As soon as I heard about the fire I legged it over here as fast as I could.

Soundproofing a room may be as simple as sealing gaps around a door, or it may require rebuilding an entire wall or lowering a ceiling.

Genetic problems caused by incest are thought to have plagued many royal families in the Middle Ages.

Implementing a visual programming language (VPL) is much harder man implementing a textual programming language (Myers 1990).