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big and mechanical
Between 1856 and 1864 the Southern Main Line was built and enabled Malmö to become a center of manufacture, with big textile and mechanical industries.
Exploitation of the area by " big mining companies with their mechanical dredges " would last well into the 20th century.
In British archaeology mechanical diggers are sometimes nicknamed " the big yellow trowel ".
She views winning the contest as a mechanical, purely biological function, " no big deal " as her mother has told her.
The big advantage of laser perforation is the consistency of the hole size, compared to mechanical perforation.
Despite her being a big draw in the box office, her acting skills were considered stiff and mechanical.
In 1928, the big news was the use of four-wheel mechanical brakes.
In particular, the bearing plant, the mechanical plant, and the optical and mechanical factory were built in Vologda, as well as a big poultry farm, and the polytechnical university was opened.
All the characters are playing on a big 3D mechanical Gnasher.
As at that time no suitable mechanical power system was available the submarine was powered by two sailors turning a big tread wheel with their hands and feet.
It was never a big seller. The Corsair was one of the four model Consul range, and shared many of its mechanical components with the Cortina, Classic and Capri.
When it was introduced by Red the codec was the first to allow high bit depth Bayer sensor video data to be recorded to CompactFlash, mechanical hard disk or SSD media instead of a big external storage system.
The northbound platform's side wall includes tile depicting a big passageway ; the first room, as seen from the platform, has doors to a second room which appears to be a mechanical room.
* Cornfed looks like a big farm boy, and seems to be the team's muscle, but he is actually in charge of all mechanical repairs.
The “ nuclear cross section ” is consequently a purely conceptual quantity representing how big should be the atom to be consistent with this simple mechanical model.

big and was
He was a big man, wearing a neat flannel shirt against the cold foothill air.
A big car was approaching, its chrome teeth grinning.
There was a mound of bleached human bones and skulls at the base of the big wooden derrick.
He was very tanned -- big hands might have torn him from a Coca-Cola poster.
He was on the thin side, with big hands, and the kind of wrists that give away the power in forearm and bicep.
He was thinking, big deal: skipper on his drunken fishing parties for seven years and no better off than when I started.
Within seconds the big barn was blasted into smoking splinters, with every outlaw either dead or injured inside.
This was the big man with the proprietory air and the beetling, shaggy eyebrows.
He was big, and filthy, and his toes stuck out of the flapping tops of his shoes.
He was big.
`` No, I don't think so '', said the big man, and it was the final clincher for Ernie.
She was certain now that it would be no harder to bear her child here in such pleasant surroundings than at home in the big white house in Haverhill.
When Fred wheeled him back into his room, the big one looking out on the back porch, and put him to bed, Papa told him he was very tired but that he had enjoyed greatly the trip downtown.
He was a big man, and he wanted nothing little, squeezed ; ;
He told me that he had a big newt and a little newt and that he was transplanting a big eye of the big newt onto the little newt and a little eye of the little newt onto the big newt.
He was then noting that the big eye on the little newt hung back until the little eye had grown up to it, while the little eye on the big newt grew rapidly until it was as big as the other.
He was thinking his way into a new novel, a big one, one that people had been waiting for.

big and running
A clerk in the outer office took him in to Sheriff Carruthers, a big, paunchy man with thick, white hair and a voice with a senatorial resonance which suggested he should be running for higher office.
Although he never gets to play while the clock is running, he gets a big kick -- several every Saturday, in fact -- out of football.
Willie's big day revived the running argument about the relative merits of Mays and Mickey Mantle.
Then, without knowing why, she found herself running from them, fleeing wildly through the trees, dodging her own shadows until she came to a little hollow in the rocky ground with a big stone in the center behind which she knelt and hid, listening to the madness of her heart and wanting for once to cry.
The character was a clown ... with red cheeks and wild clown hair ... and the running joke was his attempts of becoming a big singing star and in every skit just as he was preparing to pull out a guitar and start to sing, the camera would zoom out and the door swing shut.
Keller's big breakthrough in communication came the next month, when she realized that the motions her teacher was making on the palm of her hand, while running cool water over her other hand, symbolized the idea of " water "; she then nearly exhausted Sullivan demanding the names of all the other familiar objects in her world.
After finishing 4th in the 1970 Commonwealth Games and running the fastest season time in 1971, he was not a big favourite for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, having limited competition experience.
The theory proposed considered to be the most likely evolution of running is of early humans ' developing as endurance runners from the practice of persistence hunting of animals, the activity of following and chasing until a prey is too exhausted to flee, succumbing to " chase myopathy " ( Sears 2001 ), and that human features such as the nuchal ligament, abundant sweat glands, the Achilles tendons, big knee joints and muscular glutei maximi, were changes caused by this type of activity ( Bramble & Lieberman 2004, et al .).
At 6 ′ 3 ″ and 245 pounds, Taylor was big enough to break through the offensive lines of many teams, but he still had enough speed to chase down running backs.
Beathard decided to rebuild the Chargers using the same model that he used to build the Redskins into Super Bowl contenders during the 1980s – a powerful running game built around big lineman, a passing game that helped sustain extremely long drives, and a bending but steady defense.
The main losses are in weight and installation cost, but on the bigger cruising boats that may sit at anchor running large diesels for hours every day, these are not too big an issue, compared to the savings that can be made at other times.
The next Gilbert and Sullivan opera, Patience, opened at the Opera Comique in April 1881 and was another big success, usurping Pinafore's position as the longest running piece in the series with the second-longest run in musical theatre history.
Repertory theatre with mostly changing casts and longer running plays, perhaps better classed as " provincial " or " non-profit " theatre, has made a big come-back, in cities such as Little Rock, AR, Washington, DC, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Houston, Boston, San Francisco, San Diego, Buffalo, and Seattle.
Today, UAE is usable, thanks partly to the effort taken to develop it and partly to the big improvements in technology that brought computers many times faster than those UAE was initially running on.
The caption read, " I's simple Sambo and I's running for the big house.
Six countries, including Russia and China, have sought India's help to replicate Project Tiger, one of the most successful conservation programmes running in the country to protect the big cats from extinction.
As a consequence of the ensuing rejection, particularly by his father ( Peter MacNeill ), Sweet William had the choice of either running away to live in a big city far away from the family or committing suicide by hanging himself from a tree in the garden.
The comedy proved to be his first big success in America, running from 1933 to 1934, and made him, as he often put it, " a matinee idol for a whole year!
Guests who participated included many big names of the 1970s and 80s, such as Flora Robson, Penelope Keith, Laurence Olivier, John Mills, Vanessa Redgrave, Eric Porter, Peter Cushing ( who in a running gag would keep turning up to complain that he had not been paid for an earlier appearance ) and Frank Finlay – as well as Glenda Jackson ( as Cleopatra: " All men are fools.
Forbes magazine contributor, Adam Hartung, also alluded the bribery scandal to Walmart ’ s “ serious management and strategy troubles ,” stating, “ Scandals are now commonplace … Each scandal points out that Walmart ’ s strategy is harder to navigate and is running into big problems.
The party was the big winner in the 2003 election, running on a joint list ( cartel ) with the social-liberal party Spirit.
Data warehousing procedures usually subdivide a big ETL process into smaller pieces running sequentially or in parallel.
* it should not have been so big The running of such heavily-laden excursion trains as the present on lines with bad gradients, is a practice much to be deprecated ; it would be far better to limit them to about 10 vehicles.
However, the running time of an algorithm is usually expressed in big O notation, ignoring constant factors.

1.747 seconds.