Sentences with phrase «successive nights»

By our clocks, then, the stars seem to jump like trained fleas on successive nights: they rise and set about four minutes earlier.

A faulty overnight diaper can depriveyou, and your loved one a couple of successive nights sleep.

After five or more successive nights of wearing the monitor, each participant came to the School of Medicine to spend a night in a specially designed sleep room.

But the decision to hold the sessions in Iowa on four successive nights lent political overtones to the gatherings.

An equal probability of selection method (EPSEM) phone list of residential landline telephone numbers for the survey was purchased from a private company.4 Three attempts were made at each number over successive nights.

Trounced five times by North Carolina and Wake Forest and no better than fourth in the regular - season standings, Duke suddenly came alive in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament at Raleigh and upset its most persistent tormentors on successive nights to win the title and an NCAA berth.

Nigeria and Ghana offered the broadest tennis talent among the countries we visited, but a wily Kenyan named Yashvin Shretta matched sets with Arthur and Stan on successive nights.

Kentucky held its eight - game lead over Virginia in the East Division as both teams won two of three, including a split with each other on successive nights.

All of the proposals were laid before the House of Commons last night after the Tory backbenchers hijacked an obscure Parliamentary procedure by camping out in Westminster for four successive nights.

She's ready to lead us through dramatic wilderness landscapes by day, and then set us up for eight successive nights (conditions permitting) of viewing the aurora virtually from our doorsteps.

On two successive nights this week I woke suddenly, yelling out in fright.