| 单词 | thousandth |
| 例句 | And for the hundredth time, or maybe the thousandth, I don’t have any answer. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z She gnawed at her bottom lip as the words crossed her mind for the hundredth time, the thousandth. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The two Voyager interstellar spacecraft, the fastest machines ever launched from Earth, are now traveling at one ten- thousandth the speed of light. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There were no pheasant-shooting proprietors then, to see that the undergrowth was thinned, and not one thousandth part of the number of the present-day timber merchants who prune judiciously at the few remaining woods. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z "I'm going to say this to you for the thousandth time," Ms. Wockley steamed. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z I swatted the air before my face for the twelve thousandth time that day and nodded at the opening. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Another was not to get angry, even if it was the one thousandth annoying request, because sometimes they were just baiting you, hoping to make you mad. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And of myself—older, too, sitting around with him in some smoky room, the two of us repeating this exchange for the thousandth time. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z After you've witnessed your twentieth, hundredth, thousandth person perish, words are meaningless. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Sleep fights cancer, Regular Dr. Jim said for the thousandth time as he hovered over me one morning surrounded by a coterie of medical students. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Which means the chance that a child born today will be gleaned between now and their five thousandth year on Earth is only 50 percent. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z For the thousandth time I realize anew how hard my disease is on her. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I was going off, begging her for the thousandth time. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z We weren’t, and for the forty thousandth time in the last two days, I went over it all again. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z This was the thousandth such home they’d renovated on behalf of veterans in need. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Harry moved his aching hand over what felt like the thousandth envelope, writing out Veronica Smethley’s address. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Smoothing out the yellowed newspaper for the thousandth time, I scanned the page, hoping to find some bit of news about or insight into my daddy. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I triple-locked the front door from the inside and left the keys on the countertop while Daoud continued to explain his career plan, for the thousandth time. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z For what seemed like the thousandth time, he took in his surroundings. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I roll my eyes for the thousandth time as Nuru and Penda, two of my classmates, burst into yet another fit of giggles a few feet away from me. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She wishes for the thousandth time that she could talk to her father. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Again, for the hundredth time, or maybe the thousandth, I wonder what is missing from my painting. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z Draw a line under the top 0.1 percent of income earners—the top one- thousandth. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The sample weighed about a thousandth of a grain of sand, but it was thirty-four times more concentrated with the fissionable isotope than was natural uranium. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Over the next eighteen months, this indefatigable machine would produce two thousandths of a gram of plutonium, a quantity about the size of a grain of salt. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z So I looked him over as Patrick acknowledged for the thousandth time his ball-lessness etc., and soon it was a staring contest. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z His design called for “a hundred or so pieces,” he explained, “which had to fit together to within a precision of a few thousandths of an inch.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Thomson, had demonstrated the existence of a particle of matter, called the electron, that had a mass less than one thousandth of that of the lightest atom. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She regarded me as if she were seeing me for the thousandth time but was still unconvinced. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Trinity fireball at 25 thousandths of a second after detonation, witnessed by Lawrence and others from a watching post twenty miles from the test site. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Also, if you manage to produce a Higgs boson, a thousandth of a billionth of a billionth of a second later, you will no longer have a Higgs boson. Physics and culture collide 2012-07-13T18:32:00Z I’ve also watched An Officer and a Gentleman for the thousandth time. Brooke Shields: 'I'm such an addict of Downton Abbey' 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z And then I prepared to watch for the first time and her thousandth. "The Little Mermaid" and Disney's dilemma: Why no Black prince? 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z The Nobel Web site notes that “since the Swedish language can not be read by more than about one thousandth of the world’s population, the skillfulness of his translators has been especially vital.” Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet and Nobel laureate, dies at 83 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z Timbaland wheels out his rippling xylophone preset for the 1000th time in his career, Jay-Z devotes his attention to justifying his wealth for what feels like the thousandth time on this album. Magna Carta Holy Grail – a first-listen review 2013-07-04T14:23:37Z Applying this paint at the recommended rate of 300 to 500 square feet per gallon results in a dry finish of just 1 to 1.6 mils, or thousandths of an inch. How to figure out why one bulb on a chandelier doesn’t match the others 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z I cultivate a Zen-like state and think, for the thousandth time, that it's a good thing journalism is not brain surgery. Q&A: Author Sherman Alexie on 'Blasphemy' 2012-09-28T23:12:03Z After sanitizing my fingertips for the thousandth time I realize these ants will never stop outwitting me. Motherlode Blog: Toddlers, Ants and Crumbs: Calling the Bug Lady 2013-08-14T19:45:17Z Element 113, for example, lasted less than a thousandth of a second. Chemistry geeks, rejoice! 4 new elements were just added to the periodic table 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Either way, ask yourself if you can see even a rumour a thousandth as majestic as this attach itself to Jason Statham. Steven Seagal: how the would-be senator was ahead by a ponytail 2013-03-21T18:40:01Z If "Bella" breaks any new ground, within its context — it is, after all, on one level the thousandth variation on the "Bad News Bears" — it is in its upfront treatment of gender. The fine 'Bella and the Bulldogs' mixes football, gender issues 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z For her, everything seemed to be happening for the thousandth time. At Flamenco Festival, Finding the Force Beneath the Glitz 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Drop a needle on any Velvet Underground record — or queue up a playlist, if that’s how you roll — and what you hear will sound new, frightening and full of possibility, even on the thousandth listen. ‘The Velvet Underground’ Review: And Me, I’m in a Rock ’n’ Roll Band 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Their hard brown forms are projected on to a computer screen, and some nifty software allows Hall to drag a red line along their bodies and measure them to within a thousandth of a millimetre. Lords of the flies: the insect detectives 2010-09-23T07:00:00Z The team analysed flecks of the paint using an intense x-ray beam less than one thousandth of a millimetre wide at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble. Yellow mellowed 2011-02-14T19:00:00Z “He answered every question with the same patience the thousandth time as he did the first time,” Scott Lakefield, WOR’s program director, said Monday. Ralph Snodsmith Dies at 70; Gave Gardening Advice 2010-04-21T00:55:00Z Not long after the thousandth page a moment does arrive when the reader suspects that Mr. Nadas may finally be approaching some sense of resolution. Books of The Times: ?Parallel Stories,? a Novel by Peter Nadas - Review 2011-12-04T21:04:45Z This summer, she sold her thousandth copy, which translates to nearly one and a half books a day for the past seven hundred days. Bringing African Books Back Home 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z I wouldn’t pretend that we were close—to you, I was probably the thousandth in an endless string of young editorial assistants. A Letter to Sheila Lukins, a Matriarch of American Home Cooking 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z His face was smiling and giddy while he saw it for the thousandth time. Bradley Cooper Is Not Really Into This Profile 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z The English prayer book helpfully offered up poems, including one by Robert Frost, which the rabbi read flatly for what seemed like perhaps the thousandth time. American Jews Face a Choice: Create Meaning or Fade Away 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z On top of that, even the most sensitive measurement method may only detect every five thousandth particle, i.e., a maximum of only a few iron-60 atoms in a typical measurement sample. Exploding stars 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z But superbolts are much stronger and rarer, making up about one thousandth of 1 percent of all lightning strikes. Mysterious Lightning ‘Superbolts’ Can Be 1,000 Times as Strong as Ordinary Strikes 2023-10-23T04:00:00Z First discovered in 2007, these bursts can travel billions of light years but typically last mere thousandths of a second. 'Starquakes' could explain mystery signals 2023-10-11T04:00:00Z In the nearby universe, an elegant ratio reigns: the mass of each central black hole is around 0.1 percent, or one thousandth, of the starry mass of each host galaxy. JWST Finds Strange Harmony in Early Galaxies and Black Holes 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z “That can make all the difference in a race that’s decided by thousandths of a second.” Soul Cap approved for swimming’s biggest meets but real impact expected at the grassroots level 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z Transphorm uses ultra thin layers of gallium nitride that are a micron, or one thousandth of a millimetre thick, on its semiconductors. China gallium curbs raise chip questions for future EV models 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z On the quantum computer, the calculation took less than a thousandth of a second to complete. Quantum Computing Advance Begins New Era, IBM Says 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z By my calculation, that comes to 17 thousandths of a percent of the federal budget, which this year is $6.4 trillion. Column: With debt ceiling deal, GOP reveals its only real goal was cruelty to the poor 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z This suggested the total amount of energy the star released since its initial outburst was surprisingly small — about a thousandth the magnitude of any stellar merger observed in the past. Astronomers Just Saw a Star Eat a Planet for the First Time 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z Surface operations on Phobos pose many challenges because the moon has just a thousandth of Earth’s gravity—and an uneven gravity field at that, given its unusual shape. Where Did Mars’s Moons Come From? 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z But physicists can force them into being inside particle accelerators, where they typically last for mere thousandths of a second before decaying. How Star Collisions Forge the Universe’s Heaviest Elements 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z Maracanã, where Pelé scored his thousandth goal, was emblematic of my day-to-day routine until I moved to the UK, aged 11. Pelé: Why black Brazilians like me mourn the King 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z "If we get a proper apology and see those responsible strictly punished, it would reduce my anger by a tenth, or one-ten thousandth, at least by a little bit." Grieving South Korean father seeks justice for Halloween crush victims 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z They watch a movie, "Lilo & Stitch," for "the thousandth time," as Belen puts it. The landlord & the tenant: One kind of justice for those who own and another for those who rent 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z High-frequency traders in financial markets execute orders in thousandths and even billionths of a second. Is Time Running Out for the Leap Second? 