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From maturity one looks back at the succession of years, counts them and makes them many, yet cannot feel length in the number, however large.
The completeness of the connections provide that, for N people, there are Af lines of communication between the pairs, which can become a large number ( 1,225 ) for a party of fifty guests.
The number of people acting as one body by this scheme gives a surprisingly large army of 55,987 men.
Thus, Margenau remarks: `` A large number of unrelated epicycles was needed to explain the observations, but otherwise the ( Ptolemaic ) system served well and with quantitative precision.
Secretary of War Baker, blindfolded, put his hand into a large glass bowl and drew the initial number of those to be called.
For that is the one an increasingly large number of prominent Americans are now proposing.
The resulting setup, it was declared, `` would be similar to that which is in successful operation in a number of metropolitan counties as large or larger than Rhode Island ''.
This apparatus will also be used to measure transition probabilities of a large number of other elements.
Rather, such assignments are made, as they must be, on the basis of certain overall rules and standards, representing to some extent a statistical approach to the problem, taking into account for each situation some of the variables ( e.g., power and station separations ) and averaging out others in order to achieve the balance which must be struck between protection against destructive interference and the assignment of a number of stations large enough to afford optimum radio service to the Nation.
During nighttime hours, because of the intense skywave propagation then prevailing, no large number of stations can be permitted to operate on one of these channels, if the wide area service for which these frequencies are assigned is to be rendered satisfactorily by the dominant stations which must be relied upon to render it.
Additional class 2, assignments for daytime operation can be made without causing destructive interference to the class 1, stations or to each other, and by their operation provide additional service on these channels and additional local outlets for a large number of communities.
Such additional daytime class 2, assignments are appropriate if optimum use is to be made of these frequencies, and the Commission has over the years made a large number of them.
And, besides, there are a large number of scholars, artists, composers of music, novelists, poets, essayists, choreographers, lawyers, servants of government, and men of affairs -- hundreds, indeed -- who serve the Foundation well with the advice they give us freely and gratis out of their experience.
A large number of these Juniors have 7 and 8 wins to their credit and are seasoned campaigners.
If a nation wished to get a head start in physical fitness over all other nations, it would start its kindergarten students on a program of gymnastics the day they entered and thus eliminate a large number of the problems that plague American schools.
No matter how they are formulated, a large number of organic actives are simply not suitable for this application, since they do not give adequate soil removal.
Let us assume that it would be possible for an enemy to create an aerosol of the causative agent of epidemic typhus ( Rickettsia prowazwki ) over City A and that a large number of cases of typhus fever resulted therefrom.
Each male willow catkin is composed of a large number of small flowers.
It lacks pollen baskets and possesses only a large number of long, branched hairs on its legs, on which the pollen grains will collect.
A number of strong independent agencies, established in some cases with governmental or royal support, have conducted large medical, social, educational and research operations in particular parts of the Congo and Ruanda-Urundi.
The major training need of a new industrial plant is a short period of pre-employment training for a large number of semi-skilled machine operators.
There were two methods that could have been used for conducting the study within the resources available: ( 1 ) interviews in depth with a few selected companies, and ( 2 ) the more limited interrogation of a large number of companies by means of a mail questionnaire.
As a result, it was decided that a mail questionnaire sent to a large number of companies would be more effective in determining the general practices and opinions of small firms and in highlighting some of the fundamental and recurring problems of defense procurement that concern both industry and government.
If we thus spent our very first day in the midst of a large number of your people honoring a new hero and a great national achievement, our last day, to us at least, was equally impressive and very moving, even though the crowds were absent and there was almost complete silence.
Although a large number of coatings systems, particularly at low thicknesses fail cohesively by the cutting mechanism, frequently a second type of cohesive failure may also take place.

large and contributors
By the late 1990s, the message board forum at the site had developed into a thriving community with a large number of regular members and contributors worldwide.
Analysts at the time cited the lower prices of the large discount stores and the expansion of supermarket grocery stores – which had begun to stock merchandise also sold by five-and-dime stores – as contributors to Woolworth's decline in the late 20th century.
Originally hosted by Leo Laporte and Kate Botello, the show featured a large and continually changing group of contributors.
Since the organization didn't have resources to maintain a large development project by itself, the open source model was chosen for creating a community of contributors to the system.
* Three non-profit organizations closely associated with large contributors to his campaigns for public office are also mentioned by investigators:
The report concluded that there was an appearance of favoritism and conflicts of interest in the awarding of city contracts and development deals, a perception that large contracts had an undue influence on city hall, and patronage with the hiring of campaign workers, contributors, legislative colleagues, and friends to government positions.
As of September 29, 2004, its website was taken down and the project was stopped, although a large community of contributors still actively posted bugfixes, extensions, and new functionality.
Stans raised the cash from a list of large contributors by threatening IRS audits.
He made use of a large number of contributors, most famously Samuel Johnson, who was always grateful to Cave for having provided his principal employment for many years.
He was also designated a " Pioneer ," the name given to large financial contributors to the United States Republican Party.
In 2003, the development of Wakka Wiki came abruptly to an end, although a large community of users and contributors were still posting bugfixes, extensions, and new functions.
Today, the forest industry, retail, construction, manufacturing, and health care are large contributors to the local economy.
The writing style reflects the large number of contributors involved, with the tone varying from lively and evocative to dry and rules-orientated, with the emphasis on mechanics.
As would be expected from a publication of such size and longevity, Wisden has had a large number of contributors.
Common examples of this cost include that borne by shareholders ( the principal ), when corporate management ( the agent ) buys other companies to expand its power, or spends money on wasteful pet projects, instead of maximizing the value of the corporation's worth ; or by the voters of a politician's district ( the principal ) when the politician ( the agent ) passes legislation helpful to large contributors to their campaign rather than the voters.
In London, where his practice was not large, he wrote music and art criticism ; was for a time editor of Literary Gazette ; was the only layman among the seven contributors to the much talked of Essays and Reviews ( 1860 ); and, because of his Greek and Hebrew scholarship, was frequently consulted by the Revisers of the New Testament.
The pitch-poling tendency of the Hobie 16 results from a number of design factors ; the relatively large sail area to hull length ratio and the flat top of the hulls are particular contributors.
Although Folds, Southern and Painter were the primary contributors to the records, a large cast of other musicians were included as well.
The system for exclusive franchises for beer distribution were sold to his campaign contributors who in turn made large donations to him and the party.
The money for campaigns for federal office comes from four broad categories of sources: ( 1 ) small individual contributors ( individuals who contribute $ 200 or less ), ( 2 ) large individual contributors ( individuals who contribute more than $ 200 ), ( 3 ) political action committees, and ( 4 ) self-financing ( the candidate's own money ).
Demand Media and eHow in particular have been criticized for large amounts of low-quality content and for operating as a content mill, paying contributors low rates for content intended to rank high in search results, rather than focus on quality information, with poor quality articles intended mainly to drive up search results rather than inform, specifically by targeting the long tail search results missed by other sites, a category considered by Google to be a modern update on spam.
A number of professional contributors across the region has since joined the site with a large variety of vertical content columns including topics such as e-business, environment, education, defence and currency commentary among others.

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