You set the novel in a parallel version of Oxford.
So we are probably in a parallel version of the present, or the not-very-distant future.
They wanted to create a parallel version of something that already existed for the rest of the city of Buenos Aires: called "147".
So I made up a parallel version of Oxford and invented this professor who'd spent his entire life trying to compile this field guide to reality.
By then, Republicans had responded by tabling a vote on a parallel version of the bill, which will be held on Thursday.
Here's the gist: we're in a parallel version of the 1980s, with Nixon still in office and the Cold War still raging.
Pullman has given his blessing to the project, and is helping recruit a writer to produce a faithful adaptation of the novels, which centre on a girl called Lyra living in a parallel version of Oxford.
He meets a handyman named Lester "Speedy" Parker who teaches him all about the other world that we can't see: a parallel version of our own, known as the Territories.
A parallel version of this chain of events exists in New Hampshire, where Kelly Ayotte, the state's attorney general, was expected to be the Republican standard-bearer in the Senate race there.
Like Sam, Mr. Anderson was briefly a Boy Scout, and the film's affectionate, comic take on scouting situates it in a parallel version of Norman Rockwell's once-upon-a-time America.
Vainglory is set on a parallel version of the earth, with the backstory including two sleeping gods – one in the heart of earth and another in the heart of the moon – with the former secreting then releasing "halcyon" through geyser-like eruptions on the surface.
