To make their estimate, the auditors visited the Warner Robbins Air Logistics Center, 18 miles south of Macon, Ga., and checked samples of 46 items, ranging from a bolt costing $6.95 to complicated hardware costing thousands of dollars an item.

Materials and the processes that create them are the specialty of Material Connexion, a company based in New York and Milan that collects samples ranging from silver threads to foam made of soybeans and presents them to clients searching for something new.

The Nazlet Khater skeleton was found in 1980 and dated in 1982 from nine samples ranging between 35,100 to 30,360 years.

Testing of products and structures can involve samples ranging in size from toothpicks to full structural beams to three-dimensional building mock-ups.

It includes a variety of samples ranging from differential equations to 3D-rendered Toroids and Lorenz attractors.

Layered pulsating beats supported a series of samples ranging from church bells to a rooster crowing to altered passages of Minnie Ripperton's soul classic, "Loving You."

As if on cue, two gentlemen entered the room, one holding a guitar, the other, a mandolin, plugged in to a little amplifier, sat down and offered a sample ranging from Irish folk songs to funky stuff.

The gowns, unworn designers' samples ranging from $100 to $300, would sell for as much as $1,200 if new.

The album showcases over 300 samples ranging from Gucci Mane and Kid Cudi to Michael Jackson and Blue Oyster Cult and is just another example as to why his popularity continues to skyrocket.

The WAIS-IV was standardized on a sample of 2,200 people in the United States ranging in age from 16 to 90.