Sentence examples for a gap in time from inspiring English sources

But if you think about it, there is almost always a gap in time — however infinitesimal it may seem — between seeing and comprehending.

"They thought they saw the same group but did not, and there was a gap in time before the final positive identification from the ground force until the handoff to the weapons team," he said.

If my brain were preserved today and used in a brilliantly natural-seeming artificial body in a year's time, then I might indeed wake up and go, "Wow, here I am again", and take up my old friendships, family connections, email habits, website and Facebook page and still feel that I was the same person – just with a bit of a gap in time like being ill or going travelling for a year.

The company has in total hosted people in nearly 9,000 homes over 90 disasters, but it found that there was a gap in time between when something happened, and the days it would take to recruit volunteers to provide homes.

An opening in the weft of fate might mean a gap in time, an eternal moment in which the design becomes more compact or relaxed: the weaver pushes the shuttle and bobbin through the opening in the threads of the weft at the critical moment, the right moment, for the gap in the weft only has limited time and the shuttle must be pushed while the gap is open.

There was a gap in time where Bridget was not writing letters back to Charlotte, which was worrisome.

A title card announces a gap in the time of the film that stretches a little under a year.

At TSU, our northernmost location, a gap in the time series from 2008.5 to 2010.5 hampers the investigation of rapid SV changes.

Important events in its development were the realization by English engineer and geologist William Smith that in a horizontal sequence of sedimentary strata what is now an upper stratum was originally deposited on a lower one and the discovery by Scottish geologist James Hutton that an unconformity (discontinuity) indicates a significant gap in time.

However, since the earliest representatives of Au. afarensis were dated to approximately 3.75 million years ago, there remained a large gap in time between the last common ancestor that humans shared with chimpanzees (7 million years ago) and the emergence of Au. afarensis.

Moreover, the rats that successfully completed the more difficult task, which involved a longer gap in time between the sound and the puff of air, had retained more new neurons than those assigned easier tasks, with shorter gaps.It is not yet clear how learning triggers the retention of the new brain cells and the laying down of memories.