Very little in today's living provides the strength we need and nothing provides the flexibility.

Very little mention is made in Christie's work about this part of his life, but in " The Nemean Lion " ( 1939 ) Poirot himself refers to a Belgian case of his in which " a wealthy soap manufacturer poisoned his wife in order to be free to marry his secretary ".

Very little documentary evidence is available from Ealdred's time as Bishop of Worcester.

Very little is known of the church under Alfred.

Very little is known about his philosophical views.

Very little trace has yet been found of large free-standing sculpture, but many examples exist of sculptors ' smaller work.

Very abundant hydrogen and helium are products of the Big Bang, but the next three elements are rare since they had little time to form in the Big Bang and are not made in stars ( they are, however, produced in small quantities by breakup of heavier elements in interstellar dust, as a result of impact by cosmic rays ).

Very little of DARPA ’ s research is performed at government labs.

Very little material concerning elves or elben survives in Old High German beyond the mere noun form alp, plural alpî, elpî.

Very little is known about the Japanese of this period – because writing had yet to be introduced from China, there is no direct evidence ; so anything that can be discerned about this period of Japanese must be based on reconstructions of Old Japanese.

Very little is known about Calvin's personal life in Geneva.

Very little is known of John " the Bard " Dowland's early life, but it is generally thought he was born in London.

Very little hydroelectric power is generated by their waters, although planners are now thinking of reactivating some of the abandoned older dams and turbines.

Very little information was available about homosexuality beyond medical and psychiatric texts.

Very little is known about the diffeomorphism groups of manifolds of larger dimension.

Very little is known of Lucrezia, and the extent of her complicity in the political machinations of her father and brothers is unclear.

Very little is in fact known about the course of the 7th century due to a scarcity of sources, but Merovingians remained in power until the 8th century.

Very little is known about Diophantus of Alexandria ; he probably lived in the third century CE, that is, about five hundred years after Euclid.

Very little is reliably known of the life of Nāgārjuna, since the surviving accounts were written in Chinese and Tibetan, centuries after his death.

Very little is known about Stephen ’ s pontificate.

Very little is known about pterosaur reproduction, and pterosaur eggs are very rare.

Very little remains of most of the other Nazi German facilities there.

Very little is known about the origins and upbringing of Richard of Saint Victor.

Very little is known of his youth.

Very few traces of human activity in Bruges date from the Pre-Roman Gaul era.

The Shuttle Ionespheric Modification with Pulsed Local Exhaust ( SIMPLEX ) payload activity researched the source of Very High Frequency ( VHF ) radar echoes caused by the orbiter and its OMS engine firings.

Very little Iron Age human activity has been recorded on the Long Mynd.

Very little is known of Aboriginal activity in the area other than the use of the springs as a source of fresh water by the Bunurong people.

Very shallow, the lake at the time of the fort's activity was more of a marsh with the river flowing through it.

Very high levels of PC activity, together with high activities of other gluconeogenic enzymes including PEPCK, fructose-1, 6-bisphosphatase and glucose-6-phosphatase in liver and kidney cortex, suggest that a primary role of PC is to participate in gluconeogenesis in these organs.

Very little to no historical earthquake activity occurred in the Charleston area prior to the 1886 event, which is unusual for any seismic area.

Very often, no actual mystery even existed: the books simply revolved around justice being served to those who deserved harsh treatment, which was described in explicit detail.

To cover the Mid-Atlantic Gap that existed the British introduced a " Very Long Range " version of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator bomber which was capable of patrolling the areas between Iceland and Greenland and attacking German submarines.

Very few complete translations existed during that time.

Very few gliders existed in Britain in 1940, and these were too light for military purposes, and there was also a shortage of suitable transport aircraft to tow gliders and carry paratroopers.

Very little infrastructure existed in the Virgin Land provinces prior to Khrushchev ’ s announcement of the campaign.

Very common in the early home computer era of the late 1970s and 1980s, type-ins existed because of the period's lack of inexpensive portable storage media, the low frequency of usage of modems and bulletin board systems, and the relatively short length permitted for a program on a home computer with a main memory of a few tens of kilobytes.

Very little can be seen of the canal in Uttoxeter, but there is still evidence it existed, as there is an area called " The Wharf ".

Very little of this highway actually existed in reality ; by 1920, only of the long route had been built.

Very few episodes of the 1960s The Match Game survive ( see " Episode Status " section below ).

Very light and loose dresses, usually white and often with shockingly bare arms, rose sheer from the ankle to just below the bodice, where there was a strongly emphasized thin hem or tie round the body, often in a different colour.

Very elaborate decorated versions were created for important documents that were also works of art in the tradition of Ottoman illumination, such as the example of Suleiman the Magnificent in the gallery below.

For a summary and review of discussion on TPR see link below for Stephen Krashen, " TPR: Still a Very Good Idea ," NovELTy vol.

Very contrasting, very light with black streaks below, and grey margins to back feathers.

Very frequently ( in modern transliterations of Sanskrit ) an underdot is used instead of the ring ( diacritic ) below the vocalic r and l.

For example, a four-point Likert Scale – Poor, Average, Good, Very Good – is unlikely to have all equidistant items since there is only one item that can receive a below average rating.

* 4. d3 ( the Giuoco Pianissimo, Italian: " Very Quiet Game "), see below.

Very few, five percent, recovered enough function to walk, and those required crutches and other assistive devices, and all of them had injuries below T11.

Very small girls wore their skirts just below knee-length over pantalettes.

Very similar to headers and volleys ( below ).

Very generally speaking, Canada's court system is a four-level hierarchy as shown below from highest to lowest in terms of legal authority.

However, even by using the significantly more sensitive Very Large Array, such a signal could not be detected, and the probability that a signal below the Very Large Array level could be detected by the Big Ear radio telescope due to interstellar scintillation is low.

When a ceasefire between two countries is signed at the next UN Summit, the country that had the advantage on the last turn has its stability upgraded to Very Solid, while the other is downgraded to Good or below.

Very frequently found today, and often giving rise to complex explanations ( see below, Puns, Jokes and Corruptions ) The use of pairs of words in the name of an inn or tavern was rare before the mid-17th century, but by 1708 had become frequent enough for a pamphlet to complain of ' the variety and contradictory language of the signs ', citing absurdities such as ' Bull and Mouth ', ' Whale and Cow ', and ' Shovel and Boot '.

Very fine pores have a very high curvature, and this results in the liquid phase being thermodynamically stable in such media at temperatures sometimes several tens of degrees below the bulk freezing point.

Very few species of cactus can tolerate the climate in Cathedral Gorge, where temperatures in winter can fall below freezing, and rise above in summer.

Very little is known about the planet as a whole, since the book only describes the events that happened in Arkanar shortly before the so called " Arkanar Massacre " ( see below ).

Very light and loose dresses, usually white and often with shockingly bare arms, rose sheer from the ankle to just below the bodice, where there was a strongly emphasized thin hem or tie round the body, often in a different color.