Sentence examples for greater lapse from inspiring English sources

Could there be a greater lapse of care than to fail to properly inspect and maintain fire hydrants once they have been established and the community has accepted them as being live guardians and not mere painted cast iron?

In permafrost regions of the QTP, the greater lapse rate of soil temperature per 100 m of increased elevation resulted in more significant modification of the SOC and soil thermal relationship in alpine meadows than that in tundra and boreal ecosystems.

An even greater lapse, in Hamond's eyes, was Davidson's failure to return to Stiffkey in time to officiate at the 1930 Armistice Day ceremony at the local war memorial.

However, when dry air is found at the same height, temperatures at 500 hPa need to be even colder as dry atmospheres require a greater lapse rate for instability than moist atmospheres.

Congressional investigators corroborated these criticisms, though they found greater lapses at the C.I.A. and the F.B.I.

Because of the great lapse of time, the landscape in the identified areas had also changed significantly.

This, though, is not the greatest lapse of time between an exaggerated report of death and the reality.

That its greatest lapse affected the medals in the games' most evocative event was a minor tragedy.

Such a cause also contributes to the slightly greater vertical lapse rates of streamwater δ18O (−0.28 to −0.48‰/100 m) relative to the Himalayan front.

The greater the lapse of time between that period and other periods in the index, the less meaningful the price comparisons become.

The selling of advertising space on athletes' uniforms to megacorporations by institutions of higher education is a far greater moral lapse than the peddling of memorabilia to a small-time tattoo parlor operator by student-athletes at Ohio State.