This partner had a particularly strong scientific background, and was generally very down to earth, so it was usually great fun to shoot the breeze with her.

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He's very down to earth and very likeable.

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In a sense he has separated the quasi-mystical divine function of God's representative on Earth from the very down-to-earth job of administering the world's oldest international organisation, one which has survived two millennia of schisms, would-be reformers and wars, as well as territorial, family and political ambitions.

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"He's very down-to-earth, " said Hancox, who was shot in the chest in Afghanistan in 2011.

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Otherwise those stock prices might very well come back down to earth.

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Mr Boyle is remembered at Bangor as a "very mature, very focused and down-to-earth student".

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Unless it somehow managed to burrow a very long way down before exploding, such a weapon detonated beneath the earth's surface would throw up huge amounts of radioactive debris, a danger to all.

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