In particular, things were a lot denser.

Human societies got larger, denser, more interconnected.

Well, we found that as you look back in time, the universe gets hotter and hotter, denser and denser, and simpler and simpler.

This is better than a mall. It's much denser.

The body is denser than water. 95 percent of it would be, at least, submerged naturally.

So where you get slightly denser areas, gravity starts compacting clouds of hydrogen and helium atoms.

If we can change the dynamic, by first of all creating cities that are denser and more livable ...

You might have noticed that law has grown progressively denser in your lives over the last decade or two.

But when we live in a denser community, suddenly what we find, of course, is that the things we need are close by.

And the correlation, of course, is that denser places tend to have lower emissions which isn't really all that difficult to figure out, if you think about it.

The tananger on the East Coast of the United States, where the forests are a little denser, has one kind of call, and the tananger on the other side, on the west has a different kind of call.

We've flown the Cassini Spacecraft by this moon now several times, flying closer and deeper into these jets, into the denser regions of these jets, so that now we have come away with some very precise compositional measurements.

A similar institutional design could be adopted for prudential policies. A denser network of institutions seems better adapted to a heterogeneous international community, and it is likely to provide better services and give a stronger voice to smaller countries.

Perhaps this steepening of the location gradient could be delayed for a decade if we were willing to shift to denser residential patterns. We could, for example, tear down San Francisco s row houses and replace them with buildings more like those of New York s Upper West Side.

For all of the hype that has accompanied the US pivot to Asia announced by President Barack Obama in the Australian Parliament in November 2011 the delicate balances involved in this basic architecture have changed little for decades. But now Japan, with overt support from Australia in particular, seems determined to change the balance by establishing, as a counterweight to China, a much denser alliance type relationship with selected partners.