There is little consensus, though, on the exact order.
Trying to follow the exact order of the drivers throughout the race was nearly impossible.
The miners will decide the exact order one hour before the rescue begins.
And there must be combinations where you didn't have to bet on the exact order of the horses.
His 1984 Harvard PhD included the first method for direct genome sequencing: determining the exact order of nucleotides within DNA.
To cash, he must pick the first- and second-place horses in the race, in the exact order (hence the name).
On Saturday these "mental athletes" will attempt to recall number sequences, faces and names, unpublished verse, and the exact order of a shuffled deck of cards.
The exact order of the candidates in the primary is not yet certain, since much of the vote has yet to be counted.
Gazing back now through the fug of tiredness that surrounds any newborn it is hard to recall the exact order of events.
But then it can be hard, with any complex historical process, to reconstruct the exact order in which events occurred, especially when, as in evolution, the addition of new parts encourages the modification of old ones.
"He asked the Indonesian buyers what they wanted, and they said, 'Creature stories.' And so he asked, 'What creatures?' And I don't remember the exact order, but it was something like snakes first, and then alligators, and then tigers.
