Sentence examples for time to collapse from inspiring English sources

Although fragile bridges can take a long time to collapse, 25 years in the 21st century should be sufficient to make hidden risks salient: connectivity and operational leverage are making cultural and economic events cascade faster and deeper.

Increase in the number of silt layers in the bank profile increased the time to collapse significantly.

"Work," in this survey, means paid work, so you would expect the working time to collapse to just minutes a day when someone becomes unemployed -- and it does.

Results uncover a scaling law that predicts the radius of a closing pore as a function of the time to collapse without free parameters.

By 1992, 37 had sucked in $20 billion–just in time to collapse along with the real estate market, as industry scold (and Vanguard founder) John Bogle recounts in his book Common Sense on Mutual Funds (John Wiley & Sons, 1999).

In other words, the higher the number of damaged members and the greater the extent of damage in these members, the shorter will be the time to collapse during the PEF.

Increasing depth and water pressure cause the lungs of marine mammals to gradually decline in volume and at times to collapse completely.

But 7 World Trade Center, which was not struck by a plane, is the first skyscraper in modern times to collapse primarily as a result of a fire.

In addition, times to collapse are very small when the bridge girders are built with carbon steel (between 8.5 and 18 min) but they can almost double if stainless steel is used for the girders.

Time seems to collapse in this troubling family saga, more notable for its meditative aspects than for its relatively straightforward story of betrayal and loss.

Time appeared to collapse into itself as the drone and subtle MFO light show cut through the mist, enveloping the crowd.