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And this results in animals having trouble falling asleep, so it takes them about an hour and a half longer to fall asleep.
It takes us years to understand how to do that with dinosaurs.
It takes your attention; it has a great amount of emotion; it stares back at you the way that a figure might.
A bond takes place, and you get this very strong, powerful adhesive.
This takes a second, but it's a distinctive stage.
The final fermentation takes place in stage nine.
And for especially young people, they have a hard time dealing with that, and these important discussions that need young people to take a part in, it takes a lot of commitment.
Each protein folds to its characteristic shape each time, and the folding process takes just a fraction of a second.
So, I'm swimming along, and it takes off my leg.
Howard has grandkids now, and takes weekly ballroom dancing lessons with his wife.
Sometimes, all it takes is the ingenuity of a handmade game of Scrabble or finding that stripped-down kind of meaning in the love of family and a night on the ballroom dance floor, or that radical, dangerous hope that I'm guessing will someday lead a teenage girl terrified of bugs to go camping.
It can also be social withdrawal, when an animal just takes himself or herself away from friends and stays by themselves, or a failure to eat or sleep properly, sometimes a depressed posture or vocalization.
And don't get discouraged if it takes a while.
But his brooding takes a turn when he’s visited by a ghost that bears his father’s face.
Alarmed climate activists demand that government takes action, either with regulation or carbon taxes.
Sometimes that takes the form of a short story, sometimes that takes the form of a cute book of illustrations, for example.
And sometimes that takes the form of a silly joke that I'll throw on the internet.
It takes sacrifice.
Some people say it takes more energy to make a solar cell than it will give out in its entire life.
If we reduce the amount of energy it takes to make the cells, that will become more practical.
So for direct light, it takes only one bounce, for off-axis light it might take two, and for extreme off-axis, it might take three.
The petals track and the engine gets the concentrated sunlight, takes that heat and turns it into electricity.
This chart takes four different factors and says how much do they explain teaching quality.
Your ship’s faster-than-light jump drive consumes 1 unit of fuel for every parsec of distance it takes you, and your ship holds only 15 units of fuel.
This is a city that is built for a Hindu religious festival called Kumbh Mela, which occurs every 12 years, in smaller editions every four years, and takes place at the confluence of the Ganges and the Yamuna rivers in India.
These are images from the same spot that we took over the 10 weeks that it takes for the city to emerge.
And we don't know, because there hasn't been enough time passed yet to actually figure out how much impact those papers will get; it takes time to acquire.
Soon, he takes refuge in an exquisite private library.
To really pay attention like this takes practice, everybody does it their own way.
When you ask the janitors who behaved like the ones I described how hard it is to learn to do their job, they tell you that it takes lots of experience.
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