It does seem like we had to wait ages for it to arrive and once we had it in our hands, we gobbled it up. |
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Nursing homes, social clubs, pubs, filling stations and hotels across the city have all been gobbled up by developers and turned into flats. |
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Pension obligations were ballooning, while management clung to a top-heavy bureaucracy and its sprawling mills gobbled up cash for repairs. |
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Last night she ate her dinner and she gobbled five peppermints right out of my hand. |
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While proper children dined regularly, the newsies gobbled snacks of doughnuts or hotdogs washed down with large bowls of coffee. |
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So, the lower the charges, the less of your money is gobbled up and the better chance you have of matching the market. |
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My partner, though, gobbled up her creme caramel and some of my baked Alaska. |
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Tonight I made him a baked potato to go with the leftovers and he gobbled it all up. |
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We were all admiring her British stiff upper lip as she gobbled down a witchetty grub as if it were a bar of chocolate. |
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The new people looked confused and the veterans of the school shrugged it off and gobbled down the sandwich forgetting about the name in the bag. |
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The tiny animal suddenly had a huge mouth full of razor-sharp teeth and gobbled up the candy in one bite. |
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Fruits close to the ground are gobbled by babirusas, deer and other earth-bound animals. |
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Henry gobbled down his lunch in the cafeteria and found Marc and Jim together diddling over their dessert, and joined them. |
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I gobbled them up, and my friend and I decided to leave the place as quickly as possible. |
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Leave a lump of coal laying around, and it would rot like a corpse as microbes gobbled it up, and a cup of oil would spoil like milk. |
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Any bread left in the kitchenette was gobbled up to the last crumb by our resident elves. |
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Also, these plans have pretty steep fees, so a large chunk of your money is gobbled up in charges. |
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In fact, about four-fifths of your premium is gobbled up by the commission that your lender creams off. |
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A wild turkey gobbled, and we returned to camp for dinner beneath a full moon. |
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Family-run farms and workshops were gobbled up by capitalist giants, and their owners driven into the working class. |
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But it has aroused fears that cities and towns could be gobbled up into a Greater Leeds as has happened around London and Manchester. |
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They micromanage and overindulge in the notes they've gobbled up at coaching clinics. |
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I have a kind of fondness for the old poorly done by clubs like Fitzroy, even if they have been gobbled up by the Lions. |
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When the company was gobbled up by industry giant Hasbro, Avalon Hill fans held their breath. |
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Well, if Softbank and Nomura and the rest don't watch out they will be gobbled up too. |
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Broadcast networks were gobbled up by corporate parents and cable TV began to eat into the number of their viewers. |
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He had the children stay with him low in the bushes as the turkey gobbled away from inside the bag. |
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But hedge funds, brokerages, and traders have gobbled up convertibles and sold the issuers' stock short, forcing the markets yet lower. |
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He looked like a bag of bones so we gave him some of our dinner and he gobbled it down. |
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Shane took a seat beside her and she watched in fascination as he gobbled it down. |
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Marvin Robinson, played onside by Wayne Jacobs, licked his lips and gobbled up the invitation by smacking it by Paul Henderson. |
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We gobbled up stats, poured over the sports pages, kept hockey scrapbooks and traded the cards. |
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One was gobbled up immediately, the other sat in my freezer until I defrosted it and gobbled it up just as greedily. |
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Just so you know, I kept my diet strictly in mind as I gobbled down 4 of these, finished with a tall glass of lassi, and went home to sleep like a baby. |
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The team found that while the crystallites grew in size, the number of crystallites decreased, suggesting that larger crystals gobbled up the smaller ones. |
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The turkey's on the table, but they don't seem to have gobbled it up. |
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An entire industry developed around producing low-fat snack foods and consumers have gobbled them up in hopes of losing weight and improving health. |
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On top of the milieu, in wonted Godspeed fashion, an old man recalls a bizarre and oddly moving story of how a penguin is gobbled up by a killer whale. |
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He said a lot of resources had been gobbled up trying to sort out the mess in ZAM and yet it was personal issues that had led to the in-fighting in the association. |
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An alligator of a row soon gobbled up May's adviser, but it was Gove forced by Cameron to say sorry. |
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The ferret gobbled them up eagerly and curled up in Nathalie's lap, making a strange noise that sounded like something between a snore and a purr. |
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With coconut and frosting fur, and a licorice and jellybean tie, this bunny will be gobbled up fast. |
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The void has been carved out by deer, which have gobbled up all the low-rise shrubs, wildflowers and saplings as efficiently as a hedge trimmer. |
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The bacteria in the bowels of livestock are influenced by the antibiotics gobbled up. |
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Over the past three weeks I've gobbled up episodes with the same feverishness that I did box sets of The Wire and Breaking Bad. |
