They were of a copper color that was almost metallic, with black angular markings down the legs and around the waist. |
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Like a couple of children, we would put our hands in front of our faces and almost choke with laughter. |
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Rifle shooters know that seating bullets out closer to the rifling almost always improves accuracy. |
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Damselfish make up almost half, with angelfish, surgeonfish, wrasses, gobies, and butterfly fish accounting for another 25 to 30 percent. |
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As it faded the features of beautiful, almost angelic woman started to become clear. |
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We are very distressed and anguished at what has been happening in Gujarat for almost three months. |
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Sale and leaseback finance is now a standard element of the financing package for almost every qualifying film. |
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There was continued pressure from the Jags upon the restart and it was to pay dividends almost immediately. |
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Anhingas are able to sink almost below the water's surface, leaving just the lengthy neck, slim head and long sharp bill above the water. |
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A highly social bird, anis are almost always seen in pairs or family groups. |
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Christopher crumples to the ground, groans, expressing emotions in a physical, almost animal way, that most of us are incapable of. |
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The sinuous, almost animal physicality which Lewis brings to her acting roles surfaces in a much more volcanic way when she picks up a mic. |
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Trading is the animal instincts part of the game, and almost a separate game in its own right. |
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I'd woken up almost every half hour through out the night feeling queasy before falling back into a restless doze. |
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All too often in a film like this the musical numbers might stop the action dead with their stagey, almost animatronic feeling. |
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It took Rhea almost an hour to finally locate this long-lost friend and guardian, and she restrained herself from running into the room. |
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The lechwe reaches almost six feet long, about 42 inches at the shoulder, and weighs up to 270 pounds. |
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Our second dive is the almost traditional Sussex coast inshore drift, some shallow chalky ledges at Sailor Rock. |
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The interior of the Great Pyramid is complex, almost certainly resulting from a number of changes of plan. |
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The 4-page broadsheet then known as Free Press Journal available at half an anna was almost must-reading for true patriots in Bombay. |
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Though there were more half-paisas than whole paisas, Bhikhu's daily takings were between five and six annas, and sometimes almost eight annas. |
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The annalist for 1884-1885 emphasized the importance of this financial source when the sisters almost lost the contract that year. |
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The technical annex to the document is almost three times as long as the text it supports. |
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Boomers on the left coast are leading the new career movement, with almost 40 percent responding they've made the transition. |
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His tail almost dragged upon the gleaming floor, black and braided as well. |
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Time had dragged obscenely slowly since he woke up almost a week earlier in the French army hospital. |
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Larry mentioned this year that he almost always has to build the roof for the missions, which I guess is a drag because they are complicated. |
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Tom, almost as if he were responding to a dog whistle, jumped off the sofa, dragging his feet as he walked to the Kitchen. |
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They almost succeeded in dragging that country into the war actively, which would have changed the whole character of the war. |
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Once he's more or less settled, he drags on the cigarette, which he has already smoked almost down to the filter. |
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Lily had almost missed the announcement on the PA system that they were to land in about a half hour. |
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I was almost afraid to leave the elevator, but the elevator man was clicking his tongue annoyedly. |
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The old brass and faded paper in this exhibition are the physical leftovers of a grand, almost lunatic pursuit of perfection. |
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Landscaping is very thoughtful, with retaining walls and terraces cut with almost Inca sensitivity and precision into the arid slopes. |
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I almost jump in after it, rescuing it from old coffee grounds and yesterday's leftover spaghetti. |
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The former left wing socialist and strike leader got 47 percent of votes, almost double that of any other candidate. |
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Along the banks we caught sight of both of the supposedly almost extinct species of dwarf buffalo, the highland and lowland anoa. |
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Of those, more than half said they work at evenings during the school week and almost all were below the legal age of 14 for paid employment. |
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Just six months later the anoles were almost exclusively tree-dwelling, and longer-legged lizards had died in disproportionate numbers. |
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They were almost impossible to censor and their authors were anonymous, so that retaliation against them was not possible. |
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It wasn't enough that she almost charged out of here with out saying anything, but then she had the nerve to answer back like that? |
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His partners included almost all of the ballerinas who rose to fame between 1936 and 1962, when he retired from the stage. |
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You can almost feel the bitter cold and biting Antarctic wind in this excellent biography of a polar hero. |
