Sentences with phrase «tens of thousands of times larger»

Females of the new species are roughly the same size as their previously studied relatives, but males are tens of thousands of times larger than those of other Osedax worms, and are roughly the same size as the females.

Not exact matches

Such big - time evangelists as Argentine Luis Palau and U.S. television preacher Jimmy Swaggart pack city stadiums with tens of thousands of enthusiasts; only the pope draws larger crowds.

The County Executive may at any time during the fiscal year transfer part or all of the unencumbered appropriation balance between classifications of expenditures within the same administrative unit, provided that prior approval by resolution of the County Legislature shall be required if the proposed transfer (1) would result in an increase exceeding ten thousand dollars ($ 10,000), or such larger amount as may be prescribed by local law, during the fiscal year in any one line item in the budget as adopted, or (2) would affect any salary rate or salary total.

Many crop plants contain genomes that are hundreds or tens of thousands times larger: wheat, for example, has an estimated 15 billion base pairs.

Colloidal mineral preparations presumably differ from true solutions in that the size of the dispersed particles is ten to one thousand times larger than ions dissolved in a liquid.

For a larger loan like a mortgage, a higher rate can cost you tens of thousands of dollars by the time you finish paying off the debt.

Just to reiterate, this experiment is being conducted, tens of thousands of times every day, in the gas centrifuges used for uranium isotope separation, which generate g - forces sufficiently large that the on - axis pressure is a near - vacuum, which the outer - rim pressure is many atomospheres — precisely the conditions of interest.