Sentence examples for for a small patch from inspiring English sources

Eritrea and Ethiopia are now engaged in a titanic dispute for a small patch of ground on their border.

The heads of children were often shaved, except for a small patch of hair covering a vulnerable spot in the skull.

Seconds later, I'm in the Caribbean sea, swimming for a small patch of sand between thick mangrove trees on a nearby island.

At a sort of world's fair called the Empire Exhibition, Alfred and Emily were taken in by the Southern Rhodesian stall, which promised "Get rich on maize," and so had ended up in Africa, spending Alfred's capital of a thousand pounds on farming equipment for a small patch of land.

Just as the center of the human field of vision is focused on the retina's fovea, where visual acuity is highest, the foveal descriptor provides sharp detail for a small patch of the image, with the surrounding area shown as more of a blur.

For a small patch, we write the third term ∑ x i ∈ x ∥ x i, n - M a ∥ 2 2 as ∥ ( I - B ) ϕ α n ∥ 2 2, where I is the identity matrix and B ( i, j ) = M a i,  if  x j  is an element of  a 0, otherwise (11).

According to the concept of the modular organization of the visual cortex, the visual cortex is composed of many identical elementary processing units, with each module containing the neuronal circuitry for the analysis of a small patch of the visual world with respect to all possible stimulus combinations.

Born of a black father and a Pawnee mother but raised by his grandfather, Elbridge never dreamed of upward mobility; an outcast, all he hoped for was a small patch of farmland and a chance to catch the limit during dove-hunting season.

This time, though, the offensive line did not have to kick at the packed snow to clear a small patch for him to get his footing.

Alex Tanguay, who plays for the Calgary Flames, has a small patch of synthetic ice in the basement of his summer home in Quebec.

He was a farmer and a fisherman, with a small patch for rice and an old boat he would take out into the East Sea for mackerel, cuttlefish and octopus.