How To Use Discernible In A Sentence
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an essay with a meaning that was not always discernible
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In fact, all three trends are already discernible.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The difference between the two is readily discernible.
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But as if divining his thoughts -- just as they passed through the dining-room door, Euphra looked round at him, almost over Funkelstein's shoulder, and, without putting into her face the least expression discernible by either of the others following, contrived to banish for the time all Hugh's despair, and to convince him that he had nothing to fear from Funkelstein.
David Elginbrod
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The trail becomes more precipitous as we plod steadily across a long ridge that is barely discernible from the fog folding around us.
Times, Sunday Times
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The vegetable dumplings, in contrast, were almost inedible, with a slimy exterior and no discernible flavour.
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Nor are there any evident truths discernible without regard to our historical context.
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At her worst, she serves up a sludge of disparate data that do not cumulate to any discernible or persuasive argument.
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Upon one of the boughs, high off the ground, almost indiscernible from the night around it, a hunched form sat motionless, as if waiting.
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By the age of about 8 there is no discernible difference.
Times, Sunday Times
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The six Yoruba markings (three on each cheek), and the ten Fon markings (two on each cheek, temples, and forehead) are readily discernible.
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Omitted are a whole host of major industries where the dominant pattern is less readily discernible.
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The haze ate into their eyes, making the sounds more vivid and the sights all blend together in indiscernible colored shapes.
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He has also seen a discernible change in potential buyers in the past three or four years.
Times, Sunday Times
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Almost indiscernible on the bottom right hand corner of the stone were her initials: T. S.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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Provided this is taken into account, the differences between comparable samples are as readily discernible as when relative abundance is used.
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In size there is the difference between the huge _terminalia_ towering up 200 feet high and the tiny little potentilla; between the atlas moth 12 inches in spread and the hardly discernible midges; between the elephant, massive enough to trample its way through the densest forest, and the humble little mouse peeping out of its hole in the ground.
The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty
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I also asked her to leave the radio on so that there was no discernible change of atmosphere.
THE DOG LISTENER: Learning the Language of your Best Friend
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To anyone used to cooking their own Indian food using fresh spices, such flavours are strangely mute with no individual spice or flavour discernible.
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The only discernible colour in the scene was a dull, dead brown.
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
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The main harm from classical homeopathy is not likely to come from its remedies, which are probably safe but ineffective, though this is changing as homeopathy becomes indiscernible from herbalism in some places.
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The only discernible reason for the attack was the colour of his skin.
Times, Sunday Times
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Butler is softly spoken with a trace of an Edinburgh burr still discernible in her gentle Canadian accent.
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He died in 1215, without having enjoyed any discernible success in establishing a self-standing Zen institution.
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All she could see was a light purple mist that clouded anything beyond into indiscernible shapes.
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A carved "stemma," or coat of arms, over a side-door was all the parsonage had to show, and no trace of the fresco was anywhere discernible.
Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
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It was the seasonal vegetables which disappointed; cauliflower florets, mange tout and carrots, all looking a little anaemic and with no discernible taste at all.
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Her face was barely discernible in the gloom.
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He was described as a man in his late 30s, taller than average, of medium build with short dark hair and who spoke with no discernible accent.
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At the end of the day, the only considerable difference between strong 'emergent property' claims and 'dualist' claims of substance or most any other stripe is that the former is supposed to no longer be around once the matter is gone, while the latter's activity is not supposed to be discernible while still existent in the same case.
The Memory Hole
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In practice, there will probably be no discernible difference.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was as indiscernible and unimportant as my newly inflected mid-Atlantic accent.
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At the other end of the spectrum, Sally Mann's black-and-white "Untitled #6, Antietam" was taken at night, with a distant horizon line and the silhouettes of two or three trees the only discernible features.
Shadows and Light Somewhere in Time
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There is a rhythm and discernible pattern to their game emerging.
Times, Sunday Times
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Switching to become an academy raises standards in the worst and best performing schools but has no discernible impact on the remainder, according to a study.
Times, Sunday Times
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Two approaches to clauses which purport to exclude liability for breach of fiduciary duty are discernible.
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things happen in the earth and sky with no discernible cause
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Often a piece resembles a pure collage until elements settle into a discernible rhythm pattern or a drumbeat will emerge to anchor the noises swirling around it.
