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Sometimes you don't know whether he did his research by letting himself be washed by television for endless stretches, or whether he went so deep he knows expressions you've never heard (or haven't heard since fifth grade: Do cops ever refer to a perp as a "hoody"?)
This stretches the theme a little, since there are no words and it isn't the reproduction of a real bill.
The modern Republic of Turkey dates only from 1923, but the history of the land within its borders stretches back to the dawn of humanity.
Of this set of enzymes, MHCK-C is also unique in that it contains a large central domain of approximately 30 kDa that consists of highly repetitive stretches rich in serine, asparagine, proline, and glutamine.
The inhabited history of the Las Vegas Valley stretches to 23,000 b.c. , when much of the area was covered by a prehistoric lake.