He had spent two hours riding around the ranch that morning, and in broad daylight it was even less inviting than Judith Pierce had made it seem.

For less than a dozen miles from the unplowed land of the dead man lived another settler who had ignored the warnings that his existence might be foreclosed on -- a blatant and defiant rustler named Fred Powell.

There were no less than six or seven saloons in Ganado, not counting the lower class dives, all vying for the trade of celebrating miners and teamsters.

Bryn Mawr Drive is only two or three miles from the Spartan, and it took me less than five minutes to get there.

After all, he had less reason to desire it than the marine.

His thoughts for the swanlike neck, the full, high breasts, the slim waist, and the long legs were less than poetic, however.

Among Bourbons the racial issue may have less to do with their remaining unreconstructed than other factors.

less than a score of years later Congress enacted the Employment Act of 1946, by which the national government assumed the responsibility of taking action to insure conditions of maximum employment.

Poetry for a Persian is nothing less than truth and beauty.

Less dazzling than Hamilton, less eloquent than Jefferson, John Jay commands an equally high rank among the Founding Fathers.

Some painters have less interest in the experience of the moment, with its attendant urgencies and ambiguities, than in looking beyond the flux of particular impressions to a higher, more serene level of truth.

It is much less difficult now than in Lincoln's day to see that on both sides sovereign Americans had given their lives in the Civil War to maintain the balance between the powers they had delegated to the States and to their Union.

The only extended view possible to anyone less tall than the fences was that obtained from an upper bough of the apple tree.

In the pre-Civil War years, the South argued that the slave was not less humanely treated than the factory worker of the North.

At first glance, this hero seems to be more rather than less of an individualist than any of his predecessors.

Yet with a mind less shallow, if less sharp, than some of the fortune-happy syndicates which back him, he feels what he cannot formulate ; ;

The fact that he has cast over those materials the light of a skeptical mind does not make him any the less Southern, I rather think, for the South has been no more solid than other regions except in the political and related areas where patronage and force and intimidation and fear may produce a surface uniformity.

Their books found no less willing readers outside than inside the South, even while memories of the war were still sharp.

A Comedy In Three Acts '', in which, under `` Personages '', Henrietta appeared as `` A Schoolmarm '', and Bertha, who was only a trifle less brilliant in high school than Henrietta had been, appeared as `` Dummkopf ''.

You probably would not remember, since you never seemed to remember even the same moments as I, much less their intensity, one sunny midday on Fifth Avenue when you had set out with me for some final shopping less than a week before the wedding you staged for me with such reluctance at the Farm.

`` A portable companion always ready to go where you go -- a small friend weighing less than a freshborn infant -- to be shared with few or many -- just two of you in sweet meditation ''.

-- As an aid in reducing losses due to enterotoxemia ( overeating disease ), feed a complete ration containing not less than 20 and not more than 50 grams of Aureomycin per ton.

For example, if a program needs 20 hours using a single processor core, and a particular portion of 1 hour cannot be parallelized, while the remaining promising portion of 19 hours ( 95 %) can be parallelized, then regardless of how many processors we devote to a parallelized execution of this program, the minimum execution time cannot be less than that critical 1 hour.

At opposition to or conjunction with the Sun, aberration is 20. 5 ″ while light-time correction varies from 4 ″ for Mercury to 0. 37 ″ for Neptune ( the Sun's light-time correction is less than 0. 03 ″).

Arcturus is visible from both hemispheres in the sky, as it is located less than 20 degrees north of the celestial equator.

In North America and most of Europe, legal blindness is defined as visual acuity ( vision ) of 20 / 200 ( 6 / 60 ) or less in the better eye with best correction possible.

In many areas, people with average acuity who nonetheless have a visual field of less than 20 degrees ( the norm being 180 degrees ) are also classified as being legally blind.

By the 10th Revision of the WHO International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Injuries and Causes of Death, low vision is defined as visual acuity of less than 20 / 60 ( 6 / 18 ), but equal to or better than 20 / 200 ( 6 / 60 ), or corresponding visual field loss to less than 20 degrees, in the better eye with best possible correction.

Blindness is defined as visual acuity of less than 20 / 400 ( 6 / 120 ), or corresponding visual field loss to less than 10 degrees, in the better eye with best possible correction.

To anonymous laborers fell the less skilled stages of brick production: mixing clay and water, driving oxen over the mixture to trample it into a thick paste, scooping the paste into standardized wooden frames ( to produce a brick roughly 42 cm long, 20 cm wide, and 10 cm thick ), smoothing the surfaces with a wire-strung bow, removing them from the frames, printing the fronts and backs with stamps that indicated where the bricks came from and who made them, loading the kilns with fuel ( likelier wood than coal ), stacking the bricks in the kiln, removing them to cool while the kilns were still hot, and bundling them into pallets for transportation.

