Sentence examples for roof versus from inspiring English sources

Among home astronomers, choosing between the roll-off roof versus the dome is a highly personal matter.

I spent the weekend before going into the hospital in my oldest sister's apartment, lost in the Gothic kingdom of depression: I was unable to move from the bed, trapped in interior debates about jumping off a roof versus throwing myself in front of a car.

How do I know how much power is being produced from the panels on my roof versus how much I'm using from my utility?

Whether you're headed to open houses or just cruising around town, you may begin to notice architectural details of the homes around you: round columns versus square on a front porch, stucco versus brick, and a gabled roof versus a saltbox roof.

This paper describes the life cycle environmental cost characteristics of intensive and extensive green roofs versus conventional roofs.

The global base shear force versus roof lateral displacement hysteretic response is plotted in Fig. 21 for the BF475 and BF975 tests.

The base shear versus roof displacement relationship for each model structure is depicted in Fig. 7 where it can be observed that the five-story structure with 9 m-long wall designed for medium-level seismic load have highest strength and the 20 five-story structure with 6 m wall designed for low-level seismic load have lowest strength.

Because roofs and pavements account for more than 60% of urban surfaces (see image), using lighter-colored roofing materials (concrete versus asphalt, for example) could boost average albedo, or reflectivity, enough to drop global average temperature by as much as 0.07°C, the researchers report online today in Environmental Research Letters.

Interestingly, in spite of the different forces one would expect, substrate depth on pitched versus flat roofs was similar for both the mean and the measured range across each roof (data not shown); of course, the absence of original data prevents any meaningful conclusions.

Furthermore, the increase of the indoor air velocity can be as high as 90% in the upper part of the occupied zone (at h=1.7 m above ground level) for convex versus concave roofs.

Yet despite Ms. Fenstermann's expert pointers over our two-day exploration of the Decorah area's historic barns, I never managed to distinguish between a bridge and a bank barn (the distinction depends on how a farmer handled hay bales, she explained) or discuss the fine points of a gable versus a gambrel roof.