My brain was so fogged, my memory so poor and my concentration so fleeting that it would take me the entire morning to eke out a paragraph. |
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Early in his reign the king was exiled and forced to eke out an existence wandering the land. |
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So, without identity documents, she had to shield her children from the authorities and eke out a living with odd cash in hand jobs. |
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Old widows in Mathura and Vrindavan are left to the mercy of the public to eke out an existence. |
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The struggle to eke out a living in the mountains seemed to be so great for them that they were willing to toss it in at the first chance. |
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Their families eke out a living from a few goats and what they can grow on rough allotments. |
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He looked as if he was going to eke out another methodical round until the two fighters clashed heads just seconds before the bell. |
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Mistakes then began to creep in as the pressure rose, including Brough scuffing a gettable penalty, and the game began to slowly eke away. |
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Sounds great, but this technology is not designed to replace oil, merely to eke it out. |
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Deposit your redundancy cheque in a Best Buy high-interest easy-access savings account, and try to eke it out for as long as you can. |
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The little silvery streams criss-crossing the river bed are enough for them to eke out a living. |
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There is no money to pay the bills and Mae tops up a half-empty bottle of milk to eke it out. |
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As I write page after page of this I realize that I could eke a book out of this review. |
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The levels of poverty hit you as soon as you walk out of the airport and see people trying to eke a living out of the very earth they walk on. |
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He strongly admires him because he knows how tough it is to eke a living out of one of Australia's last frontiers. |
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The fact that we would have to eke out a miserable existence as rural farmers has not occurred to them. |
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Stop ruining what little enjoyment some of us poor souls can manage to eke out of the average tedious day. |
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I can make enough as a bandleader and itinerant musician to eke by, supplemented with the occasional website construction gig here and there. |
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He heads for a dirty hut in the country where he can doss down and eke out a living. |
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She decided to eke out a livelihood with what was once her favourite pastime, tatting. |
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The fairness of her face no tongue can tell, For she the daughters of all women's race, And angels eke, in beauty doth excell. |
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Most of the world's poor work in the informal economy, unable to eke out a decent living from jobs that are poorly paid. |
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Will your Sim find success as a billionaire high-tech inventor or eke out a living as a bumbling mad scientist? |
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They decide to sell tissue and cells of their body for payment in order to eke out a living. |
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In consideration of these high stakes, it would be a gross error for the economy and the society to allow their competitiveness to eke away. |
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Poor families from Kakanj in Bosnia eke out a living by collecting coal from an abandoned mine there. |
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As a result, most Roma are left to eke out a living as best they can, mostly through recycling scrap metal or as casual labourers. |
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Water is the key to life on earth and far too many people are forced to eke out a living without safe supplies of this most basic resource. |
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From there, he tried to peddle copies of his autobiography to eke out a living. |
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Once you learn to isolate your triceps, you can call on them during a compound movement to help you eke out a few extra reps of chest or shoulder presses. |
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The polls say Republicans will likely eke out a small majority in the Senate this Election Day. |
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They made the playoffs just four times and managed to eke out only one playoff series win. |
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Thanks to an unexpectedly strong showing in the West and the farm belt, Truman managed to eke out re-election. |
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Hundreds eke out a living, toiling hard throughout the night. |
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Many live in squalid camps and eke out a living as day labourers. |
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Except when I tell the story it takes me about ten minutes to eke it out. |
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And eke within the castle were Springoldes, gonnes, bowes, and archers. |
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Most landed with a thud, but some did well enough to eke out another contract. |
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Nets brim over with dead fish, blemishing the view of a vast reservoir in China's eastern province of Jiangsu where hundreds of peasants already struggle to eke out a living. |
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They were the only plants that could eke out life above the snow line. |
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It also provided them with various common rights and established customs and practices which they used to structure their day, to appropriate goods and to eke out a living. |
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On top of the millions who are driven from their homes by war, famine and other catastrophes, millions more are forced to move in order to survive because they are simply unable to eke out a living in their place of origin. |
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They often eke out a living through government employment programs, employment insurance, social assistance and occasional small contracts in order to pursue their profession. |
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In past centuries, too, when heathland farmers toiled to eke out an existence from the sparse sandy soils, survival of the local population depended on their symbiotic relationship with the heath and the heidschnuck sheep. |
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We really have about seven staff positions that we're trying to eke out. |
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Strength in capital spending is the main reason why we still expect the province to be one of three provinces to eke out positive economic growth this year. |
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Sales tend to be piecemeal and of smallstock, just to eke out the season with grain purchases every three weeks or so until cash from migrant workers is available or, if not, until the harvest period comes round again. |
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How can you eke out a place in society when you lack basic knowledge? |
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Many have been forced to eke out a living peddling from street stalls. |
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A FATHER and son paddle through a river of rubbish in the Phillipines trying to collect enough plastic bottles to eke out a living. |
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I'll uncross my lallies, runa comb through my riah, rearrange the expression on my eke and troll off for a mince round to vada the bona omis. |
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There is a high level of illiteracy among women, and the majority eke out a living in small-scale trading in the informal sector and in subsistence agriculture. |
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The daughter of debate, that eke discord doth sowe Shal reap no gaine where formor rule hath taught stil peace to growe. |
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There is thus a strong temptation to try to eke as much productivity out of a rapidly obsolescing asset as possible. |
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Polls suggests he should be able to eke out a win of three points or so. |
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In the short term they'd probably be just as well trying to eke a little more out of the 30s with a bawdy spin-off series called Mrs Patmore's House Of Ill Repute. |
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In the short term they'd probably be just as well trying to eke a little more out of the 1930s with a bawdy spin-off series called Mrs Patmore's House Of Ill Repute. |
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For whi me thoughte, be Seynt Gyle, Al was of ston of beryle, Bothe the castel and the tour, And eke the halle and every bour, Wythouten peces or joynynges. |
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The novel's focalization centers specifically on a couple of former members of a leftist organization who live clandestinely and who barely eke out an existence. |
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