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He devotes an almost unendurable amount of space to Bogarde's antecedents, family and childhood. |
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Each charge was fast and quick, with the Indians retreating almost as soon as the gunfire erupted from the rocks. |
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Michaela almost took a step back in retreat but she checked herself and lifted her chin. |
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I almost laugh but Martin Compston, patron saint of leisurewear in Scotland, just grins. |
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This song is almost an anthem in Japan and comes up often in Karaoke though only a few skilled singer seem to be able to make it past the chorus. |
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Back home in India, perhaps thanks to nearly 200 years of colonial rule, good looks are defined almost always by a single attribute, fairness. |
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Bog lemmings were almost certainly located nearby, as they are recorded both above and below this zone. |
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It is almost impossible for molds and bacteria that harm people to grow on lime plaster or on concrete. |
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It needs to be revealed that this elegant bedroom is almost lined with fitted wardrobes. |
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However, a retrograde feature is that the vehicle only has one airbag, almost uniquely on the Irish market. |
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Europe had retrogressed almost to a primitive way of life, wherein learning was preserved largely in the monasteries. |
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He won his maiden at the Curragh last season by 15 lengths and was almost as impressive on his reappearance at Tipperary in July. |
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Gradually I began to regain my calm, and the whole adventure seemed dim and almost humorous in retrospect. |
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I was almost happy as the familiar hot feeling of anger returned in me like a long lost companion. |
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One of the reasons for the film's authenticity is its almost complete avoidance of recognizable actors. |
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You will almost certainly be given antibiotics to take after the operation. |
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Dawn broke to reveal the amazing sight of camp beds and sleeping bags almost encircling the All-England Club. |
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Each total is almost twice the entire number of anti-capitalists who turned up to the London Mayday event. |
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Fans are finding it almost unpatriotic to criticise teams and players, or to revel in their triumphs. |
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She could not help but feel anxious and she almost wished for the fun and celebratory times of the revelries. |
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Yes, but it would present less difficulties once it is acknowledged that the writ is almost as of right. |
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But the fly-half is a chip off the old block when it comes to meticulous planning and almost disturbing dedication to duty. |
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As revenge fantasies go, Alexandra's Project has almost nothing going for it. |
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One apparently almost universal discriminatory practice was to pay women less than men. |
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It's rare to find a singer who reveres his fans almost as much as they worship him. |
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His frustration over the book's reception seems almost anticlimactic in comparison with the frustrations he was now facing. |
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The opening sequence reaches such an emotional peak that the remaining conversations seem almost anticlimactic. |
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As he got older and his reviews got more reverent, the films tended to get less interesting, though watching him was almost always a pleasure. |
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He began to climb the ladder, and when he'd almost reached the top, he stumbled and fell. |
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Furthermore, almost any drug can interact with oral anticoagulants, and many often increase the anticoagulant effect. |
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Although it was possible to commute this payment into cash, the payment was almost always made in the form of these arms. |
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Yet reverse discrimination suits by whites almost never have similar positive implications for African-Americans. |
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Unabashedly direct, the productions revel in their own faux facade with an almost conspiratorial glee. |
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His connection with quarterback Jake Delhomme is almost telepathic, and his speed is lethal. |
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The first half was marked by total lethargy and an almost complete lack of chances. |
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As an almost daily user I have seen the antics of some young people in the bus station and they are almost beyond belief. |
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Studies have shown that exercise can be almost as effective as antidepressant medication for some people. |
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Military parades and reviews, not surprisingly in a country ruled by a general, were an almost daily spectacle. |
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An almost bare-bones salad of romaine lettuce has a tongue-clacking blast of fresh anchovy dressing. |
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I didn't even look at yesterday's poem with a view to revision, and that's almost unheard of. |
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The author highlights the revisionists' almost wilful ignoring of long-established archaeological and textual data. |
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Friends and family quickly came to the helpless dog's aid, rescuing and reviving him from almost certain death. |
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It is safest to prune, when needed, as soon as flowers fade because buds are set almost immediately for the next season. |
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His great weight almost jerked her off the bridge, but she pulled him up from the hungry flames as her own strength faded. |
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The reader can almost see the characters' distinct features, smell the trailer-park they live in and hear their voices. |
