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 particularly fabulous room which houses a collection of fine English Chippendale furniture, fabric wall panels were embroidered with a typically Chinese-inspired design of this revered Eighteenth Century period.

For this period, as for earlier centuries, pottery remains the most secure source ; ;

For critics, Hardy has had no poetic periods -- one does not speak of early Hardy or late Hardy, or of the London or Max Gate period, but simply of Hardy, as of a poetic monolith.

For the year, the road earned 133 per cent of its interest costs, against 121 per cent in the preceding period.

For the first six ceremonies, the eligibility period spanned two calendar years.

For various reasons, however, poverty and personal inclination among others, he did not take a prominent part in the military operations of this period.

For most of that period, it allowed horsemen to fight while being the targets of defending arquebuseers without being easily killed.

For a period after World War I, Steiner was extremely active and well known in Germany, in part because he lectured widely proposing social reforms.

For much of artillery's history during the Middle Ages and the Early modern period, artillery pieces on land were moved with the assistance of horse teams.

For normal calculation a number zero is often needed, here most notably when calculating the number of years in a period that spans the epoch ; the end years need only be subtracted from each other.

For approximately two to three weeks on either side of November 30, Antares is not visible in the night sky, because it is near conjunction with the Sun ; this period of invisibility is longer in the Northern Hemisphere than in the Southern Hemisphere, since the star's declination is significantly south of the celestial equator.

For a detailed discussion of the differences including a more comprehensive table ( several essential tables are given below ) of Biblical scripture for both Testaments and the intertestamental period with regard to canonical acceptance in Christendom's various major traditions, see Wikipedia's article on " Biblical canon ".

For the period prior to Augustine's arrival in 597, Bede drew on earlier writers, including Solinus.

For example, George Livingstone Robinson's dissertation on chapters 9-14 concluded that those chapters had their origin in the period between 518 and 516 BCE and stand in close relation to chapters 1-8, having most probably been composed by Zechariah himself.

The sleeve notes conclude: " For six years Bill Haley was a musical director of Radio Station WPWA in Chester, Pennsylvania, and led his own band all through this period.

For private households, it is argued to be insufficient to merely dismiss debts after a certain period.

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 some this marks the beginning of the " mature " Classical style, where the period of reaction against the complexity of the late Baroque began to be replaced with a period of integration of elements of both Baroque and Classical styles.

For some psychologists, especially those in the psychodynamic tradition, the most important period of socialization is between the ages of one and ten.

For a period ending in the mid-20th century, long-serving cardinal priests were entitled to fill vacancies that arose among the cardinal bishops, just as cardinal deacons of ten years ' standing are still entitled to become cardinal priests.

For example, during the eight-year period ending in 2008, despite overall growth in music sales and one anomalous year of increase, major-label CD sales declined overall by 20 %.

For a long period, it was the " classic " Unix desktop associated with commercial Unix workstations.

* For the period 1918-July 1919, covering only twenty provinces of central Russia:

For several months now, Jack Carter, a big overgrown boy of fifteen with a fuzzy, pimpled face and greenish catlike eyes with a lot of red in them, had been haunted by a dream, a vision, of a Woman.

For example, there are persons who are in physical science, in the field of mineralogy, trained in crystallography, who use only X-rays, applying only the powder technique of X-ray diffraction, to clay minerals only, and who have spent the last fifteen years concentrating on the montmorillonites ; ;

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 most of the first fifteen years of her life, Beatrix spent summer holidays at Dalguise, an estate on the River Tay in Perthshire, Scotland.

For the next fifteen years or so, Chiang was known as Jiang Zhiqing ( Wade-Giles: Chiang Chi-ching ).

For fifteen years, he was tutor to the four sons of Archduke Charles of Austria.

For example, Bernard Gui, a famous inquisitor working in the area of Carcassonne ( in modern France ), executed 42 people out of over 900 guilty verdicts in fifteen years of office.

For most mainstream country stations, the emphasis is generally on current pop country, following the same process as top 40 ; the remaining music in a particular station's library generally uses music from the past fifteen years ( shorter for " hot country " or " new country " stations ), with the exact music used varying depending on the station and the style of music the listener wants to hear.

For this, he received fifteen shillings a night.

For the next four years, a cohort from Legio VI Ferrata and Legio X Fretensis is stationed in the capital as bodyguard to the king, supported by fifteen hundred auxiliaries.

For the next fifteen years, he worked to develop other game systems.

For example, in the State of Washington it is mandatory for pipeline operators to be able to detect and locate leaks of 8 percent of maximum flow within fifteen minutes or less.

For wide sectors of the city's population, the sacking of ships ( whether Muslim or Christian ) which passed through Balearic waters, was the first source of riches during the next fifteen decades.

For the next fifteen years, from 982 to 997, High King Máel Sechnaill repeatedly led armies into Leinster and Munster, while Brian, like his father and brother before him, led his naval forces up the Shannon to attack Connacht and Meath on either side of the river.

For safety, a rigid ladder should be leaned at an angle of about fifteen degrees to the vertical.

For fifteen years after the split the LSO did little film work, recording only six soundtracks between 1956 and 1971, compared with more than 70 films between 1940 and 1955.

For fifteen months during the progress of the Crimean War he acted as chargé d ' affaires.

For the next fifteen years, the history of France and a great part of Europe was to be summed up in the person of a single man.

For fifteen years the League was able to exist without opposition, because Charles was busy fighting wars with France and the Ottoman Empire.

For fifteen years the western powers maintained a tenacious hold on West Berlin under periodic harassment of the Soviets.

For example, considering a row of fifteen cells with boxes in the third, fourth, sixth, seventh, eleventh and thirteenth cell and with clues of 5, 2 and 2:

For most of its existence the office has been occupied by Army leaders ; fifteen out of twenty-seven.

For 12 hours he and his crew fought off the Spanish, causing heavy damage to fifteen galleons.

For many years the attendance was small, and came almost entirely from those who had finished their career of preparation for competitive examinations ; after the reform the attendance numbered about fifteen.