When an inflammatory condition of the small bowel exists, or when irritating substances are present in the intraluminal contents, a peristaltic contraction may travel over a considerable distance of the small intestine; this is called the peristaltic rush.
The western part of that belt consists, for a considerable distance, of two series of mountain chains that converge in dense knots in the Armenian Highland, in the Pamirs, and in the southeast of the Plateau of Tibet; the two chains then diverge to encompass the interior plateaus.
For that purpose the plaintiff constructed wing fences for a considerable distance on each side of the screen and along the westerly line of Union Avenue for the purpose of shutting off the light from the cars traveling on that arterial highway.
Old dense eburnated bone, when found for a considerable distance on both sides of the joint, is not favorable soil for reproduction of a movable joint, Such a condition is usually caused by an extensive virulent osteomyelitis, the result of which is a bone tissue of low grade, bearing the same relation to normal bone that scar tissue does to normal soft tissues.
The anthrax sent to Mr. Daschle, government officials said, was finely milled so that it would float a considerable distance on the smallest of air currents.
The large ritual complex of El Chal was located a considerable distance to the northeast of the civic centre of the city and was probably first built in the Preclassic Period.
At the latitude of Khartoum, for a considerable distance to each side of the Nile, have been found sites of a Mesolithic culture in which large, well-fired, unburnished pots decorated with designs impressed with a fish spine to make them resemble baskets were made and barbed bone harpoons were used for fishing.
The UK takes bottom place "by a considerable distance" for the number of young people who smoke, abuse drink and drugs, engage in risky sex and become pregnant at too early an age.
Lack of accessibility to services was also described: "...they have to go, so some of our clients have had to go outside of their community a considerable distance to where they don't know anybody".
The Wizard of Oz, which starred Judy Garland and Frank Morgan, heads the list with some 565 so-called "long-gap citations", a considerable distance ahead of the first Star Wars movie (released in 1977), which took second spot with 297.
In the space of a couple of decades the country has gone from barely touching a drop to become the world;s biggest beer market, a considerable distance ahead of America.