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He was almost physically pained by rigid doctrinal systems, and mildly revolted by the idea of discipleship. |
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I'm willing to bet that Dido's audience is almost exclusively female, to an unusual degree in pop artists. |
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Eight years after the transit the Venus would have completed almost exactly 12 full revolutions of the sun. |
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This almost certainly indicates that Sedna is spinning, completing a revolution every 20 days. |
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She turned when she heard the throng of girls scream and giggle and was almost blinded by camera flashes. |
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Their sloping slate roofs peeked over Victorian chimneys almost smothered in the plumes of grey smoke which coiled ever upwards into the sky. |
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We have two people working almost 24 hours a day rewrapping parcels that have come apart in the system. |
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But almost all of the goals of the final rewrite on a book like this are practical ones. |
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It's high time we rid ourselves of the myth that professional sport is somehow the almost exclusive preserve of heterosexuals. |
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John was almost faint from hunger, his feet throbbed and his legs burned, and he was exhausted. |
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He announced yesterday that almost 100 tonnes of food would have to be sourced to avert the threat of hunger in the affected areas. |
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Such incendiary language, bordering on incitement to mutiny, has become almost routine in Republican quarters. |
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As a result, rape in the home, with the exception of incest, is almost never punished. |
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The script itself could almost read as a short story, and lexically, Walsh hasn't shied an inch. |
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The article is almost purely rhetorical, with virtually nothing of substance offered in terms of legal arguments. |
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Each of the elements he names demands a communicative, rhetorically performed reciprocity that today's electronic media make almost unthinkable. |
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The white satin dress is made from almost 300 feet of material, and embroidered with 1,500 crystal rhinestones and pearls. |
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Much like matter and antimatter the two objects would be almost instantly converted to pure energy, generating a massive explosion. |
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It is likely that the rhizoids absorb water, but only because almost everything in a moss absorbs water. |
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Britain's libel laws are almost the opposite of those in the United States. |
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For example, it took almost a decade to change the name of the college because of opposition from liberal arts and sciences. |
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After all, Martin reasoned, such retaliation is a commonplace of baseball, with brushback rhubarbs happening almost weekly every season. |
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Shelley, who knew him almost as well as anyone, believed that Byron was never a revolutionary so much as a libertine. |
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The conglomerate was deposited in tributary stream channels, and the pebbles consist almost entirely of quartz-feldspar phenocrystic rhyolite. |
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I passed by at least five incredible women who almost compelled me to remove my shoe and rhythmically smack my head with it. |
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As he gazed upon the license plate in front of him with its letters and numbers, he almost wished for a car. |
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The 7075 tubing allows us to shave a few pounds off the wing and the carbon ribs reduce the weight by almost another 2 pounds. |
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I could almost see licks of flame dancing in the highly flammable, potent alcohol. |
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Since these patterns are almost identical, it would appear that HMP associates with ribosomes or ribosomal proteins. |
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What's more, not only are almost all of us far from poor and hungry, but virtually all of us are, at least relatively, rich and full. |
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The visitors refused to take this setback lying down and almost immediately forced a corner. |
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She was bold, brave and was able to get herself out of almost any situation through quick lies and witty deceptions. |
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Use a bit of common sense and you can serve your favourite wine with almost anything, even if it's Liebfraumilch. |
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It is not the same thing, almost not the same voice, to sing lieder and opera. |
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The colours are deep and rich and help set an operatic mood and tone for almost every scene. |
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The results are almost always flashy and image-obsessed, detracting from the richness of human use and experience. |
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Lemon juice is probably the best of all antiscorbutics, being almost a specific in scurvy. |
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They are cooked together until the milk is absorbed and almost vanishes, leaving behind a richness of texture and taste. |
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A cat used up all her nine lives after she survived almost three weeks trapped under floorboards without food or water. |
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He had a supernatural presence, almost like a fictional character come to life. |
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But it's so inept on every level that even scenes that have an inherent, almost foolproof interest fail to come to life. |
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Well I almost robbed a bank and in the process my brother was killed and I took a man's life. |
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Since bullets can ricochet off the water's surface and pose a risk to nearby civilians, water patrol officers almost never fire warning shots. |
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This, of course, was almost as hazardous to the pilot as to the enemy aircraft, with bullets sometimes ricocheting back at the gunner. |