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The form stepped forward out of the corner, condensing from the darkness into a head, shoulders, and indiscernible body cloaked in some material light and impatient in movement as the summer wraiths in this part of the world.
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But so long as the whale shark made no discernible attempt to propel itself through the water I could, by finning vigorously, just about keep pace.
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While we were absent even these few months from the great centers of civilization, tremendous advances had been made in air-ships and the thousand and one other modern phases of human development, but evolution in the world of Nature as we observed it was only destructive -- a world-wide katabolism -- a retrogression often discernible from month to month.
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation
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Yet there are no discernible differences in the crime patterns of leading European countries.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a rare example of a government advertisement that actually produced a discernible effect on public behaviour.
Times, Sunday Times
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The occasion was urgent, and the track through the jungle, scarcely noticeable in broad daylight, was absolutely undiscernible in the dark.
Last Leaves from Dunk Island
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Miller's ballet background was discernible in the dancers' effortless facility and clean, classical line.
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By the light of a charcoal fire, clay images were ruddily discernible; before these the enchanters moved unhumanly clad, and doing things which, mercifully perhaps, were veiled from Manuel by the peculiarly perfumed obscurity.
Figures of Earth
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The trail becomes more precipitous as we plod steadily across a long ridge that is barely discernible from the fog folding around us.
Times, Sunday Times
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In fact, no general pattern is discernible, except that almost all stop short of full accountability to Parliament.
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The first, which apparently looked like my old cairn terrier Geordie (who died of old age about 8 years back), he bought to give to me, but later gave it spontaneously to his Aunt for no real discernible reason.
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Perhaps his lifelong constraint towards women, which he had attributed to accident, was not chance after all, but the natural result of instinctive acts so minute as to be undiscernible even by himself.
A Pair of Blue Eyes
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In any case there were no discernible functional consequences associated with the removal of these amino acids.
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The twin suns of Safi and Soka were discernible as bloated yellow-red spheres just over the horizon.
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What I can't get to grips with is the fact that there's no discernible pattern.
THE ENDLESS GAME
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Apparently these people are elected by students to represent them, but what these guys are doing is indiscernible, nothing they do seems to concern students.
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Simultaneously, as if at some undiscernible signal, the three boys hopped off the low concrete retaining wall next to the sidewalk outside the mom-and-pop the entrance to which was not only barred, but protected by a pair of concrete pylons to prevent drive-through break-ins and fell into step behind Missy.
Fear Itself
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We vs. death, a melancholic septet from Utrecht, Holland, located a mere hour from the Belgian border, have stronger ties to a discernible community of musicians.
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The island was sighted by the ship at 0700 on the following morning, and the town itself was hardly discernible through a thick pall of smoke which hung like a shroud over the quiet streets.
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WILSON: Well, the videotape that they got, I understand, has been sent to the FBI labs because it was undiscernible.
CNN Transcript Jun 21, 2002
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The only clue to her surgery is a barely discernible scar on her mouth.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘No ice,’ concluded a lengthy report written by a bloke in, for no discernible reason, Ancient Hittite cuneiform.
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Bork described the Ninth as an "inkblot" with an indiscernible meaning.
Where is the Ninth Amendment hiding?
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Before this spring, visitors hopped out of their vehicles in a cloud of exhaust smoke and gazed up at the gossamer falls from the cracked asphalt, the smell of sequoias and the sound of cascading water barely discernible.
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All she could see was a light purple mist that clouded anything beyond into indiscernible shapes.
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The citizen rebellions in the Middle East have been dramatic, earth-shaking, undreamt of before they occurred - and they have had no discernible effect on the production and shipment of oil, which haven't slowed down any.
Barry Sussman: Is Middle East Unrest Causing Oil Price Spikes? Maybe Not
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While easily discernible in plan, the shift from stack bond to traditionally bonded ashlar is too subtle to distinguish the two forms from the street.
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Amazingly, the contrast between his before and after physique was barely discernible.
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For example, he invites us to ‘consider the number of collocations like ‘by and large’ that we use with no discernible compositional rationale.’
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Of the works that take a discernible stand - many are appealingly vague - 95% are anti-war, and most are frankly rather glib and trite in this expression.
