Those hormones, however, return to near-normal levels if the baby rats are stroked.

According to analysts at Donoghue's, yields are returning to near-normal levels after rising because of end-of-the-year factors.

The cottage is legal but controversial, because it requires artificially high levels of nitrogen to keep air pressure at near-normal levels.

Right after surgery, their blood chemistry registers normal or near-normal levels.

With an effort that seemed to tear at his vocal cords he raised his voice to near-normal level.

For example, recent surveys suggest that business travel has rebounded to near-normal levels, while leisure travel remains sharply off.

Aware that television viewers might not have accepted him as a teen-ager, he aged his character until his voice was down to its near-normal level.

Outside the smoldering pit of ground zero, she said, the pollutants that the agency was measuring had dropped to near-normal levels.

If diet and exercise do not help keep your blood sugar at normal or near-normal levels, your doctor may prescribe medication.

But not all the children have experienced a restoration of the immune system to normal or near-normal levels.