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Such ranchers as Coble and Clay and the Bosler brothers carried him on their books as a cowhand even while he was receiving a much larger salary from parties unknown.
The pagodas we have passed are much larger than the houses ''.
Native California oysters, salty and piquant, as coppery as Delawares and not much larger than a five-cent piece, went into it.
The medical title of `` Lobar Ventilation In Man '' by Drs. C. J. Martin and A. C. Young, covers a brief paper which is one part of a much larger effort to apply electronics to the study of the respiratory process.
Tone systems are certainly more complex than the number of units would suggest, and often analytically more difficult than much larger consonantal systems.
or again because the Athabascan languages spread over a very much larger territory ( including three wholly separated areas ) ; ;
the granular texture thus created likewise called attention to the reality of the surface and was effective over much larger areas.
Constantino Brumidi designed the decorative scheme as a whole, in collaboration with the architect Charles U. Walter, at the time when plans were being made to replace the wooden dome of Bullfinch with the present much larger iron structure.
The packing efficiency, F.R., of fiber plates did not receive much attention in the literature, probably as it is high for the larger fibers generally used, until rather recently.
However this ideal is not normally achieved in practice ; some languages ( such as Spanish and Finnish ) come close to it, while others ( such as English ) deviate from it to a much larger degree.
The footing and stem wall are commonly 24 and 14 inches, much larger than a frame house because of the weight of the walls.
In 1909, Hans Geiger and Ernest Marsden, under the direction of physicist Ernest Rutherford, bombarded a sheet of gold foil with alpha rays — by then known to be positively charged helium atoms — and discovered that a small percentage of these particles were deflected through much larger angles than was predicted using Thomson's proposal.
Not only did this mean that Ford enjoyed much larger demand, but the resulting larger demand also allowed further economies of scale to be exploited, further depressing unit price, which tapped yet another portion of the demand curve.
It is not hard to see that the minimal description of a string cannot be too much larger than the string itself-the program GenerateFixedString above that outputs s is a fixed amount larger than s.
Leonhart Rauwolff, in AD 1574, found it " divided ... into two towns ," the one " Turkish ," " so surrounded by the river, that you cannot go into it but by boats ," the other, much larger, on the Arabian side of the river.
For galaxies ( which are of course themselves much larger than 10 parsecs, and whose overall brightness cannot be directly observed from relatively short distances ) the absolute magnitude is defined by reference to the apparent brightness of a point-like or star-like source of the same total luminosity as the galaxy, as it would appear if observed at the standard 10 parsecs distance.
Soon the little shop became much too small and they moved to a much larger factory building nearby ( formerly a window glass factory ), and started mass producing the Aster for a period of a few years, in which time its staff grew twentyfold.
Plate armour became cheaper than mail by the 15th century as it required much less labour and labour had become much more expensive after the Black Death, though it did require larger furnaces to produce larger blooms.

much and room
It was much more fun, reminding the girls of their old carefree days in the Hasseltine frolics room at Bradford.
He climbed the stairs, went into Roberts' room, found a suitcase and packed as much into it as he could.
Starting with the room completely blacked out, as it was when we came in, he unerringly fixed things so that the whole place was bathed in the maximum of light without at any point admitting even so much as a crack of glare.
Calcium metal reacts with water, evolving hydrogen gas at a rate rapid enough to be noticeable, but not fast enough at room temperature to generate much heat.
Already a controversial figure in the clubhouse after his corked-bat incident, Sammy's actions alienated much of his once strong fan base as well as the few teammates still on good terms with him, ( many teammates had tired of Sosa's playing of loud salsa music in the locker room ) and possibly tarnished his place in Cubs ' lore for years to come.
This makes it possible to send much more information and result in, for example, digital television signals offering more room on the airwave spectrum for more television channels.
Rather than expensive galleys, wind powered ships that were much faster and had more room for cargo became popular for coastal trade.
If only because there was a much smaller number of skilled artists, the quantity of icons, in the sense of panel paintings, was much smaller in the West, and in most Western settings a single diptych as an altarpiece, or in a domestic room, probably stood in place of the larger collections typical of Orthodox " icon corners ".
On one occasion, a hotel manager called Moon in his room and asked him to lower the volume on his cassette music player ; the manager said The Who were making " too much noise.
That left Konoe with the title of Prince, plenty of social standing but not much money, and plenty of room for a mentor / father-figure.
Mies ' architecture was guided by principles at a high level of abstraction, and his own generalized descriptions of those principles intentionally leave much room for interpretation.
His parents did not allow much room in their household for " feelings, religion, or enjoyment ", and also refused to make any rules for their children, with complex results for von Trier's personality and development.
Like its lower periodic table group neighbor calcium, magnesium reacts with water at room temperature, though it reacts much more slowly than calcium.
Starting a small botanical garden behind his home ( there was not much room on the small island ) Siebold amassed over 1, 000 native plants.
Pope John VIII: John, of English extraction, was born at Mentz ( Mainz ) and is said to have arrived at Popedom by evil art ; for disguising herself like a man, whereas she was a woman, she went when young with her paramour, a learned man, to Athens, and made such progress in learning under the professors there that, coming to Rome, she met with few that could equal, much less go beyond her, even in the knowledge of the scriptures ; and by her learned and ingenious readings and disputations, she acquired so great respect and authority that upon the death of Pope Leo IV ( as Martin says ) by common consent she was chosen Pope in his room.
Ideal self would be " I can be successful, I am CEO material "; and real self would be " I just work in the mail room, with not much chance of high promotion ".
He further noticed that while no employees smoked cigarettes in the room for full barrels no-one minded smoking in the room with empty barrels, although this was potentially much more dangerous due to the highly flammable vapors that still existed in the barrels.
In much of Soweto, many houses are American in appearance, but are smaller, and often consist of a kitchen and living room, two or three bedrooms, and a bathroom.
This reduces the need for high speed chases and gives them much more room to operate in while approaching their targets.
If necessary, this outgassing of the system can also be performed at room temperature, but this takes much more time.
The studio was at the time much sought after for its highly reverberant " live " drum room, and it was greatly favoured by their producer Steve Lillywhite and his engineer Hugh Padgham, who were at that time also creating influential recordings with Peter Gabriel and Genesis.
There is also much room for misunderstanding between people from different regions, as the way one word is pronounced in one accent ( for example, petal in American English ) will sound like a different word in another accent ( for example, pearl in Scottish English ).

