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* Because of increased life spans, the prevalence of cancer, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and other diseases of old age increased slightly.

Because the contiguous United States spans four time zones, what constitutes drive time on one coast does not broadcast in drive time on the other, which can cause issues for nationally syndicated programs ; this is not as much of an issue in morning drive, which usually incorporates a tape delay to air at the same time in all time zones, as it is for afternoon drive.

Because of this, his scientific achievements range from the fundamental to the most practical, and his research spans a wide range of topics within the field of chemistry.

Because cyclo-cross season spans autumn / fall and winter, course conditions can vary quite drastically.

Because the two main spans are relative short the wind loading is insignificant.

Because of the long spans and heavily trafficked shipping channel, a cantilever construction was deemed most suitable ; a draw span was rejected because it would have to be opened too often.

Because the melody spans a slightly larger range than some instruments, such as the Native American Flute,

Because the melody spans a modest range, it is ideally suited to instruments that have a limited pitch range, such as the Native American Flute.

Because their regular season spans only 17 weeks, the NFL is the only major sports league in the United States that only pays their officials on a contract basis as opposed to being full-time salaried employees.

Because it is one of the oldest musical instruments in existence, written organ repertoire spans a time period almost as long as that of written music itself.

Because of the violent nature of their work, eagles trained to hunt wolves have shorter life spans.

Because he loved Verdi ’ s music, Barezzi invited Verdi to be his daughter Margherita's music teacher, and the two soon fell deeply in love.

Because its main purpose was the presentation of live music, the hall needed a design focused not only on public access and exterior aesthetics, but also acoustics.

Because of this, Postmodern music is mostly defined in opposition to modernist music, and a work can either be modernist, or postmodern, but not both.

Because of its complex history and tendency to borrow from other musical and cultural forms, it has been argued that " it is impossible to bind rock music to a rigidly delineated musical definition.

Because music written for early trumpets required the use of a different trumpet for each key — they did not have valves and therefore were not chromatic — and also because a player may choose to play a particular passage on a different trumpet from the one indicated on the written music, orchestra trumpet players are generally adept at transposing music at sight, sometimes playing music written for the B trumpet on the C trumpet, and vice versa.

Because they were suspicious of the music business in general, the Replacements had not signed a written contract with Twin / Tone Records.

Because of an extended stay in rehab, his performance at Snowbombing, a week-long winter sports and music festival held in the Austrian ski resort of Mayrhofen, was cancelled – with the slot being filled by 2ManyDJs.

Because of this, much of the music was performed in environments that were more constrained compared to the flourishing times of the Renaissance and Baroque Era's.

Because of the tempo of the music, the theme gained popularity in the UK with followers of Northern soul and was popular on dance floors in the 1970s.

Because of the longer measures, they are longer than the reel and the light jig, with the same number of bars to the music.

Because of the abstract nature of the music — and, arguably, the lack of lyrics — they did not attract censorship from the authorities, unlike many other Western bands.

Because obtaining the rights to use the music would have been expensive, most stage versions, and the film, have Martha sing to the tune of " Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush ".

Because Gilbert and Sullivan shared his vision of increasing the quality and respectability of English musical theatre, and so broadening its audience through the promotion of well-crafted English light operas, Carte gave them wider authority as director and music director than was customary at that time.

Because music often plays an important part in the performance of the liturgy, cathedrals generally have a pipe organ to accompany the choir.

Because the vast majority of these broadcasts contain nothing but the recitation of blocks of numbers, in various languages, with occasional bursts of music, they have become known colloquially as " Number Stations ".

Because of his discouragingly minor role in the band, and under the pressure of The Mundanes ' unsuccessful search for success, Linnell began recording music with John Flansburgh, though his family did not support the transition from what they considered to be a more professional band to an experimental one.

Because it breaks so many of rock's conventions at once, Beefheart's music has always been more influential than popular.

Because a condition of the offer was that the opera should be the composer's first publicly staged work, Bizet hurriedly withdrew La guzla from production and incorporated parts of its music into the new opera.

Because of this, our definition of what music technology encompasses continually expands.

Because Bright's speeches were so much a part of him, there are long and numerous quotations, which, far from making the biography diffuse, help to give us the feel of the man.

( Note: Because of light leakage from one ultraviolet source to another, the lights are switched by a commutator-like assembly rotated by a synchronous motor.

Because negative pressure dialysis gave better recovery of proteins, permitted detection of proteins concentrated from very dilute solutions and was a gentler procedure, it was used in all but the earliest experiments.

Because electrical forces ( the charge-excess ) are far more powerful than gravitation, the surface hydrogen atoms would shoot away from the sphere.

Because anthropology developed from so many different enterprises ( see History of Anthropology ), including but not limited to fossil-hunting, exploring, documentary film-making, paleontology, primatology, antiquity dealings and curatorship, philology, etymology, genetics, regional analysis, ethnology, history, philosophy, and religious studies, it is difficult to characterize the entire field in a brief article, although attempts to write histories of the entire field have been made.

Because the levels themselves are random variables, some assumptions and the method of contrasting the treatments ( a multi-variable generalization of simple differences ) differ from the fixed-effects model.

Because of these natural conditions, the Black Sea coast historically has been isolated from Anatolia.

Because not from a man she conceived but from the Holy Spirit.

Because of this, Hasan Ali Shah decided to secure a pledge of loyalty from the members of the community to himself and to the Ismaili form of Islam.

Because the position of Stigand, the archbishop of Canterbury, was irregular, Wulfstan sought and received consecration as a bishop from Ealdred.

Because it occupies a part of the celestial sphere that faces away from the Milky Way, Antlia contains very few deep-sky objects.

Because of its elevation and distance from the coast, the Australian Capital Territory experiences four distinct seasons, unlike many other Australian cities whose climates are moderated by the sea.

Because of your forward motion relative to the falling rain, the rain now appears to be falling not straight down from directly above you, but at a slight angle from a point in the sky somewhat in front of you.

Because of the market success of the NES, companies chose to develop for it first and were thus barred from developing the same games on competing systems for two years.

Because these methods are diverse and use data from such different sources, the problem of integrating them into a coherent argument has been a long-term issue for archaeoastronomers.

Because individuals with albinism have skin that entirely lacks the dark pigment melanin, which helps protect the skin from the sun's ultraviolet radiation, their skin can burn more easily from overexposure.

Because of the radical departure from traditional behavior and theatrical convention involved in Nora's leaving home, her act of slamming the door as she leaves has come to represent the play itself.

Because brass is not ferromagnetic, it can be separated from ferrous scrap by passing the scrap near a powerful magnet.

Because the Belarus government severely limits free expression, several opposition media outlets are broadcast from nearby countries to help provide Belarusians alternative points of view.

Because of the split in the Conservative Party and because of Disraeli's unpopularity, arising from the budget fight of 1852, which is outlined above, no Conservative reconciliation remained possible so long as Disraeli remained leader in the House of Commons.

Because F ( x ) is a map from X ′ to K, it is an element of X ′′.

Because of a wine glut ( wine lake ) in the generic production, the price squeeze induced by an increasingly strong international competition, and vine pull schemes, the number of growers has recently dropped from 14, 000 and the area under vine has also decreased significantly.