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The final achievement of Mr. Brown's long and interesting mechanical career runs a close second in importance to his development of the universal milling machine.
Whereas the United States enjoys a long season that generally runs from March to November, other areas often have much shorter seasons.
A single dance runs around ten minutes, long enough to progress 15-20 times.
Although they may only have a short cinema life, cult films often enjoy ongoing popularity through long runs on video, thus being issued in video " runs " with more copies than other movies.
It is a tourist destination set on the banks of the estuary of the River Dart, which is a long narrow tidal ria that runs inland as far as Totnes.
These distinctions translate to differences in the elasticity ( responsiveness ) of the supply curve in the short and long runs and corresponding differences in the price-quantity change from a shift on the supply or demand side of the market.
Exacerbating this is the fact that most of the trees are generally removed from agricultural fields, allowing winds to have long, open runs to travel over at higher speeds.
* E2 European long distance path, a long-distance footpath that runs from Galway in Ireland to France's Mediterranean coast
Fort William is the northern end of the West Highland Way, a long distance route which runs 95 miles through the Scottish Highlands to Milngavie, on the outskirts of Glasgow, and the start / end point of the Great Glen Way, which runs between Fort William and Inverness.
The rail system is long, with a total track length of, and it runs together with other vehicles on the street.
Raad ny Foillan long distance footpath runs 95 miles around the Manx coast.
A long chain of mountains runs down the middle of the archipelago, dividing it into two halves, the " face ," fronting on the Pacific Ocean, and the " back ," toward the Sea of Japan.
Robinson's career is generally considered to mark the beginning of the post –" long ball " era in baseball, in which a reliance on raw power-hitting gave way to balanced offensive strategies that used footspeed to create runs through aggressive baserunning.
The Gallery Tower originally guarded the 152-metre ( 500-ft ) long, narrow walled-causeway that still runs from the Brays to the main castle.
* One of the world's longest trains ( up to 2. 5 km long ) runs here, with more than 200 wagons mainly transporting iron ore, and some carriages for passengers ; alternatively, people sit on top of the iron piles.
The myelin sheath in peripheral nerves normally runs along the axon in sections about 1 mm long, punctuated by unsheathed nodes of Ranvier, which contain a high density of voltage-gated ion channels.
He argued supply was easier to vary in longer runs, and thus became a more important determinant of price in the very long run.
As the team moved to Shea under new ownership, they were, in most years, required to open the season with several road games, a problem made worse in 1969 and 1973 when the Mets had long playoff runs.
The waymarked long distance footpath Glyndŵr's Way runs through Mid Wales near to his homelands.
The Giants went on to win the game, with two other Giants contributing long home runs, but, as the Associated Press reported, " the biggest shot of them all belonged to Roberto Clemente.
There will be many long runs of white pixels in the blank space, and many short runs of black pixels within the text.

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There's bound to be someone on guard, but the hat might fool them long enough for me to get close ''.
The cooks had prepared one of the best meals we'd had in a long time, and on Montero's orders had baked enough bread to last the day.
Others, badly wounded, gripped hands in manes, knees in bellies, held on as long as possible and then, weak from ghastly wounds, slipped sideways, slowly, almost thoughtfully, to be broken under the slashing hoofs.
The hall, on the other hand, appeared lifeless and deserted on these long waterfront afternoons.
So long as Sally's pa was coming out best on the haggle, Dan didn't feel the need of putting in his two-bits' worth.
Rod shifted his eager eyes from the milling group out in the circle long enough to reply, `` I ain't much of a hand for Dare-Base and Farmer-in-the-Dell, but I'd sure like to get in on the handhold and wrestles ''.
The Palace was an elaborate establishment, built practically on stilts in front, with long flights of wooden steps running up to the porch.
Benson looked up and saw Ramey's long head tilt forward to rub his chin on the stiff edge of the overall bib.
For a brief period each year, the rays of the sun are warm enough to melt some of the snows piled a mile deep at the base of the headwalls, and then the pinnacles glisten in the daytime at high noon, and billions of gallons of water begin their slow seepage under the glaciers and across the rockstrewn hanging valleys on their long, meandering journey to the sea -- running east past the sky-carving massifs of Gurla Mandhata and Kemchenjunga, then turning south and curling down through the jungles of Assam, past the Khasi Hills, and into Bengal, past Sirinjani and Madaripur, until the hard water of the melting snows mingles with the soft drainage of fields and at length fans out to meld with the teeming salt depths of the Bay of Bengal.
To Tilghman the incident was just one of a long list of hair-raising, smash-'em-down adventures on the side of the law which started in 1872 when he was only eighteen years old, and did not end till fifty years later when he was shot dead after warning a drunk to be quiet.
Not long ago an acquaintance, a slick-headed water rat of a lad up from the maw of the city, stood on the balcony puffing his first cigarette in weeks.
Whether any of us remain in it long will depend on what happens as a result of the technological and economic revolutions now going on in the countries of Asia and Africa, and also of course on how long the cold war remains cold.
His next major work, completed in 1892, was a long fantastic epic in prose, entitled Hans Alienus, which Professor Book describes as a monument on the grave of his carefree and indolent youth.
Now all his desires centered on `` rediscovering and singing of the prosaic and yet beautiful world of men and objects so long barred from me by a barbed wire fence ''.
But that did not prevent him from writing more long letters, or from coming to spend his Christmas vacations with the hospitable, lively Szolds in their pleasant house on Lombard Street.
Not long after Colonel Van Hamm had foisted me on the Watson staff I received a salary raise and a contract on the Hetman's recommendation.
But his concentration on personalities and his categorical assessment of their actions fail to convey the political complexities of a long generation harassed by world-wide war and confronted with the problem of adjustment to an unprecedented industrial and social transformation.
The wear and tear of life have taught me that very few friends of mutual friends long to see foreign strangers, but I planned on being the soul of tact, of giving them plenty of outs was there the tiniest implication that their cups were already running over without us.

long and ;
From upstream it looks like a long arcaded box laid across the river ; ;
ripe pears lying in long grass, to be turned over by a dusty-slippered foot, cautiously, lest bees still worked in the ragged, brown-edged holes ; ;
We found that a charitable society in New York had a long case-history of the two ; ;
He observed the Florentine vase in the hall, the Renoir painting in the library, as well as the long shelves of well-bound volumes ; ;
The gunfire, which was so near that it seemed just a piece up the road now, stopped for long enough to count to twenty ; ;
Others may speak of Speaker Rayburn's uniquely long and devoted service ; ;
How long to stay in your shelter ; ;
As the ungoverned days of the automobile and the airplane are long since relegated to the past, so is the carefree attitude toward what a boatman may and may not do ; ;
long forks for turning potatoes and corn ; ;
Not long ago, I rode down with him in an elevator in Radio City ; ;
Pels complained: `` Litigants and witnesses were put to the expense and inconvenience of going long distances to transact business ; ;
I am equally impatient with the shrug of the shoulder, shake of the head of those who no longer care because they have known it for so long ; ;

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