It had been stored in a climate-controlled museum vault except for infrequent public shows.
In fact, except for infrequent ink and paper changes, the device is intended to be maintenance-free, much like that other mailbox at the end of the driveway.
Foreign reporters have long been barred from visiting Tibet except for infrequent, carefully-managed tours organized by officials, and Chinese reporters also face restrictions; diplomats have problems gaining access and even regular tourists, from time to time.
The iron-fisted military presence of Iran has kept that region in relative calm except for infrequent suicide bombings and skirmishes.
On the first day of the convention, McQuesten announced his vision of the freeway: an uninterrupted drive through the scenic regions of Ontario, discouraging local business and local traffic from accessing the highway except at infrequent controlled-access points.
All sounds (except the infrequent sounds with reduced intensity) were played via headphones at ∼65 dB SPL.
Except for infrequent sampling of specimens, the species seems to have disappeared from the country, as it has from most of the Mediterranean region (12, 13 ).
At the other end of the spectrum, regions in which two siblings share two chromosomes IBD are expected to have identical sequences (except for infrequent de novo mutations).
With the exception of the second batch the extraction blanks showed negligible DNA concentrations (between 0.01 and 0.25 pg/μl), which did not result in autosomal STR profiles except of infrequent drop-in alleles with low relative fluorescence unit (RFU) values.