much and adjacent
But during nighttime hours the skywave radiations are reflected from the ionosphere, thereby creating the possibility of one station's rendering service, via skywave, at a much greater distance than it can through its groundwave signal, and at the same time vastly complicating the interference problem because of the still greater distance over which these skywave signals may cause interference to the signals of stations on the same and closely adjacent frequencies.
The density of voltage-gated sodium channels is much higher here than is found in the adjacent cell body, excepting the axon hillock.
Eisenhower retired to the place where he and Mamie had spent much of their post-war time, a working farm adjacent to the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, only thirty miles from his ancestral home of York.
802. 11a uses the 5 GHz U-NII band, which, for much of the world, offers at least 23 non-overlapping channels rather than the 2. 4 GHz ISM frequency band, where adjacent channels overlap-see list of WLAN channels.
The north near the border with Ecuador is opposite much of Malaya, including the east coast and Penang, and the adjacent part of the Kra Peninsula in Thailand ; whereas many of the Riau Islands of Indonesia are antipodal to the northern Peruvian Amazon.
For high compression ratios the throat between adjacent rotor blades ( as shown in the image ) is pointing as much as possible in the forward direction.
Most fjords are deeper than the adjacent sea ; Sognefjord, Norway, reaches as much as below sea level.
In the unrest of the Sengoku period ( 15th – 17th centuries ), mercenaries and spies for hire became active in the Iga Province and the adjacent area around the village of Kōga, and it is from their ninja clans that much of our knowledge of the ninja is drawn.
In North America this environment is typical of transition areas between zones with a Mediterranean climate and true deserts, such as Reno, Nevada, the inner part of California, and much of West Texas and adjacent areas in Mexico.
The Verulamium Museum is a sizeable museum run by the district council in Verulamium Park ( adjacent to St Michael's Church ) which contains much information about the town, both as a Roman and Iron Age settlement, plus Roman history in general.
The Knights Templar, who believed the Dome of the Rock was the site of the Temple of Solomon, gave it the name " Templum Domini " and set up their headquarters in the Al-Aqsa Mosque adjacent to the Dome for much of the 12th century.
The Knights Templar, who believed the Dome of the Rock was the site of the Temple of Solomon, later set up their headquarters in the Al-Aqsa Mosque adjacent to the Dome for much of the 12th century.
** Chihuahuan Desert, a desert covering much of the state and adjacent regions
In the case of a forest where the adjacent land has been cut, creating an open / forest boundary, sunlight and wind penetrate to a much greater extent, drying out the interior of the forest close to the edge and encouraging growth of opportunistic species at the edge.
To cut costs, most students of that year were removed from the traditional Chien-Tan building and moved to a smaller adjacent one that historically hosted the " Baby Boat ", a much younger study tour, where participants were aged between 12 – 18.
Until the late 1980s and early 1990s, much of Chesapeake was either suburban or rural, serving as a bedroom community of the adjacent cities of Norfolk and Virginia Beach with residents commuting to these locations.
There are a few abandoned mines in the area, although acid mine drainage is not as much of an environmental problem in Fulton County as it is in adjacent Bedford and Huntingdon Counties.
** Differential nonlinearity ( DNL ) shows how much two adjacent code analog values deviate from the ideal 1 LSB step.
The Kurnell Peninsula portion includes much of the eastern half of the promontory, adjacent to the Caltex Oil Refinery.
During the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, urban blight, flight, and prostitution were serious problems in much of downtown Columbus and adjacent neighborhoods.
This is exemplified in one of many deeds ( particular one dating from 1925 ) that reads, “ That whereas the death rate of persons of African descent is much greater than the death rate of persons of the white race and affects injuriously the health of the town and village communities, and as the permanent location of persons of African descent in such places as owners or tenants constitutes and irreparable injury to the value and usefulness of real estate in the interest of public health and to prevent irreparable injury to the grantor or its successors and assigns, and the owners of adjacent real estate, the grantees, their heirs and assigns, hereby covenant, and agree with the grantor, its successors and assigns, that they will not sell, conveyor rent the premises hereby conveyed, the whole or any part thereof, or any structure thereon, to any person of African descent .”
In 1857, a portion of the town that was much less accessible from the rest of Mount Washington than from the adjacent town of Ancram, New York was ceded to New York State, and added to Ancram's territory ; it is now regarded as the hamlet of Boston Corners within its new town.
The township is adjacent to Traverse City on the southwest, and the city has incorporated much of land that was formerly part of the township.
The cities of Kalamazoo and Parchment are adjacent to the township and have annexed much land that was formerly within the township, such that the township now consists of two non-contiguous sections of land and one small section that is connected by a narrow point across Riverview Dr. Two census-designated places ( CDPs ) are within the township: Eastwood and Westwood.

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