Sentences with phrase «than about flying»

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You may joke that the week you went on vacation flew by far too quickly, but if you stop and think about it, that week actually seemed to last much longer than one involving the drudgery of your day job.

In other words, it's more than just a figurehead position — it can involve appearing at events, flying to other countries to represent the brand, and meeting with people about potential partnerships.

Similarly, once high - flying Twitter has a current valuation of about $ 21 billion, about 20 percent lower than its immediate post-IPO market cap.

Though concerns about flying and airplane safety permeate popular culture, it's much safer to travel by plane than by car.

Though a few mainstream media companies such as Disney were among them, they also included Netscape, Yahoo!, CKS, America Online, and C / Net — the kind of high - flying Internet companies Wired magazine wrote about rather than the sorts of print publishers Wired Ventures resembled.

For example, what math was used to calculate the capability of dragline silk from an orb weaver spider that is lighter than cotton, yet ounce for ounce stronger than steel, tougher than kevlar (used in bullet - proof vests), that if the silk were 0.4 inch thick with strands 1.6 inches apart and enlarged the size of a football field, could stop a jumbo jet in flight, that is flying at an average speed of about 600 mph?

Also, I don't know if what you said about fruit flies is true or not (knowing you probably not) but if it is that wouldn't be all that surprising as the new fruit flies would have evolved so that they could survive their new surroundings which were probably much different than «the wild» thus they would no longer be able to survive in «the wild»

Engaging in this kind of thought experiment is great, because it forces us to think about the physicality of the coming kingdom and helps us picture a world full of human creations rather than one of fluffy clouds and winged babies babies flying around.

So you are more concerned about a group of people trying to keep baby Jesus off the off the capitol lawn than about some religious fanaticals trying to fly an airplane into the capitol?

Another reason I'm so jazzed up about this sauce is that I created it completely on the fly without referencing any recipes for ratios or inspiration, which can be a lot harder than it sounds.

I found that if you pour water directly into the tang bottle and then close it up and forget about it for two weeks, you can later extract it as tangball paste easily, and it stays in a ball shape MUCH longer than making them on the fly.

What hurt him the most last year was the fact that his home run / fly ball ratio was over 16 %, much higher than the league average of about 10 %.

Luiz is a dirty player and I don't think he much cares about his opponents, he will raise his foot and kick you in the head even though common says he needed to let the ball drop down rather than flying through the air at head height, he would have also been aware that going in over the top of the ball with studs showing was a dangerous tatic and was likely to hurt the opponent.

More significant than the extra fly balls are their outcomes: After a career in which about one in nine of his flies went for homers, Bautista is going deep on one in five.

I am not talking about flying into tacklesOld British style, but more closing down defenders and forcing them into mistakes and offering himself for out balls into wide areas, rather than just hang around in the middle and only spring into action when the ball gets near the opposition box.

Its unfair the should be treated like this, here we are again tranfers window opens and we get speculations flying around and the end of the transfer window we end up with one player (Stephen Ireland exchange for Kolo Toure), then Le boss says they didn't find a special player, I believe arsenal have lost ambition and should get their priorities straight, rather than the board members scuffing all the money, claiming, claiming Le Boss has all the money to spend and Mr Hillwood talks rubbish about, the credit crunch, can anyone please tell me where Man Utd get the money for players (considering they are owing bust still buying) even good ol' spuds are spending.I have lost all hope and I'm tired of getting heartbroken by arsenal every season and transfer windows with speculations and who they could have bought (Cristiano Ronaldo, Gokhan Inler..

Of course, shocks spring up all the time in the Premier League, so I'd be wary about sticking Tottenham in your weekend accumulators, especially as they aren't really worth the bother at odds of around 1/3, but nevertheless I am struggling to envisage anything other than another comfortable win at home for high - flying Spurs.

Hi im a gunner from SA.fell in love with the mighty arsenal since Kanu's hattrick against chelsea.i was the only gunner with all man utd supporters around here.got lot of flak over the years though.my bro made me grow up to staunchly hate man utd with a passion.so i hate them more than Satan himself lol.btw I got you on my FB spanish.profile name is Herbz Van Persie.fave goal has to be the sheer genius of the Non Flying Dutchman against Newcastle.what a goal.i miss the days of our quick counterattacks.Viera to Pires.Pires to Henry.OH MY GOD WHAT A GOAL.those days im talking about lol.nowadays we take too long on the ball and counterattack very slow.

For example, flying direct to Tampa from Buffalo added about 2 hours to our journey (we got lucky at the border) but the total cost for all 3 of us to fly was less than the cost of one fare on a Canadian carrier.

I want my kids to feel positive about food and eating, to value the habit of meals (rather than eating on the fly), to eat the foods our family eats, to be able to stop eating when they are full, and to trust themselves with eating.

For instance, about flying with 2 kids, Ryan said, «I would rather drink a piping hot bowl of liquid rabies than get on a plane with my two children.»

That old saying about catching more flies with honey than vinegar is completely ignored here.

During our conversations about the Legislature, he repeatedly quoted a homespun homily — «You get more flies with honey than with vinegar» — from his grandfather Andrea, a grocer who came to America by boat from Southern Italy.

