Sentences with phrase «larger pieces of junk»

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Long regarded as «junk DNA,» retrotransposons are pieces of ancient foreign DNA that make up a large fraction of the mammalian genome.

Of the hundreds of thousands of pieces of space junk in Earth's orbit, more than 20,000 are larger than 10 centimetres across — big enough to smash a piece off a satellite and create even more orbiting junOf the hundreds of thousands of pieces of space junk in Earth's orbit, more than 20,000 are larger than 10 centimetres across — big enough to smash a piece off a satellite and create even more orbiting junof thousands of pieces of space junk in Earth's orbit, more than 20,000 are larger than 10 centimetres across — big enough to smash a piece off a satellite and create even more orbiting junof pieces of space junk in Earth's orbit, more than 20,000 are larger than 10 centimetres across — big enough to smash a piece off a satellite and create even more orbiting junof space junk in Earth's orbit, more than 20,000 are larger than 10 centimetres across — big enough to smash a piece off a satellite and create even more orbiting junk.

In advance, gather a large «junk box» of miscellaneous items — such as bottle caps, plastic toys, coins, buttons, twist ties, stickers, empty spools, yarn, or paper scraps — and also large pieces of construction paper.

in the year of 2008 when I checked the mail and found a larger - than - usual piece of assumed junk mail from American Express.

And in a socially satiric vein, Mike Kelley's «Memory Ware Flat,» a large panel bearing hundreds of pieces of cheap metal jewelry, ponders the sentimental value people invest in consumerist junk.

The folks at NASA were recently unable to predict where and when a large piece of space junk would land — too complicated for orbital mechanics.