In many of these instances, Ken notes, using a different qualifier — familiar, characteristic, usual, unusual, proud, favorite, feared, beloved — or using none at all might have been refreshing.
To compare demographic and maternal characteristics and usual nutrient intakes of Hispanic and non-Hispanic infants and toddlers 4 to 24 months of age in the United States.
Respondents reported their personal health history, reproductive and menstrual history, exogenous hormone use history, family history of cancer, lifetime physical activity patterns, lifetime alcohol consumption history, smoking habits, demographic characteristics and usual adult height and weight at each decade from age 20 to 60 years.
A looser set of definitions was needed to account for the missing information that is characteristic of usual care data, especially obesity measures and indication of fasting status.
ADH was described initially based on exclusion rather than positive criteria, i.e. the recognition of some but not all of the features of DCIS (as well as the lack of the characteristics of usual-type epithelial hyperplasia) [ 8].
Castle's art does not display the usual characteristics of so-called Outsider Art.
Simon Parkin: Depression Quest eschews the usual characteristics of most video games: there is no victorious ending and, as the developers warn in the preamble text, the game "is not meant to be a fun or light-hearted experience".
His pinot grigio has an incredible colour, half pink, half orange, his 2006 sauvignon has none of the usual characteristics, and he has launched a very affordable range called Quinto Quarto, at €10 a bottle.
It's one of the very few "design" hotels in Brittany, with all the usual characteristics – predominantly white decor but with brightly coloured scatter cushions, bold patterns, bucket seats and oversized plant pots.
To British viewers, the film's stars are much the same as the Creature Comforts animals that first delighted us on TV, and Julia Sawalha (stroppy) and Jane Horrocks (bubble-headed) retain their usual characteristics in a crowded henhouse.
