In a number of countries a distinct shift took place during the course of the boom.

Kate White, the editor of Cosmopolitan, told me that she sees a distinct shift in what her readers want these days.

The album marked a very distinct stylistic shift.

And yet now something really was changing; there was a distinct shift in mood.

These broad changes led to a distinct shift in Protestant mission theory.

"From today on I am an adult, and for me, that means a distinct shift in my life," she said.

If this was not major seismic activity, it was a distinct shift in the fault lines.

The first is that it represents a distinct shift away from glamour and gloss to more functional wear.

Except, of course, that the budget has made a distinct shift towards us.

However, not all n-tuples have n distinct circular shifts.