From maturity one looks back at the succession of years, counts them and makes them many, yet cannot feel length in the number, however large.

The completeness of the connections provide that, for N people, there are Af lines of communication between the pairs, which can become a large number ( 1,225 ) for a party of fifty guests.

The number of people acting as one body by this scheme gives a surprisingly large army of 55,987 men.

Thus, Margenau remarks: `` A large number of unrelated epicycles was needed to explain the observations, but otherwise the ( Ptolemaic ) system served well and with quantitative precision.

Secretary of War Baker, blindfolded, put his hand into a large glass bowl and drew the initial number of those to be called.

For that is the one an increasingly large number of prominent Americans are now proposing.

The resulting setup, it was declared, `` would be similar to that which is in successful operation in a number of metropolitan counties as large or larger than Rhode Island ''.

This apparatus will also be used to measure transition probabilities of a large number of other elements.

Rather, such assignments are made, as they must be, on the basis of certain overall rules and standards, representing to some extent a statistical approach to the problem, taking into account for each situation some of the variables ( e.g., power and station separations ) and averaging out others in order to achieve the balance which must be struck between protection against destructive interference and the assignment of a number of stations large enough to afford optimum radio service to the Nation.

During nighttime hours, because of the intense skywave propagation then prevailing, no large number of stations can be permitted to operate on one of these channels, if the wide area service for which these frequencies are assigned is to be rendered satisfactorily by the dominant stations which must be relied upon to render it.

Additional class 2, assignments for daytime operation can be made without causing destructive interference to the class 1, stations or to each other, and by their operation provide additional service on these channels and additional local outlets for a large number of communities.

Such additional daytime class 2, assignments are appropriate if optimum use is to be made of these frequencies, and the Commission has over the years made a large number of them.

And, besides, there are a large number of scholars, artists, composers of music, novelists, poets, essayists, choreographers, lawyers, servants of government, and men of affairs -- hundreds, indeed -- who serve the Foundation well with the advice they give us freely and gratis out of their experience.

A large number of these Juniors have 7 and 8 wins to their credit and are seasoned campaigners.

If a nation wished to get a head start in physical fitness over all other nations, it would start its kindergarten students on a program of gymnastics the day they entered and thus eliminate a large number of the problems that plague American schools.

No matter how they are formulated, a large number of organic actives are simply not suitable for this application, since they do not give adequate soil removal.

Let us assume that it would be possible for an enemy to create an aerosol of the causative agent of epidemic typhus ( Rickettsia prowazwki ) over City A and that a large number of cases of typhus fever resulted therefrom.

Each male willow catkin is composed of a large number of small flowers.

It lacks pollen baskets and possesses only a large number of long, branched hairs on its legs, on which the pollen grains will collect.

A number of strong independent agencies, established in some cases with governmental or royal support, have conducted large medical, social, educational and research operations in particular parts of the Congo and Ruanda-Urundi.

The major training need of a new industrial plant is a short period of pre-employment training for a large number of semi-skilled machine operators.

There were two methods that could have been used for conducting the study within the resources available: ( 1 ) interviews in depth with a few selected companies, and ( 2 ) the more limited interrogation of a large number of companies by means of a mail questionnaire.

As a result, it was decided that a mail questionnaire sent to a large number of companies would be more effective in determining the general practices and opinions of small firms and in highlighting some of the fundamental and recurring problems of defense procurement that concern both industry and government.

If we thus spent our very first day in the midst of a large number of your people honoring a new hero and a great national achievement, our last day, to us at least, was equally impressive and very moving, even though the crowds were absent and there was almost complete silence.

Although a large number of coatings systems, particularly at low thicknesses fail cohesively by the cutting mechanism, frequently a second type of cohesive failure may also take place.

With a large and circumspect 20th-Century technique, he wove the materials of national heroes and events, national folklore and children's fairy tales -- Slavic dances and love songs -- into a solid musical literature which served his people well, and is providing much enjoyment to the World at large.

His remaining secular works in this late period fall into three categories: first, large scale cantatas and one oratorio Habsburg written on patriotic themes or in response to the international political situation, pedagogical works written to aid his students in voice, and finally simple songs, rounds or canons written for home entertainment ; many with original poetry by the composer.

Settings of aphoristic poetic utterances, the songs are accompanied by a very large orchestra.

Supported by a research fellowship from Columbia University, for several years, Bartók and Ditta worked on a large collection of Serbian and Croatian folk songs in Columbia's libraries.

In recent years, a growing Tex-Mex polka band trend from Mexican immigrants ( i. e. Conjunto or Norteño ) has influenced much of new Chicano folk music, especially in large market Spanish language radio stations and on television music video programs in the U. S. The band Quetzal is known for its political songs.

For example, Jean Ritchie ( born in 1922 ) was the youngest child of a large family from Viper, Kentucky that had preserved many of the old Appalachian traditional songs.

" SingOn " is a new type of streaming service that embodies the latest trends of online karaoke, combining gaming features, social media integration and a large catalogue of high-quality songs under the same service.

" Some critics said Caress of Steel was unfocused and an audacious move for the band because of the placement of two back-to-back protracted songs, as well as a heavier reliance on atmospherics and story-telling, a large deviation from Fly by Night.

A large body of Sardinian poetry, songs and literature is composed in Logudorese.

Reunited with Helm, the Hawks began writing their own songs in a rented large pink house, which they affectionately named " Big Pink ", in West Saugerties ( near Woodstock ).

The most fully developed at this point is the Western Tarim region's 12 muqams, which are now a large canon of music and songs recorded from the traditional performers Turdi Akhun and Omar Akhun among others in the 1950s and edited into a more systematic system.

By 1978, Nicks had amassed a large backlog of songs dating back to her Buckingham Nicks days that she had been unable to record and release with Fleetwood Mac because of the constraint of having to accommodate three songwriters on each album.

Young people, in particular, turned out in large numbers, lighting memorial candles and singing peace songs.

However, there are recordings with substantial low frequency content that most conventional loudspeakers are ill-equipped to handle without the help of a subwoofer, especially at high playback levels, such as music for pipe organs with 32 ' bass pipes ( 16 Hz ), very large bass drums on symphony orchestra recordings and electronic music with extremely low synth bass parts, such as bass tests or bass songs.

Being new and with few original songs to its credit, Cream performed blues reworkings that thrilled the large crowd and earned it a warm reception.

" His popularity as a singer of love songs, coupled with his large size, led to him acquiring the affectionate nickname " The Walrus of Love ".

She has to be youthful, slender, beautiful, with large eyes, with well-rounded breasts, self-confident, witty, pleasing, well aware of when to dance and when to stop, able to follow the flow of songs and music, and to dance to the time ( thalam ), with splendid costumes, and of a happy disposition.

Shocking Blue's songs also received quite a large amount of radio airplay on Dutch channels.

Particularly, the band Aerosmith was a large influence on the band collectively, with guitarist Dean DeLeo acknowledging the band's influence on songs such as " Huckleberry Crumble " off their self-titled record.

This album was a collaboration with Gorey, who liked previous work by The Tiger Lillies so much that he sent them a large box of his unpublished work, which were then adapted and turned into songs.

On the surface, his songs centre to a large extent around themes like the joy of inebriation and the pursuit of sexual pleasure.

Jacques Brel (; 8 April 1929 – 9 October 1978 ) was a Belgian singer-songwriter who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following in France initially, and later throughout the world.

The songs and dances of a particular songline were kept alive and frequently performed at large gatherings, organized in good seasons.

His musical output included a large catalog of songs ; a number of which were hits for other artists, most notably the rock group Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show.