He will have been at one time - and ostensibly may still be - a respectable individual from a normal background.

When the altimeter read ten thousand feet, Tom leveled off, but the counter registered no sound other than the normal background clicking.

We wanted you to see that she's just a normal person, from a normal background.

The dean of the school had said, "In these days, it's nice to see someone who comes from a normal, decent background."

The system is just saying higher than normal background of neutrinos.

Some sources state that Japanese scientists discovered levels up to twenty times normal background, others, that they could not detect any increase in radioactivity.

His heroes are not stereotypical high born achievers but ordinary individuals from normal or hard backgrounds.

But clues stand out as noteworthy deviations from the norm only when they are seen against a recognizably normal background.

The gamma radiation level from polonium is below the normal background.

The suspect, whose name has been withheld because he is a minor, comes from a perfectly normal background.