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z It was designed to be shot from the back of a jeep and had about a thousandth of the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Russia’s Small Nuclear Arms: A Risky Option for Putin and Ukraine Alike 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z Divide an animal's length, breadth, and height each by ten; its weight is reduced to a thousandth, but its surface only to a hundredth. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z Transfer of material and angular momentum can speed up the rotation of pulsars until their periods are just a few thousandths of a second. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Learning how to judge success by thousandths of a second instead of the five- to six-second drops a year ago has been a challenge as she grows up in the swimming spotlight. La Mirada teen swimmer Kayla Han makes national waves with Paris 2024 on horizon 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z Round to the nearest thousandth—third decimal place and then multiply by 100 to get the percentage, which is 40.9 percent. High School Statistics 2020-03-27T00:00:00Z Remember to round the division to the nearest thousandth in order to round the percent to the nearest tenth. Intermediate Algebra 2020-05-06T00:00:00Z TRY IT : : 1.186 Write as a decimal: five and ninety-four thousandths. Elementary Algebra 2020-04-22T00:00:00Z The detectors are cooled to a few thousandths of a degree—very close to absolute zero. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Knight initially seemed to have secured victory by a thousandth of a second ahead of Canada's Kyra Constantine. England denied relay gold by disqualification 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z The pressure as a function of depth equals four hundred thirty-four thousandths times depth plus fourteen and six hundred ninety-six thousandths. Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z The new structures exist for just a hundred thousandth of a billionth of a billionth of a second but may explain how our Universe is formed. Pentaquarks: scientists find new "exotic" configurations of quarks 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z TRY IT : : 1.185 Write as a decimal: thirteen and sixty-eight thousandths. Elementary Algebra 2020-04-22T00:00:00Z The eastern crater, about 20 yards in diameter, is superimposed on the slightly smaller western one, which most likely formed a few thousandths of a second before the eastern one, Dr. Robinson said. They Found Two New Craters on the Moon and Discovered a New Mystery 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z So NASA's engineers equipped the vehicles' computers with 69 kilobytes of memory, less than a hundred thousandth the capacity of a typical smartphone. Record-Breaking Voyager Spacecraft Begin to Power Down 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z To the nearest thousandth, what was the difference in magnitudes? Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z The thinnest of margins - a single thousandth of a second - separated him from Christian Coleman in first, but he was well clear of Noah Lyles in third. 'Golden years' inspire Prescod on Birmingham return 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z To do this, we must carry the division to the thousandths place. Elementary Algebra 2020-04-22T00:00:00Z On Friday, Terra had fallen to 14 cents and Luna was trading at a value of less than one ten thousandth of one cent. Bitcoin tumbles, a stablecoin plunges in wild week in crypto 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z The Elden Ring folk hero live streamed the event, dispatching the thousandth Goddess of Rot in manner that demands it be recounted to the masses. ‘Let me solo her’ defeats 1,000th Malenia in heroic fashion 2022-05-11T04:00:00Z To the nearest thousandth, what was the difference in magnitudes? Algebra and Trigonometry 2015-02-13T00:00:00Z I’m finding myself getting really frustrated at the thousandth “put your shoes and jacket on.” Perspective | Can first-graders manage their own morning routines? 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z Notice that we rounded the division to the nearest thousandth in order to round the percent to the nearest tenth. Elementary Algebra 2020-04-22T00:00:00Z “We work within a thousandth of an inch of accuracy,” Wuthrich said after his team finished the ice for a round of women’s matches. Beijing Got All Ready for Olympic Curling. But About the Ice … 2022-02-16T05:00:00Z “You make one mistake, you can lose 10 spots, especially in the 500 meters where the smallest margin is a thousandth of a second.” Erin Jackson favored to end US speedskating drought in China 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Sled design is critical, especially in luge with race times measured to the thousandth of a second. USA Luge’s men’s program looks to the future after Beijing 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z Over-the-counter melatonin supplements come in much higher milligram doses, or a thousandth of a gram. Melatonin Isn’t a Sleeping Pill. Here’s How to Use It. 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z Particulate matter, often measuring just a few thousandths of a millimeter, can lodge itself deep within the lungs and exacerbate conditions like asthma. Signs of Pinochet’s coup spotted in Chilean tree rings 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z Great Britain finished fifth overall in the men's team sprint as Alistair Fielding, Hamish Turnbull and Joseph Truman were beaten by just five thousandths of a second by Russia in the first round. GB win team sprint bronze in Roubaix 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z Even more surprisingly, intelligent life appeared abruptly in the last one thousandth of the Earth’s history. To Look or Not to Look? That Is the Question 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z Lavreysen and Hoogland roared to the Olympic record over 200 meters with a time that was the exact same down to the thousandth of a second, putting them on opposite sides of the bracket. Kenny, Archibald win Olympic debut of women’s Madison 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z He had been aiming to improve on his fourth place at Rio 2016, where he missed out on bronze by three thousandths of a second. What has happened on day 11 in Tokyo? 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z That is equivalent to resolving a thousandth of the person’s height, which would require obtaining a megapixel image. To Understand UAPs, We Need Megapixel Imagery 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z A laser underneath the trampoline captured the time they spent in the air and calculated a point total, rounded to the thousandth of a second. ‘Driving your own rollercoaster’: Olympic trampolinists fly 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z “Candidly,” the judge said, “I would prefer to be the hundredth, if not the thousandth.” U.S. Senate Confirms First Muslim Federal District Judge 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z “Candidly, I would prefer to be the hundredth, if not the thousandth,” he said. Senate Begins Considering Diverse Slate of Biden Judicial Nominees 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z So far, however, there is little indication of that: The short sellers’ nearly $20 billion loss amounts to less than a thousandth of the $21 trillion U.S. economy. Opinion | In GameStop mania, there are no good guys or bad guys 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z Though it occupies less than a thousandth of a percent of the planet’s surface, it harbors 2.5 percent of its life-forms. A loss of tourism threatens Costa Rica’s lush paradise 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z Sure, some were grating by the thousandth time we heard them. The entertainment that got us through 2020 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z Incredibly, after more than 85 hours and 3,300 kilometres of racing Hindley and the Briton were locked on the same time - only separated by a few thousandths of a second. The 'overnight sensation' 10 years in the making 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z But no academic framework is needed to appreciate, on the first or thousandth viewing, why this movie remains a stone-cold classic of its type. Yippee-ki-yay, movie lovers: Why 'Die Hard' won this week's Ultimate Summer Movie Showdown 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z Flashes of radio waves lasting a thousandth of a second arrive on Earth every second from all over the sky. An Audacious Explanation for Fast Radio Bursts 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z I felt my thousandth cut a few Novembers ago standing outside a bar as my friend’s boyfriend explained to me the concept of American Thanksgiving. How to Respond to Microaggressions 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z Late last Saturday night, two women who study black health and communication were talking to each other, for what seemed like the thousandth time, about the racism they have encountered in their careers. From Cosmetics to NASCAR, Calls for Racial Justice Are Spreading 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z "The relationship of all these things in terms of location, found within a few hundred thousandths of an inch of one another, is the most compelling evidence." We may have found life on Mars 24 years ago 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z These traders use algorithms and computer networks that process data at a thousandth or millionth of a second to buy and sell stocks, bonds or commodities. Opinion | How We Broke the World 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z And for about the thousandth time, he asked himself, How did a guy from Butte, Montana, ever end up here? The Golfer Who Killed Osama bin Laden - Golf Digest 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z “It’s only another five thousandths of an inch thinner than what we’ve done before, but it’s a big difference,” Simonutti said. Why Wilson Staff Model ball is something completely different for Wilson - Golf Digest 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z In the streaming age, only the biggest superstar acts collect significant revenues from streamed music, which is typically paid at thousandths of a cent per stream. 'Huge cloud' hangs over concert industry as Live Nation and AEG shut down tours amid coronavirus 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z For the next billion years this concentration managed to crawl upwards to perhaps between a thousandth to a tenth of modern levels. Deep Breather 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z This little cube encases 89 individual neurons and measures four thousandths of an inch on each side. Budding Organs, Science on Blast(s), and Human-Robot Synchronicity: Science GIFs to Start Your Week 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z William James estimated that “ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual.” Can Brain Science Help Us Break Bad Habits? 