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They have a relatively long, spiral-shaped gut to enable them to digest this diet.
The massive walls require a large and relatively long input of heat from the sun ( radiation ) and from the surrounding air ( convection ) before they warm through to the interior and begin to transfer heat to the living space.
Arbitrage positions in DLCs can be set up by obtaining a long position in the relatively underpriced part of the DLC and a short position in the relatively overpriced part.
They have six stamens, four of which are longer ( as long as the petals, so relatively short in fact ) and are arranged in a cross like the petals and the other two are shorter ( tetradynamous flower ).
Programs and courses are changed, added or deleted according to projected economic future, while many programs are relatively stable and have been around as long as the colleges, such as various business administration programs.
The CRT uses an evacuated glass envelope which is large, deep ( i. e. long from front screen face to rear end ), fairly heavy, and relatively fragile.
Concord, as with much of New England, is within the humid continental climate zone ( Köppen Dfb ), with long, cold, snowy winters, very warm ( and at times humid ) summers, and relatively brief autumns and springs.
With the exceptions of the bush dog, raccoon dog and some domestic breeds, canids have relatively long legs and lithe bodies, adapted for chasing prey.
In particular, the fast passage before the camera of an insect flapping its wings has been shown to produce rodlike effects, due to motion blur, if the camera is shooting with relatively long exposure times.
An effective and relatively cheap method to prevent transmission of V. cholera is the practice of folding a sari ( a long fabric garment ) multiple times to create a simple filter for drinking water.
The Christmas tree remained confined to the upper Rhineland for a relatively long time.
Many cacti have a short growing season and a long dormancy and are able to react quickly to any rainfall, helped by an extensive but relatively shallow root system.
IRS coverage needs to be maintained throughout the malaria season, making DDT's relatively long life an important cost savings.
The hull was long and narrow, with a relatively shallow draft.
Efficient electrical transmission meant in turn that electricity could be generated at centralised power stations, where it benefited from economies of scale, and then be despatched relatively long distances to where it was needed.
While the sedimentation event itself might be relatively short-lived, the ecological disruption caused by the mass die off often persists long into the future.
They are much more closely related to sea lions than true seals, and share with them external ears ( pinnae ), relatively long and muscular foreflippers, and the ability to walk on all fours.
The Hubble Deep Field, an extremely long exposure of a relatively empty part of the sky, provided evidence that there are about 125 billion () galaxies in the universe.
Most of these games are designed to keep all players in the game as long as possible, so it is rare to be certain of victory or defeat until relatively late in the game.
Despite its long neck and legs, the giraffe's body is relatively short.
If the wavepacket has a relatively large frequency spread, or if the dispersion has sharp variations ( such as due to a resonance ), or if the packet travels over very long distances, this assumption is not valid.
This occurred also along long stretches of the Spanish and Italian coasts, a relatively short distance across a calm sea from the pirates in their North African lairs.
The summer days are relatively long and May to August is the driest period.

relatively and often
Over a relatively short period of time, usually about four to twelve weeks, the worker must be able to shift the focus, back and forth, between immediate external stressful exigencies ( `` precipitating stress '' ) and the key, emotionally relevant issues ( `` underlying problem '' ) which are, often in a dramatic preconscious breakthrough, reactivated by the crisis situation, and hence once again amenable to resolution.
In the primary grades, reading permeates almost every aspect of school progress, and the children's early experiences of success or failure in learning to read often set a pattern of total achievement that is relatively enduring throughout the following years.
The big factories which are relatively near the centers of our cities -- the rubber factories in Akron, Chrysler's Detroit plants, U.S. Steel's Pittsburgh works -- often began on these sites at a time when that was the edge of the city, yet close to transport ( river ), storage ( piers ) and power ( river ).
Although specialized and experienced amateur astronomers tend to acquire more specialized and more powerful equipment over time, relatively simple equipment is often preferred for certain tasks.
A more accurate analogy might be that of a large and often oddly shaped " atmosphere " ( the electron ), distributed around a relatively tiny planet ( the atomic nucleus ).
Ares plays a relatively limited role in Greek mythology as represented in literary narratives, though his numerous love affairs and abundant offspring are often alluded to.
This often happens when a change in design or operating practice, such as the switch to one person operation or low floor technology, renders some buses redundant while still relatively new.
The primary difficulty is not the production of the biological agent, as many biological agents used in weapons can often be manufactured relatively quickly, cheaply and easily.
Ballpoint pens are often provided free by businesses as a form of advertising — printed with a company's name ; a ballpoint pen is a relatively low cost advertisement that is highly effective ( customers will use, and therefore see, a pen daily ).
Different societies apply different criteria regarding who is classified as " black ", and often social variables such as class and socio-economic status also play a role, so that relatively dark-skinned people can be classified as white if they fulfill other social criteria of " whiteness " and relatively light-skinned people can be classified as black if they fulfill the social criteria for " blackness " in a particular setting.
Cult films are often known to be eccentric, often do not follow traditional standards of mainstream cinema and usually explore topics not considered in any way mainstream — yet there are examples that are relatively normal.
These individuals are often capable of relatively simple forms of visual awareness ( like being able to spatially locate an x in a picture ) but do not report anything concerning what it is like to experience these visual stimuli.
Confucianism discusses elements of the afterlife and views concerning Heaven, but it is relatively unconcerned with some spiritual matters often considered essential to religious thought, such as the nature of souls.
This is often exploited in algorithms, both theoretical and applied, where an iterative process can be shown relatively easily to produce a Cauchy sequence, consisting of the iterates.
As a delicate cuisine, oil is not often used in large quantities and there is a relatively heavy emphasis on poaching, steaming and braising, as well as the common Chinese method of stir-frying.
The latter test is relatively insensitive, successfully detecting only 60-80 % of infections in asymptomatic women, and often giving falsely positive results.
In some instances, people have confused digitalis with the relatively harmless comfrey ( Symphytum ) plant, which is often brewed into a tea, with fatal consequences.
Outside Japan, the word is often used to refer to any of the various Japanese drums, ( 和太鼓, " wa-daiko ", " Japanese drum ", in Japanese ) and to the relatively recent art-form of ensemble taiko drumming ( sometimes called more specifically, " kumi-daiko " ( 組太鼓 )).
In addition to the relatively looser constraints on character and message at lower budgets, the nature of B production lent itself to the noir style for directly economic reasons: dim lighting not only saved on electrical costs but helped cloak cheap sets ( mist and smoke also served the cause ); night shooting was often compelled by hurried production schedules ; plots with obscure motivations and intriguingly elliptical transitions were sometimes the consequence of hastily written scripts, of which there was not always enough time or money to shoot every scene.
Retail payments are generally for relatively small-dollar amounts and often involve a depository institution's retail clients — individuals and smaller businesses.
) The 2 – 3 – 5 formation, used predominantly in Australia from relatively lowly interschool to professional interstate competitions, provides common language for many players and helps explain why " centre half " is often a name used for a player in the centre of a defence with four or five players.

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