Sentence examples for for a drain from inspiring English sources

She also claimed £1,086.75 for a "drain doctor" to unblock a drain and £690 on a structural survey of the gable wall.

With cruel irony, attempts to revive the Persian Gulf trade were followed by a British mission from India in 1800, which ultimately opened the way for a drain of Persian bullion to India.

For example, a subthreshold swing of 11.82 mV/decade and operating voltage of 0.65 V for a drain current of 10−8 A/µm have been obtained.

Under UV illumination with a wavelength of 364 nm the ZnO-TFT exhibited ∼4.7 μA for a drain current (at the same gate bias of 10 V), which is ∼50 times higher than without UV.

The ON-state current of ~10−6 A for a drain bias as low as 20 mV shows that the CNFET has a higher current drive capability than the present sub-micron Si-based devices [16, 20]. Figure 2 a Effect of low temperature on the transfer characteristic of the SWCNT transistor.

The field effect mobility was estimated to be 18.6 cm2/V s for a drain bias of 3 V from the following equation [26]: {mu}_{mathrm{eff}}=left {g}_mcdot L right)/left( {C}_{mathrm{OX}}cdot Wcdot {V}_{mathrm{DS}}right) (1 where L is the channel length, W is the channel width, and the oxide capacitance C OX is 1.38 × 10−8 F/cm2.

Except for the use of a drain, all of these independent risk factors are nonmodifiable.

In fact, the gallery can provide a reproduction of the image from which it is taken: it is half of a magazine advertisement for a drain-clearing liquid.

For a draining hour she and the others had worked the tarp, stitched together from discarded billboards, up and over the structure, which for the moment resembled a Buckminster Fuller-designed jungle gym.

The same shoppers who steel themselves for a draining two-hour trawl round Carrefour will also drop in on the high-street butcher and pay top prices for a côte de boeuf.

In an echo of Michael Gove's call for a "draining of the swamp", Lewis told the Guardian: "If we try to be neutral between the arsonist and the fire brigade then we run into problems.