For a brief period each year, the rays of the sun are warm enough to melt some of the snows piled a mile deep at the base of the headwalls, and then the pinnacles glisten in the daytime at high noon, and billions of gallons of water begin their slow seepage under the glaciers and across the rockstrewn hanging valleys on their long, meandering journey to the sea -- running east past the sky-carving massifs of Gurla Mandhata and Kemchenjunga, then turning south and curling down through the jungles of Assam, past the Khasi Hills, and into Bengal, past Sirinjani and Madaripur, until the hard water of the melting snows mingles with the soft drainage of fields and at length fans out to meld with the teeming salt depths of the Bay of Bengal.

For a few brief minutes they had all been part of one little drama.

For a brief discussion comparing such anti-realism to its opposite, realism, see ( Okasha 2002, ch.

For a very brief period in 1944 the Wills band included 23 members., and around mid year he toured Northern California and the Pacific Northwest with 21 pieces in the orchestra. Billboard reported that Wills outgrossed Harry James, Benny Goodman, " both Dorsies, et al.

For a brief time in Europe, an unusual form of cannibalism occurred when thousands of Egyptian mummies preserved in bitumen were ground up and sold as medicine.

For example, a scene may be improved by cutting a few frames out of an actor's pause ; a brief view of a listener can help conceal the break.

For a brief period in the 1880s it served as a coaling station for steamships transiting the Indian Ocean from the Suez Canal to Australia.

For a brief time Morris held small jobs, first as a cable television salesman and then as a term-paper writer.

For this brief period, Conservatives replaced the left as Velasco's base of support.

For example, it explains experts ' ability to recall large amounts of material displayed for only brief study intervals, provided that the material comes from their domain of expertise.

For a brief period in the 8th century, the Kingdom of Essex controlled what is now Kent.

For a brief period in the 8th century the kingdom encompassed the Kentish Kingdom to the South.

For a brief period, in the aberrant theology promulgated by the pharaoh Akhenaten, a single god, the Aten, replaced the traditional pantheon.

For organization and ease of reference here, the relevant major terrorist attacks are listed by date below, with a brief summary for each, identifying the terror cells most directly responsible for the attack.

For a brief period in the 1790s the British attempted to establish a rival foothold on an offshore island, at Bolama, but by the 19th century the Portuguese were sufficiently secure in Bissau to regard the neighbouring coastline as their own special territory.

For a brief while, he also helps supervise the New Mutants and their sister team, the X-Terminators.

For a brief moment in August 1939, Ribbentrop convinced Hitler that the Non-Aggression Pact with the Soviet Union would cause the fall of the Chamberlain government, and lead to a new British government that would abandon the Poles to their fate.

For a brief time the combined villages were referred to as " Michigan " but was officially named Lansing in 1848.

For a brief period before he resumed his normal broadcasting duties following his sexual assault arrest ( see below ), Albert anchored MSG's former nightly sports news report, MSG SportsDesk.

For a brief period in Mars ' history, it may have also been capable of forming life.

For example, an article entitled " Daily News workers quarantined " describes a brief quarantine that lasted until people could be showered in a decontamination tent.

For a brief period in the late 1950s Orbison made his living at Acuff-Rose, a songwriting firm concentrating mainly on country music.

During the coalition government's brief tenure, Somalia topped the Fund For Peace's Failed States Index for three consecutive years.

For a brief while it was also implied that Skuld had a crush on Keiichi ; the second special episode of the first TV series ( where she's grown up for a day ) explored this angle by placing Skuld and Keiichi in situations where they appear as a couple.

For a brief period in fact, complete normed linear spaces where referred to as " Banach-Wiener " spaces in mathematical literature, based on terminology introduced by Wiener himself.

For example, in the English language, run, runs, ran and running are forms of the same lexeme, conventionally written as < span style =" font-variant: small-caps ; text-transform: lowercase "> RUN </ span >.< ref >< span style =" font-variant: small-caps ; text-transform: lowercase "> RUN </ span > is here intended to display in small caps.

For example, the lexeme < span style =" font-variant: small-caps ; text-transform: lowercase "> RUN </ span > has a present third person singular form runs, a present non-third-person singular form run ( which also functions as the past participle and non-finite form ), a past form ran, and a present participle running.

For some, the symptoms decrease after a span of three to five years.

For example, the first word of a sentence is also capitalized, and named entities often span several words, only some of which are capitalized.

For example, for Preece's station to span the English Channel from Dover, England, to the coast of France would require sending and receiving wires of about along the two coasts.

For instance, span is lower for long words than for short words.

For more than a thousand years, it is the longest arch bridge in the world to have been built, in terms of both total and span length.

For example, a bit-wise example of a IEEE floating-point standard single precision ( 32-bit ) NaN would be: < span style =" white-space: nowrap ;"> s111 1111 1axx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx </ span > where s is the sign ( most often ignored in applications ), a determines the type of NaN, and x is an extra payload ( most often ignored in applications ).

For some, such as < span lang =" fr "> Blanqui </ span >, revolution seemed the only solution.

" For instance, in the span of a year's worth of Atom stories, Fox tackled the 1956 Hungarian revolution, the space race, 18th-century England, miniature card painting, Norse mythology, and numismatics.

For efficient steady flight the ratio of span to chord, the aspect ratio, should be as high as possible ( the constraints are usually structural ) because this lowers the lift-induced drag associated with the inevitable wingtip vortices.

For example, the collection of all possible linear combinations of the vectors on the left-hand side is called their span, and the equations have a solution just when the right-hand vector is within that span.

For example, the adoption of the dual axle design by Black Diamond, the invention of three-lobed camming units to fit smaller cracks, and the more recent invention of the Link Cam by Omega Pacific, a design that allows one SLCD to span an even larger range of crack sizes.

Therefore all tangent vectors in a point p span a linear space, called the tangent space at point p. For example, taking a 2-dimensional space, like the ( curved ) surface of the Earth, its tangent space at a specific point would be the flat approximation of the curved space.

According to Aristotle, a future span of time must be a potential infinity, because another element can always be added to a series that is inexhaustible: " For generally the infinite has this mode of existence: one thing is always being taken after another, and each thing that is taken is always finite, but always different ".

* For mammals there is a direct relationship between mitochondrial membrane fatty acid saturation and maximum life span

For example, in an analysis comparing outcomes in a treated and control population, the difference of outcome means < span style =" text-decoration: overline "> Y </ span > − < span style =" text-decoration: overline "> X </ span > would be a direct measure of the effect size, whereas (< span style =" text-decoration: overline "> Y </ span > − < span style =" text-decoration: overline "> X </ span >)/ σ where σ is the common standard deviation of the outcomes in the treated and control groups, would be a standardized effect size.