I don't really read French, but I can often guess enough to get the drift.

The egg mass extracts of the marine gastropods Chicoreus virgineus, Chicoreus ramosus and Rapana rapiformis possess wide-spectrum antimicrofouling activity against 40 biofilm bacteria.

In the days of The Twilight Zone, the only electronics were those which scarcely supplemented real instruments (i.e. the theremin — that outer-spacey sing-saw thing most identified with The Day the Earth Stood Still and other sci-fi movies of the '50s.)

Her abrupt departure from the wedding ceremony was a fine how-d'ye-do.