Many of our very best friends are reformers.

Many a sitter ( in a personal sitting ) has been amazed to realize that the medium was describing very vividly his state of mind.

Many of the toll-road bonds still are selling at prices that offer the prospect of an annual yield of 4 per cent, or very close to that.

Many of the coal seams in the nationalized British mines are twisting, narrow and very deep.

Many blind people find this number machine a very useful tool throughout life.

Many of his creations are very collectible and highly valuable.

Many useful array slicing operations ( such as selecting a sub-array, swapping indices, or reversing the direction of the indices ) can be performed very efficiently by manipulating the dope vector.

Many of these recipes have become very popular.

Many of the sweets produced in this region, such as quince, sweet potato, molasses and dulce de cayote jams, have given rise to a very well known and easily made dessert referred to as vigilante, or to so-called queso y dulce ( where a piece of fresh cheese is served with one of the sweets mentioned above ).

Many attack aircraft, even ones that look like fighters, are optimized to drop bombs, with very little ability to engage in aerial combat.

Many common bronze alloys have the unusual and very desirable property of expanding slightly just before they set, thus filling in the finest details of a mold.

Many of their songs are very old and are said to date back to the old kingdom of Mali.

Many retailers open very early ( typically 5 am or even earlier ) and offer doorbuster deals and loss leaders to draw people to their stores.

Many minerals are also essential in small quantities including iron, calcium, magnesium and sulphur ; and in very small quantities copper, zinc and selenium.

Many issues such as sex, narcotics and terrorism cannot or can very rarely be openly discussed in strips, although there are exceptions, usually for satire, as in Bloom County.

Many cave environments are very fragile.

While Clausewitz was intensely aware of the value of intelligence at all levels, he was also very skeptical of the accuracy of much military intelligence: " Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory ; even more are false, and most are uncertain ....

Many renderings have a very rough estimate of radiosity, simply illuminating an entire scene very slightly with a factor known as ambiance.

Many CPUs feature a second set of pins similar to those for communicating with memory, but able to operate at very different speeds and using different protocols.

Many model airplanes use very simple " glow " and " Diesel " engines.

Many of the islands are very small and uninhabited.

Many root vegetables are very resistant to spoilage and require no other preservation than storage in cool dark conditions, for example by burial in the ground, such as in a storage clamp.

Many important wind and kitesurfing figures compete in this championship, such as the several-times world windsurfing champion Björn Dunkerbeck and Gisela Pulido, the very young kiteboarding champion from Tarifa.

Many of them, moreover, are beginning to complain about the scarcity of Western amusements and to ridicule the old life of the bazaar merchant, the mullah, and the peasant.

Many earlier writers, mourning the demise of the old order, tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `` gracious Old South '' imagery, creating such lasting impressions as Margaret Mitchell's `` Tara '' Plantation.

Many people use wicker cradles for old red wine, lifting the bottle carefully from the bin into the cradle and eventually to the table, without disturbing the sediment.

Many of the recent TV Games series of old Atari games have included either the 2600 or arcade versions of Asteroids.

Many old methods had been lost during the periods of European contact.

Many commercial BBS software companies that continue to support their old BBS software products switched to the shareware model or made it entirely free.

Many old retired buses have also been converted into mobile holiday homes and campers.

Many new roads were built, and old roads were quickly repaired.

Many in the city, struck with a reverential fear, tempered with joy, ran immediately to the church, young and old citizens and strangers, all with one voice giving praise to Jesus Christ.

Many people still mistakenly associate DIN with the old naming convention.

Many English Parliamentarians had suspicions regarding such a move, because they feared that setting up a new kingdom might destroy the old English traditions which had bound the English monarchy.

Many old catechisms are in a question-and-answer ( Q & A ) format.

* Many disk galaxies have a puffed up outer disk ( often called the " thick disk ") that is composed of old stars.

Many have cited this work as an example of the stile antico ( old style ) or prima pratica ( first practice ).

Many customers kept using their old software and one of the features of the later System / 370 was the ability to switch to emulation mode and back under operating system control.

Many years later, Pelias was holding games in honor of the sea god and his alleged father, Poseidon, when Jason arrived in Iolcus and lost one of his sandals in the river Anauros (" wintry Anauros "), while helping an old woman to cross ( the Goddess Hera in disguise ).

Many examples of such devices have been found in old Roman mines and some examples are now preserved in the British Museum and the National Museum of Wales.

Many of his new and old friends ( Davis, in his autobiography, mentions Clarke ) tried to persuade him to stay in France, but Davis decided to return to New York.

Many olive trees in the groves around the Mediterranean are said to be hundreds of years old, while an age of 2, 000 years is claimed for a number of individual trees ; in some cases, this has been scientifically verified.

Many years later, Ken and Tanaka return to Otakuland in a post-apocalyptic submerged Japan and find its central structure, a giant robot, converted into a functional spaceship piloted by their old otaku friends.

Many slang terms for police officers are decades or centuries old with lost etymology.

Many names for pubs that appear nonsensical may have come from corruptions of old slogans or phrases, such as " The Bag o ' Nails " ( Bacchanals ), " The Goat and Compasses " ( God Encompasseth Us ), " The Cat and the Fiddle " ( Caton Fidèle ) and " The Bull and Bush ", which purportedly celebrates the victory of Henry VIII at " Boulogne Bouche " or Boulogne-sur-Mer Harbour.