What's worse, though, is the fact that the major manufacturers shortened their warranty periods last fall to just one year. |
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It was hard work but glorious, his excitement rising to fever pitch as the tunnel shortened. |
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The shortened course didn't feature the dreaded water jump, but it did have two elements from the triple combination. |
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Compact guns are the rage right now, and generally that means both barrel and grip are shortened. |
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While he shortened the distance between them, Dimitri realized Reana had been quietly sitting and sharpening her sword with a whetstone. |
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Her style is to take the vibrato from the traditional school and the shortened note values from the HIP aesthetic. |
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Generally, all spices except fenugreek and mustard shortened the food transit time. |
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He hung a lamp on the mast and shortened the sail, but it was past midnight when Setisia retired to the cabin. |
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For safety's sake, use an emery cloth to sand the cut edges of your newly shortened rake. |
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The tail is shortened and fused to form a pygostyle which bears tail feathers. |
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Quin refastened the chains, scooted Drake closer to the wall, and shortened them just enough to limit the man's range of motion. |
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The lower lateral cartilages become shortened at the medial crura and elongated and displaced in the lateral crura. |
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Fortunately, the full lengths were not cut down, but were shortened by folding the unwanted canvas over a shorter stretcher. |
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Nathan first played at six, Gail at four, her mother lobbing shuttles at her as she wielded a specially shortened racket. |
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Is it possible that the gods ate ham, egg and chips and shortened the name to ambrosia? |
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These included a shortened carbine, a sniper rifle, a belt-fed light machine gun, and a heavy-barreled squad automatic weapon. |
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To set the correct toe-out, the track rod has to be removed and shortened or lengthened. |
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The shortened, Latinised version of his name became Sancte Claus, which led to the obvious name of Santa Claus. |
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The Suez Canal, opened in 1869, shortened the route east for steamships, although sailing ships still went by the Cape. |
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The Scots word 'laird' is a shortened form of 'laverd', an older Scots word deriving from an Anglo-Saxon term meaning lord. |
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These mutant pupae have defects including shortened or bent legs, bristle defects, a split notum, and wing abnormalities. |
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You could have had odds of 3-1 from Ladbrookes on Tabby to win before the first live heat, but now those odds have shortened even more. |
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When Soviet authorities reviewed his case before a special tribunal in 1956, they shortened his sentence to time already served. |
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Their little boy is permanently dependent on oxygen and also has a shortened life expectancy. |
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Well, I like ITC Garmond because of the large x-height and shortened ascenders and descenders. |
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Sloyan kept Sligo in contention throughout and when he put the game all square with three minutes to play the odds on a home victory shortened. |
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I couldn't agree more that the preseason is too long and should be shortened. |
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After the spring wave of bloom is finished, climbers may have older canes shortened or removed. |
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The conditional was, in like manner, the infinitive plus a shortened form of the past descriptive indicative of haber. |
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The wheels moved backwards as the struts shortened up and then swung inboard, pulling clam shell covers with them. |
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If any components of the telomerase are missing, telomeres are gradually shortened and most cells die. |
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By Winter 1964, the The in the title disappeared, and the shortened name got a serif type treatment that endured for a decade. |
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A shortened and flared slide stop release lever seems like a luxury, and you may be right. |
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Mutants of this class display shortened hypocotyls and small cotyledons after irradiation of seed. |
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When you shortened sail, you began by lowering the yard a bit, removing a bonnet, and re-reeving tacks and sheets. |
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Some stages of the Paris-Nice were shortened severely due to heavy snowfall. |
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The Portuguese called the guerrillas turras or banditos, while the MPLA guerrillas denoted the Portuguese with the shortened word tugas. |
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Then we shortened the idea to the best of five with the ladder match being the rubber match. |
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They show a number of typical adaptations for aquatic life, such as dorsal orbits and nares and somewhat shortened limbs. |
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He unriveted the rear stays, shortened the beam and re-riveted the rear stays on at a radically different angle. |
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No matter how serious minded the intention behind the blog, the Internet forces the writer into shortened, informal style. |
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The name was shortened from Brahmaputra to Brahma in 1852 when a small flock was given to Queen Victoria. |
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Professor Galbraith upbraided me yesterday for my suggestion that our sojourns to Geneva be shortened to six weeks. |
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The photoperiods were lengthened by high-pressure sodium lamps or shortened by black screens when necessary. |
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The encounter also shortened the comet's solar orbit time from about 40 years to less than seven. |
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Kevin is one of the many people born with shortened limbs after his mother took thalidomide to treat morning sickness during pregnancy. |
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Last year, as his foot and ankle pain increased, he shortened his stride significantly, making it easier for defenders to trip him up. |
