Most episodes in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s rated with over 20 million viewers and during the 1990s and early 2000s 15 – 20 million per episode would be typical Like most terrestrial television in the UK, a dramatic decline in viewership has taken place and the show currently posts figures of between 8 and 14 million per episode.

Like other ' hardboiled ' writers, Macdonald aimed to give an impression of realism in his work through violence, sex and confrontation ; this is illusory, however, and any real private eye undergoing a typical fictional investigation would soon be dead or incapacitated.

Like the latter, Prosalirus did not have greatly enlarged legs but had the typical three-pronged pelvic structure of modern frogs.

Like other pikes, the body plan is typical of ambush predators with an elongated body, flat head and dorsal, pelvic and anal fins set far back on the body.

Like typical moles, dysplastic nevi can be flat or raised.

Like other birds of prey many owl species exhibit reverse sexual dimorphism in size, where females are larger than males ( as opposed to the more typical situation in birds where males are larger ).

Like a typical auction, the highest bidders win in this type of auction, but there are important differences.

Like more typical Mediterranean climates, however, forest fires tend to be extremely prevalent during dry summer periods.

Like others of the series, bytownite forms grey to white triclinic crystals commonly exhibiting the typical plagioclase twinning and associated fine striations.

Like other typical Gram-negative bacteria, the outer membrane of H. pylori consists of phospholipids and lipopolysaccharide ( LPS ).

Like the other tits it has a large range of call notes ; most typical is the explosive " pitchou " note, given when agitated, often leading into " pitchou-bee-bee-bee ", which can sound like Willow Tit when not heard clearly.

Like elsewhere in Europe and in the Mediterranean area, the Bell Beaker culture in Sardinia ( 2000-1800 ) is characterized by the typical ceramics decorated with overlaid horizontal bands and associated finds ( brassards, V-pierced buttons etc.

Like the British greasy spoon, the typical American diner serves mainly fried or grilled food, for example: fried eggs, bacon, hamburgers, hot dogs, hash browns, waffles, pancakes, omelettes, deep fried chicken, patty melts, and sausages.

Like neighbouring communities such as Woodbridge, Maple, and Unionville – as is typical for most urbanized former Greater Toronto Area ( GTA ) villages outside of the City of Toronto – Thornhill remained the postal designation for addresses within the former village's boundaries, and community organizations such as local newspapers, sports teams, and schools continued to operate under the Thornhill name and designation.

Like its Roman predecessor a typical hamam consists of three basic, interconnected rooms: the sıcaklık ( or hararet-caldarium ), which is the hot room ; the warm room ( tepidarium ), which is the intermediate room ; and the soğukluk, which is the cool room ( frigidarium ).

Like the Talladega, the King Cobra was modified with aerodynamics specifically in mind and looked much different than a typical 1970 Torino.

A typical example of a predestination paradox ( used in The Twilight Zone episode " No Time Like the Past ") is as follows:

Like a typical actor, he started his acting profession doing stage work, introduced in the show's pilot episode by Monica and Chandler having seen Joey in a remake of Pinocchio.

Like any typical bond, convertible bonds have an issue size, issue date, maturity date, maturity value, face value and coupon.

Like many typical warblers, the Dartford Warbler has distinct male and female plumages.

Like Aristotle, Hegel believes the essence of a thing is revealed in the entire, typical process of development of that thing.

Like others of his generation, Rahner was much concerned with refuting the propositional approach to theology typical of the Counter-Reformation.

Like Tik-Tok, Scarecrow contains a significant romantic element — the Rose Princess and Private Files in the former, and Gloria and Pon in the latter — that was not typical of the earlier Oz books.

Like all typical eagles, it belongs to the family Accipitridae.

Image: Electrionics Analogy-Valve ( Diodes comparison ). svg | Like a one-way check valve, a diode blocks current that flows the wrong way.

Like Mattie and the mayor up there gripping the microphone and Toonker Burkette back in his office yanking out teeth, like they all knew he would.

Like certain expensive restaurants, just sitting there gave you the illusion of being wealthy yourself.

Like all traits, there is variability in the intensity of fears of spiders, and those with more intense fears are classified as phobic.

Like most biblical books, there are differences between the earliest surviving manuscripts of Acts.

Like the hard drive, there is nothing in a computer clock circuit or data transfer path that demands or even encourages that things happen at rates easily expressed using powers of 1024, or even using powers of 2.

Like some of his other epistles ( e. g., those to Corinth: 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians ), this seems to have been written in consequence of information which had been conveyed to Paul of the internal state of the church there by Epaphras.

Like jumping, skaters mostly rotate in the counterclockwise direction, but there are some skaters who rotate in the clockwise direction.

Like Ganshof, he recognized that there was a hierarchical relationship between lords and vassals, but Bloch saw as well a similar relationship obtaining between lords and peasants.

Like the Easter Island statues, there is plenty of speculation over how this was done by a society without machines or metal, but the generally accepted view is that the head and base were etched out of the ground by sharp adzes and picks ( possibly with the use of fire ), and carried to the assembly area by an elaborate system of ropes and logs.

Like Hee Haw, Lawrence Welk was picked up for syndication in the fall of 1971, and there were some markets where the same station aired both programs.

Like the Avars after them, once the Hun political unity failed there was no way to re-create it, especially because the Huns had become a multiethnic empire even before Attila.

Like many myths, there are variations of the Judgment of Paris.

Like membrane keyboards, they are reported to be very hard to get used to, as there is little tactile feedback, and silicone will tend to attract dirt, dust, and hair.

Like a DLP chip, LCoS is a microchip of similar size, but rather than millions of individual mirrors, there is a single mirror that is actively shielded by a liquid crystal matrix with up to millions of pixels.

Like the United States, there is a Judicial branch with a Supreme Court which is regarded as the highest court of the land.

Like most of his predecessors, Sixtus I was believed to be buried near Saint Peter's grave on Vatican Hill, although there are differing traditions concerning where his body lies today.

Like on St. Kitts, high winds downed power and telephone lines, damaging the water system there.

Like many countries in the world today, there are three separate branches of government: the legislature, executive and judiciary, though not necessarily meaning that there is a separation of power.

Like many activities such as mountain climbing, skiing, or sky-diving, there is an element of danger involved.

Like Thorne Smith, Tim works in an advertising agency, and several scenes are set there, drawing on the author's experience.

Like all amateur players, they claimed expenses for travel and accommodation to and from cricket matches, but there is plenty of evidence that the Graces made even more money by playing than their basic expenses would allow and W. G.

Author Judith Levine has argued that there might be a natural tendency of abstinence educators to escalate their messages: " Like advertising, which must continually jack up its seduction just to stay visible as other advertising proliferates, abstinence education had to make sex scarier and scarier and, at the same time, chastity sweeter.

Like mania, there seems to be a significant correlation between hypomania and creativity.