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size and paper
Because of the size of the areas it covers, the pasted paper establishes undepicted flatness bodily, as more than an indication or sign.
Since the difference between the U. S. and International acre is only about a quarter of the size of an A4 sheet of paper ( 0. 016 square metres, 160 square centimetres or 24. 8 square inches ), it is usually not important which one is being discussed.
During World War II, because of paper shortages, the size of Sunday strips began to shrink.
For example in a paper reporting on a study involving human subjects, there typically appears a table giving the overall sample size, sample sizes in important subgroups ( e. g., for each treatment or exposure group ), and demographic or clinical characteristics such as the average age, the proportion of subjects of each sex, and the proportion of subjects with related comorbidities.
As every cumann was entitled to three votes to selection conventions irrespective of size, a large number of cumainn became in effect " paper cumainn " only used to ensure an aspiring or sitting candidate got enough votes.
They are the size of American paper currency in Hollerith's time, a choice he made because there was already equipment available to handle bills.
This counts the squares of graph paper in which a point of X can be found as the size of the squares is made smaller and smaller.
Known as the Double Elephant folio after its double elephant paper size, it is often regarded as the greatest picture book ever produced and the finest aquatint work.
The strings are tied with a half hitch to a roll of paper or cardboard, about the size of a cigarette butt, strung through the holes at the head of the koto, threaded through the holes at the back, tightened, and tied with a special knot.
* mksh man page ( also as PDF in DIN A4 paper size )
Firms are often small to medium in size and operate in the building and building materials ( Rome, Civitavecchia ), paper ( Sora ), petrochemical ( Gaeta, Rome ), textile ( Frosinone ), engineering ( Rieti, Anagni ), automobile ( Cassino ), electronic and electrotechnical ( Viterbo ) sectors.
This had the disadvantage of being somewhat slow to move, as well as requiring floor space equal to the size of the paper, but could double as a digitizer.
From 1973 on, editions were done on a four-color press with a different newsprint paper size.
In fact, most compact tabloids formerly used the broadsheet paper size, but changed to accommodate reading in tight spaces, such as on a crowded commuter bus or train.
Although its paper size is bigger, its style was copied from the British tabloids.
This could provide the paper industry a quick on-line fiber size measurement system.
Some Hewlett-Packard pen plotters had two-axis pen carriers and stationary paper ( plot size was limited ).
For instance, one can print a vector logo on a small sheet of copy paper, and then enlarge the same vector logo to billboard size and keep the same crisp quality.
In time these goods were replaced by full size clay models which in turn were replaced by scale models, and in time today's paper offerings ( including paper servants ).
Thus, the scale and dimensions of the on-screen display in programs such as MacWrite and MacPaint were easily translated to the printed output — if the paper were held up to the screen, the printed image would be the same size as the on screen image, but at a higher resolution.
* 0. 125 m² -- size of a European A3 paper sheet 297 x 420 mm.
* 0. 250 m² -- size of a European A2 paper sheet 420 x 594 mm.
* 0. 500 m² -- size of a European A1 paper sheet 594 x 840 mm
* 0. 060 m² -- Size of a sheet of U. S. Letter size paper, 8½ × 11 inches

size and wrapper
The candy is usually poured into the mouth from the wrapper, which is made out of plastic ( large size ) or paper ( small ).
Four different wrappers can be distinguished although some catalogues subdivide each 2 kopek wrapper in two types with differences in size, making a total of six different wrappers.
This " king size " Wispa, contains two smaller bars within one wrapper ; similar design and name to the Mars Duo.