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It was a curious design, like a shortened, blunt spearhead hung upside down. |
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For example, instant messaging often relies on acronyms and shortened forms of words. |
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How much can a golfer have clubs lengthened or shortened to compensate for height? |
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Because the smocking is done as an insert rather than at the top of the skirt front piece, the skirt length will need to be shortened. |
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Bookmaker William Hill reported more bets than ever for the annual festive flutter and shortened the odds. |
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He shortened the front sight fore and aft to make it match the tiny rear Novak. |
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The end of the sleeve inside the mount was shortened and counterbored to accommodate the 0.16 NA beam. |
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At this stage also, minor septa and shortened cardinal septum become easily identifiable. |
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But counting the odds never shortened them, and he sighed and shook himself. |
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As we went to press, his odds had shortened to 25-1 to win the Tour de France. |
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However, heavy drinkers have shortened life expectancy as a result of accidents and diseases, including liver cirrhosis. |
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He described gastric mucosa extending into the tubular oesophagus as the result of a congenitally shortened oesophagus. |
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I shortened my skirt by 7 inches and lowered the vent by 2 inches because I'm under 5 feet. |
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Attacked bees often have deformed wings and abdomens and a shortened life span. |
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The nutpick occurs with two different handles, one of which, Number 7, is a shortened version of Number 6 minus the bird, twining vine, and ivy leaves at the join. |
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The interval between cinema release and sell-through has shortened considerably, probably in recognition that many people will not go to a cinema for any reason. |
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A shortened format and a desperately ill-judged course have made the Olympic Games something other than the greatest test in the sport of eventing. |
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The position of the steering gear was lowered and the linkage was shortened to give good linear toe-control and minimal toe-out, improving stability. |
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They shortened the book when they made the movie, but the basic story remained unaffected. |
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She claimed she hated his first name and his middle name, Robert, was easily shortened to something she thought was much more preferable, so that's what she called him. |
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Your triceps muscle, stationed on the underside of your upper arm, shortened. |
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After 1900, everyday skirts were increasingly shortened to allow the shape and action of women's legs to form part of their complete clothed image. |
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But the horse's fame has spread since, so the odds have shortened. |
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The shortened 18-item scale is both more reliable and more factorially pure than the original 25-item measure with which it correlates at a.93 level. |
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Music-hall dancers called for shortened skirts, and their high kicks gave more emphasis to the ruffled underside and bloomers than to the exterior of the garments. |
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Other reporters have since been arrested, and foreign journalists have complained about having their visas shortened. |
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In between, was the parade swivel, a small metal loop that could be slipped back and forth along the leather to engage the parade hook when the sling was shortened. |
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After a shortened boot camp, he found himself guarding empty garbage cans. |
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The barrel is cut off just behind the integral front sight boss and the cut off sight with integral boss is bored out and press fit over the shortened barrel's muzzle. |
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The race has never been canceled, though it was shortened in 1981, when the wind chill factor dropped to 71 degrees below zero. |
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I draw back on the shortened rope and begin tying it into another noose. |
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The gun that came out of Devel as a Basic Combat Conversion, shortened and electroless nickeled, looked like it grew that size, but still packed a punch. |
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Will had given their proper names, instead of their shortened nicknames. |
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At that time, pawnbrokers purposely lowered the amount of money poor people received for pledges and shortened the time limit required to redeem their receipts. |
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Effects of high blood lead concentrations included reductions in IQ scores, poor school performance, hyperactivity, shortened concentration spans, and behavioural problems. |
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We live in an era of shortened attention spans and attenuated half-lives for products, companies, and business models. |
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All eusauropods, in contrast, are characterized by a shortened manus in which each digit bears two or fewer phalanges, and only the pollex bears an ungual. |
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His arms are in plate armour, and his body in a shortened hauberk, kept from pressing on his chest, by means of the plastron, or breast-plate, within. |
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These services take long, ugly website addresses and present them in shortened, customized format. |
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The second game was shortened when disgusted fans began throwing their rented seat cushions onto the field at dusk. |
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In addition, the category labels have been shortened and no longer necessarily represent the full taxonomic hierarchy, at least in the search results display. |
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There was also a Second World War Sten gun which he had reactivated, a Baikal pistol to which he had added a new barrel and silencer and a shortened Kestrel shotgun. |
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The number of calves born in 1999 and 2000 was found to be low following two feeding seasons that were shortened by anomalously cold winters with extensive ice coverage. |
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My breaths shortened considerably, until I audibly gasped for air. |