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The city, which has a mix of Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims, was almost deserted. |
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There were almost as many missiles scattered about in front of her from ricochets as there were imbedded in the wall far beyond. |
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That little bit of socialism, or communism if you will, has done a whole lot of good as far as almost eliminating illiteracy. |
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As you say, almost all software vendors do very shoddy work, and most large systems are riddled with holes. |
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He heeled the horse forward, riding at a slow gallop until they were almost upon the others. |
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As of today, I have been a resident of this crowbar motel for almost 2 cockroach lifespans. |
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And he was almost as famous for his playboy lifestyle as his driving skills. |
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In nearly all cases, the best that can be hoped for is an alternative to natural functions which is almost as good as the real thing. |
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His work is almost exclusively on calculus, in particular differential equations and functions of a real variable. |
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On the record and live, Jon's vocals are almost unintelligible through guitarist Jared Burke Eglington's extreme riffage. |
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His sightless eyes looked almost black in the shadows cast by the candle he had lit. |
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A masked killer is stalking the High School where almost all the students have deep, dark and dirty secrets hidden from the light of day. |
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This has ground almonds and the texture is almost light, although it is rich and moist. |
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A thrush had lighted on a bough not five meters away, almost at the level of their faces. |
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They can move mountains with their enthusiasm and energy and light a fire under almost anything. |
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Others see women's values more as learned skills, as women are almost always those responsible for the care of children, health and community. |
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After all, the angry young man who ends up as a pillar of the Establishment's so common in public life he's almost an archetype. |
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Acting almost as a reprise for the entire album, the song ends the album nicely and, more importantly, leaves the listener wanting more. |
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The speed combined with the effect of the lights made the whole scene almost like a ride at an amusement park. |
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Flow tops were avoided as they are almost always riddled with amygdales and show signs of alteration. |
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He almost becomes one of the family, cheerfully going out gambling with her dopey, reprobate nephew. |
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They reproduce like rabbits and gnaw almost permanently because their teeth grow all the time. |
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If the marginal cost of reproduction of a digital good is near zero, that means almost everyone should have it for almost no charge. |
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He relies almost always on putting the men in question into a suit, and zhooshing up their hair. |
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It provides an important habitat for almost 400 species of migratory birds, 80 species of mammals, and 40 species of reptiles and amphibians. |
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Although old drawings of Tyrannosaurus rex give the beast an almost erect stance and a long reptilian tail, which dragged on the ground. |
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They can be trimmed almost like a topiary, if you want to use miniature box, lavender or germander. |
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He then found a tight-fitting lavender halter-top that matched almost perfectly. |
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Even as the British army repulses the French at almost every turn, the British navy's task seems harder since it is short of men. |
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What I am saying essentially, is that migrating for me, would almost mean requalifying myself and I'm really not up to that at this time. |
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Instantly a bullet zings past a few feet away, almost guaranteeing his ticket to martyrdom. |
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His latest book is a collection of his writings, which as you'd guess from its title, Jazz and Its Discontents, is almost a requiem for jazz. |
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It's trying at times, almost suffocating, but I appreciate what our security staff and law enforcement do for us. |
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Some of the most original pieces are by Danny Greig, 18, who has produced skirts and bodices made almost entirely from zips. |
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It's all madly hyperactive, almost stroboscopic in its zippiness, and those with a predisposition to fits should probably stay out of the cinema. |
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When they choose to get involved, though, it is almost always on the side of the anarchs instead of the princes. |
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The idea of a real Englishman is almost a contradiction in terms, like talking about a real theme park or a real golf club. |
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For almost 100 years, Congress has given General Courts-Martial the jurisdiction to try persons suspected of violating the laws of war. |
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The record company deleted the album almost immediately and re-released it under a new title. |
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I found that immediately after starting this practice, my occasional chin-area zit and ingrown neck hairs almost completely stopped happening. |
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Turning her head upward, her jaw almost dropped, her mouth almost went lax, and she almost lost her vocal cords. |
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Our individualist culture tends to think almost exclusively of great advances in science or philosophy as the product of great lone geniuses. |
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The sale and resale of the same packages kept the indices almost unchanged in the first day of trading on Monday this week. |