Industry contributes less than 20 % of the country's GDP, with artesian diamond mining, breweries, and sawmills making up the bulk of the sector.

In the United Kingdom, DSG ( Dixons ), the largest retailer of domestic electronic equipment, reported that CRT models made up 80 – 90 % of the volume of televisions sold at Christmas 2004 and 15 – 20 % a year later, and that they were expected to be less than 5 % at the end of 2006.

The fraction of cellulose in the walls is no more than 4 to 20 %, far less than the fraction comprised by glucans.

This allowed most separations to be performed in less than 20 minutes, with improved separations compared to the old method.

In the final, Australia dismissed Pakistan for 132 and then reached the target in less than 20 overs, with eight wickets in hand.

" The study of 20 faith-oriented attributes revealed significant differences between the United States heterosexual and homosexual populations sampled, homosexual respondents being less likely to be born again Christians than heterosexual respondents ( 27 % compared to 47 %), and the degree of commitment to their faith and families also differed.

For example, in the 19th century, the Sun appeared to be no more than 20 million years old, but the Earth appeared to be no less than 300 million years ( resolved by the discovery of nuclear fusion and radioactivity, and the theory of quantum mechanics ); or current attempts to resolve theoretical differences between quantum mechanics and general relativity.

She married British bartender turned Los Angeles bar owner Jeremy Thomas on March 20, 1994, and filed for divorce less than two months later.

It is a major district town — a Große Kreisstadt — of the administrative region of Upper Bavaria, about 20 km ( less than eleven miles ) north-west of Munich.

In 2005 domestic food production is expected to provide for less than 20 percent of domestic demand and will leave between 1. 7 and 2. 2 million people dependent on humanitarian assistance to meet basic food needs.

It may also be remembered as 44, 000 square feet, less 1 %; or as the product of 66 feet × 660 feet.

Most carbonate salts are insoluble in water at standard temperature and pressure, with solubility constants of less than 1 × 10 < sup >− 8 </ sup >.

A non-vanishing p-minor ( p × p submatrix with non-vanishing determinant ) shows that the rows and columns of that submatrix are linearly independent, and thus those rows and columns of the full matrix are linearly independent ( in the full matrix ), so the row and column rank are at least as large as the determinantal rank ; however, the converse is less straightforward.

For example, the Mertens conjecture is a statement about natural numbers that is now known to be false, but no explicit counterexample ( i. e., a natural number n for which the Mertens function M ( n ) equals or exceeds the square root of n ) is known: all numbers less than 10 < sup > 14 </ sup > have the Mertens property, and the smallest number which does not have this property is only known to be less than the exponential of 1. 59 × 10 < sup > 40 </ sup >, which is approximately 10 to the power 4. 3 × 10 < sup > 39 </ sup >.

Keying option 2 provides less security, with 2 × 56 = 112 key bits.

This is opposed to the " traditional " int 10h BIOS calls, which are limited to resolutions of 640 × 480 pixels with 16 color ( 4-bit ) depth or less.

Pansies are derived from viola species Viola tricolor hybridized with other viola species, these hybrids are referred to as Viola × wittrockiana or less commonly Viola tricolor hortensis.

The microbolometer grid is commonly found in three sizes, a 640 × 480 array, a 320 × 240 array or less expensive 160 × 120 array.

L. × eurolepis, an illegitimate name ), which arose more or less simultaneously in Switzerland and Scotland when L. decidua and L. kaempferi hybridised when planted together.

In fractions like “ 2 nanometers per meter ” ( 2 n < strike > m </ strike >/< strike > m </ strike > = 2 nano = 2 × 10 < sup >− 9 </ sup > = 2 ppb = 2 × 0. 000 < span style =" margin-left: 0. 2em "> 000 < span style =" margin-left: 0. 2em "> 001 )</ span ></ span > so the quotients are pure-number coefficients with positive values less than 1.

With an area of approximately 23. 85 km² ( 9. 2 mi² ), about 8 × 3 km ( 5 × 1. 9 mi ) and a perimeter of around 23. 3 km, this island is more or less rectangular in shape.

For common optical glasses, the refractive index calculated with the three-term Sellmeier equation deviates from the actual refractive index by less than 5 × 10 < sup >− 6 </ sup > over the wavelengths range of 365 nm to 2. 3 µm, which is of the order of the homogeneity of a glass sample.

This leads to the problem of transposing an n × m matrix in-place, with O ( 1 ) additional storage or at most storage much less than mn.

As with 4 × 100 m and 4 × 400 m events, all races comprise teams of four athletes running the same distances, with the less commonly contested distances being the 4 × 200 m, 4 × 800 m and 4 × 1500 m relays.