Feasting on balls of full length aimed well outside off-stump - in one of the Sussex wicketkeeper's favourite areas - Prior leant into a series of drives, intelligently angled to avoid a packed field on that side, or lofted with precision over the men positioned on that side.

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These boxes took in low-speed, asynchronous data from the field and packed it into high-speed (9600 bits per second, it seems quaint now) synchronous trunks.

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After those four early wickets, Pakistan packed the on-side field and allowed India free runs on the off.

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There wasn't anything terribly innovative or new in the massage field, but the booths demoing massage tech were always packed with stressed-out or weary attendees who needed a little back rub after wandering the show floor all day.

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His "Field for the British Isles" work featured 40, 000 terracotta figures packed together to create a single giant installation.

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It is also tricky to capture the data in the field and stick the bar-code labels on the produce as it is picked and packed.

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Across the field, past the barn and the empty pigpen, past the house with its snow-packed porch, stood a smokehouse.

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