Ahead of him Gavin turned slightly off the trail and pointed for the Gap, no more than a mile away.

or it may involve more subtle distinctions: the sway may be gradually minimized or enlarged, its rhythmic emphasis may be slightly modified, or it may be transferred to become a movement of only the arms or the head.

only slightly more, perhaps, than a newspaper account of such an incident would give.

I mean something more like Freud's concept of the utility of `` play '' to a small child: he plays `` house '' or `` doctor '' or `` fireman '' as a way of mastering slightly frightening experiences, reliving them imaginatively until they are under control.

During a sojourn of slightly more than three months Chamberlain Littlepage could see action on both elements.

The question left by the election is whether West Germany veers slightly toward more firmness or more flexibility.

Off-Broadway, where production is still comparatively cheap, is proving itself only slightly more original.

If the artist would study his work more thoroughly and move certain units in his design, often only slightly, finer pictures would result.

Sixteen panels, each slightly more than 1-1/2 ft. wide, make up the 25-ft. length of the sign.

Preparation began slightly more than a year after independence with the first steps to organize rural communes.

President Truman's Commission on Higher Education tended to take a liberal, expansionist position, while President Eisenhower's Committee on Education Beyond the High School was slightly more conservative.

The Commerce Department said seasonally adjusted sales of retail stores dropped to slightly under $18 billion in April, down 1% from the March level of more than $18.2 billion.

About all that remains to be said is that the present selection, most of which appeared first in The New Yorker, comprises ( as usual ) a slightly unstrung necklace, held together by little more than a slender thread cunningly inserted in the spine of the book.

He was a little more authentic than usual because he smelled slightly of the stables.

One study found that slightly altering photographs so that they more closely resembled the faces of study participants increased the trust the participants expressed regarding depicted persons.

The diverse ethnic communities – the Ovimbundu, Ambundu, Bakongo, Chokwe, and other peoples – maintain to varying degrees their own cultural traits, traditions and languages, but in the cities, where slightly more than half of the population now lives, a mixed culture has been emerging since colonial times – in Luanda since its foundation in the 16th century.

A slightly more accurate compensated version performs the full naive algorithm on the residuals.

Some details were changed slightly to allow more player choice-for example, players can be full Trump Artists without having walked the Pattern or the Logrus, which Merlin says is impossible ; and players ' psychic abilities are far greater than those shown in the books.

This is crossed by foot-hills and rolling prairies in the central part of the state, where it has a mean elevation of about, becomes lower and more level toward the southwest, and in the extreme south is flat and but slightly elevated above the sea.

Across Abydos lies Sestus on the European side, marking one of the narrowest points of the Dardanelles, slightly more than a nautical mile broad ( the narrrowest point is at Çanakkale ).

Modern writers tend to be slightly more critical of Agesilaus ' reputation and achievements, reckoning him an excellent soldier, but one who had a poor understanding of sea power and siegecraft.

Based on a newer, slightly more flexible, version of the Asters original Motorola MC6845 video chip, the Rockwell 6545, it worked by adding a new video mode, one with the ability to reprogram an extended, ( 2048 characters instead of 256 characters ) version of the character set, supported by an extended character memory of the video card that did not use one ( 8 bit ) byte per character, but an 11 bit " word ", so it could address each one of the available 2048 unique programmable characters.

The result is a very balanced tone, comparable to the 00 but with greater volume and dynamic range and slightly more low-end response, without sacrificing the ergonomics of the classical style, making these body styles very popular.

The hearings were initially completed, with Thomas's good character being presented as a primary qualification for the high court because he had only been a judge for slightly more than one year.

As the total number of incepting bachelors in 1629 was, according to Masson ( Life, 1:218 ) and n, two hundred fifty-nine, the twenty-four names listed in the ordo senioritatis for that year constitute slightly less than one tenth of the total number of bachelors who then incepted.

The gradient was about one half of a millidegree at 4.2 Af but increased to several millidegrees for bath temperatures slightly greater than the **yl point.

Don't fail to shorten cooking time by the use of aluminum foil cut slightly larger than the surface of steaks and chops.

Place cylinder on a disk of clay slightly larger than cylinder.

Better to have your equipment slightly undersized than too big.

He concluded that the anaconda's maximum length is 12 or 13 ( perhaps 14 ) meters, which would approximate from 39 to 42 feet ( 14 meters is slightly less than 46 feet ).

Alphonse R. Hoge's measurements of several very young specimens from Brazil suggest that at birth the female is slightly larger than the male.

The position of receptionist was opened in a large office and an announcement was made to the other girls already working that they could apply for this job which had higher prestige and slightly higher salary than typing and clerking positions.