«They are entitled to be detained safely... not consigned to a corrections crucible that seems more inspired by «Lord of the Flies» than any legitimate philosophy of humane detention,» added Bhahara, comparing prison life at the East River island nestled between The Bronx and Queens to William Golding's 1954 novel about a group of shipwrecked British teens who try governing themselves on a deserted island with deadly results.

Just about any time a mayor tried to pay police less than they thought they deserved or impose a new form of oversight or accountability, the vitriol flew — and no clash between mayors and police was quite as bitter as what the city witnessed 22 years ago, when Mr. de Blasio's old boss, Mr. Dinkins, failed to tame an actual police riot.

Let's talk about FAA drone registration: If your drone weighs more than 0.55 pounds, you must register it, even if you only plan to fly it recreationally (meaning for fun and not for work).

And their genes are easier to manipulate than those of their mammalian counterparts — by altering Sod1, Wu created flies that died after only about two weeks, a quarter of their normal life span.

The fracture, called Damascus Sulcus, appeared to have a temperature of about minus 106 °C, which was 12 °C cooler than March's fly - by.

Those that received a dose of sugar water beforehand then flew to a feeder about four times quicker than those that didn't, suggesting that sweet food can increase positive emotions and improve a negative mood in bees — just as it does in humans.

They found that the pellets, though seemingly precarious, were firmly attached: The force necessary to dislodge a pellet was about 20 times more than the force a bee typically experiences while flying.

EFT - 1 flew the Orion capsule to more than 15 times further from Earth than the International Space Station, about 3,600 miles above the planet's surface.

Apollo lunar astronauts are four to five times more likely to die from cardiovascular disease than astronauts who never left Earth's orbit or who never flew at all, according to a study published in Scientific Reports today that considered about 100 astronauts, seven of them Apollo.

«Any flying animal larger than a large insect will need to use some kind of controlled stall or hover mechanism to land,» he says, but the new track «does not give us any new information about launch».

With two altered copies of the gene, flies live only about 20 % longer than the norm, the researchers report in the 15 December issue of Science.

Knutie says the flies now infest all land birds there, including most of the 14 species of Darwin's finches, two of which are endangered: fewer than 100 mangrove finches remain on Isabela Island, and only about 1,620 medium tree finches exist, all on Floreana Island.

When some 200 bees flew from the hive searching for food over the next two hours, about three - quarters of them approached a dry feeding station 230 feet away looking for nectar, rather than the loaded feeding station closer to the hive.

The scientists found that the cowbirds paid attention to the distance between them and the truck rather than the truck's speed, always flying away when the truck appeared about 30 meters away, they report online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

He decided to try by filming hummingbirds in the wild, which are less inhibited about flying than their captive counterparts.

On its final plunge, the Venus Express probe will fly deeper than ever before — but a return mission could tell us more about climate change and alien life

By combining and comparing data from worm, fly and human, researchers can learn far more about the functional elements than if they analyzed the genome of just one organism.

Earlier studies had suggested that animals — including fruit flies, dogs and mice — live longer when they ate about 25 percent fewer calories than normal.

They sleep about 50 percent more than other flies.

The team focused on two closely related species of fruit flies — Drosophila melanogaster and its sister species, Drosophila mauritiana — because large differences have evolved in their rates of recombination: D. mauritiana does about 1.5 times more crossing over than D. melanogaster.

«Because it had only one shot at its target, New Horizons was designed to gather as much data as it could, as quickly as it could — taking about 100 times more data on close approach to Pluto and its moons than it could have sent home before flying onward,» writes NASA.

But the problem of unreliable information and exaggeration seems to be worse with stories about cane toads than almost any other topic we've encountered — toads attract misleading stories like cowpats attract flies!

If I have a piece of fruit or a protein shake about an hour before, I can fly through a run and have energy to go at least a mile further than without.

The LA Lakers are way up the cutting edge of this stuff and that's some really cool stuff that Cate Shanahan is doing with them and if you just go google like Lakers diet or Lakers Cate Shanahan, you'll see some of the things they're doing, I mean like, you know, I was having this discussion with one of my buddies who's scout for major league soccer, I told him that if he ever had a team that actually wanted to kind of incorporate a lot of these ancestral living concepts and healthy eating concepts and you know, kinda introduce these stuff in the professional sports that I would be more than happy to help just because like this stuff flies under the radar so much and when we're talking about everything from NFL athletes finishing up their career and having a ton of brain inflammation that can be controlled with stuff like you know, curcumin and huperzine and a lot of these elements that can for example decrease hypoperfusion to the brain or increase your ability to repair your nervous system.

What everyone says about your second pregnancy going so much faster than your first is completely true, I feel like the time has flown.

I can't think of anything more festive, more whimsical than taking yourself abroad and doing exactly what I did about a month ago; I packed my bags, flew to Paris, and visited 5 European cities in just 7 days.

A police helicopter flew overhead, and we laughed about getting arrested — for a second I genuinely thought I was about to live out more of the Friends with Benefits Hollywood sign scene than I'd bargained for!