Titanium and carbon are the most expensive and hence dominate the upper echelon.
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No school system had more schools in the top echelon, Montgomery officials said.
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Echelon Homes owner Chris Schell shows off samples of recycled glass countertop.
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The Corps has remained an echelon of French Army organization to the modern day.
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It has succeeded in giving more middle-echelon programs that any-given-day shot.
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Therefore we can infer that silliness is not very high in the echelon of values.
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I don't think of myself in the upper echelon of competitive people I've ever met.
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It took an electrician to lift grilling into the upper echelon of fine cooking.
From the washingtonpost.com
As it stands now, MSU probably has a class in the upper echelon of the Big Ten.
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Echelon is a turn-based, customizable World War II strategy card game from Echelon Games .
An echelon formation is a military formation in which members are arranged diagonally. Each member is stationed behind and to the right (a 'right echelon'), or behind and to the left ('left echelon'), of the member ahead. ...
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A level or rank in an organization, profession, or society; A formation of troops, ships, etc. in diagonal parallel rows; To form troops into an echelon
(Echelons) Reference is made to F, A and B Echelon. The transport for a battalion is divided into these groups. F Echelon vehicles are the fighting vehicles which go into battle as part of the action; for example command vehicles, armoured troop carries and anti-tank guns. ...