Help


[permalink] [id link]
+
Page "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny" ¶ 1
from Wikipedia
Edit
Promote Demote Fragment Fix

Some Related Sentences

ten and numbers
A telephone number in Belgium is a sequence of nine or ten numbers dialled on a telephone to make a call on the telephone network in Belgium.
Thus while bumblebees have been found to be about ten times more efficient pollinators on cucurbits, the total efficiency of a colony of honey bees is much greater due to greater numbers.
Some early digital computers used an electrical model of the common decimal ( base ten ) numeral system to represent numbers internally.
Generally, vertical rod numbers are used for the position for the units, hundreds, ten thousands, etc., while horizontal rod numbers are used for the tens, thousands, hundred thousands etc.
The first electronic programmable digital computer, the ENIAC, using thousands of octal-base radio vacuum tubes, could perform simple calculations involving 20 numbers of ten decimal digits which were held in the vacuum tube accumulators.
As a result of this increased factorability of the radix and its divisibility by a wide range of the most elemental numbers ( whereas ten has only two non-trivial factors: 2 and 5, with neither 3 nor 4 ), duodecimal representations fit more easily than decimal ones into many common patterns, as evidenced by the higher regularity observable in the duodecimal multiplication table.
Even in such cases, over-learned and rote-learned speech patterns may be retained — for instance, some patients can count from one to ten, but cannot produce the same numbers in ordinary conversation.
In keeping with their social orientation, numbers are usually low in magnitude, often under ten, and any arithmetic in the game is typically trivial.
Hengist tells these chosen men not to be afraid of Aurelius, for Aurelius must only have had a few Armorican Britons, as their numbers did not exceed ten thousand, and the native Britons he did not mention, " since they had been so often defeated by him.
If two numbers differ by one order of magnitude, one is about ten times larger than the other.
Two numbers of the same order of magnitude have roughly the same scale: the larger value is less than ten times the smaller value.
With so much new equipment already working that could only handle ten digit phone numbers, a system was devised by which most toll offices did not have to store and forward the whole international phone number.
The path loss for the first ten kilometers may be 150 -- 190 dB ( Note: These values are very approximate and are given here only as an illustration of the range in which the numbers used to express the path loss values can eventually be, these are not definitive or binding figures -- the path loss may be very different for the same distance along two different paths and it can be different even along the same path if measured at different times.
Mao was eventually successful in subduing the Red Army, reducing its numbers from forty thousand to less than ten thousand.
Another big changing factor is that Korea already has multi-ethnic, multi-cultural families appearing in great numbers, as one in every ten marriage is between a Korean and a foreigner, and in the rural side this portion is greater.
The numbers were overwhelming ; in perhaps as little as a month, the Russians could field around ten complete armies, more men than the Germans could muster on both fronts put together.
Although the numbers of Portuguese guest workers has not returned to its former levels, the number of Bermudians today described as Portuguese ( historically considered a distinct racial group from Whites of Northern European ancestry, and stygmatised by all other Bermudians ) is usually given as ten percent of the population.
With the help of Matt and Groot, his herd now numbers over ten thousand cattle, but he is also broke as a result of widespread poverty in the southern United States.
The number of strings on the classical lyre varied at different epochs, and possibly in different localities — four, seven and ten having been favorite numbers.
Other singles released from Different Class were " Disco 2000 " and " Something Changed ", which reached numbers seven and ten respectively in the UK.
The secularised former monks and friars commonly looked for re-employment as parish clergy ; and consequently numbers of new ordinations dropped drastically in the ten years after the dissolution, and ceased almost entirely in the reign of Edward VI.
In order to make an hour of timecode match an hour on the clock, drop-frame timecode drops frame numbers 0 and 1 of the first second of every minute, except when the number of minutes is divisible by ten ( i. e. when minutes mod 10 equals zero ).
After a period of isolation, James returned to recording in 1967 and reemerged with more ballsy R & B numbers thanks to her recording at the legendary Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama releasing her comeback hit " Tell Mama ", which was co-written by Clarence Carter and reached number ten R & B and number twenty three pop.

