1.   For both approaches, the fundamental feature of society is stratification-the unequal distribution of values across distinct groups.

2.   In the genus Echinodorus there are distinct groups of self-fertile and self-sterile species differing in the leaf petioles.

3.   The Indonesians of the city form a distinct ethnic group.

4.   The mods eventually split into two distinct groups.

5.   The subjects you can study fall into three distinct groups.

6.   The people who attend the conference can be subdivided into three distinct groups.

7.   The personnel of the state apparatus have become homogenized into a distinct social group whose backgrounds have become increasingly similar.

8.   Ala-Kaila et al recently observed that patients with chronic renal failure could be divided into two statistically distinct groups according to their degree of hypergastrinaemia.