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It's not because some simpleton has gobbled up Atheism that everything that simpleton will do will automatically be bad. |
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It showed a caveman trying to use a pterodactyl for an express delivery, only to watch it be gobbled up on take-off by a tyrannosaur. |
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On the contrary, Canadian companies are being gobbled up by foreign companies that pay income taxes in jurisdictions other than Canada. |
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So if ITQs are to be used in such areas, I have a suggestion to stop ITQs being gobbled up by the big fish companies. |
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Moreover, Bogason argues that ITQs can't be economically efficient if they are being gobbled up by large interests. |
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Older houses that no one wanted a few years ago are being gobbled up and renovated. |
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It is basically open season for Canadian enterprise to be gobbled up by those with strong foreign cash reserves. |
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More hours on the job have gobbled up that time, which amounts to five weeks out of a family's yearly togetherness allotment. |
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The Witch opened the oven, gobbled up Alyonka and picked the bone clean. |
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Their cheesehead Wisconsin counterparts gobbled up less-healthy foods and were allowed to come back for seconds. |
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I noted Tebbutt usually gobbled up any chances, but one that got away came at the sixth, where she missed a winning metre-long par putt after Winter bunkered her second. |
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The problem with this expanded property creation scheme, he suggests, is that the property being created is gobbled up by a few rapacious oligopolists. |
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Stressed Salmonellae produce MIPs soon after getting gobbled by a macrophage, Buchmeier and Heffron have discovered. |
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It is because the parties in the House have gobbled up the tens of millions of dollars already allocated for this and this expense has gone over budget. |
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Sagging in the tatterdemalion struggle for that second American League Wild Card in the last week of the season, they will be caught by the heels in the next day or two and gobbled up by the statistical werewolf. |
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It is because it is assumed that the ties of language, history and geographical proximity mean that the East German market will simply be gobbled up by West German firms. |
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In this forum I would like to highlight one idea in favour of the EIT: that is that all funds allocated from the EU budget to science, development and education are funds that are well allocated, not gobbled up. |
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Drunken men gobbled up expensive chocolates. |
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The federal government, through the National Capital Commission, has gobbled up land in Quebec to the point where the NCC is now the largest land owner in the Outaouais. |
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Eggs feature prominently in the paleolithic diet as a nutritious food that stone age man or woman would have gobbled down if they had been lucky enough to find a nest. |
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Today's are more reminiscent of the industrial mergers of the late 1990s, when Pfizer bought Warner-Lambert and Vodafone gobbled up both AirTouch and Mannesmann. |
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One of the problems we have at Pearson is that because of the growth of the RJ services into and out of the United States, all of those runway slots have been gobbled up by small airplanes. |
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As more local farm stands and orchards are gobbled up by condominiums and strip malls, connections with our food sources seem to go with them. |
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Because without those mouthbreathers, I wouldn't be gobbled up like slop in a trough, alone, not flavoring anything, like some sort of sweet, third-world spam. |
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Despite this, audiences still gobbled up this story because it was quirky – because it was kooky – because it celebrated letting your freak flag fly. |
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This cartoon shows the Canadian Pacific Railway as a fat pig that has gobbled up all the resources in the public trough, leaving competing railways starved. |
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Rating agencies accepted the hypothesis of ever rising home values, gave large portions of each security issue an investment-grade rating, and investors gobbled them up. Why did investors gobble them up? |
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In a trice the terrifying creature entered the hut, gobbled up the bread and milk of the herdsman's supper, leaving only a crumb or two on the floor. |
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Many of the fish species vital to people worldwide for food are similarly about to vanish off the dinner table, gobbled up by our insatiable and short-sighted appetite. |
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As Kraft gobbled up Cadbury, mouthing worthless promises about jobs on the way, there was a belated recognition that citizens could sometimes reasonably expect the state to take a view. |
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The gun registry scandal is another, which gobbled up vast sums of money. |
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And JPMorgan Chase gobbled up Bear Stearns. |
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And so it was with mixed feelings and distracted chatter that we gobbled our veal and pudding, half tuned in to the bland background music and blather on the radio. |
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I have had a concern that Canada's international development assistance program has been largely gobbled up and dedicated to Afghanistan, possibly to the detriment of other places in the world. |
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Now, so many beautiful places have been gobbled up for summer houses or resorts costing way beyond the budget of many Montanans. |
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Just as Canadians need to be secure in their ability to save for their future, they need to be secure in the knowledge that the money they earn is not gobbled up by income tax. |
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We have 40 minutes for your time. We've gobbled up a bit. |
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He suggests that these galaxies are traveling with the Magellanic clouds as part of a group that will eventually be gobbled up by the Milky Way. |
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Also swiftly gobbled up was the decadently creamy mashed potato. |
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