A distinction is sometimes made between the smaller adobes, which are about the size of ordinary baked bricks, and the larger adobines, some of which may be one to two yards ( 1 – 2 m ) long.

Thus numbers like 2 and 120 ( 2 × 60 ), 3 and 180 ( 3 × 60 ), 4 and 240 ( 4 × 60 ), looked the same because the larger numbers lacked a final sexagesimal placeholder.

For example, the graph contains the points ( 1, 1 ), ( 2, 0. 5 ), ( 5, 0. 2 ), ( 10, 0. 1 ), ... As the values of x become larger and larger, say 100, 1000, 10, 000 ..., putting them far to the right of the illustration, the corresponding values of y,. 01,. 001,. 0001, ..., become infinitesimal relative to the scale shown.

In a multi-hand, face-up, single deck game, it is possible to establish whether insurance is a good bet simply by observing the other cards on the table after the deal ; even if there are just 2 player hands exposed, and neither of their two initial cards is a ten, then 16 in 47 of the remaining cards are tens, which is larger than 1 in 3, so insurance is a good bet.

Carnivorans tend to produce a single litter annually, but some produce multiple litters a year, and larger carnivorans, like bears, have gaps of 2 – 3 years between litters.

In total, Côte d ' Ivoire comprises 322, 460 km < sup > 2 </ sup >, of which 318, 000 km < sup > 2 </ sup > is land and 4, 460 km < sup > 2 </ sup > is water, which makes the country slightly larger than the U. S. state of New Mexico, or about the size of Germany.

Until about 2000, users of Unix desktops regarded CDE as the de facto standard, but at that time, other desktop environments such as GNOME and K Desktop Environment 2 were quickly becoming mature, and became almost universal on the Linux platform, which already had a larger user base than most commercial Unixes in total.

* Compound, a former US automobile make with a unique compound gasoline engine ; exhausts of 2 cylinders were expanded in a larger third one.

As the angle of bank θ approaches 90 °, the tangent function approaches infinity, allowing larger values for | v |< sup > 2 </ sup >/ R.

Depending on year, 50 – 53 % accounts for payment to personnel, roughly 14 – 21 % on acquiring new material, 2 – 8 % for larger ships, building projects or infrastructure and about 24 – 27 % on other items, including purchasing of goods, renting, maintenance, services and taxes.

It used FM synthesis and, although it was incapable of the sampling synthesis of the Fairlight CMI, its price was around $ 2, 000, putting it within range of a much larger number of musicians.

Although DECT 6. 0 operates at 1. 9 GHz, Rick decided the term DECT 1. 9 might have confused customers who equate larger numbers ( such as the 2. 4 and 5. 8 in existing 2. 4 GHz and 5. 8 GHz cordless telephones ) with later products.

When Elizabeth was 3 years old, the family moved to 142 Long Acre, where they were to live for 2 years, whilst two more children were born and her father moved up in the world, becoming not only the manager of a larger pawnbroker ’ s shop, but also a silversmith.

Deflation is divided into three categories: ( 1 ) surface creep, where larger, heavier particles slide or roll along the ground ; ( 2 ) saltation, where particles are lifted a short height into the air, and bounce and saltate across the surface of the soil ; and ( 3 ) suspension, where very small and light particles are lifted into the air by the wind, and are often carried for long distances.

The SE must have a minimum subscribed capital of € 120, 000, as per article 4 ( 2 ) of the directive, subject to the provision that where a Member State requires a larger capital for companies exercising certain types of activities, the same requirement will also apply to an SE with its registered office in that Member State ( article 4 ( 3 )).

In other words, multiples of the smaller number r < sub > k − 1 </ sub > are subtracted from the larger number r < sub > k − 2 </ sub > until the remainder is smaller than the r < sub > k − 1 </ sub >.

The TGV has set many world speed records, the most recent on 3 April 2007, when a new version of the TGV dubbed the V150 with larger wheels than the usual TGV, and a stronger engine, broke the world speed record for conventional rail trains, reaching 574. 8 km / h ( 357. 2 mph ).

Composite structures have become widespread, and include major structural components, reducing the steadily increasing weight — most modern fighters are larger and heavier than World War 2 medium bombers.

Such ranchers as Coble and Clay and the Bosler brothers carried him on their books as a cowhand even while he was receiving a much larger salary from parties unknown.

While no larger than Dutch Springs, this mining supply town had the appearance of being far busier and more prosperous.

Perhaps her eyes were larger and more of a summer blue for all they had seen and wept that day.

`` Me neither '', others said, and soon the game broke up, the children going off in pairs, in larger groups and alone.

Probably a larger percentage of Virginians and South Carolinians remain unreconstructed than elsewhere, with Georgia, North Carolina, and Alabama following along after them.

No one wanted a larger family or no children, and none hoped for a castle or said that living in less settled circumstances would be satisfactory.

To raise the dancer out of his personal, pedestrian self, Mr. Nikolais has experimented with relating him to a larger, environmental orbit.

It takes a great deal of abstraction to free oneself from the primitive impression of larger unities of power and influence and to view one's world simply as a collection of sense data arranged in such and such sequence and pattern, devoid of all power to move the feelings and actions except in so far as they present themselves for inspection.

The Presidency demands an incisive awareness of the larger implications of the death of any incumbent.

But that one should superimpose all these charts, run a pin through the common point, and then scale each planetary deferent larger and smaller ( to keep the epicycles from ' bumping ' ), this is contrary to any intention Ptolemy ever expresses.

The pagodas we have passed are much larger than the houses ''.

A much larger room, adjacent to the lavatory, served as a passageway to and from the skimpy toilet.

When decision makers act within this frame they determine whether a claim put forward in the name of religion is to be accepted by the larger community as appropriate to religion.

Community decision makers must make up their minds whether a claim is acceptable to the larger community in terms of prevailing expectations regarding members of nation states.

Sherman felt that his own part in the campaign was skillful and well executed but that the slowness of a part of his army robbed him of the larger fruits of victory.

He is uncompromising in assigning guilt to the man who finds it necessary to inflict or permit injury to one individual or group for the sake of a larger good.

In spite of the armistice negotiated by Amadee two years earlier, the war between Bishop Guillaume of Lausanne and Louis of Savoy was still going on, and although little is known about it, that little proves that it was yet another phase of the struggle against French expansion and was closely interwoven with the larger conflict.

Alfred wanted to invest in my father's hotel and advance enough money to build a larger place.

These lines never cease to haunt the book amidst all the exaltations of combat, and to make an appeal for a larger and more elemental human community than one based on the brutal necessities of war.

It is this larger theme of the `` quality of man '', a quality that transcends the ideological and flows into `` the human '', which now forms the pulsating heart of Malraux's artistic universe.

Since the obvious is not always true, the Republican National Committee wisely analyzed its defeat of last autumn and finds that it occurred, as suspected, in the larger cities.

Since the goal of our international planners is a World Government, this Atlantic Community would mark a giant step in that direction for, once American economic autonomy is absorbed, a larger grouping is a question of time.

In fact, he intimated clearly that that was the reason that Wilson had been sent here -- to make a larger contribution of dollar money.

The wages involved were larger and more regular.

The larger ships were near Paulus Hook, already being called, by a few, Jersey City.