China's most dramatic militarisation effort in the region has been on the disputed Spratly Islands, considerably further south from the Paracels towards the Philippines and Brunei.
My fascination took me deeply into mechanistic molecular aspects of (post-transcriptional) gene regulation, and considerably further away from medicine than I had anticipated.
Not only are there 1,350km of sugar cane, cattle and sun-scorched necks separating the Brisbane and Townsville-based teams – a distance considerably further than that from Brisbane to Sydney – but there's also a gulf in status, wealth and power.
In France, of course, this is rarely a route to electoral oblivion; exploiting longstanding southern resentments of pompous Parisian elites certainly won him many votes in the Languedoc, some of them from considerably further to the right than his party bosses might have liked.
Though Grimsby is officially in Humberside and exempt from pub bore credentials of what constitutes "The North", it is considerably further north than what most people would think of as Essex.
The population is now 43,000 and is projected to fall considerably further in the next two decades.
On Tuesday morning, Paul Ryan, the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, went considerably further.
The most recent results, from the 2009 test, pleased Shanghai, South Korea and Finland, which were at the top of the tables, and caused hand-wringing in countries like the United States, which ranked considerably further down.
