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Those are more of the second kind of grammar, which linguists often call usage, as opposed to grammar.
So as more and more of our lives become digital, we are fighting a losing battle trying to curb our usage of devices in order to reclaim our emotions.
James meant this as a challenge, not an indictment of scant brain usage.
That third usage corresponds to your basal metabolic rate, a number of calories you would need to survive if you weren't eating or moving around.
Spermicide is only 85% effective, even with perfect usage, and just 71% effective with typical usage.
Finally, there was a sticky grammar and usage issue in which the pronoun has to have the same grammatical number as its antecedent.
The more users you have, the more usage you have, the more time people spend, that's how we measure success.
To enable its people to take that transformation, first of all they invested in new tools that would enable their employees to monitor the usage of the features as well as customer satisfaction with the new service.
Language is a tool of common usage, and so I believe it's fundamental that we use it following common criteria.
The Royal Spanish Academy, all of language academies, also believes that spelling should be progressively modified; that language is linked to history, tradition and custom, but that at the same time, it is a practical everyday tool and that sometimes this attachment to history, tradition and custom becomes an obstacle for its current usage.
One of the aspects is the internet and the usage of social media, as we've all seen in headlines tweeting and videos of beheadings.
It led, ultimately, to the banning of CFC usage in aerosol spray cans in the US and a few other countries in 1978.
We use hydroponics that pumps around nutrified water, saving 90 percent of water usage.
The last big thought is that it is almost certainly true that whatever this is going to evolve into is going to be bigger in total usage than the Web itself.
And it would be great if we could make our energy usage renewable, where as we're using the energy, we're creating it at the same pace, and I really hope we can get there.
To them, we say: UPSTART's usage requirement of 15 minutes a day, five days a week, is well within the hour-a-day recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics for four-year-olds.
It is not as closely linked with verbal perception, so our fear receptors often will be going off in advance of any of our cognitive usage around verbal and words and cues of language.
That's all the U.S. usage today.
Fossil fuel usage is down 60 percent per unit of production, due to efficiencies in renewables.
Water usage is down 75 percent in our worldwide carpet tile business.
This usage eventually laid the groundwork for the modern meaning of the word “cynic:" a person who thinks everyone else is acting out of pure self-interest, even if they claim a higher motive.
And, maybe unsurprisingly, the agricultural industry is the single largest consumer of fresh water, accounting for 70 percent of global usage.
In order to reduce the high energy usage, there are efforts to develop higher-efficiency LEDs, to develop lasers optimized for plant growth and using even fiber-optic cables like these to channel sunlight directly into an indoor vertical farm during the day to reduce the need for artificial lighting.
Since over 90 percent of passenger cars are imported, often used, they're just not designed for local usage.
They actually started, in certain communities in the United States, to publish people's electricity usage.
And what they found out is when that was available for public record, the people's electricity usage in those communities dropped.
And as we monitor phone usage by seniors over a long period of time, down to the tenths of a microsecond, that recognition moment of whether they can figure out that person on the other end is a friend and we start talking to them immediately, or they do a lot of what's called trouble talk, where they're like, "Wait, who is this?
And, of course, now with Wolfram Alpha actually out in the wild, we can learn from its actual usage.
Well, it starts with content owners delivering assets into our database, along with a usage policy that tells us what to do when we find a match.
A previous reviewer mentioned this but the usage of stock footage was quite obvious.
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