We call this new imaging technology femto photography because we capture a segment of the image with a flashlight (in this case, a laser pulse) on for a few millionths of a billionth of a second (or a few femtoseconds) and an exposure time approaching a trillionth of a second.
Barbecue chicken on a stick, sausage, grilled squid and octopus, corn on the cob and tteokbokki (rice cakes in spicy sauce) are available for only a few thousand won (a few dollars).
Tiger (Woods) has taken a few, Phil (Mickelson) has taken a few.
Dr Zettl and his colleagues constructed their memory cell by taking a particle of iron just a few billionths of a metre (nanometres) across and placing it inside a hollow carbon nanotube.
Unlike CO2, which stays in the atmosphere for about a century, short-lived climate pollutants remain in the atmosphere from a few days to a few weeks (black carbon) to up to 15 years (methane, HFCs).
His income as a part-owner exceeded what he got as a playwright (only a few pounds per play).
The resulting films consist of a fibroin matrix filled with tiny pockets a few hundred nanometres (billionths of a metre) across.
Priority boarding is also a big draw, because Southwest's chaotic no-assigned-seats system can be a turnoff for travellers unwilling to push to the front of the line or throw a few elbows for a window (or aisle) seat.
An industrial policy features a cut in payroll taxes but only for a few industries, which will pay a (smaller) tax on turnover instead.
It was a similar story for Limited (LTD) and Zumiez (ZUMZ), but there were a few misses including Target (TGT) which fell short of expectations and lowered its outlook for the fourth quarter.
The most promising sail material has a carbon-fibre backing coated with a thin layer (just a few tens of atoms thick) of aluminium.
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Further into the future, optical tweezers might offer a way of making objects such as computer memories whose components are but a few nanometres (billionths of a metre) across.
In this, we get a look at the XT-908 aerial drone and the ED 209, the defense droid that Robocop replaced at the beginning of the 1987 movie after it malfunctioned in a spectacular way. (A few deaths were involved.) We also get a shadowy glimpse of RoboCop sorry, the RC 2000.
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That move sparked a wave of lawsuits (a few are still pending) from agents upset over losing their health insurance and other benefits.
My thrillers take place over a very short time (a few days at most), have multiple, intersecting subplots and many characters and have at least two surprise endings, often three.
For example, one reason new photo app Snapchat has become enormously popular lately, may be because it lets users decide how long a photo will exist (usually a few seconds) before it self-destructs.
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HealthSouth is hardly a representative firm, having been the centre of a notable corporate scandal a few years ago (under previous management).
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Apart from a slight recovery in a few sectors (including tourism), there is no sign that the current economic difficulties, precipitated by the cut in foreign aid, are coming to an end.
In 2010, we had a fantasy film that few loved and quite a few disliked (Alice in Wonderland), and the final (I hope) entry to what can be argued is the finest trilogy of our time (Toy Story 3, yes we can debate that another day too).
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In the intensely competitive world of index funds, where rivals spar over cost differentials measured in a few basis points (hundredths of a percent), 100 basis points is a big deal.
This requires a red-checkered tablecloth (try the dollar stores) and candles (a few tea light candles in mason jars will do the job).
While we're totally in support of intellectual property owners getting paid for their content, we worry that these tough new rules will discourage and even prohibit the many legitimate uses of P2P networks that have nothing to do with stealing movies and music -- as usual, a few bad apples (well, maybe more than a few) have caused everyone else to suffer.
The times involved, however, are extremely short - lifetimes that last just a few million-millionths of a second (picoseconds).
In addition, give the amount of time he felt each new patient required (1 hour) and the little he charged for curing patients (a few hundred dollars), there was no marketing budget to speak of.
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But if afternoon office fatigue is better fought off with a few toning exercises (rather than a candy bar), that's equally important.
Sensors include visible spectrum cameras, 3D laser scanners and a spectrometer analysis (just to name a few) that creates an accurate analysis of waste which has not been possible with mechanical technology or human labor before.
Think back to the 1990s when consumer electronics companies tended to launch an innovative product with a high price to tempt the early adopters and then, generally, reduce the price to soak up a wider market (sometimes stripping out a few features).
There are plenty of single player games with bad stories (Skyrim, I would say) and a few hugely social games with decent ones (for all its flaws The Old Republic had a few good plot threads), but to say that all games should be social in some way is just not true.
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Comic book art has had only a few notable forgeries ( here, here, and a few here).
The most affordable way to stay on Fire Island is to rent a house, but there are also a few (generally more expensive) hotel options.
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