To examine the effects of sodium butyrate on virus production, cells were exposed to sodium butyrate at various concentrations and times starting 16 h after transfection.

Now there were blogs. Was this the dismal future of journalism? Or was the real message that we had never needed all those painstakingly-constructed sentences after all? That the Internet had become the ultimate squisher of pedantry world-wide?

There are but two masters, one of whom speaks a little French and the other Italian. These masters are paid eighty drachmas a month from the funds of the adjacent church, and the parents of each scholar, according to their station in life, pay ten, fifteen, or twenty leptas for the same period.

‘Now, then, my china-plate...’ This is essentially a brick~layer's phrase. If for ‘china-plate’ you substitute ‘mate’,... the puzzle is revealed.