The speedy is interlaced with the stealthy, and action sequences carefully bide their time.

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Most of the people who teach at BGI move on within a few years, so the wheel for most course sequences is reinvented all the time, which implies huge adjustment and faculty-training costs and little continuity in curriculum development.

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Motion capture can only feature three or fewer people at a time, so for the more complex fight sequences which will feature a cast of thousands, motion-capture data will be combined and special effects employed, to create a full-scale battlefield.

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Until now, the genomes of eukaryotes have been analysed using a laborious approach that sequences each chromosome a bit at a time.

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Then the game goes back in time and lets the player live through the action sequences that resulted in this harrowing dilemma.

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Every time you sign a transaction, you type in sequences of digits from the computer screen into the device, and then copy other sequences of digits displayed by the device back into the computer.

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The controller looked like a window-mounted air conditioner and could be programmed to run machines in different sequences without rewiring all those cabinets, a huge time-saver.

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Eventually, we start getting longer sequences that feature Shakespeare's melodious dialogue, since much screen time is taken up with the rehearsals.

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Dr Reich and his colleagues examined these common sequences, mindful of the assumption that genes steadily collect mutations as time goes by.

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Among commercially successful, big-time directors, perhaps only Steven Spielberg has produced a greater number of memorable images and sequences.

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