After many years and many interruptions he was able to finish the canopy fresco, and slightly less than half the frieze, beginning with the Liberty group opposite the East door, and ending with William Penn, all but one leg, when a tragic accident ended his career.

Adjusted sales that month were up a relatively steep 2.5% from those of the month before, which in turn were slightly higher than the January low of $17.8 billion.

Suppose, says Dr. Lyttleton, the proton has a slightly greater charge than the electron ( so slight it is presently immeasurable ).

Nearest and next-nearest neighbors form a distorted octahedral complex, with the three atoms in the same double-layer being slightly closer than the three atoms in the next.

The nearest and next-nearest neighbors form a distorted octahedral complex, with the three atoms in the same double-layer being slightly closer than the three atoms in the next.

Sometimes slightly stronger theories such as Morse-Kelley set theory or set theory with a strongly inaccessible cardinal allowing the use of a Grothendieck universe are used, but in fact most mathematicians can actually prove all they need in systems weaker than ZFC, such as second-order arithmetic.

* United States comparative: slightly smaller ( 7 %) than Maryland

* EU comparative: slightly smaller ( 8 %) than Belgium

American football, on the other hand, took a different approach: 12 yards of end zone were added to each end of the field, but in return, the playing field was shortened from 110 yards to 100, resulting in the physical size of the field being only slightly longer than before.

Boat is approximately 12 feet long and only slightly wider than paddler.

For instance, beginning at ( approximately 3. 83 ) there is a range of parameters r which show oscillation among three values, and for slightly higher values of r oscillation among 6 values, then 12 etc.

Taking a year to be of this 6940-day cycle gives a year length of 365 + + days ( the unrounded cycle is much more accurate ), which is slightly more than 12 synodic months.

) Frank Frazetta ( 3 bylines ), Ernie Kovacs ( 11 ), Bob and Ray ( 12 ), and Sid Caesar ( 4 ) appeared slightly more frequently.

While their 7 – 10 mark down the stretch was slightly better than the previous season's 5 – 12, it still allowed the Phillies to pass them, once again.

A typical wafer is made out of extremely pure silicon that is grown into mono-crystalline cylindrical ingots ( boules ) up to 300 mm ( slightly less than 12 inches ) in diameter using the Czochralski process.

In 2011, the IFC reported total funding commitments ( consisting of loans, equity, guarantees, and client risk management ) of $ 12. 18 billion, slightly lower than its $ 12. 66 billion in commitments in 2010.

At a distance of slightly less than 50 kiloparsecs (≈ 160, 000 light-years ), the LMC is the third closest galaxy to the Milky Way, with the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal (~ 16 kiloparsecs ) and Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy (~ 12. 9 kiloparsecs ) lying closer to the center of the Milky Way.

The main 50 / 60 Hz transformer used to convert between line voltage and battery voltage needs to provide two slightly different turns ratios: One to convert the battery output voltage ( typically a multiple of 12 V ) to line voltage, and a second one to convert the line voltage to a slightly higher battery charging voltage ( such as a multiple of 14 V ).

In fact, by assuming the Elliott – Halberstam conjecture or a slightly weaker version, they were able to show that there are infinitely many n such that at least two of n, n + 2, n + 6, n + 8, n + 12, n + 18, or n + 20 are prime.

However, the demographic makeup of the town changed drastically between 1948 and 1967 with only slightly more than half of the city's 12, 134 inhabitants being Christian, the other half Muslim.

Sports programming is also provided, usually on weekends ( albeit not every weekend year-round ), and most commonly between 12 – 4 or 12-8 p. m. on Sundays ( during football season, slightly less during NASCAR season ) and 3: 30 – 7 p. m. on Saturday afternoons ( during baseball season ).

HW2 calculators are slightly faster because TI increased the nominal speed of the processor from 10 MHz to 12 MHz.

The male is slightly taller than the female, measuring 1. 14 feet and 1. 12 feet, respectively .< ref > Cawthon Lang KA.

The Guardian switched to the " Berliner " or " midi " format found in some other European countries ( slightly larger than a traditional tabloid ) on 12 September 2005.

Variety ( UK: " advanced ") cryptic crosswords typically use a " barred grid " with no black squares and a slightly smaller size ; 12 × 12 is typical.

Umberto II, born Umberto Nicola Tommaso Giovanni Maria di Savoia, occasionally anglicized as Humbert II ( 15 September 190418 March 1983 ), was the last King of Italy for slightly over a month, from 9 May 1946 to 12 June 1946.

Elizabeth Wilson had a bit part as one of the smirking schoolteachers ( 12 years later she played a major supporting role in Mike Nichols ' The Graduate as Benjamin Braddock's attractive, slightly high-strung mom ).

The state school system differs slightly from other London Boroughs, with entry to secondary school starting at the age of 12 + as opposed to 11 +, following on from middle schools.