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It arose from the puritans' custom of wearing their hair cut close round their heads, like apprentices, who shortened their hair to demonstrate their contempt for lovelocks. |
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Owners might be concerned about lost revenues if the preseason were shortened, but losing a marquee player certainly doesn't help the league put its best product on the field. |
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If PESI is fixed, postextrasystolic strength increases as ESI is shortened. |
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The Highlands had a relatively short growing season, which was further shortened during the Little Ice Age. |
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The traditional sequence of pre-treatment is shortened by single stage bleaching, where kiers are still in use. |
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The name was subsequently changed to Liberal Democrats in October 1989, which is frequently shortened to Lib Dems. |
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It was based on a Series III with a V8 engine and a shortened belt drive from the Alvis Scorpion light tank. |
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At surface conditions these will condense out of the gas to form natural gas condensate, often shortened to condensate. |
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It was the largest Great Hall in Britain until Bishop Richard Foxe shortened it at the end of the 15th century. |
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Handel originally wrote this in da capo form, but shortened it to dal segno, probably before the first performance. |
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In the early 1960s, English county cricket teams began playing a shortened version of cricket which only lasted for one day. |
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In 2004, they produced the Grrr advert, usually immediately followed by a shortened version of the 2005 Impossible Dream advert. |
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The Manx cat is a breed of cat noted for having a genetic mutation that causes it to have a shortened tail. |
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As range shortened, so did the time taken for the sound pulse to reach, and then return from, the target. |
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Originally scheduled for four hours, the test flight was shortened to three hours due to bad weather. |
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British Airways, often shortened to BA, is the flag carrier and the largest airline in the United Kingdom based on fleet size. |
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The common name of the Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, is a shortened practicality that helps to avoid confusions in casual use. |
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The first match, against New Zealand, was shortened to 7 overs per side due to rain. |
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They initiated the National Reorganization Process, often shortened to Proceso. |
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There had been many delays and the Germans, suspecting an attack, had shortened their lines to the strong Hindenburg Line. |
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This shortened the growing season and made uplands unsuited to growing grain. |
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The church was shortened after the dissolution of the monasteries and ruins of the former east end remain outside the church. |
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This system was shortened to twelve episodes and one Christmas special following the revival's eighth series. |
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It came to be applied as a proper name to the coast of the Ligurian Sea, in the form riviera ligure, then shortened to riviera. |
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The time constants that control one-shot pulse widths can be lengthened or shortened by adding capacitors or resistors in the test fixture. |
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As the BEF withdrew through Belgium into northern France, fewer supply troops were needed as the lines of communication shortened. |
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The arms and forearms shortened relative to the legs making it easier to run. |
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This was completed in 1880, and at this point the Ryde tramway was shortened to simply run along the pier. |
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Severely infected individuals are weak and probably have shortened lifespans, but parasite levels vary between populations. |
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This also eliminated the need for engraving, which further shortened the time it takes to make and reproduce maps. |
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The writer adopted the initials after his nom de plume, Aeon, was once shortened accidentally through printer's devilry. |
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As in Chinese, many compound words can be shortened to the first syllable when forming a longer word. |
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The bars were then shortened, bound, heated and forge welded together to become shear steel. |
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After the Apollo 13 accident, the transearth injection burn shortened the return time by about 9 hours. |
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The long vowel of the particle la is shortened before a pharyngal consonant. |
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The word wampum is a shortened form of wampumpeag or wampumpeake, an Algonquian word of southern New England meaning a string of shell beads. |
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Millions of people around the world now communicate in a speedy and shortened version of English, nicknamed Weblish. |
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It's claimed he used the word as a shortened version of the word association. |
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In fact, the original name for the plant in the United States was Jamestown weed, later shortened to Jimson weed. |
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The average age of home loans being refinanced shortened in the first quarter compared with the fourth quarter. |
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When telomeres reach critically shortened length and a DNA damage signal is induced, a replicative senescence, or cell ageing, occurs. |
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In addition, the beetle's life-span was significantly shortened on eggplant, and after 30 days adults began to resorb their ovaries. |
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The SARS coronavirus, sometimes shortened to SARS-CoV, is the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome. |
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The adoption of the world's first workpiece changer system featuring a twin tailstock has shortened idle downtime to 5 seconds. |
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Such characters are typical of shortened wings, which can be divided into brachypterous and micropterous forms. |
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The iamb in this line of blank verse is reversed, in imitation of Cordelia's unsprung life, into a trochee with shortened unstressed syllables. |
