For the occasion on which everyone already knows everyone else and the host wishes them to meet one or a few honored newcomers, then the `` open house '' system is advantageous because the honored guests are fixed connective points and the drifting guests make and break connections at the door.

For a few minutes there was nothing to hear.

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

For decades it was the most popular dish served in the Ladies' Grill at breakfast, and it is one of the few old Palace dishes that still survive.

For a few details of the system the lines are 1-1/4'' '' X-Tru-Coat, a product of Republic Steel Corp., and all lines are welded.

For example, probably very few people know that the word `` visrhanik '' that is bantered about so much today stems from the verb `` bouanahsha '': to salivate.

For a few giddy months that coincided with one of Moscow's smiling moods, he was the sensation of Washington.

For new galaxies to be created, Professor Bondi declares, it would only be necessary for a single hydrogen atom to be created in an area the size of your living room once every few million years.

For the first few months of their marriage she had tried to be nice about Gunny, going out with him to watch this pearl without price stamp imperiously around in her stall.

For a few innings the Anniston team couldn't figure him out.

" Swift extends the metaphor to get in a few jibes at England ’ s mistreatment of Ireland, noting that " For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, and flesh being of too tender a consistence, to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country, which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it.

For the last few years, however, no permits have been issued for collecting abalone ( perlemoen ), but commercial harvesting still continues as does illegal collection by syndicates.

For the next few years, Newton was raised by his emotionally distant stepmother while his father was at sea, and spent some time at a boarding school where he was mistreated.

For example, Alfonso halted his army in pious respect before the birthplace of a Latin writer, carried Livy or Caesar on his campaigns with him, and his panegyrist Panormita even stated that the king was cured of an illness when a few pages of Quintus Curtius Rufus ' history of Alexander the Great were read to him.

For socket numbers, a few well-known numbers were reserved for special purposes specific to the AppleTalk protocol itself.

For the young composer there would be few, if any, new compositional commissions to receive from the court.

For example, cold weather crops like rye, oats, wheat, and apples are expected to decline by about 15 % in the next fifty years and strawberries will drop as much as 32 % simply because of projected climate changes of a few degrees.

For the first few decades of indirect fire, the firing data were often calculated by the observer who then adjusted the fall of shot onto the target.

For example, the broch ' villages ' which occur at a few places in Orkney have no parallel in the Western Isles.

For decades the generations of few remaining sighthounds were regarded as hunting-suited, when showing enough attacking initiative for fox hunting.

For a few years, this group of animals was regarded as a subfamily, called the Callitrichinae, of the family Cebidae.

For a few recent years, marmosets, tamarins, and lion tamarins were placed as a subfamily ( Callitrichinae ) in Cebidae, while moving other genera from Cebidae into the families Aotidae, Pitheciidae and Atelidae.

For a few illustrative examples: German speakers use " Wasserstoff " ( water substance ) for " hydrogen ", " Sauerstoff " ( acid substance ) for " oxygen " and " Stickstoff " ( smothering substance ) for " nitrogen ", while English and some romance languages use " sodium " for " natrium " and " potassium " for " kalium ", and the French, Italians, Greeks, Portuguese and Poles prefer " azote / azot / azoto " ( from roots meaning " no life ") for " nitrogen ".

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 example, a perfect crystal of diamond would only contain carbon atoms, but a real crystal might perhaps contain a few boron atoms as well.

For example the entries in the Sales Journal are taken and a debit entry is made in each customer's account ( showing that the customer now owes us money ) and a credit entry might be made in the account for " Sale of class 2 widgets " ( showing that this activity has generated revenue for us ).

For a list of all named HTML character entity references, see List of XML and HTML character entity references ( approximately 250 entries ).

For square matrices with entries in a non-commutative ring, for instance the quaternions, there is no unique definition for the determinant, and no definition that has all the usual properties of determinants over commutative rings.

For over a century, British and American lexicographers glossed the pronunciation of Taoism as, but more recently they changed it to, and added Daoism entries.

For a broad cross-cultural look at clothing and its place in society, refer to the entries for clothing, costume, and fabrics.

For routing, the entries in the IPX routing table are similar to IP routing tables ; routing is done by network address, and for each network address a network: node of the next router is specified in a similar fashion an IP address / netmask is specified in IP routing tables.

For example, a banking institution could get the user's account information and provide them efficiently with extensive information such as transactions, account information entries etc.

For non-italicized entries, the dates are taken from official press releases or notifications posted on JASC's web site.

For example see the entries on the Lateran Treaty and Church of England

For example, the entries of an order 2 tensor T would be denoted T < sub > ij </ sub >, where i and j are indices running from 1 to the dimension of the related vector space.

For instance, the general linear group GL ( n, R ) of all invertible n-by-n matrices with real entries can be viewed as a topological group with the topology defined by viewing GL ( n, R ) as a subset of Euclidean space R < sup > n × n </ sup >.

For clarifications about the latter topic, please consult the writings of the intellectual historians listed here and entries on individual thinkers.

For legibility, the tie bars have been removed from the table entries.

* Plants For A Future database entries for Eryngium

For example, one of the very first entries in Skeat is for the letter A, which begins: "...( 1 ) adown ; ( 2 ) afoot ; ( 3 ) along ; ( 4 ) arise ; ( 5 ) achieve ; ( 6 ) avert ; ( 7 ) amend ; ( 8 ) alas ; ( 9 ) abyss ..." Further in the entry, Skeat writes: " These prefixes are discussed at greater length under the headings Of, On, Along, Arise ... Alas, Aware, Avast ..." It seems likely that these strings of words prompted Joyce to finish the Wake with a sentence fragment that included the words: "... a way a lone a last a loved a long ..."

For individual discographies, see entries on David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, and Neil Young.

For the first time since 1977 and 1978, there were no filmed postcards between the songs, with a guest presenter from each nation introducing the entries.

For a diagonal matrix A, the characteristic polynomial is easy to define: if the diagonal entries are a < sub > 1 </ sub >, a < sub > 2 </ sub >, a < sub > 3 </ sub >, etc.

For the three entries in 2007, Robert Medeksza, Noah Duncan and Rollo Carpenter, some basic " screening questions " were used by the sponsor to evaluate the state of the technology.

For the first time in 2008 the sponsor allowed introduction of a preliminary phase to the contest opening up the competition to previously disallowed web-based entries judged by a variety of invited interrogators.

For each country there can be a maximum of 26 * 26 * 26 = entries, using only letters, or 34 * 34 * 34 = entries using letters and digits.

For the purposes of this explanation, call the highest entries in the entire grid ' special entries '; each party is given as many seats as there are special entries in its row.