This section downstream of the Seaway is not a continuous canal, but rather it consists of several stretches of navigable channels within the river, a number of locks, as well as canals along the banks of the St. Lawrence River to bypass several rapids and dams along the way.

Although the Grand Union company had a number of broad boats built to take advantage of the improvements, they never really caught on and the canal continued to be operated largely by pairs of narrow boats, whose journeys were facilitated by the newly widened locks in which they could breast up.

The locks on the canal are numbered south from Braunston, and Thames Lock is lock number 101.

According to early histories, the offer of Andrew Holmes ' log house as capitol for seven years, a number of town lots, £ 50 worth of locks and hinges, 10 boxes of glass, 1, 500 pounds of nails, and $ 3, 000 in gold helped the decision go to Frankfort.

Non-trivial transactions typically require a large number of locks, resulting in substantial overhead as well as blocking other transactions.

Sandia National Laboratories ( SNL ) successfully created a number of new combination locks that were adaptable to different types of weapons.

Basil with a number of his male relatives, plus other accomplices, entered Michael's apartment ; the locks had been tampered with and no guard had been placed.

The Great Lakes Waterway has larger locks and deeper drafts than the St. Lawrence Seaway with the result that a number of lake freighters are confined to the lakes, being small enough to operate on the Waterway but too large to pass down the Seaway.

According to authors David Kirby and Merja-Liisa Hinkkanen, " the journey ( along the Stecknitz ) often lasted up to fourteen days, due to the number of locks and the inadequacy of the towpath.

Syringes come with a number of designs for the area in which the blade locks to the syringe body.

He had already bought a number of mills on the river, but there were few objections from millers at those he did not own, for he built pound locks with two sets of gates, to enable vessels to pass by without the large loss of water associated with flash locks.

Alongside these major developments, the Trust has rebuilt a number of locks and bridges and some small sections of the rest of the route are now in water.

Mr. Bean's car, a British Leyland Mini 1000, developed its own character of sorts over the series and was central to several antics, such as Mr. Bean getting dressed in it, driving while sitting in an armchair strapped to the roof, starting it with a number of locks and keys, or attempting to avoid a parking garage toll by driving out through the entrance.

the canal to be a contour canal as much as possible, so he routed it around three sides of Napton Hill to minimise the number of locks needed.

The number of locks, now built of concrete, was reduced to eight ; four of these, including the world-famous Twin Flight Locks, are in Thorold.

Although normally a lock, he played at flanker and number 8, and even wing ( from where he scored a try ), as the All Black team was strong on locks.

The buyout was completed in 1841, and work began to deepen the canal and to reduce the number of locks to 27, each 45. 7 m ( 150 ft ) by 8. 1 m ( 26. 5 ft ).

Systems that must deal with a large number of parallel processes, such as operating system kernels, use thousands of locks and synchronizations that require strict adherence to methods and protocols if such problems as deadlock, starvation, or data corruption are to be avoided.

The number of locks on the navigation varied over the years, and by 1804 there were four full or pound locks, situated at Ham, Creech St Michael, Bathpool and Obridge.

Eventually oxygenation systems were installed which improved water quality and allowed the composition of the Bay to become entirely freshwater-the only salt-water ingress being that from the three locks providing access to and from the sea for the proliferating number of boats using Cardiff Bay.

If at planting time the farmer sells a number of wheat futures contracts equivalent to his anticipated crop size, he effectively locks in the price of wheat at that time: the contract is an agreement to deliver a certain number of bushels of wheat to a specified place on a certain date in the future for a certain fixed price.

It is one of the ironic quirks of history that the viability and usefulness of nationalism and the territorial state are rapidly dissipating at precisely the time that the nation-state attained its highest number ( approximately 100 ).

The only factors that are personally set by the choreographer are the movements themselves, the number of the dancers, and the approximate total duration of the dance.

Presumably a cocktail party is expected to fulfill the host's desire to get together a number of people who are inadequately acquainted and thereby arrange for bringing the level of acquaintance up to adequacy for future cooperative endeavors.

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.

In Figure 2, the points in the network are designated by a letter accompanied by a number.

are few in number, briefly worded, all different in sound ; ;

I assume that the number of readers of this anthology who regard themselves as morally perfect is small, and that most readers are willing to consider procedures by which they may gain more insight into themselves and better understanding of others.

Their expressed standards concerning sex roles, desirable age for marriage, characteristics of an ideal mate, number of children desired are congruent with the values and stereotypes of the preceding generation -- minus compulsive rebellion.

Although the United States and the U.S.S.R. have been arguing whether there shall be four, five or six top assistants, the most important element in the situation is not the number of deputies but the manner in which these deputies are to do their work.

People who take us for suckers are like the Westerner who had on exhibit his superior marksmanship in the form of a number of bull's-eye achievements.

There are a number of other considerations besides this one but it is for the Congress, not the Department of Justice, to balance these various considerations and make a judgment about legislation.

Nonetheless, although few in number they are a stubborn crew, as tenacious of life as the Hardshell Baptists, which suggests that there is some kind of vital principle embodied in their faith.

For that is the one an increasingly large number of prominent Americans are now proposing.

and it is still very far from certain how valid the party's claim is that in `` a growing number of kolkhozes '' the peasants are finding it more profitable, to surrender their private plots to the kolkhoz and to let the latter be turned into something increasingly like a state farm.

Hence all teachers, good and bad, who have been teaching for a given number of years are paid the same salary.

They are conscious of this state's new feeling of optimism and assurance and are definitely impressed by the number of new plants and construction projects in Rhode Island.

For those communities which have financial difficulties in effecting adjustments, there are a number of alternatives any one of which alone, or in combination with others, would minimize if not even eliminate the problem.

These data are not of the precision obtainable by the methods previously mentioned, but the vast number of approximate values available will be useful in many areas.

These expenditures are estimated to be $12.1 billion, an increase of $187 million over 1960, reflecting additional longevity pay of career personnel, more dependents, an increased number of men drawing proficiency pay, and social security tax increases ( effective for the full year in 1961 compared with only 6 months in 1960 ).

Retired pay costs are increased by $94 million in 1961 over 1960, partly because of a substantial increase in the number of retired personnel.

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.

Since broadcast frequencies are very limited in number, these objectives are to some extent inconsistent in that not all of them can be fully realized, and to the extent that each is realized, there is a corresponding reduction of the possibilities for fullest achievement of the others.