Sentences with phrase «time by a fraction»

It is not worth the frustration you'll get from missing the perfect timing by a fraction of a second and then dying.

The swift sprint through the Mushroom Kingdom has only seen incremental gains over the last few years, with runners besting times by fractions of a second.

Using a series of «traffic lights,» it reduces your shower time by a fraction each time, helping you save on your water bill without trying.

Not exact matches

For starters, white - labelled e-commerce solution providers like LemonStand and BlackSquare let a wide range of merchants set up online storefronts at a fraction of the time and cost required by traditional IT channels.

By hiring remote workers, we get access to experts located all over the world, at a fraction of the cost of hiring a full - time employee from an expensive city like New York or San Francisco.

But instead of starting by creating, say, one or two production lines in Buffalo at a time, it purchased a fraction of the equipment necessary for even a single production line of Whitney panels.

But by employing social listening tools, you can keep track of interactions across a variety of social platforms in a fraction of the time it would take you to manually monitor just one.

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

Apple, for example, pays taxes at a small fraction of that rate on its offshore profits, according to calculations by The Times based on the company's securities filings.

There's really no telling what the price of a coin will be once mining rewards are in fractions of a coin level, but it seems that during that time more and more people will enter the market with interest and vigor, and those people will help raise the price as well as stabilize it by having a far greater number of people who can decide if and when Bitcoin is losing value.

While it may be only a fraction of a second, my students» wandering eyes and yawns are already in the past by the time I have perceived them.

And though I didn't manage more than a pitiful fraction of what he had to teach, that offbeat educational outing did convey a lifelong lesson: There are times when the simplest of ideas are best explained — indeed, most effectively explained — by the most extraordinary of minds.

I also can't agree with the «Classic Timeline» by science that says man is a relative latecomer and has only been here a small fraction ot the time that dinosaurs have.

It slices more evenly and thinly than you can by hand, and cuts your slicing time down to a fraction.

Tosca's unique one - step SmartWall ™ design completely revolutionizes the restocking process, slashing product handling time to a fraction of what it was by allowing employees to place the container on the shelf and in one motion drop the front wall for display.

Thinly slicing the sprouts vertically — by hand or with a food processor fitted with a slicing blade — gets similar results in a fraction of the time.

Unfortunately, going by the tiny fraction of fans that protested in the stadium on tuesday, it seems to me that those who buy tickets to go to watch are more interested in enjoying a recreational time, possibly taking the missus or the kids out and generally incorporating the matches into the fun and excitement of their lifestyle to be genuinely grieved by the team's shoddy performances.

Our real - time updates will provide you the same edge in sports betting enjoyed by professional bettors, but for a fraction of the price.

Dybala stood over the free kick and again hit the wall, but this time the deflection ballooned toward the goal, missing the post by a fraction.

It received just eight days scrutiny by the Commons, a fraction of the usual time devoted to major pieces of legislation.

Nevertheless, the process can be used to map text alterations in a tiny fraction of the time that the same process would take by hand.

Like other senators and House members, Gillibrand will likely get only a fraction of the money she sought by the time Congress finalizes its spending bills in the fall or later.

«By the time a traditional cure is ready, a large fraction of susceptible machines could be compromised by such a flash threat.&raquBy the time a traditional cure is ready, a large fraction of susceptible machines could be compromised by such a flash threat.&raquby such a flash threat.»

By using laser - generated, hologram - like 3D images flashed into photosensitive resin, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, along with their academic collaborators, have discovered they can build complex 3D parts in a fraction of the time of traditional layer - by - layer printinBy using laser - generated, hologram - like 3D images flashed into photosensitive resin, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, along with their academic collaborators, have discovered they can build complex 3D parts in a fraction of the time of traditional layer - by - layer printinby - layer printing.

These ripples were thought to be caused by gravitational waves, ripples in the very fabric of space - time, created a tiny fraction of a second after the big bang.

However, by using laser - generated, hologram - like 3D images flashed into photosensitive resin, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, along with collaborators at UC Berkeley, the University of Rochester, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), have discovered they can build complex 3D parts in a fraction of the time of traditional layer - by - layer printing.

Drake multiplied the number of sunlike stars in our galaxy that form each year by a handful of variables: the fraction of those stars that have planets; the number of planets per planetary system where life could exist; the fraction of habitable planets where life actually arises; the fraction of those where intelligence emerges; the fraction of intelligent species that develop interstellar communication; and finally, the average length of time that those communicating civilizations survive.

A report from the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation found that 6,000 individuals who were under the age of 18 in Ukraine, Belarus or Russia at the time of the disaster had by 2006 contracted thyroid cancer, «a substantial fraction» of whom likely contracted the disease due to radiation exposure.

Prototypes have the potential to power a multitude of devices with different energy needs, as well as recharging in a fraction of the time needed by conventional rechargeable batteries.

