Sentence examples for comparatively familiar from inspiring English sources

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Homer Sykes' book Once A Year, first published in 1977, offered rare glimpses into Britain's arcane and exotic annual rituals – from comparatively familiar maypoles to the deeply obscure, like Derbyshire's Shrovetide Football or Middlesex's Pinner Fair.

Moving beyond the comparatively familiar clinical setting provides an opportunity to better understand the social and environmental contributors to ill health.

The researchers speculate that it is not a darker face alone that attracts a male, but how comparatively dark a familiar female's face gets as she becomes fertile.

While some people might wish that were the case, it seems unusually unfair that a comparatively recent film boasting such familiar names as Price and Everett (as well as a slew of British comedy fixtures including Sheila Steafel, John Fortune, Barry Cryer and Pamela Stephenson) could just vanish.

This case is particularly true in the less developed areas in inland China, especially the western region, an area that remains comparatively under investigated and less familiar to non-Chinese specialists.

That hard-won nonchalance will be familiar not just to the comparatively few women who participate in male-dominated sports, but to the millions upon millions of women who just enjoy watching them.

Some full (standard) scope roles (which closely resembled existing roles with which professionals were familiar) reached effective skill levels comparatively quickly.

Adaptive scaling of novelty would have the critical advantage over absolute coding of preventing memory capacity from being overwhelmed in novel environments (by comparatively reducing gain and/or sensitivity), while allowing efficient memory updating in familiar environments (by enhancing gain and sensitivity).

I was way too familiar with the superspy's film incarnation to be thrilled by a comparatively sedate literary adventure.

The greatest limitation perhaps, is that it was not possible to find players that were familiar with a newer game in the FPS genre, one that had a comparatively high metacritic score with Half-Life.