Neither gives the impression of a self-contained whole, and each might have been cut short or extended without an appreciable change in quality.

If there has been an appreciable change, beyond fair wear and tear, this makes it easier to establish the likely cost of putting it back together.

There has been no appreciable change in this quintuple system since the first measurements were made in 1875.

Results suggested no appreciable change in the mixed layer depth with the time of day.

Some of these, such as the steamer ducks, show no appreciable changes in their flight feathers.

How much would be enough to make an appreciable difference to growth?

In fact, the minimum wage has made an appreciable difference to the low-paid and the warnings of a rise in unemployment have proved mistaken.

Marine research has repeatedly shown that sea dredging makes no appreciable difference to beach protection or marine habitats.

While it may not make an appreciable difference to global warming, an initial study reports gems big enough to be used in cutting and polishing.

The woods are mere thin screens of blackened and twisted masts of ships, and the villages, as a rule, make no appreciable difference to the contour of the landscape.

These unorthodox policies may have simply fuelled another asset-price bubble without having an appreciable effect on demand.

But the strident objections of even contemporary humanists had no appreciable effect in curbing the destructive quest for fine building materials.

The construction of a small power plant, which began operation in 1906, had an appreciable effect on the economic operation of the castle.

Even during heavy seed-crop years, only about 25% of trees in closed stands produce an appreciable number of cones.

For a chemical reaction to proceed at a reasonable rate, there should exist an appreciable number of molecules with energy equal to or greater than the activation energy.

Barn owl populations do rise and fall in cycle with vole populations and, being largely nocturnal, there may also be appreciable numbers going unrecorded.

Only the towns that had made an issue of issuing licenses to out-of-staters had appreciable numbers of them.

Professionally trained metalsmiths were graduating from art schools and community colleges in appreciable numbers.