But when we move in to look at the people, the relations between them, or the simple succession of events, things get very cloudy.

This second innovation did not take hold so easily as few of his successors experienced simple successions.

Fallom paused and thought for a minute or two, then began slowly, in a very simple succession of notes, the whole being rather dreamy.

Without doubt, this simple succession of whole and half steps is among the most deeply rooted facts of our musical culture.

By 1884 it was announced that Murchison's interpretation of a simple succession of strata was untenable.

Most gharanas apply notes in simple succession in aalap and taan, whereas in the Jaipur gayaki, notes are applied in an oblique manner with filigree involving immediately neighboring notes.

At Tepe Yahya its use continued into the Iron Age for the manufacture of trinkets and decorative objects, thus demonstrating that there was not a simple succession of alloys over time, with superior new alloys replacing older ones.

I'd like to try it, but I'd also like to know that my next meal might be a simpler succession of pintxos, including a clump of sautéed mushrooms and a cluster of chorizo, both reflective of a particular place's timeless bounty.