Sentence examples for second in extent from inspiring English sources

Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Rockville Centre, which provides services and housing to the poor, the sick and the elderly, may also benefit from Bishop Murphy's experience with charities provided by the Boston archdiocese that are second in extent only to services provided by the state of Massachusetts.

When someone claims the specious present is typically around (say) one second in extent, what does the claim amount to?

To the best of our knowledge, this model is the first in its extent and in the detail it incorporates.

This weekend, the Mets knocked each of the three Braves' starters out of the game before he could record an out in the sixth inning, validating to an extent the belief in patience and selective swinging preached by coaches throughout the Mets organization.

In Hellenic times Paphos was second only to Salamis in extent and influence among the states of Cyprus.

Covering only about half of the arid regions of the Earth, they account for 18.5 percent of the nonpolar continental land area, being second only to Inceptisols in extent.

The pair's work, the first in-depth investigation into the extent to which happiness is a predictor of income a decade later on, draws on the "life satisfaction" levels of a large sample of adolescents and young adults in America and tracks this against their levels of income later in life.

First, they are limited in extent, unlike the widespread neuroepithelial collapse produced by early ionizing radiation (Bayer and Altman, 1991).

These sentinel habitats or first responders generally decline in extent and condition from years to decades before system-wide impairment is documented by routine environmental quality monitoring activities [ 101- 103].

General mono-coupled periodic systems are first assumed to be infinite in extent; thereafter reflections caused by arbitrary end terminations of finite structures are considered and a general "closed form" solution is found for the forced harmonic response at element junctions.

First, despite the fact that, in extent, some synaptic parameters change exaggeratedly (see below), the global evolution of Cortico-LA and Thalamo-LA synapses is preserved in absence of Mecp2.