1.   The exalted status of peers such as the Duke of Norfolk is a faint echo of this power in the land.

2.   There was the faint echo of voices rolling up to the highest balcony seats.

3.   The radar signals were sent out in necessarily very powerful pulses, which might have damaged the highly sensitive aerials waiting for the faint returning echoes.

4.   Curiously, the red sprites often came in groups of two or more, the brightest ones accompanied by increasingly faint echoes.

5.   If you stand on your tippy toes and listen really carefully, you might, indeed, detect a faint echo of Ms. Austen.

6.   Issues are a faint echo in the campaign.

7.   Lamar Alexander sounds like a faint echo of Dole.

8.   The faint echoes of Bach echo the collages of Berio.

9.   The global network that tracks earthquakes and underground atomic blasts found only a faint echo from the nuclear test that Pakistan said it conducted Saturday, U.S. experts said.