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For and few
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 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 and minutes
For ten minutes they ran beneath the squall, raising their arms and, for the first time, shouting and capering.
For example, when the film is only four minutes old, Neitzbohr refers to a small, Victorian piano stool as `` Wilhelmina '', and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name, of course, was Doris ( the English equivalent, when passed through middle-Gaelic derivations, of Wilhelmina ).
For example Test 3, E 1 refers to a specimen which has been washed by procedure `` 3 ( '' ( at 160-degrees-F ) for a total of 60 minutes in the machine, has been dried in a tumble dryer by procedure `` E '' and has been subjected to restorative forces on the Tension Presser by procedure `` 1 ''.
For the first fifteen or twenty minutes it's possible to be more or less interested in window displays, then in people passing by.
For thirty minutes, Stanley Gilborn stood there.
Cash often included the song when he toured prisons, saying " For the three minutes that song is going on, everybody is free.
For ten minutes after the explosion there was no firing ; sailors from both sides were either too shocked by the blast or desperately extinguishing fires aboard their own ships to continue the fight.
For example kidney beans are toxic when raw or improperly cooked, due to the presence of phytohaemagglutinin which can be inactivated after cooking for at least ten minutes at 100 ° C.
For example, depending on surface porosity, 5 – 30 atomic layers of titanium carbide are hydrolyzed within 5 minutes at ambient conditions, following by saturation of the reaction.
For example, the director's cut of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid was 122 minutes long.
For a 1986 repeat, David Jason demanded to be removed from the show, thus creating an abridged version of 25 minutes.
For example, it can be stated specifically that 5 minutes is equivalent to seconds.
For example, a single cord circuit has the capacity to be used for 60 minutes in one hour.
For a situation where the traffic to be handled is completely new traffic, the only choice is to try to model expected user behavior, estimating active user population, N, expected level of use, U ( number of calls / transactions per user per day ), busy-hour concentration factor, C ( proportion of daily activity that will fall in the busy hour ), and average holding time / service time, h ( expressed in minutes ).
This version was shorter than any of the other versions at only 3 minutes, 27 seconds and went by the name " For The Victims Of Ravishment ".
For youths the length of the halves is reduced-25 minutes at ages 12 to 16 and 20 minutes at ages 8 to 12, though national federations of some countries may differ in their implementation from the official guidelines.
An alternative representation uses degrees and minutes, where parts of a minute are expressed in decimal notation with a fraction, thus: 23 ° 27. 500 ′ E. Degrees may also be expressed as a decimal fraction: 23. 45833 ° E. For calculations, the angular measure may be converted to radians, so longitude may also be expressed in this manner as a signed fraction of π ( pi ), or an unsigned fraction of 2π.
For wild-type lambda, lysis occurs at about 50 minutes after the start of infection and releases around 100 virions.
For example, Kepler in Harmonices Mundi gives Saturn's year as 10759D12 ', that is 10759 ( Earth ) days, 4 hours, and 48 ( usual ) minutes ( roughly 29. 5 years ).
According to The Rodgers and Hammerstein Story by Stanley Green, " For three minutes, on the night of September first, the entire Times Square area in New York City was blacked out in honor of the man who had done so much to light up that particular part of the world.
For instance, suppose we have a radioactive sample that emits, on average, five particles every ten minutes.
For example NASA's space shuttle fires its engines for around 8. 5 minutes, consuming 1, 000 tonnes of solid propellant ( containing 16 % aluminium ) and an additional 2, 000, 000 litres of liquid propellant ( 106, 261 kg of liquid hydrogen fuel ) to lift the 100, 000 kg vehicle ( including the 25, 000 kg payload ) to an altitude of 111 km and an orbital velocity of 30, 000 km / h.

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