Although the draw weight of a typical English longbow is disputed, it was at least and possibly more than, with some estimates as high as.

Although longbows were much faster and more accurate than the black powder weapons which replaced them, longbowmen always took a long time to train because of the years of practice necessary before a war longbow could be used effectively ( examples of longbows from the Mary Rose typically had draws greater than ).

Although deadly at short range, it probably had less than one-half the range of the English longbow which was effective to 200 yards ( 180 mts ).

Although the weapon itself was relatively inexpensive to produce, it was difficult to amass a large pool of trained bowmen: constant practice was required to develop the skills and muscle power needed to use the longbow effectively.

Although it is the optimal symbol-by-symbol coding for such probability distributions, Golomb coding achieves better compression capability for the geometric distribution because it does not consider input symbols independently, but rather implicitly groups the inputs.

Although Kahan's algorithm achieves error growth for summing n numbers, only slightly worse growth can be achieved by pairwise summation: one recursively divides the set of numbers into two halves, sums each half, and then adds the two sums.

Although limited to one soprano voice, Bach achieves a variety of movements.

Sean Day-Lewis wrote, “ Although Piers Haggard's direction achieves much verisimilitude and the story is certainly enough to command some addiction ; I did not feel exactly grabbed ; the genre has moved some way since the 1950s and the Professor moves a little slowly for the 1970s ”.

Although both are approximately the same length, Banagher Bridge achieves the crossing with fewer spans ( six as opposed to 16 ).

Although it is in some ways comparable to a voluntary sale of assets for cash, to which section 203 quite clearly applies, the courts and Treasury have held that acquiring corporations in several types of non-taxable reorganizations may sue for refund of taxes paid by transferors.

Although Equatorial Guinea lacks a well-established democratic tradition comparable to the developed democracies of the West, it has progressed toward developing a participatory political system out of the anarchic, chaotic, and repressive conditions of the Macias years.

Although Greek has undergone morphological and phonological changes comparable to those seen in other languages, there has been no time in its history since classical antiquity where its cultural, literary, and orthographic tradition was interrupted to such an extent that one can easily speak of a new language emerging.

Although Rule 611 ( c ) of the Federal Rules of Evidence ( and comparable rules of many states ) do not prohibit leading questions on re-direct, some states have expressly limited the use of leading questions on re-direct.

Although PaintShop Pro is often considered comparable to Adobe Photoshop Elements in its feature set, it lacks photostitch capability, the ability to merge several images into a single larger image ( called Panorama in Photoshop Elements ).

Although not directly comparable to SVG since it is a bitmap-based format, the Canvas element in HTML5 provides an approach to rendering dynamic graphics in HTML that is procedural rather than declarative: instead of specifying the shapes to draw in XML, the author executes drawing commands from a script.

Although Lugus may originally have been a deity of light or the sun ( though this is disputed ), similar to the Roman Apollo, his importance as a god of trade made him more comparable to Mercury, and Apollo was instead equated with the Celtic deity Belenus.

Although recently there have been many amateur typefaces available on CDs in batches of hundreds, type design remains an artistic profession of applied art comparable with architecture.

Although these other eagles ( which are actually not closely related to the Golden ) are generally less active predators, they are of comparable size, strength and tenacity to the Golden Eagle and victory in such conflicts depends on the size and disposition of individual eagle rather than on species.

Although homosexuality is perhaps not as well tolerated in France as in Spain, Scandinavia, and the Benelux nations, surveys of the French public reveal a considerable shift in attitudes comparable to other Western European nations.

Although he recovered sufficiently to complete the work, he never attempted anything on a comparable scale afterwards, returning to a more pared-down form for his concluding narrative films, Edward II ( perhaps his most politically outspoken work, informed by his Queer activism ) and the Brechtian Wittgenstein, a delicate tragicomedy based on the life of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Although D ’ Arista and Schlesinger acknowledged the regulation of banks and the parallel banking system would end up only being “ comparable ,” their goal was to eliminate so far as possible the competitive advantages of the “ parallel ” or “ shadow ” banking market.

Although Oldham had a thriving economy during the 19th century, the local merchants were broadly reluctant to spend on civic institutions, and so the town lacks the grandeur seen in comparable nearby towns like Bolton or Huddersfield ; public expenditure was seen as an overhead that undermined the competitiveness of the town.

Although the T-28 and early versions of the PzKpfw IV were comparable in armour and firepower, the sound basic design of the PzKpfw IV allowed it to be significantly upgraded, while the T-28 was a poor basis for improvement.

Although none of these states entered into any formal alliances comparable to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, they did benefit greatly from the geo-political competition in the region and vacillations in alignment often resulted in greater gains of assistance.

Although not immune from the economic problems of the past few years, Royston retains a varied town centre with a range of businesses and fewer empty shop-fronts than most comparable towns.

Although Hooters Air billed itself as a low-fare carrier, rows of seats were removed from the aircraft to provide 34 " seating pitch to all passengers, comparable to the legroom offered by many carriers ' business classes ; in keeping with the golf-friendly orientation of the carrier, this was called " Club Class " seating.

