Sentence examples for length was lost from inspiring English sources

The distinction must have been reflected to some extent in Late Latin or early Romance, for, even after the system of vowel length was lost, light, or "open," syllables often developed in a different way from heavy, or "closed," syllables.

Because the system of vowel length was lost after the Classical period, it is not known with any certainty how vowels were pronounced at that period; but, because of later developments in Romance, the assumption is that the vowel-length distinctions were also associated with qualitative differences, in that short vowels were more open, or lax, than long vowels.

One study [[39]] reported that 6.25% of the treated maxillary incisors resulted in severe root resorption where greater than 1/3 of the original root length was lost.

After calculating the average cap length in their model, the authors consider two ways in which catastrophe may occur: (i) when the average cap length is lost to fluctuations in microtubule growth and (ii) when half the average cap length is hydrolyzed while the other half is lost to fluctuations in growth.

Estimates of branch support were derived from additional heuristic searches in PAUP* that incorporated "anti-constraints," and also by searches in TNT that retained sub-optimal trees and determined at what length each recovered clade was lost in a strict consensus.

Telomerase abrogation in cancer-prone mouse models, however, only decreased tumor growth after several mouse generations when telomeres reach a critically short length, and this effect was lost upon p53 mutation.

All macular parameters were consistently positively correlated with age and most were positively correlated with SE (Table  3).When controlling for axial length, correlation with SE was lost and only the positive correlation of the inner circle macular thicknesses with age persisted.

Though Thomas Cooper's full-length novel about Chartism was lost, early working-class fictions were usually subversions of bildungsroman – the hero not always overcoming poverty, but certainly tackling it head-on and more often with his fists.

The PGL value of each gene is then defined as the ratio between the total length of branches in which the gene was lost and the total length of branches in which the gene could have been lost.

Off the coast of Queensland, those record temperatures led to the worst coral bleaching on record, where an estimated 22% of the coral on the entire 2,300km length of the Great Barrier Reef was lost.

Unfortunately, some data on body mass and tarsus length of booted eagles in 2008 was lost during a hardware accident.