what do we know about Apple's tenth anniversary iPhone that'll make it a worthy upgrade?

It means that the panel itself is razor - thin — about one - tenth of an inch thick — so that it nearly melts into the background.

What's so striking about the iPhone X isn't what Apple added to its tenth - anniversary smartphone, but what it leaves behind.

Research on first impressions says that it takes one - tenth of a second to draw conclusions about a person from a photo, and that this process is so automatic it's almost impossible to stop.