The other problem is that having sufficient data to draw a proper curve, bell shaped or otherwise.
The coffee shop still looks like an old bathhouse, with wooden latticework and a distinctive, bell-shaped awning.
Musicians play oboe-like ''suona, '' bell-shaped gongs and a variety of drums, while masked or unmasked dancers move farcically to the accompaniment.
Walking along the trailside, annoyed at my cold, wet mission, I suddenly noticed a profusion of orange and yellow bell-shaped blooms growing on dwarf rhododendron bushes.
He was fond of these new bell-shaped skirts, wide enough to crawl under and be kept safe, and wished he had waited to marry, or married differently.
This suggests that the familiar bell-shaped curve reflects no immutable law, and that intelligent government policies might well help to reduce pollution levels even while countries are still relatively poor.
Imagine a society that has a bell-shaped income distribution curve with a broad middle class, a smaller number of rich and poor, and an even smaller number of super rich and super poor.
In other words, VAR said how much money a bank could lose in a single day IF mortgage borrowers behaved the way they had in the past and the world stayed within the 95% of the bell-shaped curve it normally occupies.
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If the pattern of public opinion in general is bell-shaped, that of religious belief has the profile of a Volkswagen Beetle: a bump of evangelical Protestants at the front, a bigger bulge of uncensorious congregations in the middle and a stubby secular tail.
Poll investors, amateur or professional, about the future and you will likely get a neatly-shaped bell curve of expected outcomes, with most respondents herding toward the perceived safety of the middle ground.
Based on the movements of a water spider, Bell's hydrofoil was shaped like a submarine and sported two large airborne propellers on either side of the cockpit.
The BELL GDP growth curves are V-shaped.
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Since small deviations are common and large ones are rare, the result of plotting data in this way is a curve shaped somewhat like the cross-section of a bell.
In some ways, Google represents the internet-era equivalent of Bell Labs or Xerox PARC legendary corporate research outfits that shaped the evolution of technology in earlier periods.
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