Even for a fast learner, though, four months is an awfully short time to cram. |
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Either I grew up in a parallel universe, or things have gone awfully soft in the two decades since I graduated. |
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There's a blind exit onto Bridge Street at the bottom of the hill and it is awfully dangerous trying to get out there. |
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The path to justice for families or victims of those who suffer a medical goof-up, he believes, is awfully steep. |
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The rest is a bunch of Italian sexploit nonsense that takes itself awfully seriously. |
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And some of that underwear's awfully complicated with all the hooks and eyes. |
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My trainer Tim Etherington, awfully nice chap, has whispered in my shell-like that I am entered in not just one, but two meetings next week. |
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This is an awfully funny story if you are not cowed by the scholarly references. |
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But it's awfully depressing to see how quickly we can indulge the urge to trim the Faith to suit our political tribe. |
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Amy could see that she was awfully pretty with long reddy chestnut hair, which fell behind her back and deep emerald green eyes. |
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If we had to limit our interviews to everybody who was doing good and contributing to society, I'm afraid that might be an awfully short list. |
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The idea seemed interesting, but the signal-to-noise ratio was awfully low. |
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As soon as he viewed a window detailing the current workings of the sound detecting code, he realised something was awfully wrong. |
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He's got the groove going and he paces his compilations like an expert DJ, but his blips and bleeps sound awfully derivative. |
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Parson wondered if Ryder would get mad if he gave her some food, she looked awfully skinny. |
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And apart from faint background muzak, it is awfully quiet, for the other diners don't say much to each other. |
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She lays on the hayseed vernacular awfully thick, both in her dialogue and her narration. |
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That sounds awfully dramatic, but it's actually quite depressingly trivial and unimportant. |
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It looks awfully like standing at the gate, staring out into the paddock, wondering where the prize stallion has gone. |
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The one way system was very successful in that it regularised the junctions because they were awfully dangerous and it got rid of that danger. |
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A cultural world in which allusion is defined as theft seems an awfully impoverished one. |
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We liberals tend to get awfully paranoid about these coincidences, don't we? |
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When the door suddenly opened, the Laird MacCallum looked awfully angry as he stalked quickly out down the hall. |
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It's an awfully small area to work with if you don't have a professional soldering iron. |
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The centre is not so awfully bad, if you ignore the drunks and rowdies that is. |
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It is such short notice and it is awfully rude of me to inform you of this just now. |
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This sets the scene for his awfully big adventure, undertaken in the company of a smart little Assamese street dog called Bhaiti. |
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You have to dig awfully deep to get to the hurt and the pain and the powerlessness. |
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For a man who says he favors human freedom and choice, McKibben is awfully eager to limit both. |
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I mean, the next story comes up, the next big crisis comes up in the world or in America, and it is awfully easy to get lost in the shuffle. |
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For being famous and horsey and whatnot, they were awfully nice and a lot of fun. |
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But there's something awfully deriative about them, a mish-mash of cubism, constructivism, futurism, vorticism, Merz and more. |
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I must have been feeling awfully ambitious to set myself such a daunting assignment! |
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It is two in the afternoon, the weather is awfully hot, and you are struck in a traffic jam. |
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Pressure from powerful corners must make it awfully easy to misplace files. |
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As it is, when she utters them on court, I have to keep reminding myself that she's really an awfully nice gal. |
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He'd be awfully sorry after he accidentally walloped her on the head with a cuspidor, but she'd still have the aching noggin. |
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Not an environment devoted to the life of the mind, but the weather was awfully nice. |
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It's not directly on my doorstep like last time, although it sounds awfully close. |
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Yesterday while walking to work I had a revelation that they're awfully similar to culottes. |
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A dog barks somewhere off in the floods, but otherwise it's awfully, eerily quiet. |
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This is an awfully tough game for a top seed coming into the quarter-finals. |
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Thanks to those awfully nice people at TiVo, I am enjoying the loan of one of their hard disk personal video recorders. |
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However, something, whether by human error or mechanical fault, went awfully wrong as we saw him plummet to his death from the arena roof. |
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And bouncing up the stairs to his second-floor lair, Williamson seems awfully fit for a tipsy man of fair-to-middling age. |
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They rarely focus on textbooks but always introduce something awfully fresh and disagreeably insightful. |
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The commander sat in the turret cupola, looking awfully smug. |
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I covered New York politics for 15 years, and I saw some awfully tense moments between the police and Democratic politicians. |
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And perhaps the current Supreme Court will take a more literal reading of the awfully clear language in the state Constitution. |
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I notice your office is awfully close to the Barclays Center, where the Nets play. |