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It is elongated to the northwest, shortened to the southeast, with corresponding types of faulting prevalent in each sector. |
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This gives the online marketer the ability to place these shortened URLs into their social media and other Web content. |
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If such signs were present, or if the patient showed a decline in visual acuity, the treatment interval was shortened by 2 weeks. |
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Car and Driver has reported that the vehicle is to be built on a shortened version of the Ghibli and Quattroporte's platform. |
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During a time of great economic hardship, ECB has raised default penalties and shortened the time available to vacate defaults. |
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This clade is diagnosed on the short epipharyngeal projection and the shortened middle femora. |
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Since he had formed the LLC in November, Gregg attempted to prorate the 500 hours over the entity's shortened life. |
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The detrimental effect of the shortened period for claiming input credits is easily illustrated. |
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For the sake of convenience the title is generally shortened to Hanse, but the initial capital is retained, not least to prevent confusion with other hanses. |
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It was originally named Paradise Ranch, later shortened to The Ranch, to make the arid site more appealing to managers and workers on top secret aircraft programmes. |
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Day by day, hole by hole our bearing reins were shortened, and instead of looking forward with pleasure to having my harness put on as I used to do, I began to dread it. |
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In a study of 2,900 pregnant women, those whose cervixes were shortened 24 weeks into the pregnancy had a substantially higher risk of premature birth than other women. |
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Twitter's URL shortener will also display the target link if users hover the mouse pointer over the shortened link to give users a better idea of where they are going. |
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Saint Valentine's Day, commonly shortened to Valentine's Day, is an annual commemoration held on February 14 celebrating love and affection between intimate companions. |
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They and Liverpool seamen helped to evolve lobscouse, the meat and potato stew, whose name, shortened to 'Scouse' has since become the label of every Liverpudlian. |
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They attacked German ships in Bordeaux harbour using limpet mines in Operation Frankton, which Winston Churchill claimed shortened the war by six months. |
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When Dolly the cloned sheep was born, her cells appeared to be prematurely aged, raising concern that cloned animals might have shortened lifespans. |
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In patients with rapid rates, diastole may be sufficiently shortened that the third and fourth heart sounds become superimposed and form a summation gallop. |
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Other local districts are already completely year-round and have integrated their summer programs into intersessions, or shortened periods of school between tracks. |
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Nine-year-old Daniel Rodenby, of Houghton, who was born with only one shortened arm, has been given some words of advice from Frank Letch, 62, who was born armless. |
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The names stuck, although the Whiggamores were shortened to Whigs. |
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Here, where the subject is so fruitful, I am shortened by my chain. |
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Most of the station was rebuilt except for the Victorian trainsheds which remained mostly unaltered, although the two 1880s spans were shortened at the concourse end. |
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The wicked, and their descendants, will suffer and have shortened lives. |
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The latter settlement became known as Hobart Town or Hobarton, later shortened to Hobart, after the British Colonial Secretary of the time, Lord Hobart. |
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He also claimed that Negroes had very similar brains to apes and that Negros have a shortened big toe, which is a characteristic connecting Negroes closely to apes. |
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It is estimated that the coup shortened the war by as much as six months. |
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Prior to this reintroduction, a shortened Latin version of the poem, known as the Ilias Latina, was very widely studied and read as a basic school text. |
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After the war Jack Nissenthall shortened his surname to Nissen. |
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However, it is not to be confused with gasoline, especially in North America, where the term gasoline is often shortened in colloquial usage to gas. |
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This shortened the journey for commercial ships, but specifically united the two areas principally of concern to the German navy, at a cost of 150 million marks. |
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Afterwards, emergency plans were implemented, and dykes were shortened and strengthened, leaving some river arms and bays unattached from the sea. |
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The river length is significantly shortened from the river's natural course due to a number of canalisation projects completed in the 19th and 20th century. |
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The back of the skull is significantly shortened and deformed. |
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It was then borrowed, shortened and popularised by Kenny Everett. |
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Demand was so great that the cast moved to the Queen's Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue, where Williams staged the piece with the text discreetly shortened. |
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By September 2008, the council's interest had shifted from the full BCCE to a shortened version between New Street and Snow Hill stations, which do not have connecting trains. |
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The name was later shortened to Van Diemen's Land by the British. |
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S Club 7 shortened the name, becoming the more streamlined and less challenging for the numerically illiterate S Club, and things pootled along calmly for a while. |
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Peyronie's disease is also associated with Dupuytren's contracture, a condition in which fibrous tissue in the palm of the hand becomes thick and shortened. |
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It is to ride on a shortened version of the Ghibli platform. |
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