It might not be unprofitable, now and then, to send us mortals — the dissatisfied ones, at least, and that's a large proportion — into some tunnel of several days ' journey.

* Base bleed uses a small pyrotechnic charge at the base of the projectile to introduce sufficient combustion products into the low-pressure region behind the base of the projectile responsible for a large proportion of the drag.

A large proportion of amputees ( 50 – 80 %) experience the phenomenon of phantom limbs ; they feel body parts that are no longer there.

The fauna is largely constituted of golden eagles, marmots, ibex and vultures, and the flora includes a large proportion of larches, génépis and white asphodels.

Octavian was not present, but at the next meeting made a reply of such a nature that the consuls both left Rome to join Antony ; and Antony, when he heard of it, after publicly divorcing Octavia, came at once to Ephesus with Cleopatra, where a vast fleet was gathered from all parts of the East, of which Cleopatra furnished a large proportion.

While these included elite Bersaglieri, Alpini and Cacciatori units, a large proportion of the troops were inexperienced conscripts recently drafted from metropolitan regiments in Italy into newly formed " di formazione " battalions for service in Africa.

The age structure of the population of Comoros is similar to that of many developing countries, in that the republic has a very large proportion of young people.

In summer, a large proportion of the rainfall is caused by sun heating the ground leading to convection and to showers and thunderstorms.

The proportion of cell volume that is cytosol varies: for example while this compartment forms the bulk of cell structure in bacteria, in plant cells the main compartment is the large central vacuole.

The post-war German Army ( Reichsheer ) was permitted a large proportion of cavalry ( 18 regiments or 16. 4 % of total manpower ) under the conditions of the Treaty of Versailles.

In Europeans a large proportion of sensitivity is associated with HLA-B58.

The comparatively large population growth of western and central Canada during the immigration boom of the 20th century has reduced the Maritimes ' proportion of the national population to less than 10 %, resulting in an over-representation in Parliament, with some federal ridings having fewer than 35, 000 people, compared to central and western Canada where ridings typically contain 100, 000-120, 000 people.

The most commonly cited duopoly is that between Visa and Mastercard, who between them control a large proportion of the electronic payment processing market.

Examples where two companies control a large proportion of a market are:

Athenian democracy was not only direct in the sense that decisions were made by the assembled people, but also directest in the sense that the people through the assembly, boule and courts of law controlled the entire political process and a large proportion of citizens were involved constantly in the public business.

The dipole term is the dominant one at large distances: Its field falls off in proportion to 1 / r < sup > 3 </ sup >, as compared to 1 / r < sup > 4 </ sup > for the next ( quadrupole ) term and higher powers of 1 / r for higher terms, or 1 / r < sup > 2 </ sup > for the monopole term.

The Dodo differed from other pigeons mainly in the small size of the wings and the large size of the beak in proportion to the rest of the cranium.

Whatever the proportion of stars with planets, the total number of exoplanets must be very large.

A large proportion of these original settlers came from Old Saxony.

Of particular importance here were the USA states of Illinois and New York, under whose laws a large proportion of international financial contracts are made.

A large proportion of the Esperanto movement continue to hold such goals, and most are at least sympathetic to them.

Unlike food processors, food retailing is a two-tier market in which a small number of very large companies control a large proportion of supermarkets.

Most passenger train services originate or terminate at Helsinki Central railway station, and a large proportion of the passenger rail network radiates out of Helsinki.

However this was not completely the case as a large proportion of the assembly were conservative-minded gentry like Sir Anthony Ashley-Cooper.

With the building of the Salisbury Court Theatre in 1629 near the site of the defunct Whitefriars, the London audience had six theatres to choose from: three surviving large open-air " public " theatres, the Globe, the Fortune, and the Red Bull, and three smaller enclosed " private " theatres, the Blackfriars, the Cockpit, and the Salisbury Court.

Historian Ed Kirby tells us that traces of iron were discovered in what was to become Salisbury in 1728, with the discovery of the large deposit at Old Hill ( later Ore Hill ) in 1731 by John Pell and Ezekiel Ashley.

Three weeks later, Salisbury delivered a speech at Scarborough, where he denied that " the word " black " necessarily implies any contemptuous denunciation: " Such a doctrine seems to be a scathing insult to a very large proportion of the human race … The people whom we have been fighting at Suakim, and whom we have happily conquered, are among the finest tribes in the world, and many of them are as black as my hat ".

In August 1453, Egremont assembled a force perhaps as large as 1, 000 strong, intending to waylay Salisbury and his family as he made for Sheriff Hutton.

This fleet had 500 ships, 700 knights and their attendants, and a large force of mercenaries, under the command of William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury.

It is the home of the Land Warfare Centre — formerly the Army's School of Infantry — and abuts the Salisbury Plain Training area ( SPTA ), which is large enough to exercise a Battlegroup and which is dotted with Royal Artillery live-firing ranges.

In June, these meadows are covered with chalk grassland flowers. There are large areas of calcareous grassland in northwestern Europe, particularly areas of southern England, such as Salisbury Plain and the North and South Downs.

The Southern railway covered a large territory in south-west England including Weymouth, Plymouth, Salisbury and Exeter, where it was in competition with the Great Western Railway ( GWR ).

The Conservatives, led by Lord Salisbury with their Liberal Unionist allies, secured a large majority of 130, despite securing only 5. 6 % more votes than Henry Campbell-Bannerman's Liberals.

It was won by the Conservatives led by Lord Salisbury who formed an alliance with the Liberal Unionist Party and had a large majority over the Liberals, led by Lord Rosebery.

His activities at Salisbury, Durham, Hereford, and Lichfield were bitterly criticized by John Carter in his Pursuits of Architectural Innovation, and it was due in large measure to Carter's persistent denunciation that, in 1796, Wyatt failed to secure election as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

Friends Provident has large offices in a number of locations including Manchester, Clyst St. Mary in Exeter and Dorking, and is the second largest employer in Salisbury.

The town is situated on chalk downland called Cranborne Chase, part of a large expanse of chalk in southern England which includes the nearby Salisbury Plain and Dorset Downs.

Hampshire played a large role in World War II due to its large Royal Navy harbour at Portsmouth, the army camp at Aldershot and the military Netley Hospital on Southampton Water, as well as its proximity to the army training ranges on Salisbury Plain and the Isle of Purbeck.

By 1880, Bank dories were being built in large numbers in the Massachusetts towns of Gloucester, Beverly, Essex, Newburyport, and Salisbury ( Amesbury ).

Services for west of Southampton and Salisbury had a different set of problems as neither the Southern Railway nor its constituents installed water troughs, thus leading to large tenders with greater water capacity than those fitted to similar locomotives on other railways.

He has been a regular invitee at leading UK literary festivals like Hay, Keswick, Dartington Hall, Salisbury and Wimbledon, invariably speaking to large audiences.

A few decades later, residential neighborhoods were developed near Midlothian, including the large Salisbury community and the Brandermill planned development sited on Swift Creek Reservoir.

He also worked at Lambeth Palace and St James ' Palace in London, and a large number of other designs in both England and Scotland, including restoring Salisbury Tower at Windsor Castle.

The area of Albert County outside the town of Riverview was removed in 1976, a large area north of Moncton was removed in 1987, and the Petitcodiac and Salisbury areas were removed in 1997, to the point where the riding no longer has any largely rural areas.

A large portion of the former Salisbury district, excluding a part to the west, is included within the constituency.

Before the redistribution for the 2004 election, Wakefield was predominantly rural with a large Liberal margin, including the Barossa Valley area, but not the Salisbury, Elizabeth and Smithfield areas.