The bulk of these words were originally coined in the Shanghai dialect during the early 20th century and were later loaned into Mandarin, hence their pronunciations in Mandarin may be quite off from the English.

In the early modern period yet more stories were added to the Egyptian collections so as to swell the bulk of the text sufficiently to bring its length up to the full 1, 001 nights of storytelling promised by the book ’ s title.

Although well-known early in the century for his drawings and etchings, the bulk of John's later work consisted of portraits, some of the best of which were of his two wives and his children.

Sting was from a jazz-rock background, and wasn't very familiar with the punk music, so the bulk of the song writing fell on Copeland, who penned the majority of the band's early repertoire, including " Fall Out ", " Nothing Achieving ", " Landlord " and " Dead End Job ".

These early fertilizers were cheap, powerful, and easy to transport in bulk.

This money represented the bulk of the K Foundation's funds, earned by Drummond and Cauty as The KLF, one of the United Kingdom's most successful pop groups of the early 1990s.

Much of the videotaped ABC program material from the 1960s and early 1970s was erased as part of an economy policy instituted in the late 1970s, in which old program tapes were surrendered for bulk erasure and reuse.

Due to competition from the railways and the narrow design of most UK canals ( which prevented the carriage of economically sized bulk loads ), large parts of the UK's canal system were abandoned in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Breakfast-television broadcast programming normally feature regular television news briefs and information reports on business and the stock market, sports highlights ( on occasion ), and weather and commuter travel (" traffic " in North American usage ) — particularly in the " early half ", when the bulk of the workforce demographic is still home.

Alphonse Picou at least once followed fellow musicians up north to Chicago about 1917-1918 ( and possibly briefly to New York City in the early 1920s ) but said he didn't like it up north and spent the bulk of his career in his home city.

Though ill-clad and ill-equipped, they made up the bulk of the Revolutionary army during the early years of the French Revolutionary Wars.

The port's trade declined after the early 19th century, as Cardiff, Newport and Swansea became more suitable for handling the bulk export of coal and steel from the Glamorganshire and Monmouthshire valleys.

For a brief time during the 1960s to the early 1980s the Waterman Steamship Company owned a break bulk freighter, the S. S. Carter Braxton, which was named in his honor.

In addition, particularly in the early days of commercial aviation, freight-not passengers-provided the bulk of profits.

In early spring, the first migrants return from their wintering grounds in March, but the bulk of migrants arrives throughout April.

In early 1969 Leslie West, formerly of the Long Island R & B band The Vagrants, put together a band, Leslie West Mountain ( a reference to West's one-time physical bulk ), with Norman Landsberg ( keyboards, bass ) and Ken Janick ( drums ) and began playing concerts.

* Artists such as Sandro Chia and Sean Scully, to whom Saatchi had been a patron in the late 1970s and early 1980s, felt betrayed by him when their work was sold in bulk from his collection, and Saatchi was accused of destroying Chia's career.

These high costs are due in part to the large percentage of hospital admissions for head injury that are due to mild head trauma, but indirect costs such as lost work time and early retirement account for the bulk of the costs.

Ten of these defended the existing battlefields ( six at Helles, which had seen the bulk of the early fighting, and four at Anzac ).

Direct expansion is able to cool milk at a much faster rate than early ice bank type coolers and is still the primary method for bulk tank cooling today on small to medium sized operations.

Their report in early 1989 implied that he had used bulk purchases of his book, Reflections of a Public Man, to earn speaking fees in excess of the allowed maximum, and that his wife, Betty, was given a job and perks to avoid the limit on gifts.

Il Sodoma painted in a manner that superimposed the High Renaissance style of early 16th-century Rome onto the traditions of the provincial Sienese school ; he spent the bulk of his professional life in Siena, with two periods in Rome.

For the early Western Zhou to early Warring States period, the bulk of writing which has been unearthed has been in the form of bronze inscriptions.

The bulk of her poetry, which was well-known and greatly admired throughout antiquity, has been lost, but her immense reputation has endured through surviving fragments.

McQueen had an unusual reputation for demanding free items in bulk from studios when agreeing to do a film, such as electric razors, jeans and several other products.

With bulk mail delivery, the true delivery rate is primarily determined by the receiver's policies and by the sender's reputation.

Former MSI members were however still the bulk of the new party and former MSI leader Gianfranco Fini was elected leader of the new party.

As a bulk metal, cadmium is insoluble in water and is not flammable ; however, in its powdered form it may burn and release toxic fumes.

The city of Rome itself and the surrounding Suburbicarian diocese ( where Roman senators held the bulk of their landed property ), however, remained exempt.

For this reason, infrared, microwaves, and radio waves are thought to damage molecules and biological tissue only by bulk heating, not excitation from single photons of the radiation ( however, there does remain controversy about possible non-thermal biological damage from low frequency EM radiation, see below ).

There is still no consensus ; what does seem to be in agreement however is that the bulk of England's contemporary native population was already in place by the beginning of written history in this part of the world.

Export growth contributed to the economic recovery, however the bulk of the country's economic activity is in the services sector.

It is, however, highly probable that when the bulk of the Lombards migrated, a considerable part remained behind and afterwards became absorbed by the Saxon tribes in the region, while the emigrants alone retained the name of Lombards.

Changes in the temperature, pressure, and bulk composition of a rock mass cause changes in its mineralogy ; however, a rock can maintain its bulk composition, but as long as temperature and pressure change, its mineralogy can change as well.

The bulk of the business of foodservice of this category, however, was catering at the topnotch customers ’ homes or other locations, and such catering was often for birthdays, marriages, funerals, promotions and other important celebrations / festivals.

The actual numerical difference can be very small when considering small molecules and the molecular mass of the most common isotopomer in which case the error only matters to physicists and a small subset of highly specialized chemists ; however it is always more correct, accurate and consistent to use molar mass in any bulk stoichiometric calculations.

Eukaryotic genomes are ubiquitously associated into chromatin ; however, cells must spatially and temporally regulate specific loci independently of bulk chromatin.

The bulk of Privy Counsellors, however, are politicians.

Economically, however, the majority of Perot voters ( 57 %) were middle class, earning between $ 15, 000 and $ 49, 000 annually, with the bulk of the remainder drawing from the upper middle class ( 29 % earning more than $ 50, 000 annually ).

The bulk of the bureaucrats, however, are civil servants whose jobs and pay are protected by a civil service system against major changes by their appointed bureau chiefs.

Note however, that most of the sheer bulk of these attacks are made by automated vulnerability scanners and computer worms.

Many are concerned, however, that the greatest need is in developing nations — where the vast bulk of the estimated 650 million people with disabilities reside.

The bulk of Gautier's criticism, however, was journalistic.

The bulk of Pomerania was however made an independent Pomeranian bishopric, set up in the territory of the Duchy of Pomerania in 1140, after Bolesław had died in 1138 and the duchy had broken away from Poland.

The bulk of his work, however, is non-fiction, consisting mainly of essays and historical commentaries.

The Historic District comprises the bulk of the community, however some residences were built in the 1950s in a more modern style.

The author must, however, have derived the bulk of the material in the saga from oral tradition which he manipulated for his own artistic purposes.

A fractal function, however, is statistically stationary, meaning that its bulk statistical properties are the same everywhere.

The bulk of relationships, however, according to Tennov, are those between a limerent person and a nonlimerent other, i. e. limerent-nonlimerent bonding.