We in the Western nations long ago recognized autocracy in the public sector as poison, no matter how well-meaning the autocrat might be. |
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People who study the paranormal believe these apparitions are the wandering spirits of guards and inmates murdered long ago. |
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These long ago promised chairs have had the whole office talking for weeks now. |
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As she observed, it would have been a great convenience if everyone had agreed long ago to call marsh samphire by its alternative name glasswort. |
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He long ago ditched the specs, shaved off his whiskers and now has a rather kindly avuncular air. |
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The film feels a pale imitation of something that came long ago but isn't quite living up to its yesteryear aspirations. |
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Not long ago, one used to spot plaques in many parts of the city, depicting the highest flood level of the river in spate. |
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Not long ago people like Renato and Theresa worked for a padrone as serfs, for no pay. |
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Residents of this section of the city recall a time, not long ago, when their streets were canyons of bleakness. |
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Schreker's opera not as a work from a turn of the century long ago, but as a paradigm with very contemporary relevance. |
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It was not long ago that American architectural history consisted chiefly of biographies, thematic or typological studies, and synthetic surveys. |
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Not long ago, she began photographing the Peabody Museum's taxidermy collection. |
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A phrase I wrote here not long ago has unleashed a hail of furious and strikingly similar emails. |
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Truly, Papa, you were right so long ago when you said that Darcy might not be the black-hearted villain I was making him out to be! |
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A spark of hope flared, when he thought of how it could've happened so long ago. |
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Not long ago one constituent flipped out and started blabbing to the feds and the press. |
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Not long ago he was just another loveless schlump on Broadway earning bad reviews. |
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Many of the windows had been long ago smashed out and the top floor seemed to be badly fire damaged. |
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Not long ago the issue of my height had been something of a sore point with me. |
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Look at what happened to one chatterer, who not long ago was playing the critic in the New York Times. |
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Not so long ago, such loud, booming bangs would have sent shivers down the spines of many. |
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It wasn't that long ago when a soprano either sang all of Bellini or left him alone. |
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Generally, the gut-rotting base wine should have been poured away long ago, and the spice is used to mask revolting flavours and aromas. |
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She stared at the twisted barbed wire fence, that must have been knocked over long ago. |
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Unfortunately it's up to victims to stop them, no matter how long ago it happened. |
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It's said that long ago an Immortal found out that a devil had followed the wedding parade of a bride who was being carried in a sedan chair. |
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He sat in the Mariners clubhouse not long ago, signing a few baseballs brought to him by coach John Moses. |
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It seemed like not so long ago, that Cara and her were riding their horses through the meadows near their cottage in their old town, Tana. |
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The cowboys left long ago, but the elk, bison, pronghorns, coyote and moose are still at large in a chilly wilderness. |
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I had been to this region not that long ago, so I'd received some of my immunization shots. |
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Not long ago someone told me that it's letting go of any hope that the past can be different. |
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Dairy farmers learned long ago that the salves they used to prevent cows' udders from chapping also worked beautifully for their own hands. |
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It wasn't too long ago that the idea of common currency was seriously being batted about. |
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Not long ago, we were shopping for bathing suits and tank tops for those beautiful, hot summer days. |
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The movie version of High Fidelity passed into the cable realm not long ago, and I've run across it a number of times while channel-surfing. |
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Legend has it that long ago a medicine man's granddaughter fell ill with a mysterious affliction. |
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The productive forces of capitalist society have long ago outgrown the national boundaries. |
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On either side of him were tall columns of black stone upon which were etched stories of evil gods and battles from long ago. |
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And if you fell in love with me so long ago it only makes this feeling stronger, right? |
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If that were possible, French movies would long ago have stupefied the world. |
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No, that decision had been made long ago by a faceless bean counter who had calculated he was now a risk. |
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These are people who long ago recognised that the time-servers of the existing political parties had nothing for them and their passions. |
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The freedom which men of long ago had did not blind them nor did it transform them into heartless creatures. |
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I'd said that once before, long ago, but that hadn't been tinted with the undertones I was feeling now. |
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Societies long ago started out using bimetallist systems, in which several types of metals were used as currencies. |
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Not so long ago the standard patterns were either seal's fur buzzers, or similar flies in pheasant-tail, or some dark coloured herl. |
