Sentences with phrase «volumes than speech»

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We have, therefore, more than the outline of Mark to rely upon; it is supplemented and confirmed by the tradition recorded in the speeches of Acts — themselves perhaps embedded in old Judean, Jerusalem, or Caesarean sources, oral or written, which had come down from the primitive community and were incorporated by the author of Acts in his volume.

«I worked out how much scattering and straggling would occur, and realized that much of the ionization would be deposited in a volume at the end of a narrow beam not much larger than the eraser on a pencil — and with very little exposure of the skin at the point of entry,» Wilson recalled in a draft for a speech.

In some cases, the improvement in understanding is equivalent to turning down the speech volume by more than 5 decibels, which is similar to the difference in the strength between car and truck noise, while still being able to hear what is said just as clearly.

Velocity of speech counts as well as volume: we rank fast talkers as more competent and likable than slow ones.