1.   And more discoveries obviously mean more patents.

2.   Because the star is a very common type, the discovery may mean that planets will also prove to be very common as well.

3.   City officials said the discovery meant more work to stabilize the wall, additional traffic shutdowns and new delays for evacuated merchants and residential tenants.

4.   Engineers have long planned to produce such chips, but the Texas discovery means the devices will be a lot less expensive for manufacturers and consumers.

5.   For Falk, a world-renowned paleoanthropologist, the discovery meant overcoming politically correct views in her field that kept the issue on the academic sidelines.

6.   Imbroscio knew instantly that his discovery could mean trouble.

7.   Lewis said the discovery meant that investigators could start thinking about how to redesign the lactose-repressor protein so it could be used to control other genes selectively.

8.   Scientists say that the discovery means they will be able to offer greatly improved genetic screening to women in so-called breast cancer families.

9.   The discovery does not mean that deafness is any more common in Jews than in other people.

10.   The discovery means that any raindrop on Earth may carry within it some water that just arrived after a journey across millions of miles of space.