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Regular readers of this column know that not long ago I found myself the target of a minor-league smear campaign. |
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Elements on Earth such as oxygen, calcium, iron and gold came long ago from exploding stars such as this one. |
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You may well ask what set me thinking of those teams and days of long ago and the answer is simple. |
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Her hair is hennaed to cover the grey and her figure was long ago permanently shrouded in a shapeless dress. |
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The wood, long ago stripped of its bark and made brittle by countless freezes, snaps and crumbles in his hand. |
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He recalled what Harry had said to him so long ago, that the only way to cure the soul was through the senses. |
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Not long ago the community-service committee conducted a food drive for Boston's homeless shelters. |
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As Confucius saw long ago, benevolence or concern for humanity is the indispensable root of it all. |
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Not so long ago minor misdemeanours were dealt with by a short, sharp, shock like a clip round the ear. |
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He'd given up questioning his Maker long ago, stopped shaking his fist toward the sky in anger and disillusionment. |
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The two shook on an agreement long ago where Durst pays Biddle a small base salary, plus extras for other tasks. |
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And let's say, not too long ago, you called up my bespoke Savile Row tailor friend and booked an appointment because you wanted a new suit. |
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Not so long ago I wrote about a fantastically fresh and exciting band that shared their name with an Australian soap opera. |
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This was long ago that the reports were mimeographed and mailed, like small press catalogs. |
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Oysters were harvested in Scotland as long ago as the stone age when the shellfish were gathered from the seabed close to the coastline. |
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I was in Australia not so long ago and spoke to a young waitress serving at the table. |
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The goal of rehabilitation was long ago replaced with that of warehousing, and now the only real goal is to warehouse cheaply. |
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The goal of rehabilitation was long ago replaced by that of warehousing, and now the overriding objective is to warehouse cheaply. |
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He has raised a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David, as he promised through holy prophets long ago. |
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With this kind of heavy artillery, it's surprising these guys didn't win long ago. |
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A canine tooth had fragmented long ago and jagged spikes of it were embedded in the animal's infected gums. |
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Long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, musical theatre and opera were bitter, resentful enemies. |
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There was a time long ago when books provided the main source of entertainment. |
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Most jawless species went extinct long ago and are known only from the fossil record. |
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The stillness and quiet of the night made the place seem almost reverent, as if something long ago had happened here. |
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Chairs had long ago been removed when one of the owners had been brained with one in the middle of one of Hvit's constant brawls. |
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The building itself had long ago been a way station for travelers on horseback to grab a hot meal, or stay the night. |
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Not so long ago a new train service was inaugurated with due pomp and ceremony. |
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If they knew how long ago body lice diverged from head lice, they should know the likely date for the appearance of the first clothes, too. |
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The furnaces that fed them fizzled out long ago, the coal that stoked the fires lies unexcavated in flooded mines. |
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They would have to order carry-out because of her delay, she knew, but her stomach had long ago turned sour. |
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But that would only reinforce well-founded opinions that I long ago used up any ideas of my own. |
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Taps that had dried up long ago stuck out from the walls and the floor was strewn with garbage. |
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Not long ago, he accused me in an email of putting about stories that he's a drunk. |
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The large well-to-do families those great houses were built for left long ago. |
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I tried hating school, but I decided long ago that education was a necessary evil. |
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Not long ago, teams fashioned their engines from junkyard castoff engine blocks, and a good length of plumbing pipe made a nifty set of headers. |
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Then, not long ago, Elektra balked at advancing money for Ween to record a new album. |
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Apple maggot earned the name railroad worm long ago for its meandering tunnels beneath the apple skin and eventually throughout the flesh. |
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I took them round a present and a card not long ago when the new baby arrived. |
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I do not say the FSA is always right, and I long ago ceased to see it as a shining white knight rushing to the public's rescue. |
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I mean, I remembered, but the planning had started so long ago that the fact that our trip date was finally here kind of snuck up on me. |
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It wasn't that long ago that I was editing radio reports with a piece of tape and a razor blade! |
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She whispered the words she had been taught so long ago and felt the heat increase, filling her body with a warm glow. |
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In the four cardinal points of the clearing were small piles of dirt where it seemed fires had been burned, long ago. |
