In a dancer there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.

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Radiocarbon dating can also be difficult if the bones are very small or fragmentary.

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Like many African women, she was malnourished and her pelvic bones were too small for a natural birth.

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The small, soft, edible bones of fresh sardines and smelts and canned bone-in fish like salmon are valuable sources of calcium.

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An additional advantage of nanocrystals is that they are small enough for the cells that live inside bones to latch on to.

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That, combined with the constant pounding Ware endured through an entire season of basketball, may have created small stress fractures in the tibia and fibula bones in his lower leg, causing his bone to snap when he took a bad step.

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If the business sometimes resembled a black market, it was a small one: nobody seriously imagined getting rich digging up prehistoric bones.

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Crazy Bones is catching on, and not just with small shops.

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These small design features also win it points with aesthetics, which overall is pretty bare bones but minimalistic enough to satisfy my needs.

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