He could move very quickly, she knew ( although he seldom found occasion to do so ), but he was more wiry than truly strong.

Yet even in the more extreme of such cases we seldom go very far astray in guessing what his age actually is.

From a modern perspective these figures may seem small, but in the world of Greek city-states Athens was huge: most of the thousand or so Greek cities could only muster 1000 – 1500 adult male citizens and Corinth, a major power, had at most 15, 000 but in some very seldom cases more.

In the words of Charles Plummer, one of the best-known editors of the Historia Ecclesiastica, Bede's Latin is " clear and limpid ... it is very seldom that we have to pause to think of the meaning of a sentence ... Alcuin rightly praises Bede for his unpretending style.

Kilsyth also claims the oldest purpose-built curling pond in the world at Colzium, in the form of a low dam creating a shallow pool some 100 × 250 metres in size, though this is now very seldom in condition for curling because of warmer winters.

If a player is " easy to read " he very seldom will win large pots even when holding a very good hand.

In a typical year, Ontario averages 15 confirmed tornado touchdowns, where more are reported in the Windsor-Essex-Chatham Kent area, though many are seldom destructive ( the majority between F0 to F2 on the Fujita scale ) and only few are stronger and very destructive.

Although seldom used in Britain and the United States, root parsley is very common in central and eastern European cuisine, where it is used in soups and stews.

Beer called " Pilsner " is seldom very strong.

Because of its cost and radioactivity, experimental chemical research is seldom performed with radon, and as a result there are very few reported compounds of radon, all either fluorides or oxides.

However propellant is seldom more than a few times more expensive than gasoline per kg ( as of 2009 gasoline is about $ 1 / kg or less ), and although substantial amounts are needed, for all but the very cheapest rockets it turns out that the propellant costs are usually comparatively small, although not completely negligible.

The Samarian hills are not very high, seldom reaching the height of over 800 metres.

were used once as a source of vitamin C during the winter ( today sauerkraut is very seldom used in Swedish cuisine ).

Unlike SVCs, PVC are usually very seldom broken / disconnected.

In her diary, she wrote of her life at court: " I realized that my branch of the family was a very humble one ; but the thought seldom troubled me, and I was in those days far indeed from the painful consciousness of inferiority which makes life at Court a continual torment to me.

Although not all containers sink, they seldom float very high out of the water, making them a shipping hazard that is difficult to detect.

According to Nyrop, up until the 20th century, " it seldom or never takes place between men, with the exception, however, of royal personages ," although he notes that in former times the " friendly kiss was very common with us between man and man as well as between persons of opposite sexes.

Lee was very fond of dogs, and was seldom seen without half a dozen at his heels.

Because they number very few and have seldom disturbed, countered or threatened Muslim authority, they are usually regarded as dhimmis.

The injury is very painful, but seldom life-threatening unless the stinger pierces a vital area.

Kampala seldom gets very hot during the year ; the warmest month is January.

Because only a fraction of energy is passed on to the next level, this hierarchy of predation must end somewhere, and very seldom goes higher than five or six levels, and may go only as high as three trophic levels ( for example, a lion that preys upon large herbivores such as wildebeest which in turn eat grasses ).

Backwardation very seldom arises in money commodities like gold or silver.

With this enlarged role in mind, I should like to make a few suggestions: What we in the United States do or do not do will make a very large difference in what happens in the rest of the world.

Moreover, it sometimes happens that the configuration interaction expansion converges very slowly and that one cannot speak about simple one-determinant wave function at all.

It happens, moreover, the name foxglove is a very ancient one and exists in a list of plants as old as the time of Edward III.

Instead, they cause electromagnetic field behavior that only efficiently transfers power to a receiver very close to the source, such as the magnetic induction inside an electrical transformer, or the feedback behavior that happens close to the coil of a metal detector.

If this happens rapidly before significant decay to the organic tissue, very fine three-dimensional morphological detail can be preserved.

For example, imagine what happens if a stone is thrown into the middle of a very still pond.

*< sup > 237 </ sup > U is also produced via an ( n, 2n ) reaction with < sup > 238 </ sup > U. This only happens with very energetic neutrons.

Due to the dry winters snowfall has a very rare occurrence and prompts media coverage whenever it happens.

In business, cooperation of people with organizational and technical skills happens very often.

The Thorpes are not very happy about Catherine's friendship with the Tilneys, as they ( correctly as it happens ) perceive Henry as a rival for Catherine's affections.

This reaction happens very quickly, which leads to instant drying that results in a completely cured graphic in a matter of seconds.

On rare occasions the referee or judges may award the win to the wrestler who touched the ground first ; this happens if both wrestlers touch the ground at very nearly the same time and it is decided that the wrestler who touched the ground second had no chance of winning as, due to the superior sumo of his opponent, he was already in an irrecoverable position.

With today's technological advances, it is very easy for a producer to achieve high quality tracks without the use of a single instrument ; that happens in urban music ( like hip hop, rap, etc .).

The first time this happens, it may not be very severe.

This matrix happens to have a very convenient Jordan form.

This led to very short design times ( no complex algorithms to use even for high density designs ) as well as reduced crosstalk ( which is worse when wires run parallel to each other — which almost never happens in Multiwire ), though the cost is too high to compete with cheaper PCB technologies when large quantities are needed.

) The result, as the game's official rules note, is that it " very often happens that a quick witted player alone may defeat several others.

A model like RGB describes what happens at the lower, retinal cone level, and thus is very well fitted for the task of " fooling the eye " as done by TV sets and computer displays.

The Portrait of a Lady may be an experiment to see what happens when an idealistic young woman suddenly becomes very rich.

Papa Ghede has a very crass sense of humor, a divine ability to read others ' minds, and the ability to know everything that happens in the worlds of the living and the dead.

Ward was very keen on the idea of ‘ build it yourself ’ having said in response to the proposition of removing all planning laws, ‘ I don't believe in just letting it rip, the rich get away with murder when that happens.

This novel, in which very little happens, catalogues the psychology of Des Esseintes, an eccentric, reclusive antihero.

Despite being divorced from Josh's mother, he tells his daughter " You divorce wives, not children " and is very protective of Cher, telling Christian: " If anything happens to my daughter, I've got a. 45 and a shovel.

If, as happens on rare occasions, hatching takes place during daylight, only a very small proportion of each hatch ( usually 1 %) succeed, because local opportunist predators, such as the common seagull, gorge on the new sea turtles.