Sentence examples for up a gradient from inspiring English sources
I stayed awake to watch the sun rise while the train lurched up a gradient, whirrs following pauses, clanks following tugs, at about 15 miles an hour.
This procedure sets up a gradient from sensor node to the sink node, so that each sensor becomes aware of the sink's location for sending future data.
With advancing age, the human lens cortex shows a slight increase in water composition (+0.0087%/year), whereas the nucleus decreases its total water content (-0.077%/year), setting up a gradient of hydration [ 5].
One or two of the big names had been eliminated with 80km to go by a crash which cut the field of 200 riders in half but there were plenty of the world's top sprinters and puncheurs left to bar Cavendish's way as the field girded itself for the last 500m to the finish, up a gradient of 5%.
Children in the carriages behind reach out to touch the foliage that brushes the little train as it chuff-chuffs its way up a gradient only slightly less steep than that of the wickedly inclined Darjeeling Himalayan Railway, its wheels just occasionally slipping.
Furthermore, incorporating individually calibrated HR and acceleration data better captures the differing energy costs of bespoke activities, despite similar acceleration profiles, such as wheelchair propulsion up a gradient or with additional load (e.g. shopping) [75].
The eight gene atp operon of C. glutamicum encodes the subunits of the ATP synthetase that uses ATP to build up a proton gradient and can synthesize ATP by using this gradient [ 48].
Activated neovascular cells then proliferate and chemotax up the VEGF-A gradient.
Thus, the gradient of Fj in the wing pouch is predicted to produce opposing gradients of Ft Ds binding affinities, with Ft Ds binding favoured between cells moving down a Fj gradient, and Ds-Ft binding favoured between cells moving up a Fj gradient.
"This is one of the most strenuous walks on São Miguel, Manuell explained as we toiled up a steep gradient.
But I'm sure you knew that... .. Updated at 2.51pm BST 2.44pm BST The legs-splayed 'weeeee!!' bit is over, and the riders are back to grinding up a brutal gradient in the heat of Corsica.
