So next time someone says they're going to be a moment, remind them that by definition they're going to be precisely one fortieth of an hour – or exactly 90 seconds.
More precisely, one first assumes that for each w ∈ R q fixed, the frozen fast SDE, d v t = F ( v t, w ) d t + Σ ( v t, w ) ⋅ d B ( t ), admits a unique invariant measure, denoted ρ w ( d v ).
Bags are precisely engineered by luggage Ph.D.'s to within one-thousandth of an inch of the specified maximum size, while the airlines' own experts design their seats and lockers to be precisely one-sixteenth of an inch smaller.
That film cost NBC $8 million, precisely one-tenth of the record-setting $80 million that Fox paid for the rights to "Lost World," and NBC got four hours out of "The Temptations" to three for "Lost World.
It is placed precisely one-third of the way through the book, and the reader feels almost as if a new book might begin, but - again, that authorial snigger - what Brookner arranges for Paul is not an affair but a bereavement.
Mr. Childs figured that a three-day stretch of 90-degree weather in 2002 had cost him precisely one and three-tenths of a bushel of corn per day.
The bells tolled, as they would again at 10 28, when precisely one year earlier the second of the twin towers unimaginably collapsed after the unspeakable attack.
Grasp firmly with thumb at midpoint of glass object (holder) and spread fingers precisely at one-fourth intervals (grasp points 1, 2, 3 and pinky on diagram).
Today is another anniversary of sorts: precisely one year since Scarlet and Lola made their first, dangerously precipitate, bid for freedom.
