Kristen could hear their conversation distantly but couldn't make out what they were saying. |
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I hear Roberts' voice call out distantly, even though he's right in front of me. |
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Ikeda was too stunned to move, and could hear Rimiya screeching distantly down the hallway. |
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Tahixha thought she heard bells ringing distantly, magical, ethereal chimes whispering of an uncertain future. |
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It is distantly related to Cantonese and other Chinese dialects, and closely related to Lao and Thai. |
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Alex smiled to herself as Yuka and Mark continued to bicker about his hitting ability, and distantly, she heard a knock at the door. |
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Beth distantly heard a snide comment from the first customer in line, and breathed a sigh of relief when the cashier finally looked away. |
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A mechanical hum vibrates distantly, though I can only really hear it through my feet. |
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She could distantly hear screams down the hallway, and stopped dead in her tracks when she realized that it was coming from Ryan's room. |
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Perhaps distantly connected, however, is the issue currently circulating of whether academics should journal at all. |
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However, this problem should be studied in more detail considering both distantly related and closely related species. |
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Then all the genes in a new network should be closely related to each other, and only distantly to the old network. |
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Apparently the evolutionary pattern of distantly related sequences should be described differently from that of closely related sequences. |
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We observed a slight correlation in the month of birth for closely spaced siblings, but not among more distantly spaced offspring. |
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Koushkani is a master of the Tar, a Persian instrument reminiscent of the Greek bouzouki or, more distantly, the mandolin. |
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At Oxford, she fell somewhat distantly in love with the poet and gifted linguist Frank Thompson. |
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Third, the more distantly related two individuals are, the more different their micro-satellites will be. |
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Now, however, she just smiled at him distantly, put the tea on the table and walked away. |
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Aided by Adam Cork's superb sound track, he underscores the action with savage bird-cries and distantly reverberative music. |
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Saire smiled distantly as he put an arm about her shoulder and ushered her back inside. |
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He answered almost distantly, turning to her with something of a sad smile. |
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Their generation, I imagine, experienced the war more distantly as a disturbed era that ended in national humiliation. |
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More distantly related to true dinosaurs were the marine plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs. |
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Finnish is one of the most isolated languages of Europe, distantly related to Hungarian and Turkish but spoken by very few non-Finns. |
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Because his parents distantly knew mine, I heard that about four years ago his parents divorced. |
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Bulgarian is a south Slavic language, closely related to Serbo-Croatian and Slovenian and more distantly to Russian. |
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She intended to put the money back, but, distantly, she heard shouts and clamoring. |
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Khanor was only watching, devoid of emotion, and Brooke could distantly hear Katsi moaning and sputtering in the front seat. |
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She could only distantly hear the shouts of her comrades over the rushing water and her own anxious heartbeat. |
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The Australian spider is distantly related to our tarantulas, which are barely toxic. |
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I was distantly aware of Xander shouting for help, the pain was my world at that time, and all I could do was pretend that it would all end soon. |
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Sirenians are members of the group known as subungulates, thought to be distantly related to hyraxes, elephants, and perhaps, artiodactyls and perissodactyls. |
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In Oregon, Gordon Smith, a centrist who is distantly related to the Udalls, though on the other side of the aisle, was slightly behind. |
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Analysis of these fossils showed the ancient creature to be a small mammal, possibly distantly related to the modern scaly anteater known as the pangolin. |
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Almost everyone who knew Bush even distantly, from either side of the aisle, has a story of his thoughtfulness or compassion. |
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It would be very time-consuming to track down the health information of all these more or less distantly related cats. |
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Are there other more closely related or distantly related loved ones who are prepared to provide care and share tasks? |
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Mannikins are somewhat similar Old World birds that are more distantly related to manakins. |
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As this chart indicates, social assistance is by far the largest category among poverty law cases, following distantly by housing. |
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The Hungarian language is unlike any of the country's neighbouring languages and is only distantly related to Finnish and Estonian. |
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Calgary, Montréal, Edmonton and Québec distantly followed, each of them showing gains in both the residential and non-residential sectors. |
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The closest linguistic relatives of the Hungarians are the Finns and the Estonians, but the Hungarians are also distantly related to the Turkic peoples. |
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The most time-consuming task for women caregivers is household work, followed distantly by personal care. |
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It morphed into this gigantic, intangible thing that loomed distantly, shadowing our eventual departure from the college, and colouring our future plans. |
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In principle, one should not marry a blood relative, but in small communities marriages between kin more distantly related than first cousins are common. |
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Then, more distantly, comes the issue of whether it was actually a correct incorrect red card in the first place. |
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And the body has even less tolerance for tissues from more distantly related donors, such as pigs. |
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More generally, the company can look like a conglomerate whose 40 separate product lines are only distantly related. |
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While aesthetic considerations are admittedly subjective, of course, I can find little in the Olympic style that even distantly resembles actual swordplay. |
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She distantly heard Jade closing the window, and she went on walking. |
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The British prime minister comes from a family line packed with pedigrees and is distantly related to the queen. |
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Estonian belongs to the Finno-Ugric linguistic group, related closely to Finnish and more distantly to Hungarian and various languages spoken in Siberia. |
