Sentences with phrase «than a paper clip»

A brick - size piece of the new mesh would weigh less than a paper clip.

To give a sense of the scale, a conventional optical parametric amplifier costs several hundred thousand dollars, and occupies an entire optical table, while the newly developed amplifier is much smaller than a paper clip, and costs a fraction of the former.»

PULLMAN, Wash. — How can a slow - flying insect tinier than a paper clip and as light as a Kleenex tissue be to blame for the global health emergency declared this week?

Not exact matches

The chain recognizes that its followers are into more than just paper clips and office furniture.

More than 10,000 titles include books on architecture, astronomy, chess, clip art and fine art, crafts, history, literature, and mathematics, as well as music scores, the world's premier paper doll line, value - priced Dover Little Activity Books, and titles by over two dozen Nobel Laureates.

Regular - season games merit no more than a short story in papers or a brief clip on the 11 o'clock television news in the teams» home cities.

Other than that baby has been gaining weight and now weighs as much as four paper clips, that's four grams.

Use cut up paper clips (each clip will give you 3 units) for the hangers, easier than making holes and looks better to...

Students have absorbed the idea that the paper clips represent something more than a convenient way of holding papers together.

There are few places other than a middle school where unsharpened pencils, paper clips on the floor, a stray line on a white board, or a misspoken word, even if it's obviously inadvertent, would warrant the scrutiny of an archaeological dig or the interrogation of a grand jury.

Compiling a digital rather than a paper - based portfolio opens up opportunities to include audio clips, videos and photos alongside electronic documents and scanned text.

She takes out letters, some of them more than a hundred years old, photographs, postcards, newspaper clippings, magazines, and leafs through them, she thumbs through the pile of lifeless paper and then sorts it yet again, this time on the floor, or on the desk by the window.

Do you need to know even more people than ever before, collecting contacts like a paper clip magnet?

Use SnipSnap to keep track of paper coupons Clipping coupons can be time consuming, and there's nothing more frustrating than realizing you left your coupon at home when it's time to pay.

Judd Foundation asks that visitors please bring their own dry supplies such as pencils, sharpeners, erasers, graphite, charcoal, paper, sketchbooks, clips and boards (no larger than 20 x 20 inches).

Working with his hand, rather than brushes, Binion uses oil paint stick and sepia ink and paper — documents that have included copies of his birth certificate, his passport photos, images of his mother and childhood home, newspaper clippings, and pages from the address book he kept from 1972 through the 1990s.

According to the curator, Steven Matijcio, Crosby refers to her pieces as «works on paper»; she begins each of her works with a large piece of heavyweight paper, hung with binder clips, rather than a traditional frame.

A paper clip is better than a staple, because the recruiter can easily remove it.

Employers review most paper resumes in less than 10 seconds; bear that in mind and keep your clips short.

It was a life saver to clip important papers up on the board until I was ready to put them away, rather than have them get lost in a file or stack of papers.