Factor analysis of these four characteristics (with varimax rotation) yielded two clear-cut factors: the first was loaded chiefly on the time elapsed since menarche (a factor loading of 0.84) and breast development (0.84), and the second on willingness to go out with a boy (0.83) and care for one's appearance (0.82).
Another aspect of the Islamic theatre was represented in the shadow plays, which were given chiefly to pass the time during the month of fasting, Ramadan (the sacred ninth month of the Muslim year).
Something of this vigour had already entered the orchestral Fourth Sonata of 1975, although Matthews was chiefly involved at the time with mastery of the darkly turbulent musical vistas characteristic of the Sonata No. 5, Landscape (1980).
Some bee colonies die off naturally all the time, chiefly in winter, but the scale of the demise reported by beekeepers has prompted governments and scientists to examine why bees appear to be under threat, and in some cases to try to get around the problem by changing the ways bees are kept.
In 1716 he inherited from his uncle the title Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu and the office of Président à Mortier in the Parlement of Bordeaux, which was at the time chiefly a judicial and administrative body.
ThunderAnt was something they did chiefly for fun, but by the time they had ten fairly polished sketches Armisen thought that they might have a show to pitch.
In drama, the second half of the century witnessed disputes concerning the Neoclassical "rules" (chiefly the unities of place, time, and action).
At the time he was chiefly occupied with Macedonia, but he also had the charge of Achaia.
The time savings are chiefly due to the ubiquity of computer-aided design, or CAD, software and computer numerical control, or CNC, machines.
Florus compiled a brief sketch of the history of Rome from its founding to the time of Augustus, based chiefly but not solely on Livy.
