Finding the antigens is like searching a beach for a particular grain of sand.

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Most are smaller than a grain of sand, according to the American Meteor Society, and usually burn up before they hit Earth's surface.

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If thousands of people owned the team, any individual divorces would have been a mere grain of sand on the beach line of corporate operations.

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To better understand this, visualize a single grain of sand.

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Such nanotechnology involves engineering carbon-based polymer molecules, one-millionth the size of a grain of sand, that attach to fibers to wick away moisture and resist stains, water and static.

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Every grain of sand washed away by rain from mountains and from the land finally reaches these obstacles called dams which we built across rivers and remains there, diminishing further the water storage capacity of dams.

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Believe it or not, the cleaning must be sufficiently scrupulous so as to ensure that not a single grain of desert sand is transported out of the Middle East, lest it carry bacteria or diseases back to U.S. shores.

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She discovered that she could scoop handfuls of mixed sand and grain and then toss the mix out onto the water.

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Witness the coexistence of rough planes that incorporate sand and suavely brushed passages, or of raucous invocations of leaves and fruit, and illusionistic wood grain and marble (an echo of his early training as a master decorator, as well as of Cubist collage).

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