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z The Baltimore Sun reports the Judiciary Committee voted 4-2 Monday to amend the proposed ban to only apply to bags thinner than about two thousandths of an inch. Baltimore changes proposed bag ban to focus on thin plastic 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z For roughly the thousandth time Wednesday, McVay denied the Rams are deliberately limiting Gurley’s carries to keep him fresh or to manage the health of his knee. Rams glad to be unbeaten despite ordinary offensive start 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z “It’s the 10th or the hundredth or the thousandth gene therapy drug that would concern me.” Employers fear squeeze from new genetic cures that cost millions | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Working at around just 1 to 10 millikelvins, or thousandths of a kelvin, the Cavendish team is in the process of surveying a variety of other materials that also show funky quantum behavior. Racing toward Absolute Zero 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Michael Rodgers was second by thousandths of a second over Christopher Belcher. Coleman takes 100 national title as Gatlin sits out final 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z But the biggest question of all is screamingly obvious, and worth asking for the thousandth time: how, in any meaningful way, can we hold Facebook – and Google – to account, and drastically limit their power? If Facebook or Google create their own currency, they can control our lives | John Harris 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z Even if a child was given 10 vaccines at once, it would only use about a thousandth of their immune system. Vaccines: Your questions answered 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Robert Louis Stevenson, comparing Robinson Crusoe to Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa, found in Defoe “not a tenth part of the style nor a thousandth part of the wisdom”. Robinson Crusoe at 300: why it’s time to let go of this colonial fairytale 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z Over dinner that Saturday in Augusta in 2009, Angel for the thousandth time reminded me of that. Masters 2019: Recalling Angel Cabrera's victory 10 years ago and why he belongs in the World Golf Hall of Fame - Golf Digest 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z As he prepared to pot the red ball that would take him to the thousandth century, the ambidextrous player switched to stroke the ball left-handed into the center of the pocket. Snooker: 'Rocket' O'Sullivan blasts to 1,000th century break 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z After that, it will be one thousandth as radioactive as it was when it went into storage. Eight years on, water woes threaten Fukushima cleanup 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z But for rare earth metals, that excited state can last millionths or even thousandths of a second. Researchers Enable "Super Mice" to See Near-Infrared Light 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z And it bears repeating, for the thousandth time: where Star Trek tends to go, so too does society. Star Trek: Discovery had a brutal anti-mansplaining moment 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z In the old days, if I got a CD — and I’m old enough to be a CD guy — when I played it the thousandth time, there was no additional revenue. An economist explains what digital technology means for the future of popular culture 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z "Tremendous message, masterfully delivered — both visually and audibly. I've been a long time fan, and Mr Wainwright never ceases to amaze me. Thank you, Great Man, for the thousandth time!" another echoed. Rufus Wainwright slams Trump in new music video: This ancient story 'reminds me of you' 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Those critical adjustments happen in thousandths of a second. Perspective | Sorry, judges, we umpires do more than call balls and strikes 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z It is called the Swan Upping, Barber explained for the thousandth time, “because we row up the river and pick up the swans.” Britain’s queen is counting her swans in a ritual with much poop and circumstance 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z In contrast, the N.T.P. standard can synchronize computers no more accurately than a millisecond, or one thousandth of a second. Time Split to the Nanosecond Is Precisely What Wall Street Wants 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z He says that species which weigh a thousandth of another are typically a thousand times more abundant. How many animals are born each day? 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z They squabble affectionately, for approximately the thousandth time, over whether she can be called Tiffany. What Meghan Markle Means to Black Britons 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z Whatever you think of my views on this issue, I’d suggest that they’re more interesting than hearing someone repeat the same shopworn talking points on capital punishment for the thousandth time. When the Twitter Mob Came for Me 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Indeed, such reefs, which take up just a thousandth of the ocean floor, are home, for at least part of their life cycles, to a quarter of marine species. Mass die-offs are driving efforts to create hardier corals 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Still, bobsled changing to thousandths felt inevitable to some. A difference of 0:00:00: Canada, Germany share two-man bobsled gold 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z For two runs Saturday, he navigated a track that terrorized many, finishing his first two runs in fourth place, a thousandth of a second off the podium. Chris Mazdzer grabs silver, becomes first U.S. man to win singles luge medal 2018-02-11T05:00:00Z Some emit radiation blasts as often as every few thousandths of a second. NASA Test Proves Pulsars Can Function as a Celestial GPS 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z That global warming is real is not, for a thousandth time, explained, but man-made climate change is probably not something of which most "Frontline" viewers need to be convinced. 'Frontline' looks at whether 'War on the EPA' is a triumph or a tragedy 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z These distortions are so small as to be inconceivable: a wobble a thousandth the width of an atom's nucleus. Three Americans win Nobel Prize in physics for gravitational wave discovery 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Olsen immediately predicted bobsled would move to a clock with thousandths of a second. A difference of 0:00:00: Canada, Germany share two-man bobsled gold 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z Detecting these tiny distortions has required detectors sensitive enough to measuring a discrepancy of just one thousandth of the diameter of an atomic nucleus across a 4km laser beam. New gravitational wave detection shows shape of ripples from black hole collision 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z “Possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation,” the United States had nowhere to go but up. How will history view us from the future? With contempt and amazement, for starters 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z The Dutch numbers, which are usually cited by those championing alkaline hydrolysis, suggest cremations by fire account for only a few thousandths of a percent of total carbon emissions in the U.S. Dissolve the Dead? Controversy Swirls around Liquid Cremation 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf, a ruddy stellar runt shining with only about a thousandth the brilliance of our far larger yellow star. The Air Out There: Astronomers Aim to Find Atmospheres of Alien Earths 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z Jereem Richards of Trinidad and Tobago was given the same time but was relegated to third by one thousandth of a second. Turkey's Guliyev stuns field to win 200 meters 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z That’s one thousandth of one percent of a budget so huge, “billions” and “trillions” are the common terms. Perspective | Trump’s war on inclusiveness is really a war on American reality 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z The merging was still fast — less than a thousandth of a second — but slow enough to be studied. Fungi Physics: How Those Spores Launch Just Right 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z On the other hand, qubits in this type of system hold their quantum state for only milliseconds—thousandths of a second—so any operation must be completed in that time. Quantum Computers Compete for "Supremacy" 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z “I thought I lost. I was shaking,” said Morgan, who edged Cain by one thousandth of a second to win in 11.936 seconds. Elizabeth Seton wins 11th straight WCAC track and field title; Good Counsel defends boys’ crown 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z Jereem Richards of Trinidad and Tobago was given the same time but was relegated to third by one thousandth of a second. Turkey's Guliyev stuns field to win 200 meters 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Judge sat down with his co-showrunner, Alec Berg, their assistants and his editor to watch the episode for what might as well have been the thousandth time. Mike Judge, the Bard of Suck 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z In past seasons, it was generally felt that every five kg of extra weight made the car 0.2 seconds a lap slower - a significant amount in a sport measured in thousandths of a second. Heavy car means crash diet for Force India's Perez 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z Not in those exact terms, but I remember having a glass of wine with my friend and hearing her go on and on about the guy for the thousandth time. Maren Morris: From Grammy Camp to Grammy winner - BBC News 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z All are brief radio signals, lasting no more than a few thousandths of a second. Astronomers grapple with new era of fast radio bursts 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z The rate is in the thousandths of a percentage point, and data for Michigan, Nevada and Texas show that the rate is just as low for college-age permit holders. There is no particular risk in allowing concealed carry on campus 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z It can be extremely precise, telling in fine detail to the hundredth and thousandth decimal place the weight of a beautiful diamond. Letters from Abu Zubaydah: ‘My mother. I have not seen her in so long now.’ 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Early on, he recited these soundbites with all the enthusiasm of a 12-year-old practicing his Torah portion for the thousandth day in a row. Belitting and “braggadocious”: Donald Trump was Donald Trump — the only surprise is that anyone is surprised 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z But the 2014 European champion, running in lane two, clocked a time of 20.12 - leaving him just three thousandths of a second from beating Lemaitre to the podium. Rio Olympics 2016: Usain Bolt wins 200m gold, his eighth Olympic gold 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z “A thousandth gold for team USA,” said Simone Manuel, who swam the anchor leg for her second gold of the games and second medal of the night. Michael Phelps contends his swimming career is over after dominant run in Rio 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z One thousandth of a second in the pool equates roughly to 1.7 millimeters. Swimming : Pool secrets are safe with Omega man 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z It might not be enough, it might not be fully satisfying, and the message might get lost when you hear the chorus for the thousandth time. What Hillary Clinton’s campaign songs say that she can’t 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z In the end, at the same time as it approved IEX’s application, the SEC issued an “updated” interpretation of its best-price rule, allowing for delays in execution of up to a thousandth of a second. Speed bumps in the night 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z It said an intentional delay of less than one millisecond, or one thousandth of a second, is a "de minimis" amount of time. Newest stock exchange looks to slow down high-speed traders 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z It said an intentional delay of less than one millisecond, or one thousandth of a second, is a “de minimis” amount of time. Newest stock exchange looks to slow down high-speed traders 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z The detectors are so sensitive they can pick up changes in length one thousandth the diameter of a proton. Second gravitational wave detection from ancient black hole collision 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z Shapes on the surface of this lens are smaller than the wavelength of light involved: a thousandth of a millimetre. Flat lens promises possible revolution in optics - BBC News 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z For roughly the thousandth time, the masters of social media in Silicon Valley are promising to do something about online hate speech. The Internet’s bigot crisis: There’s a new push to curtail online bigotry, but the toxic sludge of hate is too enormous to erase 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z They were in Rochester on Friday to observe the installation of the thousandth culvert under the U.S. Federal, state officials tout stream improvements 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z According to the European Space Agency, the damage was likely caused by something as unassuming as a flake of paint or a metal fragment just a few thousandths of a millimeter across. A bit of debris chipped the International Space Station. That’s just one piece of a much bigger problem. 