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And without a commentary, The Zohar really is an impenetrable text, because of the symbolism that appears in almost every line. |
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You don't have to be a Medici to commission a creative work, in fact if it's not being disrespectful, we almost did it on lay-by. |
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However, the most disturbing faults are those that occur in almost all of his anatomical studies. |
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A slice of each six-inch-high layer cake weighs almost a pound, for goodness sakes. |
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She is still researching their exact functions, but it seems almost certain that humans have comparable genes. |
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You could almost feel the anchorwoman's disappointment as she relayed this bit of information. |
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Sterne was almost compulsively attentive to page layout and typography, going so far as to specify the length of each dash in printer's ems. |
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In the late 1960s, as I recall from the magazines one read, typography and layout of poems became almost central to the poem. |
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The Brown Pelican's diet consists almost entirely of fish such as smelt and anchovies. |
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It was almost as if writing movies had given people one more reason to hate me, or dislike or resent me. |
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Coasting loose-limbed on an ancient bike, almost Cassius-faced in a green wool coat. |
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You can almost feel her carefully constructed outline unfolding as you proceed through the words, sentences, paragraphs, and pages. |
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Everything turned black and I was almost asleep when a distinct click sounded, resonating in the room. |
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We've not seen this many positive developments for months, although this week will almost certainly prove to be the calm before the storm. |
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It was set on a rise amidst an almost flat plain of land that seemed to stretch for leagues to the north. |
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What's more, almost 50 percent of 5,781 minor leaguers were in the same category. |
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Minor leaguers with questionable stuff, almost no matter how good their control is, do not have the luxury of leaning back into a relief role. |
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While all agree he is tough and prone to losing his temper, there is almost universal respect for his abilities as a soldier. |
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The prey, often of almost equal size to the anglerfish, fit neatly into the anglerfish's expandable stomachs, Drazen said. |
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The emphasis, moreover, is almost completely on unions as ancillaries in managing the workplace not the economy. |
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Young bluegills eat mainly zooplankton, but as they grow older, they become opportunistic and devour almost anything that fits into their mouths. |
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The new cut will be prepared almost entirely on the editing table, and will involve no reshoots. |
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The science fiction fascination with robots and androids is the culmination of this perception of machines as being almost like one of us. |
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Zorses are also almost immune to hot weather, and zorses do not seem to tire. |
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Tests have shown that the canonical code is better than almost all randomly reshuffled codes in this respect. |
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Fortunately, most of the residents were at the Guest Dinner being held in hall, leaving the building almost empty. |
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The Z particle decayed almost instantaneously, but left a distinctive trace in the collision data. |
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He elicited and compared details and wrote up his findings almost immediately in a highly readable, anecdotal narrative style. |
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As a result, it is almost impossible to know the amount of pesticide residues on supermarket produce. |
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It would be almost simultaneous translation between French and English, and then into Zulu and Soga. |
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There will be some shiny drippy marks that look almost like varnish on the rough edges of the slab if the stone is resined. |
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About two hours later, the yard had almost become a pond, with the green leaves of the plants shining in the rain. |
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The stems and large leaves on the stalk combine almost musically to enhance the richness of the composition. |
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I recommend you cut the joists after almost all your decking boards are in place. |
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This article on energy policy shows that fuel shortages and price leaps are almost entirely created by government meddling. |
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Indeed, he had continued writing halachic responsa almost until the moment of her death. |
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After all, only so-called mainstream American authors counted, and almost all of them were of Anglo-Saxon descent. |
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The graffiti damaged almost the whole passenger side of the car, which the family believe will cost hundreds of pounds to respray. |
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Start from an almost flat position with hands resting behind head and elbows out to the sides. |
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The measure of five syllables is almost always inconvenient in utterance and should be broken up, by a rest, into two portions. |
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When she finished dressing almost falling in the act, she heard an anguished cry of pain. |
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His reasons for punting on a question so essential to evaluating almost every sentence that follows are never given. |
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The normal probability plot of residuals against their expected values when the distribution is normal suggested that the error distribution was almost normal. |
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After almost five months without a solution, the lack of initiative is starting to embarrass the Lebanese government. |
