Sentence examples for proportion of the sun from inspiring English sources

When the Moon covers a large proportion of the Sun, the sky becomes appreciably darker, and stars may appear.

Only when a substantial proportion of the Sun is covered by the Moon does the loss of daylight become noticeable.

Around the UK the proportion of the Sun covered by the Moon during the near-total solar eclipse will increase towards the North, ranging from 84 per cent in London to 89 per cent in Manchester, 93 per cent in Edinburgh, and 97 per cent in Lerwick in the Shetland Isles.

There it formed a thick cloud of aerosol particles and within 15 months this had spread across the world, reflecting a significant proportion of the sun's energy back into space.

The proportion of the Sun covered by the Moon was 97% in the far north of Scotland, and 84% in London.

Rooms situated in an urban context often have a significant proportion of the sky and the sun blocked out by the urban building mass.

Wenzhou has become the Chinese city with the highest proportion of Christians (Weller and Sun 2010; Cao 2007).

Although average adjusted species richness did not differ between fragmented and intact forests, the proportion of understory sun and shade species significantly declined in fragmented forest plots, indicating local extinctions of these butterflies.

At the meso-landscape scale, small mammal density and richness significantly decreased with increasing proportion of sun coffee within the landscape and increased as the amount of shade coffee increased.

In summer, a large proportion of the rainfall is caused by sun heating the ground leading to convection and to showers and thunderstorms.

You'd think that a higher SPF product would provide better protection against the damaging rays of the sun in proportion to its rating.