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The European Space Agency says the piece of debris that caused this particular chip was "possibly a paint flake or small metal fragment no bigger than a few thousandths of a millimeter across." This is what happens when a tiny piece of flying space debris hits the ISS 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Tests in the lab found that the polymer film, which is only 70 thousandths of a millimetre thick, reduced the appearance of wrinkles and under-eye bagging, and helped retain moisture in patches of dry skin. Stretchy 'second skin' could make wrinkles a thing of the past 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Today, for what must be the thousandth time, I repeated a dark pattern on my PC at home. What are your weirdest user habits? 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z “Yes, Leicester City,” I would answer for the thousandth time. Julian Barnes: my stupid Leicester City love 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z As we watch Hannah sabotage opportunity after opportunity or Jessa self-destruct for the thousandth time, their lives seem caught in a hellish loop, a Sisyphean fate we actively fear. Why do so many of us love 'Broad City' and hate-love 'Girls'? 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z I’m also reassured to read in Annex D that coefficients are calculated to the thousandth and not rounded up.” Stoke City 0-4 Tottenham Hotspur: Premier League – as it happened 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z When he was asked, last February, about getting his thousandth career win, he responded in characteristic Pop fashion: “Give me a break,” he said. N.B.A. Games of the Week: Spurs vs. Warriors 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z What's different about this paint is that some particles are on a nanotech scale, at just one thousandth the width of a human hair. Paint drying test boost to nanotech - BBC News 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z And I know from personal experience that I enjoy watching my favorite movies for the thousandth time, even when I know every beat. Midnight Special director Jeff Nichols: 'I think plot is very overrated' 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z Yet they last for just thousandths of a second. Astronomers Discover a New Kind of Radio Blast From Space 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z I’m also reassured to read in Annex D that coefficients are calculated to the thousandth and not rounded up.” Stoke City 0-4 Tottenham Hotspur: Premier League – as it happened 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Those tens of thousandths of a second might belong to Hamlin but, let’s be clear, the day belonged to Toyota Racing Development. Thrilling Daytona 500 Finish a Major Win for Hamlin 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Teams believe that every five kg of weight is equal to around 0.2 seconds per lap, a significant amount in a sport measured to the thousandth of a second. Ricciardo sheds kilos ahead of F1 season 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z “When a song is streamed on an Internet radio site — Pandora is by far the largest — the holders of publishing copyrights receive a thousandth of a cent per stream,” it notes. California Inc.: Want some gourmet food? There's an app for that 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Their problem was that the expected effect was a transient change in dimensions equivalent to perhaps a thousandth of the width of a proton in an apparatus several kilometres across. Gravitational waves have been detected for the first time 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z You might spend two hours scrutinizing a single hopeless challenge, your head aching, your eyes watering uncontrollably, as you try for the thousandth time to reverse-engineer your way to whatever it is you’re plainly missing. Jonathan Blow: 'I want to make games for people who read Gravity's Rainbow' 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z The first days of the new year even saw a discouraging spike in concentrations of PM10 and PM2.5, as the diameter of two sizes of particles are commonly defined in thousandths of a millimetre. Particular about particulates 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z A year later, they successfully fused two atomic nuclei from these elements, creating their first nucleus of Element 113, but it decayed in less than a thousandth of a second. In a First, Element Will Be Named by Researchers in Japan 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Over the course of the mission, the vacuum would gradually rise by a factor of 10,000, to about a thousandth of a millibar, because of gases released within the instrument. Leaks in Instrument Force NASA to Delay Mars Mission Until 2018 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Even if it’s the ten thousandth time they’ve covered the material, it’s the first time for many of the listeners. 5 Ways to Teach Kids (and Grownups) About Science 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Closing yields, measured in thousandths of a percentage point in recent years with short-term rates effectively at zero, spiked to just under two-tenths of a percentage point during the 2011 episode. U.S. debt limit threat defanged on Wall Street 2015-12-02T05:00:00Z Where a mainstream Intel chip intended for laptops might draw around 15 watts of power, one of the new Quark chips draws just 27 milliwatts, or thousandths of a watt. Intel Shifts Tactics With Internet of Things Chips 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z They are often split by thousandths of a second and the gap isn't big. Too early for title talk - Hamilton 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z Planet Fitness, which recently opened its thousandth store, made a confidential submission for an IPO with the Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this year. Planet Fitness Looks to Raise $216 Million in IPO 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z These hazardous particles are less than 2.5 thousandths of a millimeter in diameter, much smaller than a speck of dust or a fraction of the width of a human hair, the researchers said. Wildfires May Spark Heart Hazards for Miles Around 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z The spacecraft is so far away that the sunlight falling upon it is a thousandth what it would be on Earth. What will Pluto mission discover? - BBC News 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Many of these galaxies are about the size of our Milky Way, but contain just a thousandth as many stars. Dark Matter Dominates Just-Discovered Galaxies 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z A flea, for example, releases the energy in its legs in one thousandth of a second. Why insects are marvels of engineering - BBC News 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Some of the galaxies are as large as the Milky Way but emit only a thousandth of its light. 814 ghostly galaxies found in famous cluster 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Sensors measure the cars within a thousandth of a second. Not Your Dad’s Pinewood Derby (at Least in Theory) 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z The firms can also bluff fast, sending a series of sell orders, for instance, then canceling them as the price moves down and replacing them with new orders — all within thousandths of a second. How London man may have helped trigger the 'flash crash' 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z “It only gets annoying after the thousandth time.” Anchorage mechanic’s brainchild: A souped-up Suzuki 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z A more robust grasshopper manages the feat in 30 thousandths of a second. Why insects are marvels of engineering - BBC News 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z So, to take a break from gaming, I booted up another game, Diablo 3, for the hundred thousandth time. 'Diablo 3' Is The Macaroni And Cheese Of Video Games 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Sometimes runners finish in a dead heat, right down to the thousandth of a second; sometimes biology doesn’t pick a category. An Imperfect Dividing Line 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z For all its size, it can control welds down to a thousandth of an inch. Michoud builds the space launch system 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z And besides, it’s better than hearing “Dark Horse” for the thousandth time. Why Tiffany & Co.'s New Same-Sex Couple Ad is Important to Me 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z “Luge is a sport timed to a thousandth of a second,” Britcher said. Olympian continues her quest in luge 2014-12-20T05:00:00Z To store the energy, the lens also contains an integrated circuit only one thousandth of a human hair thick. Scientists 3D-Print Contact Lens With Built-In LED In September, it sent out its thousandth stool treatment. The Excrement Experiment 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z I woke again in that hotel, across from that intersection, ready to watch you die or not die for the thousandth time. Mobius : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z Lightning reactions to the starting lights, where races are frequently won by margins measured in thousandths of a second, are required. Women in Top Ranks of Drag Racing: Hear Them Roar 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z The two runs are completed in less than two minutes, meaning every transition and curve matters - down to hundredths and thousandths of seconds. Olympian continues her quest in luge 2014-12-20T05:00:00Z She repeated her previous statements that the city relied on national electrical standards that allow for deviations in the hundredths or thousandths of a second. Chicago will keep $7.7M from quiet change in yellow light standard 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Despite its importance, the stellar halo constitutes just a thousandth of the Milky Way's total mass. Ancient Halo Stars Cast the Milky Way’s First Light 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z "But that actual performance is probably 2.998 — or something like that — where the variation is in the hundredths or thousandths of a second, which is imperceptible." Shorter yellow times are now the ticket 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z It’s Friday night and Harris is en route to what must be her thousandth shift at the Black Cat, the venerable 14th Street rock club where she’s been working since she was 19 years old. Ex Hex — ripping it up, starting again Powerful computers analyze market information and then execute buy and sell orders within milliseconds, or thousandths of a second. Business roundup Seriously, Uber, pay me one thousandth of your recent fund-raise and I’ll be more than happy to apply the tools of the trade to advance your and the public’s interests. Uber Vs. Some Hairy NYC Cabbies 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z It will raise roughly one thousandth of the annual deficit. Will Miliband's deficit slip haunt him? 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z This amount is less than a thousandth of the minimum daily dose given for bipolar disorders and for depression that doesn’t respond to antidepressants. Should We All Take a Bit of Lithium? 