Sentence examples for few strata from inspiring English sources

The first few strata were dense with inauspicious fossils: crack vials, condoms and (ouch) hypodermic needles.

For the sake of one last New Year's list (a fixture Emily Nussbaum argues we should banish in 2014), I've zoomed out a few strata further, and have considered some of the criminal-justice themes and crime-related subplots that not only defined the past twelve months but look likely to mark the year ahead: 1. Tales of stopping stop-and-frisk.

Therefore, partial lipid extraction of the transition zone between stratum granulosum and stratum corneum by skin scrub is possible in the areas where only a few stratum corneum layers are present.

A possible reason is that the regression models were more effective in the Green Hills stands, thus requiring fewer strata to obtain the same level of efficiency.

With the regression estimator (model-assisted) fewer strata led to better estimates for the Green Hills datasets (Tables 8 and 9) but had minimal effect on the RMSE values for the Nundle datasets (Tables 6 and 7).

This may be addressed by choosing fewer strata (e.g. tertiles versus quartiles), but this in turn may lead to increased residual confounding [ 21].

Still, despite a few more strata than necessary (which its subject would have appreciated), it is a tale worth telling.

But his support in the north-eastern slums of Baghdad, known as Sadr City after his late father, extends to quite a few other strata of society.

23 The fewer the strata used, the stronger and more inappropriate this assumption becomes, and is worst when levels of PA are dichotomised as 'active' or 'sedentary'sedentary

The Himalayan faults were mainly active in the north area in the hinterland of the Junggar Basin (the Luliang uplift and Shixi uplift) and faulted out the Cretaceous and the above strata, few faults were formed in the Mosuowan-Mobei area.

In either case the over-dispersion ψ is best estimated from the Pearson chi-squared statistic, though neither this nor other estimates are consistent when data are sparse (few events per stratum) [ 13].