Most picoammeters use a " virtual short " technique and have several different measurement ranges that must be switched between to cover multiple decades of measurement.

Most of the 1, 450 km road to the coast is now paved, only a short distance remains.

Most fugues open with a short main theme, the subject, which then sounds successively in each voice ( after the first voice is finished stating the subject, a second voice repeats the subject at a different pitch, and other voices repeat in the same way ); when each voice has entered, the exposition is complete.

Most of the amino acids in hemoglobin form alpha helixes, connected by short non-helical segments.

Most of the rivers are very short.

Most of the wadis that provide drainage from the plateau country into the depression carry water only during the short season of winter rains.

Most individuals are relatively tame within a short period of time, and are capable of recognizing individual humans and discriminating between more familiar keepers.

Most stations on the surface have at least a short flight of stairs to gain access from street level, and the great majority of below-ground stations require use of stairs or some of the system's 410 escalators.

Most adherents participate for only a short time, and the success in retaining members is limited.

Most punk rock songs are short, have simple and somewhat basic arrangements using relatively few chords, and they use lyrics that express punk values and ideologies ranging from the nihilism of the Sex Pistols ' " No Future " to the anti-vice message of Minor Threat's " Straight Edge ".

Most modern theorists agree that both are important with aggregate behavior being primarily determined by traits and situational factors being the primary predictor of behavior in the short term.

Most male skinheads in the 1960s had their hair cropped with a # 2 or # 3 grade clip guard ( short, but not bald ).

Most of these rivers are short.

Most letters are constructed by a combination of two basic shapes: a vertical stem ( either long or short ) and either one or two rounded bows ( which may or may not be underscored, and may be on the left or right of the stem ).

Most guests witness only this short ceremony and then socialize, have food and leave.

Most systems did this by drawing a short dash starting at the dot position, so that the extension of the dash erased the charge initially stored at the starting point.

Most southerners returned to Yemen after a short exile.

Most strains of Cannabis are short day plants, with the possible exception of C. sativa subsp.

Most synthetic radioisotopes are extremely radioactive and have a short half-life.

Most are very slim, usually only a few millimeters wide, although a few have relatively short but wide bodies.

Most of the short sequence repeats within protein-coding portions of the genome have a repeating unit of three nucleotides, since that length will not cause frame-shift mutations ( Sutherland 1995 ).

An attempt to make a larger effort to program Saturday nights by moving Married ... with Children, Martin and two other long-forgotten new sitcoms to the night at the beginning of the 1996 – 97 season backfired with the public, as it resulted in a short cancellation of America's Most Wanted that was criticized by law enforcement and public officials, and roundly rejected by the viewing public, which brought swift cancellation to the newer series.

Most orchestrators often work from a draft ( sketch ), or short score, that is, a score written on limited number of independent musical staves.

Most varieties are not explosive, but can create bursts of extremely high temperatures focused on a very small area for a short period of time.

Also appearing in the 1970s was The Most Important Person, a short series of five-minute segments on the importance of life ; and The Kingdom of Could Be You, a short series of five-minute segments on the importance of careers and the work world.

Most of Smith's weird fiction falls into four series set variously in Hyperborea, Poseidonis, Averoigne and Zothique.

Most libraries create a separate fiction section to allow shelving in a more generalized fashion than Dewey provides for, or to avoid the space that would be taken up in the 800s, or simply to allow readers to find preferred authors by alphabetical order of surname.

Most often and familiarly, defendants are persons: either natural persons ( actual human beings ) or legal persons ( persona ficta ) under the legal fiction of treating organizations as persons.

Most of the group's members also had professional ambitions within science fiction and related fields, and collectively were very effective at achieving this goal, as the roster of members below suggests.

" Most of his later novels were not science fiction.

Most of Hogan's fiction is hard science fiction.

Most importantly, the Marvel Universe also incorporates examples of almost all major science fiction and fantasy concepts, with writers adding more continuously.

Most earlier works with styles similar to Tolkien's, such as the science fiction of H. G.

Most such sites are small, ephemeral, and / or very narrowly focused, though sites like SF Site offer a broad range of references and reviews about science fiction.

Most trilogies are works of fiction involving the same characters or setting, such as The Deptford Trilogy of novels by Robertson Davies or The Godfather films of Francis Ford Coppola, " " The Shiva Trilogy " by Amish Tripathi.

Most modern fiction describes werewolves as vulnerable to silver weapons and highly resistant to other injuries.

Most authors of dystopian fiction explore at least one reason why things are that way.

Most of his early science fiction stories were unrelated to each other, the exceptions being his " Johnny Black " tales about a black bear uplifted to human-level intelligence, and his " Drinkwhiskey Institute " stories, a series of tall tales involving time travel.

Most of his fiction was in short story form, and usually featured a whimsical story line or ironic plot twist.

Most of the characteristics of Western films were part of 19th century popular Western fiction and were firmly in place before film became a popular art form.

Most characters in the series, from the dominatrix schoolmistress Rosa Coote to minor characters such as Inspector Dick Donovan, are either an established character from an existing work of fiction or an ancestor of the same, to the extent that individuals depicted in crowd scenes in Volume I have been said ( both by Moore, and in annotations by Jess Nevins ) to be visually designed as the ancestors of the cast of EastEnders.

Most use film, video, clips and still images from a variety of sources: American and Japanese science fiction movies of the 1950s, old newsreel footage, more modern TV news and cable show clips, atomic bomb test footage, old civil defense films, silent movie footage, 1950s social etiquette films, industrial films, clips from their various SubGenius events, self-created footage, and fan clips.

Most of James's work has remained continuously in print since its first publication, and he continues to be a major figure in realist fiction, influencing generations of novelists.

Slash fiction was the subject of several notable academic studies in the early 1990s, as part of the cultural studies movement within the humanities: Most of these, as is characteristic of cultural studies, approach slash fiction from an ethnographic perspective and talk primarily about the writers of slash fiction and the communities that form around slash fiction.

Most of these novels are in the " Golden Age " tradition of detective fiction, entertaining the reader through humour, eccentric characters and intricate plot twists.