2014-09-13T04:00:00Z Hamilton, who was fastest on Friday, and Rosberg had led the timesheets until about five minutes to the end with the pair separated by only a thousandth of a second. Bottas fastest in final Spa practice 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z The largest of the particles was only a few thousandths of a millimetre across, considerably smaller than this full stop. Dust from beyond our solar system fell to Earth from space probe 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z But the movement is tiny – sometimes as small as thousandths of a pixel on video. MIT researchers can listen to your conversation by watching your potato chip bag The GPA’s are rounded to the nearest thousandth of a point. Eastern Washington ranks second in Division I academic honor roll 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z Made of chitin, these Christmas Trees are just one micron high - one thousandth of one millimetre. Butterfly wings inspire cosmetics and bomb detectors 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z The £10-million offered by the new Longitude Prize is less than a thousandth of what Britain spends each year on research and development. A Longitude Prize for the twenty-first century 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z The three components of the sphere did slip a bit but only few thousandths of an inch. Diving Deeper Than Any Human Ever Dove 2014-04-01T04:00:00Z Sliding sports, like bobsled or luge or skeleton, are often decided by thousandths of a second, making it difficult for trackside fans to watch and to know when to cheer. Magnet Schools Resurface in Miami 2014-02-17T02:31:42Z "So to everybody, it's my first Olympics, but to me it's my thousandth." US teen Shiffrin's notes helped prep for Olympics 2014-02-17T18:56:21Z “To everybody, it’s my first Olympics. But to me, it’s my thousandth.” Mikaela Shiffrin: ‘I’m going for a medal in two events’ 2014-02-16T14:00:08Z The two were initially shown on the scoreboard as tied for the top spot, but when the time was broken down to the thousandths, the victory went to Brodka. Brodka upsets big names in 1,500 speedskating 2014-02-15T16:05:54Z Only a few thousandths of a gram of nanoparticles are needed per square centimetre of screen, meaning the technology is also relatively cheap. Stick-on screens offer new horizons 2014-01-21T18:12:56Z In fact, he calculates that large-scale production is possible for just $1 a day - or one thousandth of the Sovaldi price tag. Analysis: Fight for cheap drugs shifts from AIDS to new hepatitis pills 2013-12-16T11:22:30Z No more computer rankings or program-altering goals decided by a thousandth of a point. Florida State, Ohio State and Auburn poised for one final BCS controversy 2013-12-07T02:49:39Z He added that the radar waves were harmless: "Typically we use a thousandth of the power of a mobile phone," Prof Bowring explained. Portable device could detect weapons 2013-11-14T13:03:11Z If the synchronization drifts off by one thousandth of a second, the system couldn’t tell you for sure if you were in Washington or Boston. Why, in the Jurassic era, an Earth day may have been only 23 hours long. 2013-09-23T20:53:05Z Her organization has an annual budget of $100,000 — one thousandth of the ACC’s — funding one full-time employee, one part-timer and support for other nonprofits. American Chemistry Council pushes to dilute toxin laws 2013-09-09T11:04:00Z That is a catastrophe during a race or qualifying session in a sport where there is often only a thousandth of a second between drivers on pole position or further back. Special Report: Formula One: In Search of a Grand Prix's Winning Line 2013-09-05T12:08:38Z Countering this requires temperatures of just a few miliKelvin; just a few thousandths of a degree about absolute zero, the temperature at which all motion stops. Scicurious Guest Writer! Quantum Machines Become Reality 2013-08-28T13:15:08Z Ohuruogu became the first British woman to win two World Championship titles when she beat Montsho by four thousandths of a second. Ohuruogu relishes 'special' victory 2013-08-12T23:09:09Z The technique exploits quantum effects in tiny diamond crystals, or 'nanodiamonds', to detect changes down to a few thousandths of a degree. Nanothermometer Takes the Temperature of Living Cells 2013-08-01T16:45:00.740Z Charles Silmon captured the third spot on the American team for the championships by edging Mike Rodgers by two thousandths of a second. Gay & Bolt win in trials for Worlds 2013-06-22T06:51:59Z Charles Silmon grabbed the third spot on the U.S. team for the August 10-18 world championships by edging Mike Rodgers by two thousandths of a second. Gay sprints to year's fastest 100m to defeat Gatlin 2013-06-22T04:09:57Z Feyman’s challenge ignited the field of microelectromechanical systems: machines with both electrical and mechanical parts, built on the scale of one thousandth of a millimetre, a micrometer. Scicurious Guest Writer! Quantum Machines Become Reality 2013-08-28T13:15:08Z Once exchanges saw how valuable those thousandths of a second were, they raised fees to locate next to them. How the Robots Lost: High-Frequency Trading's Rise and Fall 2013-06-06T09:54:07Z Perseus Telecom kept quiet last October when it flipped the switch on its London to Frankfurt network, which trimmed several thousandths of a second, or milliseconds, off the time needed to complete a trade. Lasers, microwave deployed in high-speed trading arms race 2013-05-01T14:55:15Z Britain's Cambridge Temperature Concepts has developed a portable fertility monitor that can measure a woman's body temperature 20,000 times a day at a precision of a thousandth of a degree. Will Apple's plans for an iWatch herald a new era of wearable tech? 2013-02-17T00:00:46Z The researchers then cooled this array to 50 thousandths of a degree Celsius above absolute zero. Something from Nothing? A Vacuum Can Yield Flashes of Light 2013-02-12T14:45:00.290Z In the second game one team were given wireless headphones and electronic music of 140 beats per minute was transmitted to them from the sidelines and synchronised to within a thousandth of a second. Can music help footballers play better? 2013-02-03T15:46:13Z “This is because the simple average weights a restaurant’s first review the same as it weights the thousandth review,” according to the paper. How Yelp Could Create More Accurate Reviews 2013-01-28T17:01:02Z The precision is light years beyond what we were capable of before, with tolerances measured to the thousandths of an inch. 6 Ways Robots Create Jobs 2013-01-22T14:35:00Z Schwartz said that using thinner electrodes, around five thousandths of a millimetre thick, should solve this problem, as they will be too small to trigger the scarring process in the body. Mind over matter helps paralysed woman control robotic arm 2012-12-17T01:00:01Z Today, gaining a mere thousandth of a percent CTR is a success, despite access to increasingly sophisticated technologies and targeting. Jingle Bust: Holidays Point To Trouble With Facebook Ads 2012-12-11T17:43:35Z For the ten thousandth time, I told my wife how much I loved her. The Fifth Down: When Fantasy Football Becomes an Addiction 2012-11-27T11:04:09Z "A few thousandths of a percent less for the European Development Fund and humanitarian aid is, for the most vulnerable of the world, a matter of life or death," Barroso said. EU Commission head says aid cuts will cost lives 2012-11-21T21:51:02Z "We never brought him in to be the starting quarterback," Ryan said about Tebow for what seemed like the thousandth time this week. Column: If not now, when is 'Tebow Time?' 2012-11-16T01:27:08Z Playing a song for the thousandth time, he told me, is just as meaningless as putting a ball through a hoop. The Oklahoma City Thunder’s Fairy-Tale Rise 2012-11-08T22:22:55Z Hau and her team at Harvard went further in 2001 by bringing laser light pulses to a standstill for a thousandth of a second in a magnetically trapped ultra-cold cloud of sodium atoms. Quantum teleportation tipped for Nobel Prize: Thomson Reuters 2012-09-19T04:11:51Z Cullen Murphy noted that the senatorial aristocracy of the ancient world — “by one estimate two thousandths of one percent of the population” — was fine with a lopsided household income. Opinion: Money, Money, Money. Can we talk about something else? 2012-09-15T19:45:13Z I'm sure it's going to be very, very close - a thousandth of a second between Alonso and Hamilton... Hamilton tops Italian GP practice 2012-09-08T10:11:34Z The quest for the shortest laser pulse has been underway since the laser's first demonstration in 1960; the very first laser created pulses of about a thousandth of a second. Team clocks shortest laser pulse 2012-09-06T09:16:34Z They both finished in 10.86sec, separated only by thousandths of a second. Yohan Blake equals second fastest 100m time in history 2012-08-23T22:49:17Z A thousandth of a second equates to a single centimetre, yet track lanes have been known to differ in length by twice as much. Olympics: are the fastest and strongest reaching their mathematical limits? 2012-08-11T23:05:30Z In a world where gold and silver can be separated by a thousandth of a second, it counts. Cycling: Jealous? Do the simple things right, say Brits 2012-08-07T12:30:20Z I'm sure it's going to be very, very close - a thousandth of a second between Alonso and Hamilton and that was Alonso running on his own. Hamilton tops Italian GP practice 2012-09-08T10:11:34Z "They are talking about measuring the thousandths again but that is not correct," said Huerzeler. Secrets are safe with Omega man 2012-07-25T15:30:29Z Yet, he interpolated where Tarmoh’s torso would have been at the line – based on solid information – and seemed fairly confident Tarmoh won the race by a thousandth of a second. Felix vs. Tarmoh Dead Heat: Why Track's Big Night ... Went Caput 2012-07-03T11:05:38Z We first built a two-inch chamber of duralumin and glass, with a diaphragm, actuated by compressed air, which could fully expand the chamber in five thousandths of a second. Physics Nobelists Tell of Their Prize-Winning Discoveries 2012-06-28T12:45:02.607Z It takes just one millisecond - a thousandth of one second - and then does a different move to beat it! The Rock Paper Scissors robot 2012-06-27T11:23:10Z All sorts of acronyms and numbers are listed, all decimals taken to the thousandths, without explanation. Cheering Section: Witnesses to History at Ballpark, Ages 7 and 10 2012-06-02T16:46:01Z To put that in context, “the .003 points is less than one thousandth of what a borderline obese person would need to lose to become borderline normal weight.” Why ban soda when you can tax it? 2012-06-01T17:16:21Z He said it was just as thrilling watching it for the thousandth time on YouTube as it was on that January night in Denver when he dashed into history. Thomas, Decker building rapport with Manning 2012-05-23T23:18:10Z The liquid remained sensitive for seven thousandths of a second. Physics Nobelists Tell of Their Prize-Winning Discoveries 2012-06-28T12:45:02.607Z No, dear child," replied Sir Robert Croyland, in a voice sad and solemn, but wonderfully calm, "you cannot see it all; no, nor one thousandth part of what I have suffered. The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale 2012-04-26T02:00:10.260Z Alcohol was the liquid first employed, and the degrees, intended to represent thousandths of the volume of the bulb, were marked with small beads of enamel fused on the stem, as shown in fig. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z It must be remembered here that one cash is the thousandth part of two shillings. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z Norah turned away from this obtrusive sister in disdain, asking herself for perhaps the thousandth time what purpose in life she was possibly intended to serve. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z We need not repeat for the thousandth time the fact of the unutterable corruptness and rottenness of the whole pagan world. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z He recognized her as the thousandth woman—even the millionth. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z As possibly I may have assumed too great a thickness for the nebula, let us take a thickness of one-tenth of that used above, or one thousandth of the length of the nebula. Astronomical Curiosities Facts and Fallacies 2012-03-27T02:00:18Z They would have remembered it to the thousandth generation!... The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada 2012-03-26T02:00:34.423Z Even the second-hand seemed to crawl, and he was certain that the minute-hand never moved the thousandth part of an inch. The Fire-Gods A Tale of the Congo 2012-03-26T02:00:32.267Z But the workman of the general machine shop who has no experience in measuring by thousandths has no idea of the accuracy with which he sets two calipers in his ordinary practice. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z The earth's atmosphere weighs about one two hundred and fifty thousandth as much as the earth itself, but a comet's entire mass must be vastly less than this. Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies 2012-03-17T02:01:02.630Z It had come to this, that he could not spend even a thousandth part of his annual income, and, puzzle his head as he might, he could not turn it over quickly enough. The Slaves of the Padishah 2012-03-06T03:00:24.060Z The human spermatozoon is only fifty-four thousandths of a millimetre in length, and from forty-one to fifty-three thousandths of a millimetre are taken up by its flagellum. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z A 20-millisievert-per-year exposure might increase the odds of getting cancer by a few thousandths of a percent. Japan's Post-Fukushima Earthquake Health Woes Go Beyond Radiation Effects 2012-03-02T21:15:00.213Z Nothing I can do will repay a thousandth part of what I owe you boys.” Bert Wilson's Fadeaway Ball 2012-03-02T03:00:09.747Z The penalty for improperly dipping into customer money is a roughly $140,000 fine, equal to about a thousandth of the overall shortfall that clients are enduring. DealBook: Doubtful Signs of a Criminal Case Against MF Global 2012-02-29T01:45:03Z The arc was reduced to 10� generally about the 100th vibration; and one thousandth of the time of vibration has been taken throughout the series as the correction to infinitely small arcs. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z For the thousandth time, as she twisted in the great chair, my lady wondered whether it was really too late to humble herself, to grovel in the dust, and make confession. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z He wondered for the thousandth time at its beauty and its gentleness. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z But he died of the wound, and was buried there, after he had reigned about fifty years, about the thousandth year after the birth of Christ. