• Mill takes lines without breadth and points without length to be limit concepts.
• In the latter work al-Tusi discussed objections raised by earlier mathematicians to comparing lengths of straight lines and of curved lines.

• For the first time in 122 years, earth and Venus will be in a direct line with the sun.
• A properly set alignment must always be in a direct line with the intended target.
• If everyone just took off and went in a direct line to the destination, there would be utter chaos.

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• Although the effects of laser resurfacing can last for years, wrinkles and expression lines recur as skin ages.
• Skin damage, including lines and wrinkles, can actually start showing up in your 20s.
• His hair is graying already, he has grey stubble on his chin, wrinkles, laugh lines, and crows feet.

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• Smooth sensual lines and bold designs feature in a combination of glazed and matt finishes for a stylish contemporary result.
• This urban contemporary collection keeps things in perspective with simple forms, clean lines and subtle shapes.
• Classics are styles that have been popular for years because of their clean lines and utilitarian features.

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• If you remember back to an economics class you might have taken, much time was spent on the intersection of lines in those graphs.
• The screen pulled up in front of her shows a slightly fluctuating graph with two thin lines.

• In fleet racing, the dominant type at the Olympics, the first to cross the line wins the race.
• Earlier, Goodison had failed to go back after being over the start line when racing belatedly began an hour late.
• It was great to see so many young athletes on the starting line for every race.

• The Belgian took the second set when she clubbed a forehand down the line.
• The home favourite served for the match and closed it out on a second match point with a backhand down the line.
• First he drove just wide, then had a shot blocked before his third effort was cleared off the Newport line by Mark Fletcher.

• The communications revolution has blurred traditional class lines.
• A lot has been made over the last couple of years of the lines being blurred between news and entertainment.
• In southern Louisiana, a fierce love of place cuts across lines of class and religion.

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• If your receiver drifted out of sync, the picture dissolved into meaningless dots and lines.

• They proposed the name of rubidium for the element because of the dark red color of the most prominent of its spectral lines.
• He found spectral lines that had never been observed before and decided that they were produced by a new element.

• You may have noticed I've been switching around the line art images at the top of the page.
• This is the first stage of my cover artwork idea - black and white line art.
• It supports a huge variety of line styles so you can create complex illustrations.

• This ranks among the most spectacular music of its age, with its thrilling textures and virtuoso vocal lines.
• The flute carries the melodic lines throughout with the piano providing the simple accompaniment.
• There is too much pulling about of the melodic line in the first movement for my taste.

• He told police that he had snorted two lines of cocaine that evening, December 11 last year, but claimed the drug had no effect.
• He also told the jury he had had four lines of cocaine and ten pints of lager that evening.

• The high winds just blew away the infrastructure, broadband connections snapped and telephone lines went dead.
• Telephone lines were jammed and mobile phone services briefly crashed as panicked residents called family and friends.
• Meanwhile, officers at some stations found they could not get an outside line from landline phones.

• He then managed to find a hole in the fence by the railway line and ran onto the tracks.
• Residents in Station Road are angry that trees have been chopped down to prevent leaves falling on to the railway line.
• Last week in South Yorkshire a metal pole was placed on a railway line which pierced the underneath of a passenger carriage.

• Visions of a metro system, light railways, reopened suburban lines and new tram links have been held out in front of us.
• Other than the expressway, two dedicated railway lines have been planned to connect Bangalore to Devanahalli.
• I'm now sat on the train from London to Braintree, a town at the end of a branch line off the main capital to coast route.

• Already, the major shipping lines want to reduce the number of calls made to ports in north-west Europe.
• All the major lines offer a number of routes and cruise itineraries for the Caribbean.
• Yes, there is life even after retirement with plenty of openings in ship building industry and shipping lines.

• Written in iambic pentameter, it is comprised of two stanzas of four lines each, rhyming abab.
• He concluded by quoting a line from a poem by Petrarch.
• The concluding lines of the poem stress the power the experience still holds.

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• If an actor forgot his lines, a special button was pressed to cut off the sound to the viewer.
• He sees how each scene should look, how the music should feel, how the actors should speak their lines.
• We have all seen this movie a hundred times and can pretty much speak all the actor's lines from memory.

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• At school he had to draw pictures instead of doing lines as punishment.
• His detention turns out to be much more unorthodox than writing a hundred lines.

• At the American supermarket I learnt that we must join the line, not the queue.
• It took me less than 15 minutes yesterday to fill the car with gasoline as there were only 11 vehicles waiting in the line ahead of me.

• Expert practitioners in Japan can trace their family lines back through 43 generations of Ikenobo masters.
• Mrs Caywood-Guffy has traced her family line back to an ancestor who lived in Cawood in 1200.
• All titles were heritable and followed the male line of descent almost exclusively.

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• Last night a spokesman for Leeds United said that the leaflet was the latest in a long line of measures aimed at stamping out the problem.
• The new out-patient department is the latest in a line of enhanced services being provided from the hospital.
• Norwich Union is the latest in a long line of financial services companies to move call centre jobs to India.

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• Now he hoped to expand his line of products and services by taking advantage of the Web.
• The company has streamlined its existing product range and launched the new lines after extensive consumer research.
• It's not surprising, then, that the demand for new products and new lines at Wal-Mart is unending.

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• Contemporary opponents of liberalism prefer indirect lines of attack.
• Sometimes the various lines of attack become crossed.
• We'll have to wait and see what the reasons are but there are essentially two overlapping lines of attack.

• We both seemed to be thinking along the same lines.
• And last night I had a conversation with my dad along the same lines.
• In some ways NHS policy is moving along the same lines.

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• The senior civil servants are expected to brief their departmental ministers according to the agreed line.
• Under his tenure its political line has been marked by a further shift to the right.
• The SNP is giving its MSPs a free vote on this, not least because it has yet to establish a common line.

• The chairman stated that the company is back on track, but that line has been around for a while and investors do not seem to be buying it.
• The more you hear this line repeated throughout the season, the more trouble the Yankees are in.
• Of course, his convincing line to me was that his only interest in America was the fact that he found me here.

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• The viewer, like the soldiers, has no clear sense of the battle lines.
• Toward the end of the war, units were changing their offensive tactics from massed lines to small groups.

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