Sentence examples for Long expedition from inspiring English sources

We appear to be started on a long expedition".

In 1940 he joined a year long expedition to the South Seas on the Fahnestock Expedition on a three-masted, 137-foot schooner Director II.

On one long expedition drive, Cabrol stared out the window, her shoulders tense with what I realized was anticipation only when we crested a rise and saw the first dark peaks of volcanoes before us.

It is with that grim but realistic assumption in mind that he sets out on a long expedition, from Washington to Holland, Pakistan, Russia, Georgia and Turkey, in order to discover just how hard or easy it now is for a nuclear aspirant, private or national, to gain possession of such weapons or technology.

Last year he completed a long expedition that offered him particular intellectual pleasure: he was on board the Dutch clipper Stad Amsterdam as it retraced the route of HMS Beagle around the world, from Plymouth to Salvador de Bahia to the Galápagos and on – "the most important voyage ever made," he insists, "far more so than man's journey to the moon".

For example, after the long expedition to the orbital station "Skylab" and short-term missions to the "Shuttle", no increase in acute phase proteins was found39, but a survey of 29 astronauts after long-term space missions (from 125 to 366 days) showed that on the 2nd day after landing, the relative content of α-1 and α-2 globulin fractions increased, which is a sign of "acute" phase reaction40.

Exhausted and for some time ill as a result of long expeditions and excessive use of wine, he died in November 1676.

The birds nest on sub-Antarctic islands, with mating partners taking turns making long expeditions to eat while the other incubates the egg.

"Nostalgia: The Russian Empire of Czar Nicholas II Captured in Color Photographs" (Gestalten), by Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii One of the first to experiment with color photography, Prokudin-Gorskii made his pictures mostly between 1905 and 1915, on long expeditions sponsored by the czar.

There is also a discrepancy in the quantitative results for immunoglobulins G, A, and M concentrations after long expeditions: Guseva and Tashpulatov found them to be increased41, while Rykova, et al. did not find significant changes in 53 cosmonauts42.

The frame has fittings for three water bottles for long expeditions, mounts for full mudguards and the wheels are attached with a traditional quick release at the rear and a thru axel at the front.