Sentence examples for a trough of a from inspiring English sources

As recently hypothesized and demonstrated by Ginzburg et al. (in review) in the context of discrete time models, populations appear to have evolved to avoid the large fluctuations, because populations are most vulnerable to extinction every time they pass through a trough of a large amplitude oscillation.

Hurricane Sandy began as a tropical wave (a trough of low pressure) in the warm ocean waters of the central part of the tropical North Atlantic on October 19.

At center is a trough of water; on the left, a font of dirt; on the right, a font of blood.

Where once you would have found the Gunners lying face down in a trough of cocaine (or worse) before a show, a drugs ban is strictly enforced.

I was in a trough of despair".

One feared a trough of plaint: either a sad, Gosse-like reckoning with the father; or an angry, journalistic reckoning with those journalists who have hunted Amis from tooth to tooth.

A "trough of disillusionment" follows, and then, finally, a "slope of enlightenment," meaning that the technology finally catches up to its initial hype.

Since March , 2010 when manufacturing employment in the U.S. hit a trough of 11.45 million jobs, nearly a million new factory positions have been created, most of them in the Southern states, particularly North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.

The belt swings around and the birds disappear through plastic flaps, behind which their heads pass into a trough of water through which runs an electric current strong enough to kill them.

Fly Davies's design, a grey frame suspended over a trough of water, is barren in the extreme; it suits McDougall's visual concept of characters turning slowly through space, like broken figurines in an abandoned musical box.

Hurricane Irene began as a tropical wave (a trough of low pressure) off the west coast of Africa on August 15, and it became a named tropical storm on August 20, as it neared Dominica in the eastern Caribbean Sea.