Sentence examples for greater altitude from inspiring English sources

Stress tests would have common standards, Mr. Oettinger said, but "if you have a plant which is on the coast, well then obviously flooding and tsunamis will be tested for perhaps more thoroughly than plants situated at much greater altitude".

The firm wants, one day, to recover the Falcon's second stage, too though the greater altitude and speed the second stage reaches makes this a far tougher proposition.Still, being the biggest, the first stage is the most expensive part, so retrieving it should make a huge difference to launch costs.

This effect suffered from Low-Flying-Bird Syndrome: it was certainly off the ground, but it would have cast a larger shadow if it had achieved a greater altitude by casting itself as a more general principle of value — not just a camera's cost affecting the perception of a photo's quality, but a restaurant's cost affecting the perception of a meal's quality, and so forth.

Planes would climb higher on take-off and fly at a greater altitude for longer during landing.

Cryosols and Leptosols (WRB) roughly corresponding to Gelisols and Entisols (SSS), respectively, are the most common soil classes, with an overall tendency of absent permafrost in the coastal areas, changing to sporadic permafrost at mid-slope, and discontinuous permafrost with greater altitude and substrate stability.

There are also modifications to combat, including an elevation advantage which grants units at a greater altitude with more power and accuracy.

The tall forests of rhododendron and fir began to thin as we gradually ascended to greater altitudes.

More recently, great flocks of long-tailed ducks and smaller groups of white-fronted geese, both of which migrate at greater altitudes, have populated the sky and filled the air with their distinctive calls.

For example, [Breetzke 2012] found that suburbs at greater altitudes in Tshwane (South Africa) were consistently found to have lower burglary rates.

In some areas breeding occurs at greater altitudes, up to.

Or, Franklin mused, it could carry wine to great altitude and keep it cool.