1.   The essential design of a grand piano, apart from incremental technical advances, has not changed for more than a century.

2.   The gathering and concentration of craft workers into the temples seems to have stimulated technical advances of many kinds.

3.   The remaining three elements are variants of benefiting from technical advances made abroad.

4.   Such technical advances, combined with a sound understanding of fundamental catalyst chemistry, will ensure that Johnson Matthey retains its position at the forefront of autocatalyst technology.

5.   Dr John pointedly contrasts the coal mine with the factory, for in the former technical advances displaced women.

6.   While this step awaits technical advances, cleaner fuels for cars and lorries, such as methanol, are urged for immediate use.

7.   Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, fears that regulations are lagging behind the technical advances that have made posthumous reproduction possible.

8.   As for money, the automobile, like so many technical advances, started out as an elite item.

9.   As with the Macintosh, mass production and technical advances may lower the price.