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 100, September 27, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-01-25T03:00:37.190Z The Goosegirl turned her eyes toward the figure of the Witch, and, familiar as it was, for the thousandth time she shuddered with disgust. Great Opera Stories Taken from Original Sources in Old German 2012-01-25T03:00:33.660Z Millimeter, Millimetre, mil′i-mē-tėr, n. the thousandth part of a metre. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z Since ten thousand ohms is equal to one-hundredth of a megohm, the time-constant would be equal to one-ten-thousandth of a second, and ten times this time-constant would be equal to a thousandth of a second. Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy 2012-01-09T03:00:20.570Z I never meet anyone who has been through a thousandth part of the same passionate struggle. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Stealthily he was now, for the thousandth time, studying that bewitching smile again. Checkmate 2012-01-03T03:00:10.887Z The first quartz clocks installed at the Royal Observatory in 1939 varied by only two thousandths of a second a day. A Chronicle of Timekeeping 2011-12-31T05:15:09.740Z Mill′ionth, the ten hundred thousandth.—The million, the great body of the people generally. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z It has not sold quite so well as I hoped, not of course one thousandth of its value. The Azure Rose A Novel 2011-12-31T03:00:18.657Z "I'm going to hear from my colleagues: 'So, you've discovered water on Mars for the thousandth time?' " says planetary scientist Alfred McEwen of the University of Arizona in Tucson. The Year in Pictures 2011-12-22T19:11:37Z Arrangements for adjusting Flats whereby accuracy to the thousandth part of an inch is obtained. Illustrated Catalogue of Cotton Machinery 2011-12-16T03:00:11.130Z One is glad to be told for the ten thousandth time, after hearing this ghastly tale, of the clerk Clive leaving his ledgers and pens and leading an army to crush the wretches at Plassy. My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year 2011-12-12T03:00:33.863Z It is considered very difficult to drill a hole to an exact diameter, but for the most work a variation of a few thousandths of an inch is of no great moment. Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair 2011-12-04T03:00:04.777Z When you know Him but a thousandth part as He knows you, you need ask Him nothing, for He will give you all that you desire.' A Second Coming 2011-11-29T03:00:16.693Z The size of them is as little as a half a thousandth of an inch and there are about four millions of them on every square inch of plate. Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science 2011-11-19T03:00:24.517Z Now, as he surveyed it, he assured himself for the thousandth time that it was not a cheerful room. The Transgression of Andrew Vane a novel 2011-11-17T03:00:37.293Z While Bank Transfer Day message was speculated by some media outlets to be a hidden advertisement of Credit Unions, it was welcomed by thousandths of consumers across U.S. Credit unions 101 -- How switching to a credit union can save you money 2011-11-08T13:54:28Z A few thousandths of an inch may be ground out without danger, however. Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair 2011-12-04T03:00:04.777Z Those who took charge of the negro when he was freed tried to make him do the hundredth or thousandth thing first. The Brothers' War 2011-11-01T02:00:24.007Z So long as it does not exceed or fall short of its reputed size by more than one thousandth of an inch, then we know that it will answer its purpose. Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science 2011-11-19T03:00:24.517Z They went to the train to see the last of her and to assure her for the thousandth time that they should never forget her. Dandelion Cottage 2011-10-29T02:00:16.960Z But it was the thousandth time she had quoted the comfortable assurance to her happy heart. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z One complete revolution of the spindle, therefore, moves it longitudinally one-fortieth, or twenty-five thousandths of an inch. Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair 2011-12-04T03:00:04.777Z "Next to a friend's discourse, no morsel is more delicious than a ripe book,—a book whose flavor is as refreshing at the thousandth tasting as at the first." The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature 2011-10-20T02:00:20.857Z Then the compound wire is drawn down until it is so thin that the platinum core is only one and a half thousandths of an inch in diameter. Marvels of Scientific Invention An Interesting Account in Non-technical Language of the Invention of Guns, Torpedoes, Submarine Mines, Up-to-date Smelting, Freezing, Colour Photography, and many other recent Discoveries of Science 2011-11-19T03:00:24.517Z In other words, the level of mediocrity, say in the hundred thousandth generation after the sustaining influence of natural selection has been withdrawn, will not be so high as it was in the first generations. Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility 2011-10-16T02:00:14.153Z Attenuation to the thousandth or even the five-thousandth part, was used, and when drugs are so attenuated, there is not much left to them. Seed Thoughts for Singers 2011-10-09T02:00:24.093Z As will be evident from the development of the scale on the barrel of the inch micrometer, the sleeve is marked with forty lines to the inch, each of these lines indicating twenty-five thousandths. Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair 2011-12-04T03:00:04.777Z Sometimes, it seems events are happening for the second, or the thousandth, time. Sports of The Times: Five Years Later, Yankees Are in the Same Spot 2011-10-04T23:50:21Z Herrick had a strange sensation that for the thousandth part of an instant the man's eyes went perfectly blind. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z A wild desire seized him to grip that weakling by the throat, to make him quake and suffer, if only one thousandth part of the agony which had tortured him this past hour. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z Jeanne had a passion for children, and she now cried to herself, for the thousandth time, "What can the Blessed Virgin be thinking of, to trust babies to such creatures!" Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z All this represents not a thousandth part of the desolation which the war has brought upon our civilization. The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy 2011-09-13T02:00:33.070Z But I always would rather be the victim; he doesn't know what's coming; and it's not a thousandth part as bad as—the other thing—when it does come.... The Crime Doctor 2011-09-09T02:01:05.570Z Nevertheless, he listened patiently for the thousandth time to the E flat concerto, as Steiniger played it. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z The thirteenth cousin of his hundred thousandth great-grandfather, or something like that. Concerning Sally 2011-08-19T02:00:14.430Z Night had not fallen completely when the first ranks of the Cossacks and Tartars appeared on the horizon; then the second, third, tenth, hundredth, thousandth. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z I believe certainly that our Pliny did not touch upon a thousandth part of the animals and birds that exist in this region; nor could an artist such as Policletus, 125 succeed in painting them. The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career 2011-08-02T02:00:24.457Z Judith seized him in her arms, and knelt down before him, and for the thousandth time tried to find a trace of his father in his face. Throckmorton 2011-07-25T02:00:15.900Z The first Speaking Clock was accurate to within one tenth of a second and its modern equivalent is accurate to within five thousandths of a second. At the third stroke... 2011-07-22T10:17:33Z “A million would not add a thousandth part of an ounce to my pounds.” Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound A Red Cross Worker's Ocean Perils 2011-07-17T02:00:37.407Z For the thousandth time she covered herself with reproaches. Molly Brown's Junior Days 2011-07-14T02:00:11.180Z Now the thousandth and first chanced to be none other than Vicram; all were released but he. Old Deccan Days or Hindoo Fairy Legends Current in Southern India 2011-07-12T02:00:31.917Z They would ask him how much time he thinks that Congress should spend scrutinising three hundred thousandths of 1% of the federal budget. Manufacturing deficit fear 2011-07-11T14:09:20Z He copies for the thousandth time from the old models, Sheridan and Goldsmith, or his new masters, Scribe and d’Ennery. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z Seamen do not exactly understand the value of such nice accuracy as the thousandth part of an inch, but prefer an instrument that reads only to a hundredth part. A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility 2011-06-19T02:00:15.717Z "From which I cannot release her!" he repeated, for the thousandth time. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z He, who kills a breeding sow, destroys all her offspring, to the thousandth generation. The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers 2011-06-15T02:00:17.903Z It occurred to Dr. and Mrs. Sanford how beautiful she was, and again for the thousandth time to Helen. The Old Blood 2011-06-13T02:00:22.897Z This is not measured by points, but by thousandths of an inch. Type Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #1 2011-06-12T02:00:07.280Z Hence, the figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 on the vernier measure hundredths, and the intermediate lines even thousandths of an inch. A Treatise on Meteorological Instruments Explanatory of Their Scientific Principles, Method of Construction, and Practical Utility 2011-06-19T02:00:15.717Z A deep flush mantled his cheeks and brow as he read for more than the thousandth time that story of disgrace and degradation. If Any Man Sin 2011-06-12T02:00:05.887Z "Why don't you support your wife and children?" he asked, for the thousandth time. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z It believed the spill over the weekend was "less than one thousandth of 1% of that limit". Radioactive water spills from sub 2011-06-06T17:03:37Z Sirius may be less than a hundredth or a thousandth of the density of the Sun. The Plurality of Worlds 2011-06-01T02:00:23.787Z He yawned for about the thousandth time on his two days' journey, and wondered hopelessly how many more times he would yawn before he reached the Pacific. The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z It came to him while he was surveying for the thousandth time the roughly-hewn timbers that made the walls of his cell. The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service 2011-05-28T02:00:24.557Z But, said Rotha to herself, not the thousandth part of what I have against her. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z Roger Fielding read the letter from London for perhaps the thousandth time, sighed, and placed it face down on top of the pile to the left of the letters and reports in the folder. The Five Arrows 2011-04-21T02:00:45.940Z How well those foundations must be laid; a variation of a thousandth of a principle, projected through a thousand years, might swing the centre of gravity of society beyond its base! The Bail Jumper 2011-04-16T02:00:19.103Z It was the thousandth time he had made the declaration, and as he spoke the words a thankfulness rose in his heart because of what he had not heard in Ranger. I Conquered 2011-04-15T02:00:19.800Z My meagre dedication did not, and could not, say a thousandth part of what I feel,—but even so much was pleasurable to say before the world. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I 2011-04-15T02:00:13.527Z A milliwatt is a thousandth of a watt. Aircraft contrails stoke warming, cloud formation 2011-03-29T17:45:02.477Z A thousandth part of this force would pulverize a bowlder of adamant. The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts 2011-03-26T02:00:15.717Z Tokyo's air Thursday showed radiation lingered at nearly four times the normal level, though still less than a thousandth of what a patient receives in a typical chest X-ray. High Radiation Levels Seen Outside Japan's Safe Zone 2011-03-24T14:01:19Z "Supposing these extraordinary crimes constitute the thousandth case?" The Terror A Mystery 2011-03-22T02:00:24.957Z By contrast, Americans typically get only about one thousandth of that amount from food, he said. Anxiety Over Radiation Drives a Sales Surge for a Drug Against Thyroid Cancer 2011-03-16T04:10:11Z Gosławski is at the lathe, turning a large steel cylinder; the work must be done exactly to the thousandth of an inch! More Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:01:05.113Z Barbara sat in the little rose bower on the lawn puzzling her brain for the thousandth time over impossible schemes to communicate with Norman. Comrades A Story of Social Adventure in California 2011-03-03T03:00:52.327Z I wish you liked my name one thousandth part as much as I love the sound of yours! A Charming Fellow, Volume III (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:27.467Z Still, if in the thousandth case the animal’s existence was clearly casual, if we could see an elephant, or an ox, start into life without parental agency, that single case would prove the hypothesis. