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As it relates to cloud amounts, it means 1 or 2 octas of clouds (i.e., 1/8 or 2/8 of sky is covered with clouds).

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For meeting the pastoral needs arising from the fewness of priestly vocations, married men could be allowed to receive not only diaconate, as it is the practice now, but also priesthood after due spiritual, theological, and pastoral formation.

100 Books, More to Come

This is referred to as the issue of "fewness" (Miller, 2004) and has been found to exist early in elementary school and continue through all levels of schooling including the faculties of institutions of higher education.

Gifted programming for poor or minority urban students: issues and lessons learned

Although few, their warmth more than compensated for their fewness.

Israeli Exceptionalism: Destabilizing Logic of Zionism

POLYPOLY a market condition characterized by the fewness of sellers where this has a direct effect on prices.

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Furthermore, that this rebalancing occurs to a degree that is disproportionate to the remoteness of the places where contemplative life continues and to the fewness of those who carry on the ascetic practice is remarkable and a source of hope.

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The bias may also be in favor of male students on account of fewness in number (13,9%).

Higher education classroom management: Kuwait University students' views

For, although this custom at first blush seems to have been introduced in consideration of mean time during which the one who received the money in Milan and was going to restore it at the Lyons market made use of the money received; nonetheless, it occurs to more penetrating investigators that this custom could have been introduced because of the discovery or nondiscovery of money changers holding on to contracts of potential sale or because of the plurality or fewness of them.

7 Are the proposed instances of money changing really money changing and justified?

(1) As we discuss below, fewness arises because scale economies and sunk

Competition after unbundling: entry, industry structure, and convergence

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