Sentence examples for a flight of only from inspiring English sources

When it crashed, Helios was preparing for a flight of only 40 hours.

"Living as Weasels" is a flight of only 1,500 words.

The effort of going up a flight of stairs only to come down another also proved less attractive to many than the prospect of gingerly picking their way along the kerb of a dual carriageway.

Given three glasses of wine from the same bottle (within a flight of 30 wines), only 10% of the judges consistently gave the three glasses the same ranking.

Above a flight of steps (the only conventional spatial cues) two wraith-like figures shrouded in white advance with ritual purpose.

Right now, my workroom sounds like Kraftwerk falling down a flight of stairs, albeit only after their roadies had de-tuned a couple of their keyboards first.

Turboprops have a flight span of only 500 miles, about half that of regional jets, which can serve markets that had been beyond a turboprop's reach.

Abu Dhabi's airport is just a ten minute drive from Yas Island and within a flight radius of only around four hours is a population of around 1.5 billion people in India and Russia alone.

Contrary to the claims of those who want the money spent in their districts, the plan to build this $38 billion giant rocket, using outdated technologies to repeat the achievement of Apollo 8 some 53 years later in 2021, then delivering a flight rate of only one or two flights per year, will decimate NASA.

And with a flight time of only an hour and a half from Singapore -- or a mere 55 minutes from Kuala Lumpur -- you can be sipping a beachside cocktail in the time it takes most city-dwellers to battle their way home from work.

Further, if a laser-cooled atomic ion, which sympathetically cools all the trapped ions, is also present in the trap then the mass spectrum is dramatically improved; in fact, we have demonstrated mass resolutions m/Δ m>1000 with a flight distance of only ∼ 30 cm [63, 64].