Sentence examples for moon less from inspiring English sources

In a journey every bit as unlikely as that of the tin can that had taken men to the Moon less than a month earlier, Bob Dylan and his family were boarding the QE2 in New York to sail to a little island off the south coast of England, snubbing the festival that had been set up in Dylan's backyard in order to tempt him out of three years' retirement.

Pinfold, who beat names including Helen Oxenbury, Jon Klassen and Emily Gravett to take the prize, said that winning was "fantastic", and that he "couldn't use the words 'over-the-moon' less lightly".

Together with Jason Barnes, a physicist at the University of Idaho, Moscow, and John Chambers, a theoretical astrophysicist at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism in Washington, D.C., he has carried out large numbers of detailed numerical simulations of "moon-less Earths," which show that the consequences are less dire than is generally assumed.

In a tone tinged with sadness, the article respectfully reported that, "[o]n the reeking pavement, in the darkness of a moon-less night under the dripping rain..., Norton I, by the grace of God, Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico, departed this life".

Apollo sent half a dozen manned expeditions to land on the moon in less than a dozen years from the program's conception.

If competition with the Soviet Union could get us to the moon in less than a decade, why not let competition with China help jumpstart green energy development?.

Light from the moon takes less than two seconds to reach Earth, 8.5 minutes from the sun and 55,000 years from close galaxies.

He is nothing if not systematic, which is great for the meticulous planning of moon landings, less good for quick life surveys.

How can such preoccupied parents even grasp Phoebe's literary allusions, as constant as her moon, much less admit that their daughter is troubled?

But voters under 50 may not recall John F. Kennedy's promise to put a man on the moon in less than a decade, and the musical accompaniment, a mix of electronica, percussion and swelling strings, seems more somber than uplifting.

By the time the Columbia space shuttle disintegrated in February, NASA had made no significant progress on how it would return to the moon, much less laying the groundwork for the far more complex question of developing a space ship with sufficient propulsion and speed to take people to Mars.