I met a charming, elderly woman who had worked with Durrell and she agreed that much of the book was fiction, or at least consisted of tiny grains of fact, puffed full of air and coated with sugar.
For data warehouses that load data directly to star schemas, changing the variables that trigger updates to Type 2 slowly changing dimensions and altering the grain of its fact tables lead to similarly expensive reengineering efforts.
This compilation is distrusted by most modern Malay authorities because of its manifest inaccuracy in matters of detail, and it is usually only cited by them as a legendary record which, amidst a great mass of chaff, may contain a few grains of solid fact.
It sounds scary, and it contains more than a grain of truth but in fact the Republicans have proposed none of these specific cuts.
There were categories (Leaders & Revolutionaries, Builders & Titans, Artists & Entertainers, Heroes & Icons, Scientists & Thinkers) and because the voting was done on the Web, one Time editor wrote that, in essence, the results should be taken with more than a grain of salt; in fact, perhaps a mine-full.
Third, she takes off from a grain of documentary truth (the fact that Nichols is Albert Einstein's cousin) to develop a riff that is both breathtakingly imaginative and temporally prismatic.
There is a grain of truth to the fact that Shalimar comes across as a little démodé in an era where zest, zing and fizz dominate, which is why the powers that be have encouraged the company's current nose, Thierry Wasser, to develop a new take on it.
Commentators extrapolate a grain of truth into a mountain of fact.
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The petitioner claims that this act is unconstitutional because it prohibits him from deducting an arbitrary amount, to wit, 100 pounds, from each and every car of grain, irrespective of the fact whether or not it actually contains any dirt or other foreign substance.
