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1 - The whole business of having meals at fixed intervals is nothing but a social convention and, in modern life, a matter of convenience.

2 - To ensure the certain destruction of tuberculosis and other disease germs in milk, it must be held at a fixed temperature for a fixed time.

3 - The belief that continents have not always been fixed in their present positions was first suggested as early as 1596 by the Dutch map maker Abraham Ortelius.

4 - For years experts have believed that learning ability of individuals was a fixed capacity.

5 - Many of Egypt's ruins are unfortunately being destroyed by the very people who were hired to fix them.