ten and which
Being somewhat delicate in health, at the age of sixteen he was sent to Southern Europe, for which he at once developed a passion, so that he spent nearly all of the following ten years abroad, at first in Italy, then in Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Palestine.
In the summary of the principal events of the campaign compiled from the official records there are only ten days which show no fighting.
There were ten men on the patrol which Sergeant Prevot led out that next night.
At the age of ten, when he was working as a newsboy in the Loop, he was knocked down by a streetcar which resulted in his permanently shortened leg.
Although it was at the Battle of The Little Horn, about which more words have been written than any other battle in American history, that the 7th Cavalry first made its mark in history, the regiment was ten years old by then.
Here I do not speak of military power where our advantage is obvious and overwhelming but of political power -- of influence, if you will -- about which the relevant questions are: Is Soviet influence throughout the world greater or less than it was ten years ago??
Though there are many exceptions, which we have noted in preceding pages, white wine is as a rule best consumed between two and six years old, and red wines, nowadays, between three and ten.
Mrs. Williams had a list which she said contained about nine or ten discrepancies between her memory of Dr. Jenkins's conversation and how they were written up for the board's approval.
The upshot of the evening was that I got the address of Pendleton's studio -- or rather, of the studio in which he gave his classes, for he didn't work there himself -- and joined the life class, which met every Tuesday and Thursday from ten to twelve in the morning.
The Russian abacus, the schoty ( счёты ), usually has a single slanted deck, with ten beads on each wire ( except one wire which has four beads, for quarter-ruble fractions.
Other families included in the Alismatates as currently defined are here distributed among ten additional orders, all of which are assigned, with the following exception, to the Subclass Alismatidae.
He visited the ruins of Babylon and the subterranean secret of Memphis and spent ten years alone in the great southern desert of Arabia — the Roba El Khaliyeh or " Empty Space " of the ancients — and " Dahna " or " Crimson " desert of the modern Arabs, which is held to be inhabited by protective evil spirits and monsters of death.
He came to the throne after the ten years of confusion which followed the death of Archelaus I.
There are ten extant letters ascribed to him, one of which is also quoted by Cicero:
Approximately ten minutes before reentry into Earth's atmosphere the cone-shaped Command Module capsule, containing the three crewmembers, separated from the expended Service Module, which would burn up during reentry.
They cited the time delay of ten years between the alleged behavior by Thomas and Hill's accusations, and noted that Hill had followed Thomas to a second job and later had personal contacts with Thomas, including giving him a ride to an airport — behavior which they said would be inexplicable if Hill's allegations were true.
These are composed of strontium sulfate crystals, which do not fossilize, and take the form of either ten diametric or twenty radial spines.
During the process of the enlargement of the European Union, the acquis was divided into 31 chapters for the purpose of negotiation between the EU and the candidate member states for the fifth enlargement ( the ten that joined in 2004 plus Romania and Bulgaria which joined in 2007 ).
Monmouthshire County Council, which requested that the Abergavenny Improvement Acts be repealed, is supporting plans for a new cattle market to be established about ten miles from Abergavenny at Raglan.
The latter two combine in the middle of the city to form the Downtown Connector ( I-75 / 85 ), which carries more than 340, 000 vehicles per day and is one of the ten most congested segments of interstate highway in the United States.
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.
He also managed to score in every British Home Championship tournament he played in except 1963 in an association with the tournament which lasted from 1958 to 1970 and included 16 goals and ten tournament victories ( five shared ).
Thanks to the big stadium, that " Junior World Series " easily outdrew the major league World Series which, coincidentally, included the team that would move to Baltimore ten years later and take up occupancy in the rebuilt version of the big stadium.

0.975 seconds.