(1) Scintigraphic pictures of the uterine cavity and oviducts were obtained with a Jumbo Toshiba gamma-camera; they were subsequently analysed by an Informatek SIMIS-3 data processing system.
(2) Chief executive Louis Gallois said Beijing's refusal to allow Hong Kong Airlines to complete a $4bn order for the A380 super-jumbos amounted to "retaliation measures" over the policy, which came into force at the beginning of the year.
(3) But normally, shaven-headed and shaven-faced, he could pass for a jumbo-sized Bob Crow .
(4) Jumbo Records in Leeds has been in business for 43 years.
(5) Talked up as "Britain's proudest creation", it was housed in a tent so big and strong that its roof could, apparently, support the weight of a jumbo jet.
(6) Another group of art students is in, and Wilson is giving them a talk, telling them how a jumbo jet crash inspector visited and identified at once that the plane had been crushed deliberately rather than crashed - the sort of technical detail that he appreciates.
(7) Hofland gave the LottoNL-Jumbo team their first victory of the season as he edged out IAM Cycling’s Matteo Pelucchi on the final stretch in the shadow of York racecourse.
(8) He has applied the same philosophy to a series of books that have included such unlikely successes as an account of the life of maverick journalist and Labour politician Tom Driberg, a biography of Marx that has been translated into 25 languages, and a tour d'horizon of contemporary counter-enlightenment thinking, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World, that led the charge of books reasserting the primacy of reason.
(9) At Jumbo Records, seven bands will be playing in a pop-up venue put together in a vacant unit next door.
(10) This is better than the Jumbo Jet, which can only fly for 12 h.
(11) She could see a hole that ripped open at the back of the jumbo jet where the bathroom had been and carried her son to safety.
(12) Rolls-Royce, which makes engines for Boeing’s 787 Dreamliners and Airbus A380 superjumbos, has been betting on wide-bodied aircraft and by 2020 half the world’s jumbo jets will be powered by its engines.
(13) I always remember the startled look of the platitudinous young vicar who visited our house after my grandad died, when my mum said, "Don't come round here with your mumbo-jumbo.
(14) The world he inadvertently summoned into being persists - in nuclear arsenals, and 747 jumbo jets and B52s, the direct descendants of the Boeing B29.
(15) The high fuel costs and narrow profit margins that characterised much of the previous ten years made an underoccupied jumbo economically unviable, and airlines have taken to scheduling multiple slots on popular routes to meet consumer demand, rather than one big take-off.
(16) Jumbo problems The most interesting part of the whole affair is what it says about all forms of technological regulation in the future.
(17) gets such a massive response they'll need a Jumbo Jet, not a tour bus.
(18) Finally grounded in 2006 after a period flying under the European Aviation banner, parts of this jumbo have been turned into the signature metal tags of the environmental campaign.
(19) Wouldn't it be better to accept it now rather than let this defendant get tangled up in a messy trial for the sake of some legal mumbo-jumbo?"
(20) It comes at the same time as farmers are stepping up exports of live breeding pigs to China, packing up to 900 at a time into a jumbo jet for a 12-hour non-stop flight.
Vastly
Definition:
(adv.) To a vast extent or degree; very greatly; immensely.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is a place that occupies two thirds of our planet but very little is known of vast swaths of it.
(2) In this phase the educational practices are vastly determined by individual activities which form the basis for later regulations by the state.
(3) The effects of brain injury can be catastrophic and long-term so the impact of more research would be vast, but affected numbers are too small so it loses out.
(4) Does anybody honestly believe the vast majority of migrants don’t want that too?
(5) The vast majority of small cells were probably displaced amacrine cells.
(6) I never had any doubt that the vast majority of people engaged in "business" are not the exploiters but the exploited.
(7) In response, detainees – the vast majority of them failed asylum seekers who have committed no crime – waved and shared messages of solidarity.
(8) Not because we are “chippy, moronic gits” (thank you, Twitter), but because we do not see the social benefit of a two-tier education system that provides a small minority with vastly more opportunities than the rest.
(9) It is important to pay attention to the outcome of this study in (postgraduate) education for general practitioners, as they treat the vast majority of urethritis patients.
(10) The drugs used in early studies - diuretics, vasodilators and reserpine - greatly improved mortality from malignant hypertension, apoplectic stroke and congestive heart failure, but had little or no effect in persons with milder degrees of elevated blood pressure, who constitute the vast majority of hypertensives.
(11) We report that specific human (dC-dA)n.(dG-dT)n blocks are polymorphic in length among individuals and therefore represent a vast new pool of potential genetic markers.
(12) The discovery of this vast tranche of documents has prompted historians to suggest that a major reappraisal of the end of Britain's empire will be required once these materials have been digested – a "hidden history" if ever there were one.
(13) The vast majority of the epithelial cells were secretory, and the rest were ciliated.
(14) Even the landscape is secretive: vast tracts of crown land and hidden valleys with nothing but a dead end road and lonely farmhouse, with a tractor and trailer pulled across the farmyard for protection.
(15) Lethal pulmonary embolism is associated with hypoxemia and hypocapnia in the vast majority of cases.
(16) The vast majority of members would rather have a quiet body, offering technical assistance here and there and convening an occasional summit.
(17) Europe was never going to be another America or Soviet Union, with one constitution imposing national homogeneity over vast distances, and with people and investment migrating ceaselessly in search of employment.
(18) In the southern state of Karnataka, corruption is blamed for uncontrolled mining in vast areas of protected forest.
(19) Mali: a guide to the conflict Read more In response, the Tuareg separatists attacked military and police points as far as Tenenkou in the south, to prove it still controlled vast swaths of the desert territory.
(20) The vast majority of the subjects had correctly been given the diagnosis of cerebrovascular disease.