Certainly more than that pristine copy of A Brief History of Time.
Although I grew up in the church I have always said that if they had to give out grades I would be a "C" student as evidenced at how long it took me find the book of Nehemiah as I flipped through the almost pristine copy of the bible I had been given when I graduated high school. .
Eager to impress, you rush back to your desk and break the binding on your pristine copy of the Code.
On the Web, you can always get your own pristine copy of The New York Times.
When I arrived at the center, he had already unearthed Stanford's pristine copy of the Warner dictionary.
Knowing the film had been abandoned, Sassone set out to find a "pristine copy" of the film for his own uses.
Now, I'd recommend that people skip all of this nonsense by, say, also buying an OEM copy of Windows 7 with the purchase of your shiny new PC so you can install a pristine copy of the operating system.
But in a more pristine copy of the original that he provided HuffPost (and viewable at the top of this story), not only is the rapid motion of the clock hands clearly seen, but people and cars are seen zipping along at tremendous speed at the bottom of the video, all while the motion of the camera on the dolly makes it appear to move at normal speed.
Though there are many poor public-domain copies around, this is a pristine copy of the uncensored, pre-code version.
No wonder, then, that I now have not one but two copies of Simon Hopkinson's "Roast Chicken and Other Stories" on my kitchen counter — the U.K. edition, already dog-eared and grease-and-gravy-stained, and an arguably more pristine copy of the new American edition, which came out in September.
The "jaw-dropping" collection of 345 comics features some of the world's most sought-after issues, including a pristine copy of Detective Comics No 27, in which Batman made his debut.