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The sad part is that the after-party was very awfully organized. |
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Unless you're awfully special, the market doesn't want to know. |
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Otherwise the saturation coverage of the young victims will, over time, come to seem awfully hollow. |
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And the overall funding levels, while better than the sequester, are still awfully low. |
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Helen is quite heartbroken, and I feel awfully sorry for her. |
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You must be awfully proud of Kyle, as I know you are of your other kids. |
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He must get awfully nervous when Gary Bauer and James Dobson call. |
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He's doing awfully well with it, and settling down to a manageable pace. |
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And the heart people say aspirin is awfully good for the old ticker. |
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She felt naked, exposed and awfully vulnerable in the forest. |
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He laughably said it was a one bedroom place, when in fact it was a bedsit in which he'd made an awfully bodged attempt to incorporate a separate bedroom. |
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In fact after reading what the minister did on Wednesday, the President must have felt awfully mortified because he knows belligerence is not for leaders. |
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That sounds awfully like a shouting match or mindless argument to me. |
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Needless to say he's in the turbulent water for an awfully long time. |
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It took an awfully long time, though, and my computer is full of garbage. |
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The problem with being really satisfied with an oppositional strategy is that it makes it awfully hard to be for something. |
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After I unpacked everything from my suitcase for couple of hours, I became awfully tired and quickly fell into a deep slumber on my soft comfy bed. |
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In the PC world of academia, that definition can become awfully narrow. |
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Not trying to deliberately snark here, just pointing out that you seem awfully heavily invested in him letting go of something you already know he's not going to let go of. |
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But whatever her professions of zaniness, lately Barrymore has seemed awfully grown up. |
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But because I'm fundamentally weak and spineless, I find it awfully difficult to be similarly critical about the heroic efforts of a mere one-man band. |
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In front of them was an awfully huge machine containing two capsules. |
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It would be an awfully complicated and roundabout way of garnering Heisman goodwill. |
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To a contemporary audience, this movie seems awfully relaxed, even in the scene where Godzilla is stomping trains and power lines in downtown Tokyo. |
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God must love me awfully for he chasteneth me without cease. |
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You seem awfully full of your own importance around girls sometimes. |
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At the hospital, which is full of people who look like they have been waiting around for an awfully long time, I am efficiently fast-tracked through the system. |
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You know, he can be awfully pedantic, and awfully insufferable. |
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When the rooster crowed to greet the morning, Ben thought he sounded awfully close by but to find the fowl on the foot of his bed was closer than he thought! |
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The audience became awfully quiet as she glided to her position. |
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The housing renovations are almost complete and hubby Ford is an awfully busy scientist with a power career that eclipses most of the couple's concerns. |
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Compounding the problem are awfully poor headlights on dipped beam. |
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They can be unmade by judicial fiat, but it feels awfully cruel to do so. |
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Thus the solemn work of swearing is awfully profaned by both the imposer and the jurant. |
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Washington is awfully deserted now that every congressman is out on the hustings. |
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After only five weeks in the Netherlands the former England boss has gone Dutch awfully quickly. |
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For a nation that values its children, folks are awfully complacent about saddling their kids with megadebt. |
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Once in situ, the pair were spotted looking awfully cosy, whispering sweet nothings into each others' ears. |
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She wrote some awfully slushy letters to Phil Bowen, and he read them aloud at the frat house one night. |
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The lampshade is an awfully good book and it's exceptionally heartfelt. |
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People who normally sound smart said some awfully dumb things. |
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Listen to my tale of woe, It's terribly sad but true. All dressed up, no place to go, Each evening I'm awfully blue. |
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He's looking awfully good by comparison to the pooh-bahs of the business today. |
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Singer Roberta Duchak is more sensitive rhythmically yet awfully bright and unsupple on the high notes. |
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But that's awfully hard to do when they're helping Hollywood stamp out the very technologies that will fuel long-term economic growth. |
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Old Smith was awfully bucked because he'd taken four wickets. I should think he'd go off his nut if he took eight ever. |
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That TV series has become awfully formulaic in the last couple of seasons. |
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She led after the swiming and cycling, but ran awfully and came in fourth. |
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A four-game winning streak, including an upset win over USC and a clobbering of Arizona State, has given the Beavers reason to feel awfully good about themselves. |
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Were this fiction, we would all reject it as awfully convoluted. |
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It's most awfully good of you to give me such a splendidiferous present. |
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