Sentence examples for few impulses from inspiring English sources

The few impulses that are allowed into the drawing room are not yet conscious, and may or may not become so, depending on whether or not they "succeed in catching the eye of consciousness".

At high rates of stimulation, sufficient to cause a smooth contraction (tetanus) of the muscle, the quantity of transmitter released per impulse declines for the first few impulses (synaptic depression), which may be due to a reduction in the number of vesicles ready for release.

Figure (a) shows "simplified" GCC-PHAT functions consisting of few impulses.

The time-keeping cells went bananas in the morning and at night, but then during the day they stayed in a bizarre state of excitement during which they emitted very few impulses.

Ros: In big box retail, you get few impulse buys when you're above the $30-$30-$40ce range.

Tinnitus is believed to be similar to the phantom-limb pain suffered by some amputees: as fewer impulses reach the cochlear nerve, the brain's auditory circuitry compensates by becoming overactive, creating an illusion of sound.

An injury to the motor nerve fibers might appear as an increase in latency and/or a reduction in persistence, i.e. fewer impulses return to the foot muscles.

Overall, six in ten consumers say that their shopping habits have changed, with seven in ten making fewer impulse buys now than they used to.

In addition, the decline of the mall bookstores led to fewer impulse purchases of the lower-priced books, and the popularity of trade paperbacks grew significantly when Oprah Winfrey began recommending those books exclusively for her book club.

Peapod teaches its customers to shop so effectively in its virtual supermarket that most of them discover that despite the company's rates they save money because they use more coupons, do better comparison shopping, and buy fewer impulse items than they would if they shopped at a real supermarket.

Back to the shopping aisle, I believe that when it comes to food and beverages, consumers will shop less emotionally and more rationally, with fewer impulse items tossed into the grocery cart.