Sentence examples for sunlight about from inspiring English sources

Then, a gap on the horizon opened to reveal the distant but unmistakable outline of Stonehenge, bathed in sunlight, about half a mile away.

And since the garden didn't get a lot of direct sunlight — about two hours in the morning, from the east, and then about an hour and half in the afternoon, from the south — it was clear that I needed plants that would thrive in the shade.

Three 4-foot-by-8-foot panels (covering a total area of 96 square feet) can, in full sunlight, deliver about 4.5 kilowatts of heat — enough to heat about 50percentto80percentcent of the water used by a family of four.

Its main element is a transparent sphere five feet in diameter, which — iridescent in the sunlight — looked about as insubstantial as a soap bubble, but which is made of acrylic plastic five inches thick.

As Rainey Reitman, activism director at EFF, put it: "The sunlight brought about by a year's worth of Snowden leaks appears to have prompted dozens of companies to improve their policies when it comes to giving user data to the government".

In fact, the average figures reported on sunlight conversion are about 1.5%to3%3%.

Sunlight is about 50% as strong on Mars, and days are about 40 minutes longer.

"My lip and chin hadn't seen sunlight in about nine years".

The main benefit would be outdoors or on a windowsill, because sunlight has about 100 times more energy than the light typically provided by fluorescent or incandescent lamps.

Dido had met our friend Adrian coming down the library steps earlier that year, blinking at the sunlight, muttering about a slight pain in his side.

And then there'll be this moment in late winter where it will peek through a valley and we'll get this really bright shard of sunlight for about a minute.