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z Such was the substance of about the thousandth soliloquy on the same subject, to the same purport, delivered by Mr. Thomas W. Clark, during the last seven years of his wedded life. Tom Clark and His Wife Their Double Dreams, And the Curious Things that Befell Them Therein; Being the Rosicrucian's Story 2011-02-25T03:01:12.293Z It took just a thousandth of a second to open and close. Carnivorous plant sucks in prey 2011-02-17T08:35:40Z Since it takes about a thousandth of a second for a flea to hurl itself into the air, Hooke was obviously making a tremendous guess. Fleas? ?Feet? Unleash That Spectacular Leap 2011-02-10T05:21:48Z The bullet has a diameter of three-hundred-and-three thousandths of an inch. Trenching at Gallipoli The personal narrative of a Newfoundlander with the ill-fated Dardanelles expedition 2011-02-02T03:00:25.187Z Does not sound philosophy demand that the proof of the casual production of the thousandth case shall be as decided as that of the normal generation of the nine hundred and ninety-nine? The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z Once that has happened, the water simply evaporates and the desired electronic sandwich is left behind in a thousandth of the time that it would take to make it using vacuum deposition. Solid-state batteries: The power of the press 2011-01-27T10:58:13Z The team's calculations indicate that less than one hundred thousandth of the gas released made it into the atmosphere. Gulf leak may give climate clues 2011-01-06T19:11:22Z "Why are we left to rot here in this stifling place?" exclaimed Colonel Tournay for the thousandth time. Robert Tournay A Romance of the French Revolution 2011-01-06T03:00:50.873Z The first one hundred dollars is due one year hence, the tenth ten years hence, the thousandth, a thousand years hence. The Value of Money 2011-01-04T03:01:12.363Z Not less than twenty-six species of them have been described and figured by microscopists, the smallest of which never exceeds the twelve thousandth of an inch in diameter. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z It is better to have it concave than convex, but not over two or three thousandths of an inch concave. Paper-Cutting Machines A Primer of Information about Paper and Card Trimmers, Hand-Lever Cutters, Power Cutters and Other Automatic Machines for Cutting Paper (Typographic Technical Series Part 1, No. 10) 2010-12-30T03:00:20.623Z He has created nothing in vain, and the minutest part of the creation is not to be overlooked or despised, since we know not the thousandth part of its virtues. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z Her eyes strayed now from the little mass of squirming and giggling humanity gathered about Joe's knees, and she re-examined lovingly, for the thousandth time, every bit of furniture in the room. The Lost Wagon 2010-12-20T17:12:36.807Z "That is but a thousandth part of the truth," she replied. The Baron's Sons 2010-12-20T17:12:02.667Z More than one third of the entire flora of the secondary formation consists of cycadeæ; whereas, this family of plants forms not more than the two thousandth part of the existing flora. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z For safe clearance the knife should be a few thousandths of an inch thinner at the top than the distance from its back to the line of its cutting edge. Paper-Cutting Machines A Primer of Information about Paper and Card Trimmers, Hand-Lever Cutters, Power Cutters and Other Automatic Machines for Cutting Paper (Typographic Technical Series Part 1, No. 10) 2010-12-30T03:00:20.623Z "It's pretty unbelievable after two runs and after about two miles of track that you tie down to the thousandth of a second," he said. Austrians tie for gold in WCup luge at Park City 2010-12-18T22:08:14Z Thus an error of only a thousandth of a second would produce an uncertainty in your position of 186 miles. How GPS devices pinpoint the location of moving objects 2009-11-03T05:00:00Z What enabled him to finish six thousandths of a second ahead of Dwain Chambers, the favourite for a medal? Lewis-Francis hails impact of Christie 2010-07-29T17:29:00Z After seeing five hundred terms, few will doubt; and after the fifty thousandth term, the propensity to believe the succeeding term will be fifty thousand and one, will be almost irresistible. The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences 2011-02-28T03:00:28.890Z These variations need only be a few thousandths of an inch to cause trouble. Paper-Cutting Machines A Primer of Information about Paper and Card Trimmers, Hand-Lever Cutters, Power Cutters and Other Automatic Machines for Cutting Paper (Typographic Technical Series Part 1, No. 10) 2010-12-30T03:00:20.623Z "It would be interesting to see just how much it is, two thousandths of a second," said Vettel. Vettel beats Alonso to German GP pole 2010-07-24T13:48:00Z In short, the Hart club has raised an average of $3,700 a day to throw less than a thousandth of that amount into federal political campaigns. Bingo is chief beneficiary of Michigan PAC 2010-06-21T04:00:00Z “A thousandth hit for A-Rod was probably nothing, or the 100th home run was probably not a lot, but now you’re starting to pass big names, and that’s always a concern for me.” Red Sox 9, Yankees 3: With Burnett in Fenway Form, Yankees Fall 2010-05-10T03:49:00Z Typically they're about a thousandth of the diameter of a human hair. Peeking Under Computing's Sheet Metal 2010-04-19T10:00:00Z Perhaps 30 or 40 thousandths of a second, on average, Singhal says. Archive: Can Google Stay on Top of the Web? 2010-04-15T21:35:00Z Being a track sprinter, when it's all about a thousandth of a second, there is no escaping the numbers every single day. Victoria Pendleton eager to live up to Chris Hoy's legacy | William Fotheringham 2010-03-23T00:10:00Z Smaller dust particles — from 28 to 49 microns, or thousandths of a millimeter — tend to stay on your shoes. What's in Household Dust? You Don't Want to Know 2010-02-23T09:30:00Z Here's the funny thing, though: In this one particular sport, where the margin between greatness and ignominy is often measured in thousandths of a second, it's the cowboys who get the job done. Americans Win Another Rodeo 2010-02-18T00:56:00Z In a sport timed to the thousandth of a second because of its narrow finishes, Hamlin improved millisecond by millisecond until her Lake Placid breakthrough. 2010-02-16T03:46:00Z It is the only Winter Olympic sport that measures finishes to the thousandth of a second. 2010-02-11T18:38:00Z I think I may safely affirm that, in some cases, the collapse reduced the bubbles to the thousandth part of their original volume. The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. This gas, having a strong affinity for water, is absorbed by any fluid that may be present, and, quitting its gaseous form, either disappears, or does not retain a thousandth part of its former bulk. Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. Feeling this, the fond pair, for the thousandth time, solemnly pledged themselves, in the face of heaven, to continue faithful to their vows, tenderly embraced each other, and parted. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 For the thousandth time I reviewed the dangers that threatened her, the bitter cold of the rain, insults of the soldiers, her wandering wits and the nearness of the river. Idonia: A Romance of Old London The particular indicator illustrated is of the dial type, any error in the location of the button being shown by a hand over a dial having graduations representing thousandths of an inch. Turning and Boring A specialized treatise for machinists, students in the industrial and engineering schools, and apprentices, on turning and boring methods, etc. The nobles and patricians often were luxurious, but they were not a thousandth part of the nation. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 This vast addition of renown which your Grace has acquired, and the wonderful preservation of your life, are subjects upon which I can never express a thousandth part of what I feel. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 It is by infinitesimal variations of pressure, a thousandth of a millimetre or less, that we obtain the various degrees of penetration in the R�ntgen rays. The Mechanism of Life He is justly considered one of the noblest and wisest of the English sovereigns; and the thousandth anniversary of his birth was celebrated in 1849, at Wantage, Berks. Tom Brown at Rugby If the latter does not run true, the hand of the indicator vibrates and the graduations on the dial show how much the work is out in thousandths of an inch. Turning and Boring A specialized treatise for machinists, students in the industrial and engineering schools, and apprentices, on turning and boring methods, etc. The size of the cells of which common plants are made up varies from about the thirtieth to the thousandth of an inch in diameter. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools On the summit of the mountain is one of the numerous monuments erected in 1896 in different parts of the country to commemorate the thousandth anniversary of the foundation of the Hungarian state. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" But words are wanting to express even the thousandth part of her charms. Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I Sabine is believed to have detected such a tide by the barometer, at St. Helena, of one four thousandth of an inch. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes There are also micrometer dials graduated to thousandths of an inch and used for adjusting the tools without the use of measuring instruments. Turning and Boring A specialized treatise for machinists, students in the industrial and engineering schools, and apprentices, on turning and boring methods, etc. Wood-Cells, or Woody Fibres, consist of tubes, commonly between one and two thousandths, but in Pine-wood sometimes two or three hundredths, of an inch in diameter. The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools The three were telling each other for the thousandth time how glad they were to be free and bachelors. The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion The experiments of Quincke and others seem to show that the extreme range of the forces which produce capillary action lies between a thousandth and a twenty-thousandth part of a millimetre. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" Their flash was a bright gleam of lightning radiating from a point, giving place in the thousandth part of a second to a small, white, puffy cloud, like a fleece of the lightest, whitest wool. The Battle of Gettysburg After seeing five hundred terms, few will doubt; and after the fifty thousandth term, the propensity to believe that the succeeding term will be fifty thousand and one, will be almost irresistible. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 I give you all I have, all I am, all I shall ever be, and it would not be the thousandth part of my love for you. The Ten-foot Chain or, Can Love Survive the Shackles? A Unique Symposium The distances of the ends of the thread from the nearest degree divisions are estimated by the aid of micrometers to the thousandth of a degree. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" Mary repeated to herself for the thousandth time. Lady Cassandra As to the things that bees make their collections from, we do not, perhaps, know a thousandth part of them; but of all the blossoms that they seek eagerly that of the Buck-wheat stands foremost. Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend At first it refers to the God of the covenant with Israel, who made a covenant with the fathers and keeps it with the thousandth generation of their descendants. Jewish Theology Harrison was willing to bet there was less than a ten thousandths error—even in the handle, where the curves seemed to be more artistic than mechanical. The Sword The error of any one of these readings probably does not exceed half a thousandth, but they are given to the nearest thousandth only. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" He looked, Farrell thought for the thousandth time, more like a retired cook than like the veteran commander of a Terran Colonies expedition. The Anglers of Arz And for the thousandth time she let despair roll over her. Little Aliens His beam actually had touched us, but our explosive rocket had got him a thousandth of a second sooner. Armageddon—2419 A.D. That is, she did not make an outcry--she said very little; but she demanded for the thousandth time her complete freedom. The Scarlet Banner The errors and corrections are given in thousandths of 1�. