About two decades ago, researchers first noticed something odd was happening to amphibians.
For the first 100-odd years, he says, South Africa's Indians taught and spoke to their children in their native tongues.
Which is rather odd at first sight but does have some possible sense in it.
Similarly, the start-ups today that are really making a difference in changing the world are a bit odd at first.
Stein's decision to examine the feather trade through the prism of Jewish history may seem odd at first, but the correlation isn't forced.
First, it seems odd that Gamasutra at once claims that the decline appears to be real and points out that the launch month comparison is flawed.
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But the results were very odd: first, they saw a drop in plasma thiol levels (a drop is a bad outcome, for this study) in patients treated for 2-12 months, from 124 down to 105.
There's no denying that it's pretty odd at first -- we don't know about you, but we've never dreamt of titling our mouse all over the place, and even if we did we probably would have envisioned the movement to actually impact the navigating experience in some shape or form.
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At first blush, it seems odd that the bank would be so tight-fisted with such a large amount of money.
MPs should prefer to see their colleagues in the other house appointed is not as odd as it first looks.
The odd results were first noticed by developer Oliver Yeh, who discovered the strangeness while doing work for his App Store Rankings start-up.
But it is odd, at first sight, that genetic modification in a laboratory should weaken a plant any more than traditional breeding methods do.
Well, first it is a bit odd that the Co-Op and Lloyds were not apparently aware of the magnitude of the regulatory hurdle on December 14, when they went into their exclusive preparations for the nuptials.
First, it strikes me as odd that the announcement about the sanctions was made by the State Department.
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The decision struck most as odd, since the first page of the passport complies with international specifications and has no space for another column on religion.
So as the sun sinks slowly over Jacobshorn and we bid a fond farewell to Davos, we are reminded why we came to this odd burg in the first place.
At first, Dnepropetrovsk seems like an odd place to create a sophisticated art project: factories, smokestacks, powerlines, industrial workers with perhaps very little interest in the arts and generally low level of quality of life.
At first blush, it seems kind of odd that Aramco would even bother with expanding Shaybah right now.
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It seems odd to think of this first-grader who simply wants to use the bathroom as a civil rights pioneer.
This season the wild-cards had the odd occurrence of hosting the first two games against teams with the best record in their leagues.
Last month at the Howard Weil Oil and Gas Conference in New Orleans and then again on its first quarter conference call, two very odd things happened.
Graham Reeds QC, for the prosecution, told the court the first signs of Blake's "odd behaviour" had started to show in late 2009 when she was taken in for a psychiatric assessment after calling police about a domestic disturbance.
First up is Page, again with the odd, perhaps even more hoarse voice he had last quarter, almost a whisper.
He did just that, leading the final 78 laps on the 312-lap race around PIR's odd-shaped oval in the first non-restrictor-plate race with NASCAR's new Gen-6 car.
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