Findings from the Treatment of Preserved Cardiac Function Heart Failure with an Aldosterone Antagonist (TOPCAT) trial, have revealed that adding the medication known as spironolactone (Aldactone) to existing therapy did not significantly reduce the composite time to either death from cardiovascular causes, surviving a cardiac arrest, or hospitalization to manage heart failure in patients with heart failure and a preserved ejection fraction in a study funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health.

Chan points out that even when Reppy and Rittner replicated the 2004 experiment, they were reporting supersolid fractions of 20 percent — 20 times greater than the 1 - 2 percent measured by other groups.

They succeeded by selectively turning on just a fraction of those flashing dots at any given time, so they could distinguish single balls of replica DNA flashing across the cellular landscape.

Over a long enough period of time, the increased carbon burial could help offset a small fraction of carbon emitted by human activities such as fossil fuel burning, says study coauthor Antje

The draft report says it is «very likely» that the past three decades have all been warmer than any time in the past 800 years; that we could see almost 9 °C of warming by 2300; and that «a large fraction of climate change is largely irreversible on human timescales».

The short orbital periods of the newfound planets enabled their detection from the small data set — each planet passed its star several times in the 43 - day observation window, dimming the starlight by a small fraction with each orbit.

By measuring POC in the different sinking fractions for each water sample, the team determined that median slow - sinking POC concentrations were 75 times higher than median fast - sinking POC concentrations.

If only a small fraction of the matter goes into making stars, the rest being blown away in winds or expanding H II regions, then the remaining stars end up in a gravitationally unbound association, dispersed in a single crossing time (diameter divided by velocity) by the random motions of the formed stars.

Now a group led by scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Northwestern University has reported a shortcut for discovering and improving metallic glass — and, by extension, other elusive materials — at a fraction of the time and cost.

[46](Presently the ecliptic latitude is 43.5 ° South but it has decreased by a fraction of a degree since Ptolemy's time due to proper motion.)

This result is supported by the finding that at the same time that BACE levels are decreased in the hippocampus, APP protein levels are significantly increased in the soluble fractions of hippocampus from the J147 - treated AD mice compared to control AD mice (Figure 2E).

Viewed from another star, our Earth's reflected light would be 10 billion times fainter than the Sun itself, with an orbit that separates the Earth from the Sun by a tiny fraction of an arcsecond.

Previously discussed in a November 24, 2011 pre-print, the astronomers «surveyed a carefully chosen sample of 102 red dwarf stars in the southern skies over a six - year period» and found a «total of nine super-Earths (planets with masses between one and ten times that of Earth),» of which two orbiting within the habitable zones of Gliese 581 and Gliese 667 C. By combining all the radial - velocity data of red dwarf stars (including those without undetected planets) and examining the fraction of confirmed planets that was found, the astronomers were able to estimate the probable distribution of different types of planets around red dwarfs: for example, only 12 percent of such stars within 30 light - years may have giant planets with masses between 100 and 1,000 times that of the Earth (ESO news release; Bonfils et al, 2011; and Delfosse et al, 2011).

By using laser - generated, hologram - like 3D images flashed into photosensitive resin, researchers have discovered they can build complex 3D parts in a fraction of the time of traditional layer - by - layer printinBy using laser - generated, hologram - like 3D images flashed into photosensitive resin, researchers have discovered they can build complex 3D parts in a fraction of the time of traditional layer - by - layer printinby - layer printing.

By concentrating only on these areas, you can create a polished look in a fraction of the time.

With the help of Bronson, Eddie finally makes it to the Winter Olympics in Calgary (despite dastardly attempts by the British Olympic Committee to block his participation, mostly because he's goofy looking) where he at first enjoys his sudden stardom but then is reminded by coach Bronson to take himself more seriously and put forth his best effort despite the fact that he's been ski jumping for a fraction of the time his competitors have.

If you must be thrilled by a menacing phone caller, watch the first 20 minutes of «Scream»; it accomplishes the same goal, far more effectively, in a fraction of the time.

Sex Criminals was created by Fraction and Chip Zdarsky and follows Suzie, a librarian, and Jon, an actor, who discover they can freeze time when they orgasm.

McGuigan rarely makes a misstep until he allows these final scenes to become bogged down by talking heads and constant flashbacks, where a stylish montage, a la The Usual Suspects, would have capped it all off quite nicely in only a fraction of the time.

The rest of the thing is just garbage of The Majestic variety, another weird attempt by Carrey to do a Frank Capra film (in The Majestic, an It's a Wonderful Life poster was displayed in a theatre lobby; here the picture itself is playing on television in a key scene), except this time without any pretense that he'll rein it in even for a fraction of a moment.

To her office troop hordes of angry parents, insisting that she raise their child's grade - point average by a fraction of a point or that she classify their daughter as learning disabled so she can have extra time on the SATs or that she push their son to apply to the father's alma mater even though the boy lacks the grades to get in.