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The inscription plate was barely discernible, having been worn smooth by years of polishing, but a copy has now been placed on a card placed inside the lid.
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There was no discernible reason for what you did other than your violent temper and your arrogant desire to bully other people.
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But her commercial nous is also easily discernible.
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It bobbed and dipped with an independent life of its own, no doubt conveying subtleties of expression discernible only to an-other Tsla.
Voyage To The City Of The Dead
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Elizabethans, and Milton to Auden and Dylan Thomas, an elaborate tradition discernible in lavish metaphor and luxurious sound and rhythm, the second a domestic ageless tradition, an elementary language where, like a new Adam, the poet gives things their names, perceiving how the speech sounds take shape - as in a passage in the autobiographical Another Life: I watched the vowels curl from the tongue of the carpenter's plane,/resinous, fragrant ...
Nobel Prize in Literature 1992 - Presentation Speech
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There is often no discernible difference between rival brands.
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Leaping from rock to rock, she sprinted for nearly a mile, leaving no discernible footprints to mark her passage.
DEVIL'S CLAW
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Just occasionally you completely atomise the clay, reducing it instantly to dust rather than clipping bits off it and the satisfaction is identical to finding the sweet spot on your bat and dispatching the ball 80 yards over the square leg without any discernible effort.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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Yang Caini is reincarnate " nocturnal goddess " , take the swing arsis that is being hanged in half sky to photograph photo, dimly discernible romance is full of mysterious breath.
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And though there are no discernible physical barriers to prevent intermingling or interbreeding, I have never seen mixed herds or any individual that looks like an intermediate form, or hybrid.
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A plaque on the wall suddenly began to shake for no discernible reason.
Love, Medicine and Miracles
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Scene where Negro servant sends Larkin back for soldiers so light it is undiscernible. . .
Empire of Dreams
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As the election campaign gathers pace, a discernible public alienation and antagonism is being felt around the mainstream parties that may result in some unexpected upsets at the polls
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The air had a distinct chill to it and, even though there was no discernible breeze, a few falling leaves drifted along, bright against the brick of a neighbouring house.
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Midlands have little form and against the South showed a defensive bias and no discernible pattern.
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Whenever his dark chocolate peepers look at me with that barely discernible glint, something happens.
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The transition was almost indiscernible.
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There is no discernible reason for building it here.
Times, Sunday Times
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Of course, pseudologia fantastica also fits the bill...which is just the fancy name for pathological lying, which to quote from the link "is falsification entirely disproportionate to any discernible end in view, may be extensive and very complicated, and may manifest over a period of years or even a lifetime.
Archive 2009-05-01
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Now, whether P. Diddy, the choose-your-own-identity quality of Facebook, Dora the Explorer, or Burning Man will result in discernible political change or a broader, spiritual realignment remains to be seen.
Letters
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On some, tufts of bristlelike hairs can be thrust out, that give a discernible odour; but that this carries any distance or is a large factor in attracting the sexes
Moths of the Limberlost
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Then it potters around to little discernible purpose for another hour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Do behavioral differences associated with migratory habit lead to discernible differences in the degree of differentiation among populations?
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The object was just that: a stone carving, eroded by water, but with a discernible figure of a woman holding something in her arms.
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It was filmed from a ferry, and at some distance, leading to the creature's features being indiscernible, and over all being very small on screen.
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Provided this is taken into account, the differences between comparable samples are as readily discernible as when relative abundance is used.
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Some of the natives had really climbed the baobab, and now they were seen rising on all sides, winding along the boughs like reptiles, and advancing slowly but surely, all the time plainly enough discernible, not merely to the eye but to the nostrils, by the horrible odors of the rancid grease with which they bedaub their bodies.
Five Weeks in a Balloon
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Every rib in the round body was discernible; yet the leanness was the healthful reduction so strained after in the palaestrae.
Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ
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And there was a barely discernible" trace sclerosis" of the myelin sheath, the insulating tissue that covers the nerve fibers.
THE TATTOOED GIRL
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The only discernible colour in the scene was a dull, dead brown.
Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
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At the same time, there were discernible patterns of thought that gave a distinct personality to what I had written.
