Don't fail to shorten cooking time by the use of aluminum foil cut slightly larger than the surface of steaks and chops.

Place cylinder on a disk of clay slightly larger than cylinder.

Alphonse R. Hoge's measurements of several very young specimens from Brazil suggest that at birth the female is slightly larger than the male.

An adobe roof is often laid with bricks slightly larger in width to ensure a larger expanse is covered when placing the bricks onto the beams.

Its total land area is -- slightly larger than Washington, D. C. -- consisting of five rugged, volcanic islands and two coral atolls.

( Rijndael variants with a larger block size have slightly different offsets ).

However, since the radio was slightly too big to fit in a shirt pocket, Morita made his employees wear shirts with slightly larger pockets to give the radio a " pocket sized " appearance.

Its mass is hard to exactly determine, but may be slightly larger than that of the Sun ( 1. 1 < sub >- 0. 4 </ sub >< sup >+ 0. 6 </ sup > solar mass ).

Area-comparative: slightly larger than Colorado

Then those small compound bodies that are least removed from the impetus of the atoms are set in motion by the impact of their invisible blows and in turn cannon against slightly larger bodies.

During thelarche, the developing breasts sometimes are of unequal size, and usually the left breast is slightly larger ; said condition of asymmetry is transitory and statistically normal to female physical and sexual development.

They attacked and finding no opposition, managed to recover eastern Thrace with its fortified city of Adrianople, regaining an area in Europe which was only slightly larger than the present-day European territory of the Republic of Turkey.

The total force is estimated at 25, 000 men ; a much larger proportion of foot soldiers and slightly less cavalry than the French.

slightly larger than California

: US: slightly larger than Rhode Island

: Canada: slightly larger than the Queen Charlotte Islands

: UK: slightly larger than Suffolk

In total, Côte d ' Ivoire comprises 322, 460 km < sup > 2 </ sup >, of which 318, 000 km < sup > 2 </ sup > is land and 4, 460 km < sup > 2 </ sup > is water, which makes the country slightly larger than the U. S. state of New Mexico, or about the size of Germany.

slightly smaller than South Carolina ; slightly larger than Scotland

One common type of fuel cell electrocatalyst is based upon nanoparticles of platinum that are supported on slightly larger carbon particles.

It differs from V. oxycoccos in the leaves being larger, 10 – 20 mm long, and in its slightly apple-like taste.

These cards, slightly larger than today ’ s postcards, were produced by letterpress and wood engraving on coated card stock.

Note that the ICF and ZAAP are essentially identical to CP, but distinguished for software cost control: they are slightly restricted such they cannot be used to run arbitrary operating systems, and thus do not count in software licensing costs ( which are typically based on the number of CPs ).

American terminology is slightly different, in that the term " claim " refers only to a particular count ( or cause of action ) in a lawsuit.

Other editions count the movements slightly differently ; the Bärenreiter edition of 1972, for example, does not number all the recitatives and runs from 1 to 47.

Nervousness will very slightly raise the neutrophil count because of this effect.

Reticulocytes are also slightly larger, which can be picked up as a high MCV ( mean corpuscular volume ) with a full blood count done by a trained medical scientist, who has specialized in hematology, or a machine.

Limited evidence suggests that germ cell count is slightly better after hormone treatment ; whether this translates into better sperm counts and fertility rates at maturity has not been established.

The price was raised slightly for # 6 — which also saw the page count upped to 24pg — due in large part to rising postal and paper costs.

Very commonly, the platelet count is slightly above the high limit of normal in iron deficiency anemia ( this is mild thrombocytosis ).

This prompted a lawsuit supported by both candidates to prevent the election, the circumstance of which was avoided by a final count giving Ferrer just slightly over 40 % of the vote.

Note that the list count is greater than 76, as different versions of the PowerPlayer include slightly different game sets.

Hill is best known for living in a-tall, roughly 1500-year-old California Redwood tree ( age based on first-hand ring count of a slightly smaller neighboring ancient redwood that had been cut down ) for 738 days between December 10, 1997 and December 18, 1999.

The passenger count was down slightly in 2011, with approximately 1, 059, 000 passengers.

To count them, they used what looked like a Buddhist rosary, called a mala, but instead of the usual 108 beads had 100, every tenth being slightly larger.

