Sentence examples for as a spell of from inspiring English sources

For example, the India Meteorological Department requires that temperatures increase 5 6 °C (9 10.8 °F) or more above the normal temperature, whereas the U.S. National Weather Service defines a heat wave as a spell of "abnormally and uncomfortably hot and unusually humid weather" spanning two days or more.

You might have thought that a 600-page work, including appendices and notes, on national service would be as compelling as a spell of spud-bashing in the barracks (younger readers: peeling potatoes as punishment), but every single page has something of great interest on it, and all without any rhetorical dishonesty or authorial side.

As far as Waca barrages go, Mike Denness's 1974-75 English tourists sustained as harrowing a spell of fast bowling as any.

11 min: The home fans are whistling as United enjoy a spell of possession and the TV producer's obsession with seeing what the managers are doing means I didn't see Rafael bring down Muniain.

It began in 1995 – the same year, incidentally, that he launched the loud, brash, über lad's mag Maxim – and ended just as abruptly with a spell of self-enforced cold turkey in 1997.

Resuming on 240-7, Engladdeddded 17 with their remaining three wickets as fast bowler Jerome Taylor produced a spell of 3-3 to dismiss them for 257.

He says a spell of therapy, as well as some faith healing and a course in cranial osteopathy, helped improve his mental health.

As he read this, he betrayed no sense of how absurd it was to use the passive voice in regard to his scheme, as if it were a spell of bad weather that had descended on him.

"The military are on standby as sadly there is a spell of bad weather coming in and they may be needed for further activities," he said.

However, after bowling a large number of overs against Worcestershire early in the season, he had little success as a bowler for a spell of three weeks.

We defined emergency admissions as being the first episode in a spell of care, coded as an emergency, and admitted from a source other than another hospital ward or outpatient clinic.