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Andrew: I just hope that, whatever Obama does, he looks primarily at features discernible below the neck, such as skin pigmentation, age, and gender.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Obama’s Diverse Shortlist
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Often there'is barely any discernible relationship between the two.
MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
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The most basic function of food preference, or sense of taste, is the ability to detect the almost indiscernible subtleties of the foods we eat.
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Someone at the other center had took it, printed it out and handed it to the guy with the box for some indiscernible reason.
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She glanced at him again, but he was focused on some indiscernible thing in front of him, his jaw clenched as they walked forward.
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The room holds six women and three children at the moment, packed in with almost indiscernible spaces between them.
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Even on relatively unworn specimens hypoconid and entoconid are not clearly discernible.
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But there are other discernible trends.
Times, Sunday Times
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When Capote met Perry Smith - convicted to execution and on death row - he was immediately captivated by him and his discernible sensitivity.
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On the pitch, Rooney showed no discernible after-effects.
Sir Alex's Big Game
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Then it potters around to little discernible purpose for another hour.
Times, Sunday Times
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Also, nobody does any discernible work at this "plex," and after my BRA they simply wandered around in the sunshine enjoying their abundant corporate amenities and congratulating one another on being the future.
BSNYC Road Dairy: Belated Birthdays and Happy Returns
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The carrot's flavour was discernible, but quite distinct from that in a savoury dish.
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In the vegetable kingdom sensitiveness of an involuntary nature is discernible in the form of germination and growth while a still higher type of sensibility accompanied by a limited consciousness can be seen in the animal life.
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Rice was €2 per portion and so we splurged on some coconut rice for €2.55, but there was no discernible coconut flavour for the extra 55 cents.
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For his first big embroilment after the 1987 stock market crash, the enemies were discernible and all grouped together on one front - low stock prices, financial system illiquidity, and broken confidence.
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You want there still to be discernible chunks, not mush.
Times, Sunday Times
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Around us is a patchwork of eskers sand and gravel dunes deposited by ancient rivers during the last ice age, hummocks, bogs and muskeg. Stands of dwarf willow thicken the banks of the river in places, and trees scattered singly or in small groves cover some small hill or bluff in no discernible pattern.
M. Sanjayan: Thelon Expedition: The Country
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But in some women the eggs simply run out for no discernible reason.
Alternative Health Care for Women
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There's no discernible twist or bend in it whatsoever - it feels like a fully roll-caged race car.
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I also predict that the package the Democrats propose will not be based on any discernible economic theory, but rather will be an assortment of goodies for various constituent groups.
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an indiscernible increase in temperature
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Without such an advisor, of course, the bench could potentially become crowded with no-account Liberal hacks of no discernible talent or skill.
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Once upon a time there were three beautiful sisters with little discernible talent and one well-groomed, overly ambitious mother who at one time wanted to be an actress herself.
Staar: Sex and the Much Married Girl (A Salute to Zsa Zsa Gabor)
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Wealth is discernible in the pale laughter lines set in a deep mahogany tan.
Times, Sunday Times
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This has no discernible effect on taste and will go unnoticed to the untrained eye.
Times, Sunday Times
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(This locality is still discernible through the arches of the Bloor Street Viaduct.)
Old Toronto
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This doesn't sound convincing yet there are discernible changes in him.
Times, Sunday Times
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All I saw and heard were politically loaded questions with no discernible purpose while the team >smarmed their way through a restricted news content.
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As work in feminist bioethics coalesces, several key objectives are becoming discernible.
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Italian influences are discernible in the wall paintings in the cloister of the Emmaus monastery.
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Finding that his potent instruments resolved into stars many nebulous patches in which no signs of such a structure had previously been discernible, he naturally concluded that "resolvability" was merely a question of distance and telescopic power.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition
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In this colony with few exceptions it faces the south, and is so overhung by a veranda as to be undiscernible except from immediately below.
My Tropic Isle
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It's Elvis not just without the King but without any discernible zing.
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Then he noted phenomena clearly discernible on lacquer pieces in his own collection that, as far as he knew, had not appeared in the published sources.
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He had noticed an almost indiscernible quirk to the enemy pilot's flying technique.
