Sentence examples for pair of relatives from inspiring English sources

But birds and crocodiles are the closer pair of relatives in a genealogical sense.

The first three share a similar structure: pre-teen-age orphan boy gets in trouble with his unwilling guardians -- a gloriously tiresome pair of relatives -- and goes on to spend the academic year at Hogwarts, England's boarding school for the training of witches and wizards.

Even so, the proportion of the children of first and second cousins who themselves reproduced (and hence the number of grandchildren born to the pair of relatives) was well below average, in part because many of those first-generation progeny died young.

In each case, the percentage of genes shared reflects recency of common ancestry as well as the distance between any pair of relatives.

The family structures were established using a questionnaire to the villagers, confirmed and adjusted by identity by state allele sharing of microsatellite genome-scan data in each pair of relatives.

Instead, our approach can directly model relationships between any pair of relatives.

Echoing the public's desire for change, the country's two main political parties nominated a pair of relative newcomers to replace him.

The crisis has shown the current chairman, Carl-Henric Svanberg, and the chief executive, Tony Hayward, to be a pair of relative weaklings.

"We believe we have the right to put a lien on the Dominion assets". The lawsuit against Benjamin paints Anderson and Kubicek as a pair of relative naifs who were pushed into financial ruin by Benjamin, Mitchell and "Salvation" producer Moritz Borman.

In fact, by and large the overall sound is so well-arranged, especially for a pair of relative novices, that it will be hard to resist checking them out in the future--especially five years or so down the line, when with luck they will have primal-screamed this self-absorbed stuff out of their systems.

m Current and ex smoking excluded because no matching pair of relative risks available.