There are sound practical reasons why the nonfiction novel of war has eclipsed its fictional counterpart.

She was imperious and adorable, filled with awkward questions and restless energy - very much like her fictional counterpart.

Real hospitals fail to resemble their fictional counterparts in a number of disappointing ways.

During the 1970s and 1980s, the real world of espionage sometimes seemed more extraordinary than its fictional counterparts.

Documentary films have never had the same cash-earning clout as their fictional counterparts, thereby affording fans rich opportunities to view them legally and free on the web.

They are doing much worse at responding to changes in defending (and rules governing tackling and offside) than foreign counterparts.

But farmers won't be able to compete if they are rearing their products to higher ethical standards than their foreign counterparts.

Over many years he has largely shunned the company of foreign counterparts.

Some schools have links with foreign counterparts.

Until doctors are prepared to pick up more of this tab themselves, they shouldn't complain that some foreign counterparts are paid more than them.

While the mammals and birds of the period would be unrecognisable today, the ancient fig wasp would be barely distinguishable from its modern counterpart.

That voice - shrill, ethnocentric and linguistically ill-informed - sadly has its modern counterpart.

The 1988 paper required candidates to produce roughly 100 words in 25 minutes, whereas its modern counterpart requires the same number of words in 40 minutes.

The script font, balanced with a more modern counterpart, effectively creates a connection between past and present.

A medal or coin can be representative of an antitype or modern counterpart to typical, readable typologies that commonly appear in art.

In fact, one of the biggest problems faced by the fictional documentary makes was doing justice to the strangeness of its real-life counterpart.

Each team plays in their own stadium rendered after its real-life counterpart.

He made sure to research his real-life counterpart in books and biographies.

These people may or may not have real-life counterparts.

She combines this with expert knowledge of what previous researchers have dug up about the novel's people and places and their real-life counterparts.