They exist in terms of a few intense, even sensational scenes; they are made to be revealed briefly and climactically.
The places we live, work, learn, play and relax in are for most people still defined in terms of a few square miles.
Historically, most scholars have viewed engineering communities in terms of a few features, such as technological innovation, professionalization, social responsibility, and adoption of new engineering ideas and practices.
When we imagine our own family history, we tend to think in terms of a few centuries; but in fact, the pattern goes back much further.
We often see houses in the neighborhood demolished and rebuilt in the course of a few weeks, so it's not much of a stretch to imagine the lifetime of a house in terms of a few years.
It is truly remarkable that these structures are in principle, and often in practice, amenable to precise calculation in terms of a few basic physical constants: the mass and charge of the electron, the speed of light, and Planck's constant (approximately 6.62606957 × 10−34 joule∙second), the fundamental constant of the quantum theory named for the German physicist Max Planck.
"Polar bears are going to need some serious conservation efforts soon, but you have to think in terms of a few hundred individuals for a captive breeding programme and you need the space in which to keep them – although they don't all need to be kept in once place," he added.
France's "retour à l'ordre" (return to order), Italy's "ritorno al mestiere" (return to craft) and Germany's "Neue Sachlichkeit" (New Objectivity) have heretofore been considered in terms of a few famous formerly avant-garde exemplars like Picasso, Braque, Léger, de Chirico and Otto Dix.
The order of aerodynamic model is greatly reduced in terms of a few aerodynamic eigenmodes to describe the unsteady vortex.
Thus, it is difficult to capture the complicated weekly pattern of subway passengers in terms of a few clusters.