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She was trailed distantly by John Kerry at 15 percent, Al Gore at 13 percent, and John Edwards at 12 percent. |
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The Turkmen of Iraq, some 500,000-700,000 strong, speak an Altaic language related to Mongolian and perhaps very distantly to Korean and Japanese. |
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She heard the sounds of a fight, but distantly, as if on some other world. |
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Beyond the rain, he can distantly hear the beach and the surf behind him. |
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She could hear them talking distantly as she thought about getting down. |
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Maud smiled distantly, as if reveling in some personal dream. |
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However, once a Markov model is fitted to this data, replacement frequencies characteristic for distantly related sequences can be extrapolated from the model. |
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The topographer of earlier days had the equalization problem between areas close at hand and those viewed distantly. |
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Another, more speculative hypothesis is that perhaps fungi, which live within the roots of many distantly related plants, served as a conduit for the jumping genes. |
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But again, religious fare was the favourite subject, followed by sport, and only distantly by scientific subjects. |
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It was by no means so sure when he was born, in Ogden, Utah, into a Mormon family distantly linked to Joseph Smith, the founder. |
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For two important groups, rhodophytes and stramenopiles, we combined more distantly related taxa, since the monophyly of these groups has not been questioned. |
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If Harry is distantly related to Dracula, is he a half-blood prince? |
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The war of the worlds is ignited by the rebellion of Loki against Thor — the wrathful perverter of a distantly alien religion that preaches peace with Earth. |
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Most scientists consider adapiforms as basal members of the suborder that includes lemurs and lorises, which are distantly related to humans and other anthropoids. |
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This will continue to be a major task in future too, so that we can ensure that passengers can claim their rights even if people in uniform treat them dismissively or distantly. |
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A coelom also is present in some more distantly related phyla, including Annelida, Arthropoda, and Mollusca, but the main organs of the body are arranged differently in these phyla. |
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I didn't ever get close enough to give myself an asthma attack, but I became distantly fond of this cat, which prowled among the humans around it looking disdainful and refusing to be stroked. |
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Further east, the legendary Percé Rock contains the fossilized remains of 150 species of marine creatures including trilobites, which are distantly related to lobsters. |
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For higher plants and animals, further distinctions should be made regarding possible gene transfer to the same, closely related, distantly related and unrelated species. |
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Danish is more distantly related to German, which is a West Germanic language. |
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The first example was the close relationship between Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt who were in fact distantly related. |
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She sobbed herself to sleep and then dreamed she was walking on a beach on a moonful night, a strange but distantly known city on the horizon. |
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It appears to have been very closely related to Old Welsh, with some local variances, and more distantly related to Cornish, Breton and Pictish. |
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When the piano finally comes in, as in the first movement, it embarks on a cadenza, very improvisatory in character, and only distantly related to the main theme. |
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But this desire is, we might say, cheapened in actual life by particular desires which are related to it closely or distantly, as one interprets them. |
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The hero, his round face and large eyeglasses distantly reminiscent of the artist himself, wakes from a peaceful daydream to find himself face-to-face with a giant in a McDonald's restaurant. |
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We needed a solution to easily produce quality photos which are accurate, with good lighting conditions and without any reflections to distantly validate every step with our clients. |
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Cause and effect are very difficult to establish clearly in education, which is an intricate web of processes, some integrally related and others distantly connected. |
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In addition, a mixture between Sindhi, Gujarati, and Kutchi called Memoni is related to Gujarati, albeit distantly. |
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Unlike the distantly related src kinases, PTK6 lacks a myristylation sequence. |
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Breton itself is one of the Brittonic languages and is closely related to Cornish and more distantly to Welsh. |
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Welsh and the extinct Cumbric are the more distantly related Brittonic languages. |
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In microbiology, genes can move freely even between distantly related bacteria, possibly extending to the whole bacterial domain. |
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More distantly related members of the family Anatidae are swans, most of which are larger than true geese, and ducks, which are smaller. |
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However, the two genera are in different families that are only distantly related. |
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The Arabic and Berber languages are distantly related, both being members of the Afroasiatic language family. |
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The two species are equally distantly related to cattle, suggesting the giraffe's unique characteristics are not because of faster evolution. |
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However, cattle cannot be successfully hybridized with more distantly related bovines such as water buffalo or African buffalo. |
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Transgenes were observed both in the sweet potato's closely related wild relatives, and also were found in more distantly related wild species. |
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A pteridologist is a specialist in the study of pteridophytes in a broader sense that includes the more distantly related lycophytes. |
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Chinchillas and their closest living relatives, the mountain viscachas, along with the more distantly related plains viscacha, constitute the family Chinchillidae of the suborder Hystricognatha within the order Rodentia. |
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Not even distantly related to spinach but with ''spinach'' in their names are Malabar spinach and New Zealand spinach. |
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This finding is in accordance with a previous study, which showed that eclectus parrots and Cacatuini are phylogenically distantly related. |
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The horizon was distantly visible in the grey light of dawn. |
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What is generally agreed upon by linguists is that Cumbric was a Western Brittonic language closely related to Welsh and, more distantly, to Cornish and Breton. |
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Haplogroup I is a grouping of several quite distantly related lineages. |
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