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In its own way, the film works almost like a sequel to the comic, in that there are several new subplots and stories going on that weren't in the original. |
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Because rheas walk almost continuously while foraging, we considered that they were walking instead of foraging only when the head was above the body while walking. |
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Borges had an almost Evelyn Waugh-like capacity for sucking up to the upper classes. |
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The movie is just so ridiculously pop it's almost impossible to dislike. |
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The front doors of almost every hospital department tell the same story. |
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Of course, in the South, face-to-face interactions are almost always pleasant, even if people gossip behind your back. |
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It is a quiet, almost emersonian sort of paradox that invites reflection, not action. |
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Her face was furrowed with impatience, and she looked, then, almost my own age, middle twenties, instead of like a full-time high-school cutter of classes. |
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Against all odds, they succeeded first in repulsing the original attack and then in holding the enemy at bay for almost two weeks while being besieged without re-supply. |
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An outbreak in Madagascar, where the disease is endemic, already has involved more than 100 people and killed almost half. |
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Finally, as half-time approached, Glass almost broke the deadlock with a 25-yard shot that had Marshall launching himself across the goal to save. |
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Yet such is his talent, the quality of the music seems almost effortless, and he is equally comfortable singing mambo, cha cha, ballads and rumba. |
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It cheats and it sweats and it eviscerates and procrastinates and it comes up pathetically short in almost every area. |
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This is fairly common, is seen almost exclusively in women over middle age, and is usually a manifestation of lichen planus or mucous membrane pemphigoid. |
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In almost every femicide case in recent months, the women were trying to leave their relationship. |
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His son succeeded him, but Richard Cromwell was not a strong ruler, and almost immediately the royalists began to work for a restoration of the Stuarts. |
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But then, excepting Strike and his plucky assistant, Robin, almost no one in this story is particularly nice. |
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I can almost hear many a reverend pastor's groaning response. |
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He almost succeeds, but this is a fictionalized account of that actually happening. |
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Geometry is fundamentally a right-brained activity, where almost all of the mathematics they've seen before has been left-brained, symbol-manipulation type. |
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There is something about a cup of tea that is almost reverent. |
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Instead, we need to develop a new generation of launch systems where the launcher remains on the ground so the spacecraft is almost all payload, not propellant. |
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Until recently, guerrilla warfare against occupation forces has come almost entirely from Sunni Muslims, who make up 25 per cent of the Iraqi population. |
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which buy almost every mortgage originated in the U.S., are still functioning. |
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Dr. Veena has been a Yoga teacher of high repute for almost 25 years. |
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Palmer's inability to reach a synthesis in almost any area of his life is what makes him exasperating. |
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This stripping is almost inevitable when old straw roofs are rethatched with water reed, and very likely when older roofs are rethatched with one layer of new straw. |
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Not that it will be easy for a player reviled by the fans of almost every other team, even though he has been cleared of the offence more often than he has been found guilty. |
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On paper, there's something almost anonymously simple about this singer. |
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The results are almost always negative, and when they are equivocal it rarely is an indication of actual illness. |
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The road ribboned down the steepest slopes in switchbacks so convoluted that I continually met Christina almost head-on but with my eyes level with her pedals. |
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The new strategy comes after the company's annus horribilis as last year, the stock price showed an annual decline for the first time in almost 20 years. |
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It's almost hard to imagine that Hypnotized was helmed by the same person that gave us Road Movie, for this film is almost the antipode of the other. |
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Retorts are the most employed of any kind of distilling vessels in the practice of modern chemistry, having in England almost superseded the use of all others. |
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Humans are exposed to viruses from other species all the time, and we almost never get sick. |
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The twentieth century has witnessed an almost world-wide revolt against forms of authority that have generally been recognised by the human race for millennia. |
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It seemed possible to retrace the city's architectural history on almost any downtown walk, traveling back 150 years decade by decade, block by block. |
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Now, 25 years later, its re-release in the original uncut version has passed almost unnoticed by viewers in Melbourne, despite the plaudits of film critics. |
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But the air was suddenly clean and clear and he was coughing so much he almost retched and Abby was coughing, too, sounding like she had pneumonia. |
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Port Huron marked a milestone in the search for a genuine American radicalism based on many traditions, but most of all an egalitarian, almost anarchistic belief in democracy. |
