Patients who receive a cochlear implant need between 6 and 15 months to regain their hearing to the point where they say things sound normal.

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"The engines didn't sound typical, didn't sound normal, " he said.

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The implication of this is that you could scan a person using some advanced form of the technology used to perform MRI scans, and transmit that scanned information somewhere else -- using normal electrical or sound signals -- where it would then be reassembled into an approximation of the original.

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"It broke a whole barrier of theater that doesn't sound like normal conversation, " Channing says.

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In normal times, that would sound hugely disappointing.

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Admittedly, the manifesto does also contain attractive proposals which in normal times would have provided a sound platform to stand on.

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The key issue in Malaysia is whether controls will help or hinder the restoration of sound medium-term growth and more normal access to international capital markets.

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It made no difference that perfectly sound institutions (mainly banks) in normal times could lose their liquidity in a general panic situation that was no fault of their own.

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It may sound like a lot, but it's within the normal range of turnover.

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Then on a stay in Mexico in 1956, he made the visual discovery that determined his career: he drew a mandolin with a tiny sound-hole, which made the instrument look bigger than normal.

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