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Example sentences for: vicinity

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The CIA reported RESPONSES TO AL QAEDA'S INITIAL ASSAULTS 117 that a soil sample from the vicinity of the al Shifa plant had tested positive for EMPTA, a precursor chemical for VX, a nerve gas whose lone use was for mass killing.
This region is in the vicinity of the most prominent positively charged areas on the surface of the gp41 core which has an overall negative charge.
25 subjects who were recruited from the vicinity of Peking University and participated in a previous heritability study were also included.
Instead, it now seems more likely that E204 and E194 merely help to lower the pK a of the H +release group from above 8, the apparent value for pR, into the vicinity of 6 for bR.
All but three amino acids in the vicinity of the ligand are conserved between the two isoforms.