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This system is used in almost all the annealing and decorating lehrs. |
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In many respects it bears almost no relation to the type of state-sanctioned endemic slavery that existed in Ancient Rome and the antebellum American South. |
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Fifteen years in the making, Mr Dyson's cleaners stormed British homes in the 1990s, despite retailing at almost double the price of more established brands. |
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It was clear that individual services, other than the free legal advice now almost universally available, were not the most significant reason for members joining. |
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Extension associated with lengthening of the Himalayan collision orogen is accommodated by small graben and rifts almost at right angles to the strike of the collision zone. |
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The other almost always requires a delicate dance through a minefield of potential libel, antediluvian prejudice, and post-publication recriminations. |
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Watching the American support in the stands has been almost as exhilarating as watching the play. |
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The women of nineteenth-century Germany have been strikingly absent in almost any kind of historical work on this period whether written by Germans or Anglo-Saxons. |
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Data were available at one-year follow-up on almost all study enrollees, and a subgroup of 1,511 women was resurveyed after three years of trial participation. |
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As Stephen J. Gould described it, if one could rewind the tape of life and let events play out again, the results would almost certainly differ dramatically. |
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The three of us are spending almost all of our time zonked out in bed. |
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Tayoun served almost three years, but remained an eminence on the Philadelphia political scene. |
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At the bow a pair of traditionally shaped anchors rest inside the ship where the deck has collapsed, the anchor winch having fallen sideways and almost standing on one end. |
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On the night the Queen's Jubilee Baton arrived in Manchester, almost 800,000 viewers watched the programme, which is anchored by presenter Gordon Burns. |
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Even the Native Americans, who were massacred almost to the point of extinction, escaped the curse of race slavery. |
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It seemed so strange to him how Ally had almost disappeared, not even resurfacing to attend the two ALDS games that had been played at Yankee Stadium. |
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The similarities, the way that Jerry Sandusky had become like a father figure to his victims, were almost too much to bear. |
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It was almost a retro 50's style of a male high school student. |
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I can't stand sitting here watching you lie there almost lifeless. |
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What the devolutionists failed to acknowledge was that, on almost as many occasions, England voted Tory but had a Labour government forced on it by the Scots. |
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It's almost impossible to choose between a cake layered with cream cheese frosting and a lighter white sponge cake with whipped cream and strawberries. |
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The history of horrors in the North Caucasus is so extraordinary and so long as to seem almost otherworldly. |
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Cavalry was now almost an ancillary, if still an indispensable arm. |
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At the Summer Olympics, which begin in Athens, Greece, next week, the world's elite athletes will once again dazzle us with their almost superhuman qualities. |
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Almost no Arabs believe this, because almost no one in the Arab world looks to Iraq as a success story to be emulated. |
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All in all, the presentation is almost as lifeless as the film itself. |
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Looking at Tony Bevan's work almost makes your own neck ache, such is the empathy one feels with the contorted angles and distorted structures of his heads. |
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At windswept Dens, he has a near-death experience when he is almost throttled by his own comb-over, 18-inch strands entwining in the gale to form a deadly ligature. |
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Innox was seventh last year, almost 39 lengths behind the winner. |
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The city's lights lit up the skyline and created an almost magical glow. |
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Contact dermatitis in the ear canal can result from almost any local irritant, including topical anti-infective agents and anesthetics and other topical preparations. |
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But almost to the man, the first thing every ex-con tells me is how hard it is to find work. |
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If a layman or laywoman received Mass, it was in the form of the wafer of the host only, and as a result the chalice became an object of almost superstitious reverence. |
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The two countries were eyeball to eyeball in a tense standoff for almost a year. |
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Tanzania is almost four times the size of the UK, and 25 per cent of its land mass is protected in national parks, game reserves or conservation areas. |
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A few of the revisionists were almost pro-Nazi in their outlook. |
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Armstrong's Twitter followers are now 'retweeting' the message and soon almost everybody involved with the Tour of California will be on the lookout for Armstrong's machine. |
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But for these clerks and secretaries, war is a faraway, almost abstract concept. |
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She looks so antsy and out of sorts that it almost throws me. |
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While the writers in my fandom are definitely interested in craft matters, almost all of them are much more picky about the feedback I give them than my mentees are. |
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Even in Japan, the recent recovery was almost entirely led by exports. |
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