While acrylic retarders can slow drying time to several hours, it remains a relatively fast-drying medium, and the addition of too much acrylic retarder can prevent the paint from ever drying properly.

While the numerical difference between the decimal and binary interpretations is relatively small for the prefixes kilo and mega, it grows to over 20 % for prefix yotta, illustrated in the linear-log graph ( at right ) of difference versus storage size.

While blind and visually impaired people had contributed to the body of common literature for centuries, one notable example being the author of Paradise Lost, John Milton, the creation of autobiographical materials, or materials specific to blindness, is relatively new.

While many preserved buses are quite old or even vintage, in some cases relatively new examples of a bus type can enter restoration.

While the book is relatively short it includes lament ( 1. 8-16 ; 7. 8-10 ), theophany ( 1. 3-4 ), hymnic prayer of petition and confidence ( 7. 14-20 ), and the " covenant lawsuit " ( 6. 1-8 ), a distinct genre in which Yahweh ( God ) sues Israel for breach of contract, that is, for violation of the Sinai covenant.

While the rate of emergence of new civil wars has been relatively steady since the mid-19th century, the increasing length of those wars resulted in increasing numbers of wars ongoing at any one time.

While ' typical ' near-death and mystical states occurred, they were relatively rare.

While this reaction will work at any conductive electrode at a sufficiently large potential, platinum catalyzes both hydrogen and oxygen formation, allowing for relatively mild voltages (~ 2 V depending on the pH ).

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.

While the game engine itself remained relatively similar between all games in the series, the interface went through many changes.

While there have been recent improvements in the fishing industry, it is still relatively undeveloped.

While Graphic Design as a discipline has a relatively recent history, with the term " graphic design " first coined by William Addison Dwiggins in 1922, graphic design-like activities span the history of humankind: from the caves of Lascaux, to Rome's Trajan's Column to the illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages, to the dazzling neons of Ginza.

While horses in the wild covered large areas of terrain, they usually did so at relatively slow speeds, unless being chased by a predator.

While the real values of the specific economic items generally stay the same in terms of relatively stable foreign currencies, in hyperinflationary conditions the general price level within a specific economy increases rapidly as the functional or internal currency, as opposed to a foreign currency.

While Jamiroquai was growing in popularity in the UK, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan, they remained relatively unknown to U. S and other international audiences.

While some Old Norse kennings are relatively transparent, many depend on a knowledge of specific myths or legends.

While it requires diligent oversight to narrow down the favorable result the breeder wants, it also makes possible the development of new varieties of koi within relatively few generations.

While the wooden structure of the Mary Rose and the individual artifacts have been undergoing conservation since their recovery, the Holland 1 provides an example of a relatively recent ( metal ) wreck for which extensive conservation has been necessary to preserve the hull.

While socially utilised means of production are under public control, personal belongings or property of a personal nature that doesn't involve mass production of goods remains relatively unaffected by the state.

While relatively popular for sport and recreation, bicycle use is a very marginal commuting mode, with the percentage share hovering around 1 % in many major cities, and around 2 % nationwide ( 2000s figures ).

While at one time influential within Orthodox Judaism, the Agudath HaRabbonim in the last several decades has progressively moved further to the right ; its membership has been dropping and it has been relatively inactive.

While PrP < sup > C </ sup > is structurally well-defined, PrP < sup > Sc </ sup > is certainly polydisperse and defined at a relatively poor level.

While still relatively habitable, the sandy deserts of Oregon to the north are highly contaminated by radiation.

While some presidents have been relatively voluble about religion, many have been reticent to the point of complete obscurity.

While Plato finally allows a few acceptable hymns to the gods and famous men, still he clearly leaves the way open for further discussion of the issue.

While the method of interviewing a small number of companies was appealing because of the opportunity it might have furnished to probe fully the reasons and circumstances of a company's practices and opinions, it also involved the risk of paying undue attention to the unique and peculiar problems of just a few individual companies.

While availability of mortgage money has been a factor in encouraging apartment construction, the generally high level of prosperity in the past few years plus rising consumer income are among the factors that have encouraged builders to concentrate in the apartment-building field.

) While Rotokas has a small alphabet because it has few phonemes to represent ( just eleven ), Book Pahlavi was small because many letters had been conflated — that is, the graphic distinctions had been lost over time, and diacritics were not developed to compensate for this as they were in Arabic, another script that lost many of its distinct letter shapes.

While the group only recorded one album together as the Analog Brothers, a few bootlegs of its live concert performances, including freestyles with original lyrics, have occasionally surfaced online.

While the use of paracetamol, aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen and other NSAIDS concurrently with weak to mid-range opiates ( up to about the hydrocodone level ) has been said to show beneficial synergistic effects by combatting pain at multiple sites of action, several combination analgesic products have been shown to have few efficacy benefits when compared to similar doses of their individual components.

While in the fort he only communicated with the outside world by a crevice through which food would be passed and he would say a few words.

While protons and neutrons combined to form the first atomic nuclei only a few minutes after the Big Bang, it would take thousands of years for electrons to combine with them and create electrically neutral atoms.

While there are a few motherboards that offer more than 8 slots, that is the traditional limit.

While players may spend most of the game in a specific position, there are few restrictions on player movement, and players can switch positions at any time.

While diverse life forms prospered in the oceans, the land was comparatively barren – with nothing more complex than a microbial soil crust and a few forms that apparently emerged to browse on the microbial materials.

While mountain tops remain snow-capped year long, near the coast snow only stays on the ground for a few minutes or hours.

While the dative case is no longer a part of modern English usage, it survives in a few set expressions.

While a few short-lived DOS based EDuke projects emerged, it was not until the release of EDuke32, an extended version of Duke3D incorporating variants of both Fowler's Microsoft Windows JFDuke3D code and Saettler's EDuke code, by one of 3D Realms ' forum moderators in late 2004 that EDuke's scripting extensions received community focus.

While playing in thumb position, few players use the fourth ( little ) finger, as it is too weak to produce a reliable tone ( this is also true for cellists ), although some extreme chords or extended techniques, especially in contemporary music, may necessitate its use.

While encyclopedias in larger languages, having large markets that could support a large editorial staff, churned out new 20-volume works in a few years and new editions with brief intervals, such publication plans often spanned a decade or more in smaller languages.

While Heman remained in Salisbury, where he ran a general store until his death in 1778, Ethan's movements over the next few years are poorly documented.

While these epistles are traditionally attributed to Paul of Tarsus, there are a few scholars who consider them pseudepigraphical.

While there are few and they have limited authority, the decisions carry much weight with legal commentators and are quite influential on the development of international environmental law.

While the rest of the series does not do this as much as the first, there are still a few cases that it happens, such as the opening sequence of Resident Evil 4.

While the absorption of infrared radiation by many greenhouse gases varies linearly with their abundance, a few important ones display non-linear behaviour for current and likely future abundances ( e. g., CO < sub > 2 </ sub >, CH < sub > 4 </ sub >, and N < sub > 2 </ sub > O ).

While Telemann's career prospered, his personal life was always troubled: his first wife died only a few months after their marriage, and his second wife had extramarital affairs and accumulated a large gambling debt before leaving Telemann.

While few players " play Goren " exactly today, the point count approach he popularized remains the foundation for most bidding systems.

While conventional reality was eventually restored, it came at a high price, as thousands if not millions of Earth ’ s mutant population lost their powers or died in the process, leaving only a few hundred mutants alive and powered.

While DNA had been known to biologists since 1869, a few scientists still assumed at the time that proteins carried the information for inheritance.