Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.

He was in his early forties, rather short and very compactly built, and with a manner that was reserved and stiff despite his efforts to adapt himself to American ways.

This agreement is considered very good for such short time intervals.

Did he trouble to memorize the very small part which I had `` tailor-made '' to his specifications, a role eventually cut down to three short speeches??

unfortunately, no one has kept complete records of one individual, whereas many have been made for a very short period of time.

This behavior on her part subsided only after I had come to see the uncomfortably close similarity between, on the one hand, her arranging the ventilation of the common living room to her own liking, or turning the television off or on without regard to the wishes of the others, and on the other hand, my own coming stolidly into her room despite her persistent and vociferous objections, bringing my big easy chair with me, usually shutting the windows of her room which she preferred to keep in a very cold state, and plunking myself down in my chair -- in short, behaving as if I owned her room.

Naturally, enterprises of the size of General Electric are in a position to structure their prices in such a way that the relatively small competitors can be forced to the wall in a very short time.

Adult frogs do not have tails and caecilians have only very short ones.

The deadline for beginning an appeal can often be very short: traditionally, it is measured in days, not months.

Being relatively heavy and positively charged, alpha particles tend to have a very short mean free path, and quickly lose kinetic energy within a short distance of their source.

If it does, ocean levels would rise by a few metres in a very short period of time.

Fleming also discovered very early that bacteria developed antibiotic resistance whenever too little penicillin was used or when it was used for too short a period.

This number is easy to remember and, when called, will read back your number after a very short message.

The shell is accelerated to a high velocity in a very short time by the rapid generation of gas from the burning propellant.

The colony was still very short of skilled farmers, craftsmen and tradesmen, and the convicts continued to work as little as possible, even though they were working mainly to grow their own food.

In the agony of the Umayyad dynasty in the Al-Andalus ( Moorish Iberia ), two princes of the house were proclaimed Caliph of Cordoba for a very short time, Abd-ar-Rahman IV Mortada ( 1017 ), and Abd-ar-Rahman V Mostadir ( 1023 – 1024 ).

In Welsh, the shortened form Y Fenni may have come into use for a very short period after about the 15th century, although pronounced similarly in English or Welsh the English spelling Abergavenny is in general use.

The display will usually demonstrate the aircraft's very short ( and often very loud ) takeoff rolls, fast speeds, slow approach speeds, as well as their ability to quickly make tight turns, to climb quickly, and their ability to be precisely controlled at a large range of speeds.

Since the ammeter shunt has a very low resistance, mistakenly wiring the ammeter in parallel with a voltage source will cause a short circuit, at best blowing a fuse, possibly damaging the instrument and wiring, and exposing an observer to injury.

Extreme cases like Mira undergo large swings over hundreds of days ; Arcturus is not very red and is a borderline case between variability and stability with its short period and tiny range.

Assuming that the ion is accelerated during a very short interval, the ion can be assumed to be travelling at constant velocity.

Usually the stem remains very short and the leaves are low to the ground, forming a rosette.

Under extreme climatic conditions, a biennial plant may complete its life cycle in a very short period of time ( e. g. three or four months instead of two years ).

In an interview with Gelmis from 1969, De Palma described the film as " very good and very successful.

In a rare interview in 1981 Bubbles described Tucker's discipline as " very Swiss ; very hard ; unjustified ; very grey.

He stated in an early 1960s interview with the Mainichi Newspaper, " But my movie company has produced a very interesting script that combined King Kong and Godzilla, so I couldn't help working on this instead of my other fantasy films.

In an interview, Spitzy stated " He behaved very stupidly and very pompously and the British don't like pompous people ".

In an interview with the Financial Times, Miyazaki said " it's very important for me to retain the right ratio between working by hand and computer.

In an interview in 2000, Mikhail Gorbachev, in response to the comment " In the 1980s, you warned about the unprecedented dangers of nuclear weapons and took very daring steps to reverse the arms race ," said " Models made by Russian and American scientists showed that a nuclear war would result in a nuclear winter that would be extremely destructive to all life on Earth ; the knowledge of that was a great stimulus to us, to people of honor and morality, to act in that situation.

" As our tastes got more obscure ," Geddy Lee said in a recent interview, " we discovered more progressive rock-based bands like Yes, Van der Graaf Generator and King Crimson, and we were very inspired by those bands.

In a telephone interview with CNN on October 24, 2005, Conyers recalled, " You treated her with deference because she was so quiet, so serene — just a very special person ...

Exline also belonged to an amateur softball league but the Coens changed it to bowling in the movie because " it's a very social sport where you can sit around and drink and smoke while engaging in inane conversation ," Ethan said in an interview.

In an interview John Flansburgh said that the words " they might be giants " are just a very outward-looking forward thing which they liked.

In an earlier radio interview, John Linnell described the phrase as " something very paranoid sounding ".

" Five days after this speech, in an interview for The Daily Telegraph, Thatcher praised Powell: " I have always read Enoch Powell's speeches and articles very carefully ....

Varying from arcane to combative to humorous, and ranging from midshipmen to very senior naval aviators who sought command of aircraft carriers ( which sometimes lapsed into ego battles ), the content of most of these interviews has been lost to history, though some were later chronicled in the several books on Rickover's career, as well as in a rare personal interview with Diane Sawyer in 1984.

An early 1996 Q magazine interview revealed that relations between Blur members had become very strained ; journalist Adrian Deevoy wrote that he found them " on the verge of a nervous breakup ".

Heston said in a 1995 interview that he was not very good at remembering addresses or his early childhood.

" When asked why in another interview the same year, he responded, " I feel as if I've worked very hard since the demise of the Smiths and the others haven't, so why hand them attention that they haven't earned?

He has not returned to England apart from some personal visits and very few media appearances, his last one since 1985 being a 2006 interview which formed part of a " Len Deighton Night " on BBC Four.

Despite publishing a very good review for their 1995 album Afraid Of Sunlight and including it in their 50 Best Albums of 1995, Q refused to interview the band or write a feature on them.

" The problem is that the people who probably actually ordered the death of Calvi are not in the dock-but to get to those people might be very difficult indeed ," he said in an interview.

The band, particularly Smith, were unhappy with their debut ; in a 1987 interview, he admitted, " a lot of it was very superficial – I didn't even like it at the time.