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Not long ago so many plants sprouted from a single packet of seed that willowherb itself might have been jealous. |
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It hearkens back to a time not so long ago when journalists and illustrators seemed to have a lot more space. |
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We hear a song from our past and are transported back to a memory from long ago, albeit a good or a bad one. |
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I sat down stunned, recollecting the days that I had spent in the East not too long ago. |
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The most successful modern reconciler of faith and the imperatives of modern life, King Hussein of Jordan, lamentably died not long ago. |
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Helen's memories of long ago are interrupted by her annoying stepbrother when he decides to end his eavesdropping in favor of chocolate cake. |
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The documentary evidence, records of meetings and intelligence briefings would have been shredded long ago. |
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The simple woodman's axe he'd been using had long ago lost what little bit of an edge it had possessed before he'd gone to work. |
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Not so long ago I set about rediscovering it for myself, in the company of a Native Canadian. |
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In younger days, I was an experienced hunter, trapper, and woodsman, although those titles have long ago lost their significance. |
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No one really knows how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. |
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It really wasn't so long ago that the Labour Party was the working-class party. |
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If only they had walked into the library that day so long ago and met the prince, sitting there in worriment. |
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It occurred to me that if this were a business it would most likely have closed long ago. |
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He had long ago sought out and met Father Pio de Pietraicina, the Italian Capuchin monk who suffered the stigmata of Christ's crucifixion. |
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An adversarial, unsmiling character, Bourdain has a gratuitous grudge against a society whose bourgeois comforts he long ago rejected. |
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As I understand it, not so long ago, Oxford Street marked its northern boundary. |
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Once upon a time, long, long ago, the tribal craftsmen of India knew how to smelt iron of such purity that it never rusted. |
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It was not long ago that, at enormous expense, the pavement was relaid and now we have Tarmac extensions! |
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Not one performance failed to give me some fresh insight into a composer I thought I had OD'd on long ago. |
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Many of these hill stations began life as long ago as the 1820s, when early British settlers first sought nests in attractive locations. |
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Many banks that went under in 1998 long ago shifted their remaining assets to new companies. |
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Some of those patients had toenails so thick that they had outgrown the average nail clipper long ago. |
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Not so long ago he was watching telly with his eldest daughter, Lois, who has ambitions to be an actor. |
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Not long ago, I purchased an autographed baseball containing signatures of players on an American League All-Star team. |
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Yet it was not so long ago that lasers were deemed a solution in search of a problem. |
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It wasn't long ago that the Giants had the best Major League ready pitching prospect depth in the minors. |
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It's not that long ago I remember being taunted in the street by building-site workers for carrying a baby in a sling. |
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Not too long ago we did a simple test and shot the same ammo in five different guns. |
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There was a time not long ago when Telemann, like Vivaldi, was thought to be dull and repetitious. |
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He had a run in with some Russians at a laundromat in Brooklyn not too long ago, and he's been two bricks shy of a load ever since. |
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Not so long ago, journalists would have called this a slaving operation of a sort. |
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I can remember not too long ago it was in occupation and kept in good repair. |
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Nicci knew he would be nothing like his ancestors whom she had long ago met. |
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He had long ago told me that he wanted me to be honest and without reserve when talking to him, and I usually found it difficult. |
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He was in contact with the KGB resident agents. It was long ago, but it seems to me that we met at social events. |
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Not that long ago, it was a painstaking task to mix animated characters with real ones. |
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On the Mississippi Queen, old-time banjos and a calliope belt out favorites from long ago as passengers explore six decks worth of elegance. |
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I think an eye and ear for those fandoms were what made Marvel great, long ago. |
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There, her old nurse recognizes the goblet, which the trolls had stolen when they abducted her long ago. |
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There was a time, long ago that printers had ribbons and used dot matrix printing to create tiny dots that, when looked at, were readable. |
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For one thing, this is a whiskery, reflexive old incantation of the Right, that long ago lost any very vivid meaning. |
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As Sigmund Freud suggested long ago, memories are themselves recast every time they are called to mind. |
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You'd think I'd have learned long ago not to argue with those with a slightly squiffy glint in their eye. |
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Not long ago, however, the vice president filed a slander suit against some members of the Taiwan media. |