INCA GOLD
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Shop owner Matt O'Connor said he's prepared to fight: Since the dawn of time the word 'gaga' has been one of the first discernible phrases to come from a baby's mouth.
In other news: Lady Gaga threatens to sue over breast milk ice cream
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- Can't find a way to disable the glowing "acer" logo on the cover to conserve battery life, although it probably wouldn't make a discernible differe
Newegg.com RSS Feed - Daily Deals
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The balance of evidence suggests a discernible human influence on global climate.
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the transition was almost indiscernible
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Our head-torches lit the way as we slowly scrambled up the scree on all fours, the milky way a smudge in the sky easily discernible above the craggy peaks.
Ben Colclough: Mount Kenya: 5,000 m, Mice, Buffalo and Evil Eyes
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There is a discernible, almost romantic frisson about a sea crossing, nomatterhow short.
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Although no clearly discernible patterns of theory seem to be present, there is a clear choice of what part of development to study.
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I just hope that, whatever Obama does, he looks primarily at features discernible below the neck, such as skin pigmentation, age, and gender.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Obama’s Diverse Shortlist
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It became apparent that, excepting the historical tribal rhythms at the start of the ceremony, anything with a discernible beat is considered verboten by the party elite who control the games.
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You want there still to be discernible chunks, not mush.
Times, Sunday Times
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Beyond the small cell the light from the sconce was barely discernible.
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At the other extreme is something barely discernible from what we have now.
Times, Sunday Times
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Provided this is taken into account, the differences between comparable samples are as readily discernible as when relative abundance is used.
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In recent years there has been both a discernible weariness with the violent impasse and a growing desire for peace among the parties to the conflict.
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Neither showed any sign of having seen the other; and before long she was nothing but a dot hazed through dust, then indiscernible from scenery.
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Proposals for densification or adopting urban housing models are understandably slow to take root and have yet to make any discernible impact on the relentless march of subtopia.
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The conditions were ordinary, but one fragment made itself noticeable by slight, almost undiscernible, but still distinctive efforts to regain the water, whence it was separated by a few inches.
Tropic Days
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It is barely discernible in this wonderful picture, yet in it you find the focus of the whole piece.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fettuccine with chèvre pesto and nuts was very tasty, although the flavour of the goat cheese was barely discernible.
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Midlands have little form and against the South showed a defensive bias and no discernible pattern.
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The elevator ride to the nineteenth floor didn't cause him any discernible panic.
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The blue shift was discernible on scales of 100 million light-years, or roughly one-hundredth the scale of previous studies.
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Individual craft items with a discernible artistic quality will be covered by copyright.
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There's a little brook down there in spring," said she, pointing to a small, grass-grown water-course in the meadow, hardly discernible from the height, – "but there's no water in it now.
Queechy
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As we argue in this week's cover, the problem with populist rage — defined as the discernible public feeling that the few are unjustly profiting at the expense of the many — is that while it is cathartic, it can lead to bad decisions that may make the situation against which one is raging even worse.
The Editor’s Desk
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What we call ktav ivri is a cuneiform script, is an abjad offshoot of the ancient Semitic alphabet, barely discernible from the Phoenician alphabet from which it was derived.
DovBear
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The one gleam of something more positive was discernible in the interwar period.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The only road, a faint track in the grass, now undiscernible in the gathering gloom, now on the slope of steep hills marked by deep gullies worn by the impetuous autumn rains, and down which the poor old "shay" jerked along in a series of bumps and jolts threatening to demolish at once that patriarchal vehicle and the bones of its occupants.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859
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We have seen that sensibility extrinsically distinguishes indiscernibles and then exhibits to the understanding (without however making it exponible) a difference that the understanding should itself be able to find.
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Gabriel's face is naturistically hidden behind his shoulder, so that only a rufous mop of hair is discernible.
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In short, at a time when art production was increasingly "dematerialized" and reliant, if not indiscernible, from its recording, reproduction, and transmission, Sharp both pioneered logistical means of so doing, and functioned as a vital relay and catalyst in his daily life.
Undefined
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The dusk only discernible from the jungle gloom by the sound of evening-song from invisible birds and the sharp slant of the setting sun between branches.
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In shadowy outlines, in dimmer and dimmer crowding forms, the very figure of the old dead Time itself may perhaps be faintly discernible here.
Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
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He had imagined when he came to London that he would be able to look about him at his leisure for several weeks before beginning a serious courtship of any lady in particular, almost as if he had thought he would be invisible and his intentions undiscernible.
A Christmas Bride
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Instead, what you get is the indiscernible voice of a child singing in which I have concluded to be a mélange of Chinese and Arabic slang.
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For the most part, these were dark, crusty, ill-favored things, and it mattered little whether the artist attempted a still life of old wooden shoes or an interior scene of peasants consuming a frugal repast, as forms and shapes were barely discernible in his murky canvases.
A Stranger to Himself
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There is a discernible bias to topics popular with the current generation of French and Russian mathematicians, who form the bulk of the authors.
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The much vaunted Aussie "larrikin" sense of humor is indiscernible from the wit and laughter heard all over the world, it's famously
AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
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It is the largest Echinodorus, with large cordate leaves and typically with discernible pellucid dots on the blades.
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People of different races mingle with no discernible separation here.
Christianity Today
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What that means is works that avoid melodic drama and any narrative sense, instead building on drawn-out repetition and evolution in almost indiscernible increments.
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In fact, one of the at first sight rather frustrating observation was that lysates of lambda-gal, which indeed could still cause the infected host cell to lyse as does wild type phage lambda, did not contain any structural components of lambda (phage particles, heads or tails) discernible in the electron microscope.
Werner Arber - Autobiography
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As mentioned before, this formal coherence is achieved not through thematic development, but through the varied repetition of clearly discernible musical ideas.
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Recurring themes are readily discernible in the annals of history.
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Still, its form is at least partially discernible and this compilation is very much worth a listen.
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I come, now, to the silence of affectation, which is presently discernible by the roving of the eye round the room to see if it is heeded, by the sedulous care to avoid an accidental smile, and by the variety of disconsolate attitudes exhibited to the beholders.
Cecilia
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But it had no discernible effect on his career, which is still sustained, say his peers, by an extraordinary ability to spot hits.
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His face was barely discernible in the gloom.
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The Government should listen to the opinion of those teachers at the chalkface who see little discernible benefit for our children in national testing.
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Absolute stillness broods over them; no tremor is discernible in leaf or petal; the wide blue flowers gaze up intently into the wide blue sky.
The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
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But more importantly it is able to tap in to the psyche, the primeval, the indiscernible something that makes us human beings.
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NORTON: The governor tries to create the impression that everything that is going on in counting these ballots on the civilian side is undiscernible.
CNN Transcript - CNN Late Edition: Election 2000: Florida Recount Deadline Approaches; Palm Beach County Continues Counting - November 26, 2000
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a discernible change in attitude
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The satellite should detect that small bits of time and space are actually missing from each orbit, something indiscernible to orbiting astronauts but measurable nonetheless.
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Lovingly stitched from black embroidery floss onto large squares of black cotton, the figures are represented as vaguely discernible silhouettes that emphasize simple lines and bold shapes.
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Such binarism is also discernible in what is ostensibly the most egalitarian legislation: the Law of Defense Service (1949) and the Law of Equal Rights for Women (1951).
Politics in the Yishuv and Israel.
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If, however, a bundle of rays of light traverses a medium in which extremely fine dust is present, the ray of light will scatter to the sides and the path of the ray through the medium will be discernible from the side.
Nobel Prize in Physics 1930 - Presentation Speech
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Or perhaps there won't be any discernible differences on your part or his.
Times, Sunday Times
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A carved "stemma," or coat of arms, over a side-door was all the parsonage had to show, and no trace of the fresco was anywhere discernible.
Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
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There is a discernible pattern in Indian politics and economics which shows that change has tended to take place only very slowly and gradually.
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Not only will this exhibition be fruitful for those on the lookout for sleek sofa sets and dining tables, for the discernible office-goers there would be interiors with partitions and executive chairs.
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Instead, it was tender, but unfortunately any jalapeno flavour was indiscernible.
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None of the characters undergo any kind of discernible transformation during their week in the desert.
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Bernstein's New York Philharmonic play for him better than they usually played for Bernstein, with glorious tone and no discernible fluffs.
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I get no discernible hum pickup over that length.