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few and drops
Born a Congregationalist, he had been baptized as a tiny baby in the usual manner by having a few drops of water sprinkled on his head, yet nowhere in the whole of the New Testament could he find a description of anybody being baptized by sprinkling.
As in the United States, there is a flat fee-per-day rental charge plus a few cents per kilometer driven, and the per-day rate drops if the car is retained for a week.
Thus, few drops of diamminesilver ( I ) hydroxide ( Ag ( NH < sub > 3 </ sub >)< sub > 2 </ sub > OH ) reacts with terminal alkynes signaled by formation of a white precipitate of the silver acetylide.
After every few shots, the " ceiling " of the playing arena drops downwards slightly, along with all the bubbles stuck to it.
A Low-budget project, such as a locally printed office party invitation flyer, can be rearranged and printed dozens of times at the low cost of a few sheets of paper, a few drops of ink, and less than one hour's pay of a desktop publisher.
The quarterback generally either starts a few paces behind the line of scrimmage or drops back a few paces as the ball is snapped.
Sensor test chips containing thousands of nanowires, able to detect proteins and other biomarkers left behind by cancer cells, could enable the detection and diagnosis of cancer in the early stages from a few drops of a patient's blood.
The rugged mountain wall drops abruptly to the sea with only a few intermittent coastal plains.
A few drops of distilled water are added ; then the binder ( egg emulsion ) is added in small increments to the desired transparency.
A large farm tractor driving by then stops to help, but fortunately this time the problem was evidently just a few drops of bad gas, because the lawn-tractor's engine sputters to life again after sitting for a few minutes.
A few drops of vegetable oil at the start reduces surface tension and speeds the release of CO < sub > 2 </ sub >.
Most center pivot systems now have drops hanging from a u-shaped pipe attached at the top of the pipe with sprinkler heads that are positioned a few feet ( at most ) above the crop, thus limiting evaporative losses.
Usually in a fiat money the value drops if the coin is converted to metal, but in a few cases the value of metals in fiat moneys have been allowed to rise to values larger than the face value of the coin.
Most center pivot systems now have drops hanging from a u-shaped pipe called a gooseneck attached at the top of the pipe with sprinkler heads that are positioned a few feet ( at most ) above the crop, thus limiting evaporative losses and wind drift.
Alternatively, old shellac may be tested to see if it is still usable: a few drops on glass should quickly dry to a hard surface.
Just a subtle sprinkle of a few drops of liquid is enough to transform a very dry casabe into a very soft and smooth bread very similar to the softest slice of a wheat bread loaf, an incredible change in texture.
Its western border is not clearly defined though most development drops off only a few miles inland at Powerline Road.
This idea can be illustrated by a glass of wine with a few drops of deadly poison in it: Although not all the liquid is poison, all the liquid is poisoned.
* I trust that the labour and hazard of an investigation-of which the smallest results have been slowly pieced together, in the pressure of arduous avocations, under grinding penurious apprehensions, at rise of morn, at dewy eve, in the shadows of night, under the watchful eye of one whom it were superfluous to call Demon, combined with the struggle of parental Poverty to turn it, when completed, to the right account, may be as the sprinkling of a few drops of sweet water on my funeral pyre.
He then mixes a few drops of water with the wine, which will later become the Blood of Jesus, and holding the chalice so that the lip of the chalice is about the height of his lips, offers " the chalice of salvation ", asking that it may " ascend with a sweet fragrance.
After a few seconds he rips it up and drops it on the floor and then works his way one after another through the rest of the photos, looking at each one briefly again and then tearing it up.

few and rain
Forests sometimes contain many tree species only within a small area ( as in tropical rain and temperate deciduous forests ), or relatively few species over large areas ( e. g., taiga and arid montane coniferous forests ).
To make the overburden waterproof ( in case of rain ), a plastic sheet may be buried a few inches below the surface and held down with rocks or bricks.
Expect a few rain showers and thunderstorms especially in late March and April.
The city experiences substantial summer precipitation mostly concentrated in thunderstorms and heavy showers with rain events occasionally lasting up to a few weeks at time giving residents " the Summer blues ", while winter is beautifully sunny, warm, and fairly dry.
The city's location under the rain shadow of the Chaîne des Puys confers to Clermont-ferrand one of the driest climates in metropolitan France, except for a few locations around the Mediterranean Sea.
Tlaloc, the god of rain, became the sun, but Quetzalcoatl sent down fire which destroyed the world again, except for a few humans who survived who were turned into birds.
Most rain comes at night, but there can be a few rain days.
Most winter moisture is in the form of rain, though some light snow falls most winters, usually enough to accumulate and stay on the ground for a few hours, at most.
The original 1910 bridge was destroyed and all that is left are a few columns and pieces of metal that are seen when the river is not filled with rain or water is not being released from the dam.
Massive amounts of rain, winds, hail, and a few tornadoes are to be expected at this time of year.
His works were mainly decorative, however, rather than structural, so that rain and damp obscured his changes within just a few years.
An eruption the size of Mount Pinatubo tends to affect the weather for a few years ; the material injected into the stratosphere gradually drops into the troposphere where it is washed away by rain and cloud precipitation.
Consequently, according to the Met Office and British bookmakers, even of snow on the ground at Christmas, because of a heavy snow fall a few days before, will not constitute a white Christmas, but a few snow flakes mixed with rain will, even if they never reach the ground.
During the race in heavy rain two track marshals died when Adolf Rosenberger lost control and hit into the indicator board and the timekeeper's box, a third employee succumbed to his injuries in hospital a few hours later.
" A few days later he set off for Manchester, posting in that wettest of autumns through " the rain that rained away the Corn Laws ," and on his arrival got his friends together, and raised the money which tided Cobden over the emergency.
A more typical result of surface dew points above are extreme precipitable water readings as well as other indices used to forecast severe thunderstorms and flooding such as Convective available potential energy as was illustrated in early June 2008 when thunderstorms originating in Minnesota and Iowa mushroomed when hitting the area of extreme dew points in South-Central and South-East Wisconsin from and inaugurated the third wave of upper Middle West flooding ( the first was snowmelt from the record-breaking winter snows and the third was the widespread rains in excess of and up to during early August 1997 ) by producing extremely heavy rain over the region, with many areas receiving and a few areas of in 3 to 6 hours ' time.
The western side of the island is rainy and wild, home to the Valdivian temperate rain forests, one of the world's few temperate rain forests.
Overnight rain seriously damaged the pitch before the third morning ; batting became extremely difficult, and few critics — including members of the England team — expected England to score many runs.
They are fed by rain water drenched moss and will last a few days at most once the rain stops.
His rule was to cover at least four miles a day, rain or shine, and there was no part of the less congested portions of New Haven and its environs over which he had not many times traveled as he walked unhurriedly alone, stooping somewhat, buried in thought, compelled by poor eyesight to keep his gaze fixed upon his path a few feet ahead of him.

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