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 one thing, there wasn't going to be any ceremony at all this year.

For the States which maintain two separate agencies -- one for the vocational rehabilitation of the blind, and one for the rehabilitation of persons other than the blind -- the Act specifies that their minimum ( base ) allotment shall be divided between the two agencies in the same proportion as it was divided in fiscal year 1954.

For the year 2000 this means servicing ( A ) the protection requirements of a watershed producing at least 200 million acre-feet of water each year, ( B ) recreation and wildlife resources used each year by 635 million visitors, ( C ) a timber resource supporting an annual cut of 21 billion board feet, and ( D ) 60 million acres of rangelands.

For the year as a whole, retail sales of TV sets probably came to 5.8 million against 5.7 million in 1959 ; ;

For the school year, 1959-1960, the Prince Edward County ( Virginia ) Board of Supervisors voted not to provide funds for public education, and the school board therefore could provide no public education -- for white or Negro children.

For medical research he asked a 20 million dollar a year increase, from 30 to 50 millions, in matching grants for building research facilities.

For hotels with 1000 rooms, the increased license fee would mean an expense of $5000 a year, Goodis said.

For the year to date, sales of the company's farm equipment dealers still lag about 5% behind 1960.

For example, farm equipment shipments of International Harvester in August climbed about 5% above a year earlier, Mr. Keeler reports.

For nearly a year, they have been receiving counseling, separately and together, in an effort to understand and overcome the antagonisms which had given rise to the possibility of divorce.

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

For a year the boy had lived in the bush in a boxcar.

For example, " biweekly " can mean " fortnightly " ( once every two weeks – 26 times a year ), or " twice a week " ( 104 times a year ).

For most of the year, aardwolves spend time in shared territories consisting of up to a dozen dens, which are occupied for six weeks at a time.

For nine months of the year the ground is covered with snow, and the frozen rivers become navigable roads.

For the next five years, Anne spent no more than five or six weeks a year with her family, during holidays at Christmas and in June.

For the following year the Duke proposed a campaign along the valley of the River Moselle to carry the war deep into France.

For many merchants, Boxing Day has become the day of the year with the greatest revenue.

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 single year in 1949, the team performed in an all-yellow scheme with blue markings.

For the reprint editions, the year of the data is in parentheses.

'' For the last half hour Mary Jane had criss-crossed half the length of the Gardens and, at last, come upon her knight.

For galled breasts, the mother should shave into half a cup of fresh unsalted lard enough white chalk to make a paste.

For mosquito bites a paste of half a glass of salt and half a glass of soda was made.

For sprains and swellings, one pint of cider vinegar and half a pint of spirits of turpentine added to three well beaten eggs was said to give speedy relief.

For Helva was destined to be the `` brain '' half of a scout ship, partnered with a man or a woman, whichever she chose, as the mobile half.

For more than half a century the Lions have been synonymous with the red jersey that sports the amalgamated crests of the four unions.

For much of the first half of the season, they had the worst record in the league.

For example the President for the second half of 2007, Portugal, was the second in a trio of states alongside Germany and Slovenia with whom Portugal had been co-operating.

For the world capacity to produce cement in 2010, the situation was similar with the top three states ( China, India, and USA ) accounting for just under half the world total capacity.

For a distance penalty, if the yardage is greater than half the distance to the goal line, then the ball is advanced half the distance to the goal line, though only up to the one-yard line ( unlike American football, in Canadian football no scrimmage may start inside either one-yard line ).

For example, there were no more than five civil wars underway simultaneously in the first half of the 20th century, while over 20 concurrent civil wars were occurring at the end of the Cold War, before a significant decrease as conflicts strongly associated with the superpower rivalry came to an end.

Jones, whose work had been nominated eight times over his career for an Oscar ( winning thrice: For Scent-imental Reasons, So Much for So Little, and The Dot and the Line ), received an Honorary Academy Award in 1996 by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, for " the creation of classic cartoons and cartoon characters whose animated lives have brought joy to our real ones for more than half a century.

For example, during 1933 about half the male heads of households on the Sioux reservations in South Dakota were employed by the CCC-ID.

For instance, Paul cites Greek writers and philosophers, and the author of Hebrews references oral tradition which spoke of an Old Testament prophet who was sawn in half in Hebrews 11: 37, two verses after the 2nd Maccabees reference.

For nearly half the disorders, symptoms must be sufficient to cause " clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning ", although DSM-IV-TR removed the distress criterion from tic disorders and several of the paraphilias.

For the next three and a half years, Bellamy gave his all to politics, publishing his magazine, working to influence the platform of the People's Party, and publicizing the Nationalist movement in the popular press.

For the special case where the minor axis is half the major axis, these become:

For a time during the first half of the 20th century the entire genus Entamoeba was transferred to Endamoeba, a genus of amoebas infecting invertebrates about which little is known.

For they discovered more than the unknown forces of nature ; they discovered the unknown half of humanity: children.

For example, if a newborn baby's heart beats at a frequency of 120 times a minute, its period ( the interval between beats ) is half a second.

For any given location, about half of these absolute maximum full moons will be potentially visible, as the other half occur during the day, when the full moon is below the horizon.