1.   Language enables us to make fine distinctions between similar ideas.

2.   Scientists are now able to measure fine distinctions between levels of sleep depth.

3.   The appreciation of fine wine and the appreciation of fine intellectual distinctions often go together.

4.   However, precisely because they can make such fine distinctions at the lexical level, they may well prove unstable for the purposes of recognition.

5.   And even then, they may go to great pains to confuse people about what they are doing by focusing on fine distinctions between fairly similar cases.

6.   As Kerry must know, those are fine distinctions that will be lost in any real political battle.

7.   At this age, your child can make fine distinctions between telling the truth versus telling the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

8.   A rather fine distinction, perhaps.

9.   But an extremist trying to whip up his audience has no use for fine historical distinctions.

10.   But none topped the spirited tap-dancing of Clinton-bashers as they labored to draw fine distinctions between White House and Gracie Mansion infidelities.