Although these various concepts have significant differences, a result of the disciplines from which they emerged and the topics to which they ’ re applied, they are functionally comparable in that they satisfy a similar conceptual function of describing dynamic and generative interaction between two or more variables in a system.

Although we are not bound by VA rulings in this case I believe that the Prisoner of War Medal should be awarded to internee and the other 45 people listed .” The attorney referenced a VA POW approval that stated " a decision has been made that internee's detention by Russian forces was under circumstances comparable to those under which persons generally have been forcibly detained or interned by enemy governments during wartime.

Although crime is now comparable to the rest of Europe, Polish citizens are still most afraid of crime in the EU ( alongside Greece ).

Although the range of questions has been expanded over the years, the programme aims to keep most of the survey constant, so that data is comparable over time.

Although these two approaches are comparable because of the use of factor analysis to construct hierarchical taxonomies, they differ in the organization and number of factors.

Although Edna ’ s manner is dissimilar, her sentiments are comparable to Agnes ’ s.

Although not as accurate by themselves as STOs, combinations of many Gaussians can attain the accuracy of hydrogen-like orbitals.

Although these instruments have slow response time and low accuracy, they were sometimes used in measuring radio-frequency current.

Trailing zeros after the decimal point are not necessary, although in science, engineering and statistics they can be retained to indicate a required precision or to show a level of confidence in the accuracy of the number: Although 0. 080 and 0. 08 are numerically equal, in engineering 0. 080 suggests a measurement with an error of up to one part in two thousand (± 0. 0005 ), while 0. 08 suggests a measurement with an error of up to one in two hundred ( see significant figures ).

Although range finding underwater is performed at both sub-audible and audible frequencies for great distances ( 1 to several kilometers ), ultrasonic range finding is used when distances are shorter and the accuracy of the distance measurement is desired to be finer.

Although pure spectrum violet is outside the color gamut of the RGB color space, the three colors displayed below are rough approximations of the range of colors of actual spectral violet, although the accuracy of the approximation can vary depending on the individual's color vision.

" Although there is no special reason to doubt the accuracy of this information, it should always be borne in mind that the sagas embody the literary preoccupations of writers and audiences in medieval Iceland, and they cannot always be treated as reliable sources for the history of Norse Greenland.

Although many ancient authorities valued it highly, and used it to discredit Herodotus, a modern author writes that "( Ctesias's ) unreliability makes Herodotus seem a model of accuracy.

Although this method of measurement is not new, either in theory or in practice, the unique manner in which the techniques were implemented in the MISTRAM system permit measurement of vehicle flight parameters with a degree of precision and accuracy not previously obtainable in other long baseline trajectory measurement systems.

Although Ptolemy relied mainly on the work of Hipparchus, he introduced at least one idea, the equant, which appears to be his own, and which greatly improved the accuracy of the predicted positions of the planets.

Although Stuart has not seen the ghost of Blue Dog in his 20 years of residence, he does not doubt the accuracy of accounts telling that Charles Thomas Sims, a soldier, and his dog were killed on February 8 on Rose Hill Road while returning from a Port Tobacco Tavern.

Although the solutions cannot always be expressed exactly with radicals, they can be computed to any desired degree of accuracy using numerical methods such as the Newton – Raphson method or Laguerre method, and in this way they are no different from solutions to polynomial equations of the second, third, or fourth degrees.

Although it is reliable, it converges slowly, gaining one bit of accuracy with each iteration.

Although the accuracy would not be as great, an aircraft flying horizontally would not be subject to the great stresses of diving, and could be built to hold a dramatically greater warload.

Although presented with varying degrees of accuracy, these films provide a chance to see the game played, which otherwise may be difficult to observe personally.

Although Waltari employed some poetic license in combining the biographies of Sinuhe and Akhenaten, he was otherwise much concerned about the historical accuracy of his detailed description of ancient Egyptian life and carried out considerable research into the subject.

Although the Javelin's accuracy is somewhat susceptible to smoke, fog or clouds, it is claimed to be virtually impossible to decoy it away from a target with flares.

Although there was a dip in his regular-season output, Nash's shooting remained sharp ; the accuracy of his shooting was on par with his 2005 – 06 MVP campaign ( shooting at least 50 % from the field, 40 % from the three-point arc, and 90 % from the free throw line ).

Although this figure seems to suggest that a vast majority of the country was in favor of the reforms, there was plenty of controversy over its accuracy and success, and it was quickly realized that the White Revolution lacked the technical, managerial, and organizational power it needed to succeed.

Although there are individuals who have claimed that phallometry is not always appropriate for the evaluation of sexual preferences or treatment effects, large-scale meta-analytic review of the scientific reports demonstrated that phallometric response to stimuli depicting children is the single most accurate ( with only 32 % accuracy ) method of identifying which sexual offenders will go on to commit new sexual crimes.

Although it can diminish actual accuracy, this is not a real limit on practical accuracy in a weapon of this type.

Although the pitcher has a responsibility to throw with reasonable accuracy, catchers must be mobile enough to catch ( or block ) errant pitches.

Although accuracy standards for police rifles do not widely exist, rifles are frequently seen with accuracy levels from 0. 5-1. 5 MOA ( 0. 2-0. 5 mrad ).