And most of these flickers on the dial were within the margin of error.
This season, there are flickers of turquoise, green and orange among the navy and charcoal.
Today, online flickers of news are so constant and incremental that the old-style regimen is losing relevance.
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The light signal is consisted of a blinking pattern that flickers too fast for humans to see.
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Their critics say they are slow to warm up, the light flickers, and they are too big for some fittings.
Maybe, with a little nudging, one by one, flickers of light will start to burn in their heads.
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It flickers to life on-screen and appears to turn on and off when you shake the device it's on.
Ironically, a red light also flickers when the markets hit a new high.
So it would not be surprising if these initial flickers were the first signs of a true consumer revival.
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The real world flickers on the horizon, its skyscrapers shimmering like distant stars.
Household-debt burdens have fallen, the housing market shows signs of stability and the labour market is showing flickers of life.
There have been flickers of good news with tourism robust and exports growing, but many ordinary Greeks have seen their incomes slump.
And for now, the floor that launched a dance craze is gathering dust in a Staten Island warehouse, and flickers to life only on film.
Parents also push their children into extracurricular activities in an effort to nurture flickers of talent in such areas as music, dance, painting and computer skills.
But the optical switch takes the flickers of lights flashing by and, with the use of its micro-mirrors, redirects them from one optical fibre to another.
There was a time at big concerts when musicians could look out from the stage and see little flickers of tiny flames all around an arena.
With the odds so stacked against them, the flickers of enterprise seen in Berlin, London, Helsinki and a few other places offer cause for seemingly disproportionate hope.
Research provides some reason for hope: Up to 40% of patients written off as vegetative may have been misdiagnosed and may at least have occasional flickers of consciousness.
The remaining rodents were also exposed to a cycle, but the dark was replaced with a dim glow equivalent to the twilight at the first flickers of dawn.
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This latest endeavor is no less provoking, and no less attuned to flickers of farce in unlikely places, though it seems, if anything, even more controlled in its indignation.
The U.S. financial markets are showing flickers of life, but data released Tuesday showed the U.S. economy remained mired in recession during November, with results that were worse than investors had been expecting.
It's not obvious, but it is there -- especially on the notifications pull-down, which is smooth as a whistle as it moves across the main screen, whereas it flickers ever so slightly on the Android 4.0 One X.
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