Sentences with phrase «tens of thousands of times longer»

The measurement lasted for 15 seconds — tens of thousands of times longer than the milliseconds during which scientists have until now been able to preserve quantum data.

Not exact matches

Particularly when any written work is swamped by tens of thousands of books that in another time would only ever be bought by friends and family — purely out of charity for the writer and the knowledge that once all those short - run books are no longer clogging up the author's parent's garage, the parents might actually be able to park their car undercover again.

This low fee is likely to add tens of thousands and perhaps even hundreds of thousands to your portfolio relative to similar alternative approaches over long time periods.

Some of the biggest mortgage document errors are in how long a loan is amortized for; while a cheaper monthly rate can seem appealing, this sort of error can tack on tens of thousands of extra interest costs over time.

The postulated and very likely cause of the ice ages are variations of the earths orbit around the sun, and variations of the inclination of the earth's axis in relation to this orbit, which cause variations of the sun's heating of different parts of the earth at different times of the year (mainly the northern hemisphere) over long periods of time (tens of thousands of years).

I know that tornadoes dot the German Rhine where no tornadoes were seen before, I know hurricanes on the Eastern seaboard are behaving differently, I know that Crete was so dry when I saw it that I couldn't imagine olive trees growing there without irrigation, I know that our highways are a half kilometer wide and countless kilometers long, with thousands upon thousands of idling cars sitting on them, ten times a week for as long as I've been alive, and I know that sea captains don't want to traverse the Indian ocean because the almanacs are no longer reasonable guides to chart how long a given voyage from one port to the next might take.

Not only does week - long immersion in executive education supplant otherwise - billable time, but the cost of the curriculum itself can be tens of thousands of dollars for a handful of partners.»

Where a case has been in the system for a long time and has been delayed through no fault of the plaintiff, a good argument can be made that the plaintiff should not «lose» what could amount to tens of thousands of dollars in PJI simply because the case was delayed in proceeding to trial.

It will be a long time before we see Donoghue v Stevenson «trending» on Twitter, or receiving tens of thousands of «likes» on Facebook.