size and had
I could observe the two fans down at the end, but their size in themselves meant nothing to me as long as I had no measure of comparison.
From L'Turu, I heard that until about 1850 the people of this island -- which was about the size of Guam or smaller -- had been of both sexes, and that the normal family life of Melanesian tribes was observed here with minor variations.
Waddell had looked the man over, trying to size him up.
This Woman had no distinct shape or size and no particular face, but she radiated warmth, a sweet warmth ; ;
The ledger was full of most precise information: date of laying, length of incubation period, number of chick reaching the first week, second week, fifth week, weight of hen, size of rooster's wattles and so on, all scrawled out in a hand that looked more Chinese than English, the most jagged and sprawling Alex had ever seen.
This region which had a higher temperature than the rest of the anode surface changed size and location continuously.
It seems clear, when one takes into consideration the exceedingly defective eyesight of the patient ( we shall describe it in detail in connection with our second question, the one concerning the psychical blindness of the patient ), that he had to rely on his sense of touch much more than the usual portfolio-maker and that consequently that faculty was most probably more sensitive to shape and size than that of a person with normal vision.
Cartoons were drawn full size, after sketches had been made to satisfy all the authorities.
In Chicago, some time ago, Mr. H., age 27, a diabetic since he was six, stopped using insulin because he had bought a `` magic spike '' -- a glass tube about the size of a pencil filled with barium chloride worth a small fraction of a cent -- sold by the Vrilium Company of Chicago for $306 as a cure-all.
Thru development, the reactor and its steam turbines had been reduced greatly in size, and also in complexity, allowing a single propeller to be used, the navy said.
He was tall and fairly handsome ; " he had sparkling eyes of medium size ; his nose, like that of his brother, was becomingly aquiline ; his hair was blond and grew back somewhat from his forehead.
Because the original designer had left the company another employee completely redesigned most of the system, ( adding a display snow remover circuit, true 80 / 64 column text mode support, ( with different size letters for TRS-80 and CP / M mode, so that in TRS-80 mode the full screen was also used, not just a 64x16 portion of the 80x25 screen ) with an improved font set ( adding " gray scale " version of the TRS-80 mozaik graphics and many special PETSCII like characters ), and a more flexible and reliable floppy disk controller and keyboard interface plus many other small improvements ), also an enclosure was developed for the main computer system, ( in the form of a 19-inch rack for the Eurocards ) and for two floppy disk drives and the power supply.
The following year they launched Warrior, which was twice the size and had iron armour over an iron hull.
For according to them, there were seven islands in that sea in their time, sacred to Persephone, and also three others of enormous size, one of which was sacred to Hades, another to Ammon, and another one between them to Poseidon, the extent of which was a thousand stadia ; and the inhabitants of it — they add — preserved the remembrance from their ancestors of the immeasurably large island of Atlantis which had really existed there and which for many ages had reigned over all islands in the Atlantic sea and which itself had like-wise been sacred to Poseidon.
Unconnected with inter-human wars, humans have deliberately introduced the rabbit disease Myxomatosis, originating in South America, to Australia and Europe, with the intention of reducing the rabbit population – which had devastating but temporary results, with wild rabbit populations reduced to a fraction of their former size but survivors developing immunity and increasing again.
It had been pointed out previously by J. J. Thomson in his series of lectures at Yale University in May 1903 that the dynamic equilibrium between the velocity generated by a concentration gradient given by Fick's law and the velocity due to the variation of the partial pressure caused when ions are set in motion " gives us a method of determining Avogadro's Constant which is independent of any hypothesis as to the shape or size of molecules, or of the way in which they act upon each other ".
The writers of the study had initially speculated that the reason for this is due to endocrinology with larger breasts indicating higher levels of estrogen and a sign of greater fertility, but the researchers said that " Men may be looking more often at the breasts because they are simply aesthetically pleasing, regardless of the size.
The convention in naval warfare of the time was that ships of the line did not attack frigates when there were ships of equal size to engage, but in firing first French Captain Claude-Jean Martin had negated the rule and Saumarez waited until the frigate was at close range before replying.
It grew in size and influence over a few decades, and by the end of the 4th century had become the official state religion of the Roman Empire, replacing other forms of religion practiced under Roman rule.
Brachiopods are also abundant ; they include productids, some of which ( for example, Gigantoproductus ) reached very large ( for brachiopods ) size and had very thick shells, while others like Chonetes were more conservative in form.
The size and shape of the external os and the ectocervix varies widely with age, hormonal state, and whether the woman has had a vaginal birth.
Astronomers estimated that the visible fragments of SL9 ranged in size from a few hundred metres to two kilometres across, suggesting that the original comet may have had a nucleus up to acrosssomewhat larger than Comet Hyakutake, which became very bright when it passed close to the Earth in 1996.
During the Hellenistic period, the town was of some mercantile importance, although by the first century it had dwindled greatly in size and significance.

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