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.

This makes the game closer when there are a large number of players and encourages players to bid more than 0 tricks as possible.

The Calico Stage, a large open-air stage in Calico Square, hosts a variety of shows and acts, big and small, from those of elementary school students, Gallagher, a local band, and the summer-spectacular All Wheels Extreme stunt show featuring youthful performers demonstrating aerial tricks with acrobatics, trampolines, and riding ramps with skates, scooters, skateboards, and freestyle bikes to popular music.

In the trickster subplot, young Tom tricks his elder brother Lord Foppington out of his intended bride and her large dowry.

Cheeky authority-defying playlets such as " Jail Birds " ( 1896 ) in which prisoners play tricks on warders and " Early Birds " ( 1903 ) where a small man defeats a large ruffian in London's East End can be seen as precursors of movie silent comedy.

Vert skating involves doing airs and tricks while in the air such as flips, on a large halfpipe known as a vert ramp.

; Mini kicker: A large jump ( smaller than a Super Kicker ) use for the same tricks as a Super kicker.

A large part of his appeal on these tours was his unpretentious and unassuming personality ; he did not resort to advertising gimmicks or cheap crowd-pleasing tricks, instead offering superbly polished renditions of his own compositions, which had already been well known in America.

Unlike individual competitions tricks such as " round abouts ", " chain reactions " form a large section of the choreography.

To get revenge and regain his customers, Homer tricks Barney into plowing a driveway on Widow ’ s Peak, a large treacherous mountain outside of town.

When Puss in Boots tricks the ogre into morphing into a mouse, the ogre escapes him and realizes the trick, and then morphs into a large monster and attempts to kill him.

The only large gameplay difference between 1080 ° " and the original is the ability to knock down opponents by running into them after filling a meter by performing tricks.

He is renowned for having a seemingly unlimited supply of magical tricks: an eye patch that prevents magical and psionic intrusion and enhances his vision ; a hat with a large feather that can be used to summon a diatryma ( a large flightless bird native to the Underdark ), and is a nondimensional space to hide things ( nondimensional means that he can put items which are many times the size of the hat in ); a many-hued piwafwi that displaces projectiles, thus hindering ranged attacks and makes him invisible on his command ; a varied array of magical wands ; two artifacts ( from a lich named Zhengyi ), which have the power to raise humans from the dead and employ the help of a powerful dracolich, a ring which protects from fire or ice by choice, a dragon figurine that can summon the breath of chromatic dragons, a ring that tells when someone is lying, a necklace which gives him supernatural power and speed, a sword which can control the mind of weak people, and many other unknown magical items.

It is possible to perform a large variety of tricks with the Chinese yo-yo which can be as easy as throwing the yo-yo up into the air or tossing it around the user's back.

This technical skill-rather unusual at the time-coupled with an ability to carry out special tricks and effects ( stroboscopic effect through multiple exposure, use of electric lighting on a large scale with flash ramps ) has contributed to his success in the press and industry ( EDF, Ribet-Desjardins, L ' Oréal, Formica, Synergie ...)"

Class 8 activities are generally grouped under racing, using large kites and very large and heavy buggies to accelerate to over, current record 133 km / h Arjen Vandertol ( ref NABX 2010 ), freestyle where smaller, lighter machines perform freestyle tricks such as airs, spins, wheelies, reverse flying, etc., and endurance or cruising where distances of hundreds of kilometres are covered in trips lasting several days.

Carrington, who became Palladino's manager, contends that far from having been exposed in America, as the public imagined, Eusapia presented a large number of striking phenomena which have never been explained and that only a certain number of her classical and customary tricks were detected, which every investigator of this medium's phenomena had known to exist and had warned other investigators against for the past 20 years.

There are usually a large number of ways in which to complete the course, and scoring is dependent on the competitor's choice of routes, the fluidity of riding and tricks performed ( style ), and sometimes also the time in which the course is completed.

Serving as the team's resident magician, he could fire blasts of energy from his hands, levitate, and perform a large number of " stage tricks, including ping-pong ' balls '" to outwit his foes.