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Another delay followed due to a long standards process before 28. 8 was released, only to be quickly replaced by 33. 6.
After a long delay, elections were finally held in 2010.
It is expensive to produce a completely new edition of the Britannica, and its editors delay for as long as fiscally sensible ( usually about 25 years ).
Another common example are quickstarts like those shipped with OpenOffice. org, RealPlayer, QuickTime and Adobe products, in which a bloated program that normally takes a long time to load is kept in memory to reduce the delay in starting it.
Earl Elder, in the preface to his independent 1961 translation, remarked on the curiosity of this long publishing delay in his 1961 preface:
Latencies of even a few milliseconds are enough to disrupt percussive parts and cause phasing and flanging effects, but are otherwise acceptable as long as the amount of delay is consistent.
Rollout games are frequently played high-low split, and players choose which cards to reveal in order to delay as long as possible revealing which half of the pot they intend to win.
* elaborate studio effects, such as backwards tapes, panning, phasing, long delay loops, and extreme reverb ;
For infinitely long sinusoids, a change in is the same as a shift in time, such as a time delay.
But if the delay of the output ( relative to the input ) is bounded during a process that operates over an unlimited time, then that signal processing algorithm is real-time, even if the throughput delay may be very long.
In addition, most speech applications require low coding delay, as long coding delays interfere with speech interaction.
There, he tells his overlord ( the Earl, also named Eric ) about the new land and is criticised for his long delay in reporting.
Captain Wilder approaches under a white flag and has a short discussion with Spender during which the archaeologist explains that if he manages to kill off the expedition it may delay human colonization of the planet for a few more years, possibly long enough that the expected nuclear war on Earth will protect Mars from human colonization completely.
This long delay was in large part due to the inability to agree upon a procedure for making constitutional amendments that was acceptable to all of the provinces, in particular the Province of Quebec.
In circuit switching, the bit delay is constant during a connection, as opposed to packet switching, where packet queues may cause varying and potentially indefinitely long packet transfer delays.
When analog long distance trunks were commonplace, for example in 12 channel carrier, group delay distortion had to be corrected in repeaters.
Choosing a value α close to 1 makes the weighted average immune to changes that last a short time ( e. g., a single segment that encounters long delay ).
# This excitation is output and simultaneously fed back into a delay line L samples long.
After a long delay, during which the site became a dangerous eyesore, thousands of ordinary Berkeley citizens, merchants, students, and hippies took matters into their own hands, planting trees, shrubs, flowers and grass to convert the land into a park.
The reason for this delay in declaring a woman postmenopausal is because periods are usually extremely erratic at this time of life, and therefore a reasonably long stretch of time is necessary to be sure that the cycling has actually ceased completely.
Multiple studies very clearly show that keeping blood glucose levels as close to the normal, nondiabetic range as possible does very significantly help prevent, slow, or delay the long term complications of diabetes ( e. g., eye, kidney, blood vessel, and nerve damage ).
In order for such timers to have reasonable resolution, developers could not afford WaitNextEvent to delay too long, and so low " sleep " parameters were usually set.
" God is my witness ," he explained, " I could have abstained longer than the weal of my country could have permitted, not my long delay bred in the breasts of many a great jealousy of my inability, as if I were a barren stock.

long and opening
They poured through the opening in the valley, then spread out in a long line to come at us, brandishing their lances and filling the morning with their spine-chilling scalp cry.
He gave the nationally televised opening night address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention, but his speech, which was 33 minutes long and twice as long as it was expected to be, was criticized for being too long and poorly delivered.
Queen Boadicea features in the opening lyrics of the song " The Good Old Days " written by Pete Doherty and Carl Barat for British rock band The Libertines from their 2002 album " Up the bracket ", the line reads, " If Queen Boadicea is long dead and gone, Still then the spirit in her children's children's children, it lives on ".
It is not uncommon for long queues to form early in the morning of 26 December, hours before the opening of shops holding the big sales, especially at big-box consumer electronics retailers.
The opening sentence of the book created a classic Spanish cliché with the phrase (" whose name I do not wish to recall "): (" In a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to recall, there lived, not very long ago, one of those gentlemen with a lance in the lance-rack, an ancient shield, a skinny old horse, and a fast greyhound.
The continuous portion of the atoll rim stretches from one end to the other, enclosing a lagoon long and up to wide, with a pass opening at the north.
The archaeologist's natural death so long after the opening of the tomb, despite being the leader of the expedition, is the piece of evidence most commonly put forward by sceptics to refute the idea of a " curse of the pharaohs " plaguing the party that might have " violated " Tutankhamun's tomb.
Another feature of IKEA stores are their long opening hours.
One of Pei's associates told him during a party before the opening that the symphony hall was " a very mature building "; he smiled and replied: " Ah, but did I have to wait this long?
However, the British weathered some of his vociferous talk and Dr. Banda gradually settled for a long slog by opening a medical surgery in Limbe where, to thank John Kadzamira ( one of the main organizers of the Harare NAC Branch ), Dr. Banda dutifully took in Cecilia Kadzamira ( a newly trained nurse from Salisbury Hospital ) as his first nursing staff member!
On the fourth floor, he set up an X-shaped trading desk — designed to maximize his contact with traders and salesmen — from which he worked very long hours, invariably starting his day before 5 am Pacific ( 8 am Eastern, prior to the opening of the markets in New York ).
In addition, many cities had by-laws to allow some pubs to extend opening hours to midnight or 1 am, whilst nightclubs had long been granted late licences to serve alcohol into the morning.
Scotland's and Northern Ireland's licensing laws have long been more flexible, allowing local authorities to set pub opening and closing times.
The maximum allowed vessel size is slightly smaller: long, wide, and deep ; many vessels designed for use on the Great Lakes following the opening of the seaway were built to the maximum size permissible by the locks, known informally as Seawaymax or Seaway-Max.
But such petitions tend to be subject to severe length constraints, and are necessarily much more narrowly targeted ( usually to one or two particularly prejudicial errors ) than a long opening appellate brief to an intermediate appellate court ( which may touch upon several alleged errors by the trial court ).
" The Pit and the Pendulum " is a study of the effect terror has on the narrator, starting with the opening line that suggests he is already suffering from death anxiety (" I was sick — sick unto death with that long agony ") and, shortly thereafter, when he loses consciousness upon receiving the death sentence.
The first part of the tour, which featured Amos on piano, Rhodes, and Wurlitzer, was six months long and Amos went out again in the summer of 2003 for a tour with Ben Folds opening.
Automobile Wankel rotary engines are high speed engines, however, it was shown that an early opening of the intake port, and long intake ducts can provide the required amount of torque at low RPM, and thus elasticity.
The audience milled about the open festival floor for a long 45 minutes / hour after opening act Oingo Boingo departed the stage, and then finally it was announced that XTC would not take the stage due to the " illness " of one of the band members ( later revealed as Andy Partridge's ongoing fight with stage fright in Chris Twomey's book XTC: Chalkhills and Children ).
All produced innovative research, including the opening of new subfields in embryology, endocrinology, and ecology, respectively, over a long period of time.
At the opening of the tale, Salieri is an old man, having long outlived his fame, and is convinced he used poison to assassinate Mozart.
* Pre-emptive opening bids: All suit openings above the two level are pre-emptive, promising a long and strong suit.

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