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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A chronometer is hidden within all words, and in each length of nucleic acid.
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In I 779 he created a sensation with a pocket chronometer , called No. 36.
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One was its glass house-the vacuum chamber that shielded the chronometer from troubling changes of atmospheric pressure and humidity.
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Perhaps Nenna would like to have a look at his chronometers.
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Thacker had considered this problem at great length when testing his chronometer .
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The chronometer confirmed his flying time since the aerial refuelling over Omsk, tallying with the covered distance on the on-board computer.
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The maritime chronometer took Britain to pre-eminence in safe navigation and helped secure the empire.
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Time-signals, geophysical measurements, weather reporting and the testing of chronometers were among the functions which they discharged.