Sentence examples for power a single from inspiring English sources

When the sun sinks behind the hills, they power a single light bulb with the car battery of their truck.

At McDonald's, vast resources power a single brand, generating sales per American restaurant almost twice as high as Yum!'s.

If you imagine the amount of food, water, oxygen and power a single person might consume in a mission set to last up to three years (if you include the surface stay), that demands quite a sizable larder.

Just before Margaret Thatcher came to power, a single person out of work would get unemployment benefit worth almost 21% of average earnings; last year, jobseeker's allowance was nearly half that, amounting to just over 11%.

At one point, Pepco reported more than 18,000 customers without power; a single office building is one customer, and it was unclear how many customers were residential users and how many were commercial users.

CARACAS — On Sunday, Venezuela's opposition goes to the polls to choose, for the first time in Hugo Chávez's 13 years in power, a single, uncontested leader to run against him in next October's presidential election.

The most modern gas-fired electric plants can make about 140 kilowatt-hours from that amount of gas, which is enough electricity to power a single-family house for three or four days, depending on the climate.

But Mr Clubb added: "A barrage won't be powering a single light bulb until at least 2025.

Coal-fired boilers powered a single triple-expansion steam engine which turned a single screw propeller.

Electricity powers a single small tire while riders straddle between their ankles, their feet resting on small landings.

Each locomotive has six three-phase asynchronous alternating current traction motors, each rated at 918 kW and each powering a single axle.