The phrase "a stripe about" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in a context where you are describing a stripe that is approximately a certain measurement or characteristic, but it is not commonly used.
Example: "The fabric had a stripe about an inch wide running down the side."
Alternatives: "a stripe of approximately" or "a stripe roughly".
A border ROI was classified as a stripe extending about 0.7 mm into area 17 and 1 mm into area 18 from the 17/18 border previously identified from the electrophysiological and histological data.
As can be seen in the example in Fig. 5A, the receptive field measured in the dendritic compartment of the left VS5-cell has a rather uniform structure: it is sensitive for downward motion within a stripe of about 30 deg width and, thus, resembles most of what is expected from its sensitivity field as defined in the program code.
The autocorrelation was performed in a stripe of about 27 μm wide and 13 μm high in the anterior of the embryo and the analysis was carried out in each frame during the first 75 s of cortical flow.
Our data indicate that whereas Hh-WT induces dpp-lacZ expression in a stripe of about 15 cells along the dorsoventral border, Hh-N induces dpp-lacZ throughout the anterioventral quadrant of the wing pouch (Fig. 8A C″).
The beach is dotted with several colorful beach shacks, should you need a Red Stripe (about 100 Jamaican dollars) to cool you off from the sun.
"There's something innately pleasing about a stripe," noted Peter Osborne, the chief executive and head of design at Osborne & Little, the British wallpaper and fabric company.
So there is a partially fictionalist option of being a realist of some stripe about possible worlds but a fictionalist about impossible worlds (and perhaps other situations, e.g., incomplete or underdetermined ones).
"We're in a similar boat as you re: Flint Mobile," a Stripe spokesperson told TechCrunch when asked about what was going on with Flint.