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" In thankful spirit, and with the resolve renewed for the ten thousandth time that he would cease to question God's wisdom in thwarting his little plans, he went to his berth. The Book of Courage On October 14, 1793, he will still be endeavoring, with the aid of Baron de Breteuil, to bring to completion a thousandth plot to extricate the august captive from her fate. Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty Farrell, still pondering the problem of balance between dominant and dominated species, found himself wondering for the thousandth time what went on in the alert positronic brain behind the mechanical's featureless face. Pet Farm I let my eyes go over her, real careful, for maybe the thousandth time. Hoiman and the Solar Circuit As a matter of fact the corrections at these points in terms of the fundamental interval were found to be −29 and −9 thousandths respectively. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" If we don't win both these games, or if it don't rain here to-day, or up home to-morrow, and keep us from playing, they beat us out by ten thousandths, or thirteen hundred thousandths. Jimmy Kirkland and the Plot for a Pennant Neither is mumbling the thousandth time over a printed form of words worship. The London Pulpit I wondered, for the thousandth time, how it was that Jim first suspected her of concealing something. The Red Symbol The monthly rainfalls are given in thousandths of the annual mean. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" Shorty got off by himself, produced from his breast his mementoes of Maria, and read over her last letter for the thousandth time, though he knew every word in it. Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign This quick bright flash of palest yellow in the thousandth of an instant reminds me, or rather conveys in itself, the whole idea of light—the accumulated idea of study and thought. The Hills and the Vale The mystery has gone into a fourth place, where it must stay, till we take a microscope, which will send it into a fifth, sixth, hundredth, or thousandth place, according to the power we use. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) Not long after three o'clock on that memorable Wednesday, Mrs. Gibson, Nellie and Gabrielle gathered around the enthroned Jim in his castle retreat to talk it all over again for the thousandth time. Cupid's Middleman He asked if a grain of corn, or the ten thousandth part of a grain, would, when it fell to the ground, make a noise. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition "Jeb kin do some awful fancy kurlys, and draw a bird without takin' his pen from the paper, but he never writ my name a thousandth part as purty as Maria kin." Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign With eyes full of rapture he pored over the pages of the military history, and for the thousandth time followed the army on its path of conquest. Jena or Sedan? Having reached this decision they lay about in the shade all through the tropical noon and discussed the treasure for the thousandth time since they first had come into possession of the code. The Go Ahead Boys and the Treasure Cave Yet the thousandth might set it aside, since certain facts might have been overlooked. The Ethnology of the British Islands So Aunt M'riar would say when she heard this narrative going over well-known ground for the thousandth time. When Ghost Meets Ghost A strand a thousandth of an inch thick, encased in silon for lubrication purposes, got me out of that filthy hole you call a prison. Thin Edge Why, I can't say one thousandth part of what I really mean. A Castle in Spain A Novel “It has a speed of one thousandth of a second,” announced Uncle Teddy, displaying all the fine points of his treasure like an auctioneer. The Campfire Girls on Ellen's Isle The Trail of the Seven Cedars To make fifty thousand credits from one thousandth of one percent royalties on a book selling at five credits the copy, one must needs sell a billion copies. A World by the Tale These we hear of, day by day: yet these indicate but the thousandth part of the evil. The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3), It has been calculated, that, of the horizontal sunbeams which pass through two hundred miles p. 151of air, scarcely a two thousandth part reaches the earth. The Rain Cloud or, An Account of the Nature, Properties, Dangers and Uses of Rain in Various Parts of the World But that is more self-inductance than we can stand in most radio circuits, so we find it convenient to measure in smaller units called “mil-henries” which are thousandths of a henry. Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son The verdict was rendered speedily, after which the judge who made the ruling declared a recess and bought the eleven thousandth position in line for five hundred dollars. Mr. Chipfellow's Jackpot He had a higher opinion of the ethics of the Galactics than Jackson did, but a thousandth of a per cent seemed like pretty small royalties. A World by the Tale I was sitting there in the evening light, inhaling the scent of eucalyptus and thinking for the thousandth time about how much better this was than bottled oxygen. Last Resort If the town were not so dead–if they could only make a living,–the Widow started up for the thousandth time, for she heard a racing auto down the street. Shadow Mountain That’s a small amount of silver, only about a thousandth part of a gram, and you know that it takes 28.35 grams to make an ounce. Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son There is no space to tell a thousandth part of the benefits conferred by the Flamp upon the city which once had used him so ill. The Flamp, The Ameliorator, and The Schoolboy's Apprentice He found it without difficulty, and for the thousandth time Rick marveled at his pal's sure sense of position and direction, even in darkness. The Flying Stingaree After he had heard the missionary explaining it for about the thousandth time, he said: 'Ho, me see now; your God is my devil.' The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country Groups of peones gathered slowly about the few little stores in the main street, or entered and inspected for the thousandth time the shabby stocks. Carmen Ariza For a rib does not, perhaps, equal the thousandth part of an entire body. Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers Reprinted From an English Work, Entitled "Half-Hours With The Freethinkers." People have been jumping off the Golden Gate since it opened in 1937 -- they stopped counting after the thousandth suicide in 1995. Little Brother For what prosaic people call the reality is merely the co-ordination in their own minds of perhaps a thousandth part of aspects of the life around them; and only this thousandth part they have noticed. Amaryllis at the Fair Farther proof of their deficiency in space.nature scarcely ever confines herself to such masses; they form but the thousandth part of her variety of effect. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) Thus, on a very incomplete acquaintance with a thousandth part of the Earth's crust, he based a sweeping generalization applying to the whole of it. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I In literature, when nine hundred and ninety-nine souls ignore you, but the thousandth buys your work, or at least borrows it—that is called enormous popularity. A Great Man A Frolic On the way out to the Lagao Rodrigo de Feitas, which, is close by the Garden itself, Bell had time to work over for the thousandth time the information he possessed, and realize its uselessness. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 Meanwhile the Danish church was preparing to celebrate its thousandth anniversary in May, 1826. Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark He stood, irresolute, until the echo of her common-sense shoes died into silence; and as he lingered, he was struck for the ten thousandth time by the amazing mystery of the human family. Rope For the ten thousandth time he was thinking that this need not have happened. They Twinkled Like Jewels The mature pork tapeworm is about ten feet long, although the eggs, seen in the pork flesh, giving it its name of "measly," are only about a thousandth of an inch in diameter. Rural Hygiene “I wish I could help you, madam,” said Harry Esmond, sighing, and wishing that unavailingly, and for the thousandth time in his life. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges The thousandth time may prove the charm.––That leaf! Mountain Interval And Dolly, very pale, says with an impatience that seems weary, as though it were repeating itself for the thousandth time "Oh, Goosie, why, why, why will you scare me so?" The Trimming of Goosie Our life, a ten thousandth part of that nothingness; and so full of tiny––great struggles and worries!” A Breath of Prairie and other stories On what might have been the thousandth try, he caught it and killed it, and there was warm blood on his hands and feathers were flying. Happy Ending Why should a man be modest, who, in the six thousandth year of the creation, has found out, for the first time, the science of languages? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 Tell thy story; If thine, consider'd, prove the thousandth part Of my ——, thou art a man, and I Have suffer'd like a girl. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions Nothing evil was ever said of any man which was not true, his worst enemies could not say a thousandth part of the evil that is in him. General Gordon A Christian Hero If nine hundred and ninety-nine cases were observed of men resisting reform it would not prove the impossibility of reforming the thousandth. A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science I have not mentioned a thousandth part of the wrongs done woman by her being deprived of the right of self-government. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III And such is but the thousandth part of the afflictions that are to be avoided or produced by the choice of the prevailing beverage of tea. A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves For the thousandth time Daoud wished he were leading troops in the field rather than intriguing in the chambers of enemy leaders. The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Again the mother wondered where she came from and for the ten thousandth time agreed with herself that it must be the blood of the Norse sailor cropping out in her energetic daughter. The Comings of Cousin Ann They mean neither one thing nor another: 1001st being expressed by the thousand-and-first, and 1000th + 1st being expressed by the thousandth and the first. A Handbook of the English Language They envy Attila, who fought a thousand battles, and in the thousandth still felt that, which he called gaudia certaminum, that is, the delight in the slaughter. My First Battle A Sergeant's Story Yet, apart from the habit of thinking otherwise, and being drummed into the notion by the very toys of infancy, the similitude is not one atom too ludicrous; no, nor a thousandth part enough so. Captain Sword and Captain Pen A Poem Not a thousandth part so unreasonable would it be to believe a real factory of this description, were one to exist, to be a chance existence, as to believe this universe so. The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, April, 1880 But you have the thousandth of a grain. The Brothers Karamazov While he reviewed, for the thousandth time, this determination of his, and told himself again how the thing should be done, his tea had grown quite cold. The Dop Doctor Verily, the wisest saint on earth cannot reach to the thousandth part thereof. In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers Even the performers play it for the thousandth time with almost as much enthusiasm as when they first began. India and the Indians In the year 1880 the Danish monarchy reached the thousandth anniversary of its foundation under Gorm the Old, whose reign bridges over the interval between mere legend and the dawn of recorded history. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands In the thousandth case a rich man and woman make fools of themselves and the world reads the scandal next morning. The Dominant Dollar Now according to this idea, no matter how many Intelligences are produced in this successive manner, the last, even if he be the thousandth, would have to be simple. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy I again repeat it, for the thousandth time, the English are a hard hearted, cruel and barbarous race; and, on this account alone, I have often been ashamed, that we, Americans, descended mostly from them. A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. Under these pads are liners 5, 10, 20, and 50 thousandths in thickness. Steam Turbines A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of the Principal Types of this Class of Prime Movers Rosemary obeyed, privately wondering for the thousandth time whence came Grandmother's money. Master of the Vineyard |
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