Sentence examples for long barriers from inspiring English sources

The long barriers doubled the latency to initiate switching behavior and greatly reduced the frequency of switching.

Moreover, no calves were able to displace a calf successfully while it was consuming milk from a teat bucket when the buckets were separated by the long barriers.

In conclusion, barriers between teat buckets can reduce competition for milk among pair-housed calves, but the effects were strongest when using long barriers, which separated the teat buckets as well as the front half of the calf during a feeding event.

Along this long barrier island coast, Florida has the longest and most heavily developed shoreline.

"At the time I just got the long barrier down and stopped it.

For those attacking Sirte they seemed for a while to be insuperable obstacles, not least the long barrier blocking access to the vast plaza of the Ouagoudougou conference centre.

The inspiration for the popular children's book Misty of Chincoteague, this 37-mile long barrier island off the coasts of Maryland and Virginia has had a population of feral horses since colonial times.

Embankment dams are often preferred to control rivers and streams passing through broad, wide valleys where only a very long barrier, requiring a great volume of material, will suffice.

Distance 2½ miles Start West Bexington Beach car park, grid ref: SY532865 National Trust downloadable route and map Following a short stretch of the South West Coast Path, this walk takes in the area around Chesil Beach, an 18-mile long "barrier beach" that shelters Weymouth from the erosion caused by the prevailing wind and waves.

It is now a 1,300 km long barrier which helps to limit illegal migration from Mexico to the USA.

The Environment Agency had proposed constructing a 100m (330ft) long barrier to protect homes and roads in Purley-on-Thames, but it was never built.