But everyone can be forgiven since only a few of us science geeks know the difference.
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Since only a few of the biggest and oldest have endowments worth mentioning, poor pupils will have to be subsidised by increasing the already-astronomical fees paid by other pupils.
And by the nature of their job, they are often more important in the lives of their individual students than their students are in theirs (since a student has only a few professors per term, but a professor can have hundreds of students).
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The good news is that since we have only a few passengers on board, we can disembark quickly.
Offered by Google, Salesforce.com and Microsoft, this market is also fairly easy to measure, since there are only a few providers and their offerings have not really taken off yet.
Since February, Sony has only sold a few million PS Vita units worldwide.
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Meanwhile, the U.S. price advantage may last only a few years since Australia is poised to rival Qatar as the largest LNG exporter by 2018.
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It is only a few months since the snap decision was made to create two new companies to compete with CT and its main rival, Unicom.
The reserves, stored in Texas and Louisiana, were started during the U.S. oil embargo in the early 1970s, and have been used as a back-up measure to supply oil only a few times since that decade.
It goes without saying that this production comes with a lot of built-in good will, since "The Last Five Years, " despite running only a few months, has developed quite a following in its afterlife, becoming a staple of regional and school productions.
It's only been a few weeks since ASUS went official with it's Tegra 3-packing Eee Pad Transformer Prime tablet.
Since swimming only takes the national spotlight for a few weeks every four years, fans can literally get exercise out of the pool through this new game.
Since the end of the war, only a few people have crossed the line at Panmunjom, the so-called joint-security area and the only place where barbed wire and mines are absent.
The McRib sandwich has garnered a cult-like following since the company, in 1994, decided it would be available only at a few restaurants at a time on a rotating schedule.
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Flextronics had bad delays in the days after the terrorist attack, but since then deliveries have been on time or only a few hours late, says Thomas Wright, its chief of logistics.
Flextronics, like others, had bad delays in the days after the terrorist attacks, but since then deliveries have been on time or only a few hours late, says logistics chief Thomas Wright .
Clinton has made only a few public appearances in New York since winning her Senate race Nov. 7.
That makes practical sense: since harvests vary according to the crop and last for only a few days, few jobs can be long-term.
It's only a few days shy of 13 months since we released our mixed review of DISH Network's DTVPal DVR, and yet Zatz Not Funny reports that DISH will no longer offer the niche recorder.
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Apart from a few new states that have become independent only since 1990, such as Eritrea and (de facto) Somaliland, the only laggard has been the inaptly-named Democratic Republic of Congo.
Unfortunately, the Iranian regime and the corporations partnering with it (almost all of whom are foreign-owned and -operated, since American companies are prohibited from participating directly in such dealings and only a few circumvent that prohibition using off-shore subsidiaries) are being abetted by a well-heeled Washington lobby: the National Foreign Trade Council (NFTC).
For more than fifty years, no one but Inch managed it, and only a few dozen have done so in the half century since.
There has only been a few occassions when Japanese investors turned to net sellers since the creation of Toshin investment trusts in December 1998.
The Democrats will need at least a few Republican votes in the Senate, since they now control only 59 votes, one short of the number needed to break a filibuster.
Only a few projects were financed at an installation that been "closing since 1996, " the report said.
Since March 1998, it has been open to private flights, though at present only a few international ones are allowed customs clearance.
Alarm.com has been around since 2000 and it really has been the only player in this interactive services category up until a few years ago.
Since Eros's gravity is so small (a person on its surface would weigh only a few dozen grams), this dust probably could not have fallen into the craters in the way that it would on a heavier body.
Since 1990, though, Beijing and Moscow have been steadily negotiating their boundaries -- and only a few pockets remain to be resolved.
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