Each year, anyone who wanted to could go to an existing government office for a simple series of measurements.

And when the parent has trouble with the child, a simple series of steps is prescribed.

Flatten your tummy and feel better with this simple series.

Just answer a simple series of questions with yes/no answers.

A simple series of what-ifs makes the point: what if the building had been fully staffed?

History can neither be total, nor a simple series of facts, nor a continuity.

It was not voice, but rather a simple series of bleeps.

Now life gets tricky: these numbers are in a simple geometric series.

More recently, he and others have been searching for a simple series of steps that can explain how primitive genetic material replicated itself.

As an example, there are a number of simple series involving the natural logarithm.