how long; how far; how much
highly priced; expensive; valuable; costly
cavity; hollow; void; hollow (voice, smile, etc.); blank (eyes, look, etc.); vacant (expression, stare, etc.)
(one's) older brother; lad; sonny
step; stride; counter for steps
stick; piece of wood; billet; piece of a broken pole
piece of paper; slip of paper; strip of paper; scrap of paper
reading in a monotone; reading a Chinese classical text without translating it into Japanese
exactly; just; precisely; punctually; exactly on time
in; at; on; as for; regarding; with regards to
heavy flooding; disastrous flood; deluge; great flood (sent by a deity); flood myth
tribe; clan; (taxonomical) tribe; group (of the periodic table)
Roman mythology; Roman myths
resemblance; similarity; likeness; analogy
incident; affair; happening; event
large number (of); many; majority
proof to the contrary; disproof; counter-evidence; rebuttal; refutation
water damage; flood disaster
stratum; geological formation; layer; bed (coal, gravel, etc.)
earth science; geoscience
establishing proof; demonstration; substantiation
writing; composition; essay; sentence
subjectivity; subject (philosophical); ego; one's personal opinion; one's own idea
social conditions; phase of life; (sign of) the times; state of society