It consumed an appreciable fraction of the downlink capacity and it was only needed occasionally, typically during handover from one ground station to the next.

And a ship can't achieve an appreciable fraction of that kind of velocity because it isn't traveling through a vacuum.

She looked at him for an appreciable fraction of a minute ere she answered, and when she did, it was in the monosyllable - 'Yes.'

Many of the synchronous stations were already kilometres in extent, or linked by cables which stretched along appreciable fractions of their orbit.

Time dilation would become noticeable at appreciable fractions of the speed of light.

Since the Goldenwings accelerate to an appreciable fraction of the speed of light, they are subject to the time-dilation effects described by Einstein.

For the same reason solidification of an appreciable fraction of the mantle can also be ruled out over the same period of history.

Over its entire lifetime of 10 billion years, our sun will not lose any appreciable fraction of its mass.

The relative velocity of the two ships was an appreciable fraction of the speed of light itself.

They were low velocity, and there was an appreciable fraction of a second before they burst among the enemy.