On a low turnout, she polled slightly fewer first-preference votes than Fianna Fáil's Áine Brady, but was elected on the fifth count.

Off-Broadway, where production is still comparatively cheap, is proving itself only slightly more original.

Mr. Partlow could still feel a cold sweat on his slightly gray temples as he remembered what a near thing chemistry had been for him at Hanford.

Although the rain is still falling vertically ( relative to a stationary observer ), you find that you have to hold the umbrella slightly in front of you to keep off the rain.

Experienced players will be aware of the trick and cautious not to move too early, but the attempted deception is still useful because it forces the opponent to delay his movement slightly.

Even though supply still slightly exceeds demand, there is little will to invoke the Federal Marketing Order out of the realization that any pullback in supply by U. S. growers would easily be filled by Canadian production.

If sections of the frame move in a simple manner, the compressor emits a ( slightly longer ) command that tells the decompresser to shift, rotate, lighten, or darken the copy: a longer command, but still much shorter than intraframe compression.

I fell in love, that is the only expression I can think of, at once, and am still at the mercy of words, though sometimes now, knowing a little of their behaviour very well, I think I can influence them slightly and have even learned to beat them now and then, which they appear to enjoy.

Nearer San Pedro Sula, amounts are slightly less from November to April, but each month still has considerable precipitation.

Hatfield is mentioned in the Domesday Book as the property of the Abbey of Ely, and unusually, the original census data which compilers of Domesday used still survives, giving us slightly more information than got into the final Domesday record.

The first 32 divisions listed below are the " traditional " counties, 20 of which still have administrative functions as local government divisions in the Republic of Ireland ( in some cases with slightly redrawn boundaries ).

But he was not satisfied with the complex and still slightly inaccurate result ; at certain points the model differed from the data by up to eight arcminutes.

At slightly higher ( but still low ) concentration, amphiphilic molecules will spontaneously assemble into micelles or vesicles.

In this plan, the manor house is set slightly apart from the village, but equally often the village grew up around the forecourt of the manor, formerly walled, while the manor lands stretched away outside, as still may be seen at Petworth House.

While their 7 – 10 mark down the stretch was slightly better than the previous season's 5 – 12, it still allowed the Phillies to pass them, once again.

Unequal fissions are energetically more favorable because this allows one product to be closer to the energetic minimum near mass 60 u ( only a quarter of the average fissionable mass ), while the other nucleus with mass 135 u is still not far out of the range of the most tightly bound nuclei ( another statement of this, is that the atomic binding energy curve is slightly steeper to the left of mass 120 u than to the right of it ).

The reason for the reform was that the average length of the year in the Julian calendar was too long – it treated each year as 365 days, 6 hours in length, whereas calculations showed that the actual mean length of a year is slightly less ( 365 days, 5 hours and 49 minutes ) As a result, the date of the actual vernal equinox had slowly ( over the course of 13 centuries ) slipped to 10 March, while the computus ( calculation ) of the date of Easter still followed the traditional date of 21 March.

A new stereo print was struck in 1990 which included " Super Heroes " and most US theaters which still play the film now run this version, which is similar to the UK release although the sound mix is slightly different than the original mono print.

By the 17th century the influence of Renaissance painting resulted in Russian icons becoming slightly more realistic, while still following most of the old icon painting canons, as seen in the works of Bogdan Saltanov, Simon Ushakov, Gury Nikitin, Karp Zolotaryov and other Russian artists of the era.

At the very end of the stroke, with the blade still in the water, the hands drop slightly to unload the oar so that spring energy stored in the bend of the oar gets transferred to the boat, which eases removing the oar from the water and minimizes energy wasted on lifting water above the surface ( splashing ).

A traditional way of packing the pipe is to fill the bowl and then pack gently to about 1 / 3 full, fill again and pack slightly more firmly to about 2 / 3 full, and then pack more firmly still to the top.

By the latter part of the century it had acquired a slightly arcane quality associated with the era of variety, but the term is still in active use .<

Because the Thompson was still expensive to produce, the M3 " Grease Gun " was adopted in 1942, followed by the slightly improved M3A1 in 1944.

" Occasionally, Chase would change the wording slightly in order to keep the joke fresh, e. g. " Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still valiantly holding on in his fight to remain dead.

If Wake-on-LAN is not needed, disabling it may reduce power consumption slightly while the computer is switched off but still plugged in.