The other variables include the dancer who is to perform the movement and the length of time he is to take in its performance.

A Virginia judge a while back cited a Roman jurist to the effect that ten years might be a reasonable length of time for such a change.

the athlete of by-gone years who wears a size 46 suit and puffs when he has finished a sentence of any length then, it is time to break it up and move on.

Chiang spoke again, this time at greater length.

At that time, he afforded me the courtesy of his busy workday for such length as I may need, to speak about my background, my hopes, my views on various national and local topics, and any problems that I may have been vexed with at the time.

For readjustment to the U.S., volunteers should be given some separation allowance at the end of their overseas service, based on the length of time served.

The following information on snakes varying greatly in size ( but all with less than a 10-foot maximum ) shows, when considered with the foregoing, that there is probably no correlation between the length of a snake and the time required for it to mature.

`` Factors in the cost of treatment are the length of time involved and the skill and education of the practitioner '', says Dr. Brodie.

In time, he grew to depend upon her occasional company and she at length was able to encourage him to participate in more social activity.

is the length of time taken to perform the algorithm.

Copyright law has been amended time and time again since the inception of the law to extend the length of this fixed period where the work is exclusively controlled by the copyright holder.

In 1976 the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) revised the definition of the AU for greater precision, defining it as that length for which the Gaussian gravitational constant ( k ) takes the value when the units of measurement are the astronomical units of length, mass and time.

Written as it was during Queen Ena's lifetime, this book necessarily omits the King's extramarital affairs ; but it remains a useful biography, not least because the author knew Alfonso quite well, interviewed him at considerable length, and relates him to the Spanish culture of his time.

However, the energy must be imparted over a limited distance ( determined by arm length ) and therefore ( because the projectile is accelerating ) over a limited time, so the limiting factor is not work but rather power, which determined how much energy can be added in the limited time available.

Usually the efficiency or running time of an algorithm is stated as a function relating the input length to the number of steps ( time complexity ) or storage locations ( space complexity ).

For instance, binary search is said to run in a number of steps proportional to the logarithm of the length of the list being searched, or in O ( log ( n )), colloquially " in logarithmic time ".

The running time of the new computation will be the length of time the unimproved fraction takes ( which is 1 − P ), plus the length of time the improved fraction takes.

The final issue of the Englishman, No. 57 for February 15, ran to some length and was printed as a separate pamphlet, entitled The Englishman: Being the Close of the Paper So-called.

There's a reason for this length of stay.

Such an instrument is expected to be especially useful if it could be used to measure the elasticity of heavy pastes such as printing inks, paints, adhesives, molten plastics, and bread dough, for the elasticity is related to those various properties termed `` length '', `` shortness '', `` spinnability '', etc., which are usually judged by subjective methods at present.

Laurence M. Klauber put length at maturity at two thirds the ultimate length for some rattlesnakes, and Charles C. Carpenter's data on Michigan garter and ribbon snakes ( Thamnophis ) show that the smallest gravid females are more than half as long as the biggest adults.

For four of the six ( the anaconda and the amethystine python cannot be included for lack of data ) there is also a correlation between size at maturity and maximum length, the boa constrictor being the smallest and the Indian python the next in size at the former stage.

William Beebe reports 26 inches and 2.4 ounces ( this snake must have been emaciated ) for the length and the weight of a young anaconda from British Guiana.

With due consideration for the limits of precision in assessing, expected rate of change in ossification of girls age 2 years, and the known variations in rate of ossification of these children as described in our preceding paper in the Supplement, each arrow with a `` shaft length '' of four months or less was selected as indicating `` same schedule '' at Onset and Completion, for this particular epiphysis.

The line soon lived up to its name, as local messages of moderate length could be sent for a dime and the company was quickly able to declare very liberal dividends on its capital stock.

Moreover, all three representations must be squeezed comfortably into little more than the length Brumidi allowed for each one of his.

The various stress-temperature coefficients for constancy of volume and strain, constancy of pressure and strain, and constancy of pressure and length have been interrelated.

It provides for a series of landscaped walkways and a central esplanade that would eventually run through the center of the entire two-and-a-half-mile length of the project.

Toying with her field in the early stages, Garden Fresh was asked for top speed only in the stretch by Jockey Philip Grimm and won by a length and a half in 1.24 3-5 for the 7 furlongs.

The 187-mile Illinois State Toll Highway, for example, was not opened over its entire length until December, 1958.

I took the broken length of it around the tractor and I took one of the wrenches from the tool-kit and I struck its head, not looking at it, to kill it at last, for it could never live.

Algae ( or ; singular alga, Latin for " seaweed ") are a very large and diverse group of simple, typically autotrophic organisms, ranging from unicellular to multicellular forms, such as the giant kelps that grow to 65 meters in length.

Minimization of punctuation in typewritten material became economically desirable in the 1960s and 1970s for the many users of carbon-film ribbons, since a period or comma consumed the same length of non-reusable expensive ribbon as did a capital letter.

For me, a changed barrel length or an improved stock doesn't constitute a truly new design.

Cousteau was not satisfied with the length of time he could spend underwater with the Le Prieur apparatus so he improved it to extend underwater duration by adding a demand regulator, invented in 1942 by Émile Gagnan.

The PDP-10 architecture was an almost identical version of the earlier PDP-6 architecture, sharing the same 36-bit word length and slightly extending the instruction set ( but with improved hardware implementation ).

( He nevertheless maintained, based on these data, that the general quality of passwords has improved over the years — for example, average length was up to eight characters from under seven in previous surveys, and less than 4 % were dictionary words.

However, it was necessary to limit the length of the messages to 128 bytes ( later improved to 140 bytes, or 160 seven-bit characters ) so that the messages could fit into the existing signaling formats.

The circumcision scar becomes covered and invisible as the lengthened shaft skin starts to fold due to increased length and this contributes to the improved more natural appearance.

As segments were improved over time, the route length was reduced by about.

Within two months the road surface began to break up and the entire length of the bypass was eventually resurfaced over two weekends using an improved low-noise water-absorbent surface.

This permits a shorter firearm length for the same barrel length for improved maneuverability, and reduces weight.

In the final chapter of his Evolution the modern synthesis he defines evolutionary progress as " a raising of the upper level of biological efficiency, this being defined as increased control over and independence of the environment ," Evolution in action discusses evolutionary progress at length: " Natural selection plus time produces biological improvement ... ' Improvement ' is not yet a recognised technical term in biology ... however, living things are improved during evolution ... Darwin was not afraid to use the word for the results of natural selection in general ...

With the improved water quality, swimming and fishing are progressively re-emerging as about 90 % of the length of the river is now considered safe for swimming.

If the disease is diagnosed correctly and initial treatment is begun promptly, then the survival rate for the next five to ten years is substantially improved, and many patients live well beyond that length of time.

The results revealed that the rhythmical auditory stimulation group showed more improvement in stride length, symmetry deviation, walking speed and rollover path length ( all indicators for improved walking gait ) than the group that received traditional therapy alone.