Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [det] degrees " in BNC.
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1 | It moves slowly , wearily and as if to ensure that you understand that it is tired ; it goes only a few degrees above the horizon , making a long , low arc . |
2 | He had got into an argument in the wash room with Clive Fairbrother , an Australian exchange student a year older than him whose sense of humour was only a few degrees away from sheer malice . |
3 | Its telescope will have a mirror 60 cm across , and will be cooled by liquid helium to a temperature of only a few degrees above absolute zero ; and its detectors will be sensitive to wavelengths up to a maximum of 120 micrometres . |
4 | In this paper they made the remarkable prediction that radiation ( in the form of photons ) from the very hot early stages of the universe should still be around today , but with its temperature reduced to only a few degrees above absolute zero ( - 2730 ° C ) . |
5 | In many cases , where the inert environment is provided by a frozen gas ( Ar or N 2 are often used ) , the temperature needed may be only a few degrees above absolute zero . |
6 | The specimen should be supported so that the etched face is almost horizontal , tilting by only a few degrees . |
7 | How come we can send a spacecraft to Venus or write the Bible on a microchip yet remain incapable of operating a sophisticated transportation network when the temperature drops just a few degrees below zero ? |
8 | The Seychelles lie in the middle of the Indian Ocean , just a few degrees south of the equator . |
9 | Once he went below , if she turned the boat in that direction , just a few degrees at a time , would he notice ? |
10 | The red colours show the hot spots and the blue shades are just a few degrees cooler . |
11 | You may even push your critical steepness up a few degrees ! |