Sentence examples for flies range from inspiring English sources

Robber flies range in length to almost 8 cm (3 inches), making them the largest of all flies.

Flies range in size from midges of little more than one millimetre to robber flies more than seven centimetres long.

Tachinid flies range in size from 2 to 20 mm, and most of them are larger than a house fly and noticeably more bristly, especially on thoracic dorsum and third to fifth abdominal segments; however, across the family there is a tremendous variety of shapes, colors, and degree of bristling.

The eyes of dfe flies range from defects as mild as duplications of bristles at the eye margin and reduced size, to protuberances, more severe bristle duplications and deformity.

These close-range songs, the spectral composition of which matches the flies' range of hearing (ca. 100 300 Hz), drive female mating decisions [ 2] and stimulate other males to court and sing [ 1,3].

In all cases, 200 females carrying the targeting vector and hs-FLP, hs-I-SceI were used and, on average, a confirmed KO was identified after screening 3000 flies (range 1000-8000).

Minute to small flies, ranged from 2 to 5 mm in length; usually blackish, grayish or yellowish in color.

Minute to small rather robust flies; body 0.7 5.5 mm in length; usually dull flies ranged from brown to blackish in color, sometimes with yellow, orange or reddish head, thorax and legs with markings on them.

The cardiac tubes of 145 male and female adult flies, ranging from 1 to 7 weeks of age, were dissected and exposed according to Vogler and Ocorr (2009) [8].

Two unidirectional, normalized cDNA libraries were constructed from embryos ranging in age from 30 min to 36 hr after oviposition and from adult male and female heads of flies ranging from 30 min to 8 days after emergence.

After heat shock, young 10-day old flies ranged from 5-355-35%cells positive for lacZ expression in the Malpighian tubule, oenocytes, or thoracic bristle roots in the two different PEV lines, while similarly-treated 50-day old flies show between 40-80% lacZ expression in Malpighian tubule or oenocytes for BL1 and BL2 (Fig. 2).