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He had made it a habit long ago to rise with the sun every morning, and today was no exception. |
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She would have the seafood risotto whilst her mother and father who had decided long ago what they would have. |
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Not long ago in Penrith, as I walked through the arcade near the George Hotel, I came across a display of all sorts of baskets. |
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As long ago as 800 BC the Greek poet Hesiod described a sweet Cypriot wine, produced from sun-dried grapes. |
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It's not that long ago that cows were being milked by hand, now they're being milked by computer. |
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Perhaps that's why he has such a lived-in face, the sort you saw long ago on young First World War soldiers returning old from the trenches. |
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I learned long ago that I had to give the managers under me the ability to make mistakes or I'd lose good people. |
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It wasn't too long ago that it was more of a case of loathe him or hate him and I certainly was no different. |
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It's a particularly unfashionable old hat that ought to have gone to the charity shop long ago. |
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I gave up alcohol long ago as it would completely destroy me for days after. |
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Recall the exaggerated influence vouchsafed, not too long ago, to psychoanalytic theory. |
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The rock was a meteorite, blasted off the Red Planet long ago by the impact of a comet. |
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But if it is true, humanity owes much of its success to women long ago preferring men of wit and intelligence over musclebound hunks. |
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The Karen long ago despaired of any justice from the Burmese, and declared themselves autonomous. |
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Not so long ago, most people would not have had an ideal regular intake of vitamin C, a vitamin the human body cannot synthesize. |
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Attempts to transmute other metals to gold may have been made as long ago as the Bronze Age. |
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It's way too late but these children should have been adopted by capable parents long ago. |
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He opened them and continued on talking about the old times, about memories not long ago buried by sadness and bitterness. |
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Jestine, who was a teacher herself long ago, was all buoyed up on seeing the kids. |
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Not long ago most economists in the US were lamenting the fact that we had such a low savings rate while Japan had such a high savings rate. |
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It's interesting to see that Geller drags out Home as evidence for spiritualism, when that matter has long ago ceased to serve the cause. |
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I long ago decided not to debate such comments or only fleetingly make a passing remark in a non-confrontational manner. |
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But even devoted space buffs long ago lost interest in the shuttle program. |
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I was assigned to make the changes in the song, through some favor called in by a friend long ago. |
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Not long ago this led to a spate of uncontrolled closures, with subpostmasters believing they had no choice but to leave. |
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I have learned tabla and mridangam from a teacher who had come down to Durban not very long ago. |
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Admittedly, England has suffered more on a drip-fed basis, but we long ago gave up the complacency of being unbreachable. |
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I had long ago learned that when someone is moving about, in secluded wooded areas like this, the birds are more shy. |
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Not too long ago, these inexpensive loads were assembled using soft, low-grade shot and cheap wads. |
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Had government come out and explained the deal from day one, I am certain that this firestorm would have been quelled long ago. |
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I can't believe not too long ago I was on the other side of the boat, I was once the girl who called you unauthentically black. |
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Not long ago, technology recruitment was one of the most active, and profitable, specialist areas within the Irish recruitment market. |
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I thought all divers gave up spearguns long, long ago and anyway, no real diver would ever use a spear on shellfish. |
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It wasn't that long ago that cigarette lighters or radios were automotive luxuries. |
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The coach is a master tactician who raced for the Spanish cycling team not that long ago. |
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Not so long ago, many people thought that bringing crime in New York under control was pie in the sky. |
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The case for commodity money in general, and for silver and gold in particular, was established, authoritatively, long ago. |
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In this spirit, he decided long ago to place his oomph behind a world-class park. |
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Of course the pictures here are just artist's impressions of what they looked like, because they died long ago and I have never heard of any pictures of them. |
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Greenness was welling up in what had been until not long ago a winter forest. |
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If Brady were as uptight and acerbic as Belichick often seems, the Patriot train would have long ago run off the rails. |
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Not long ago, I mentioned the Victims of Communism Memorial to an acquaintance. |
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I read a study not long ago that chewing actually does activate your brain. |
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For far too long, we have been coasting on a moral authority to which we long ago lost any clear title. |
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Let me tell you, I felt like Tiger Woods tearing up Augusta that one year long ago. |
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As the beatniks long ago learned, out there in America hair matters, and here we were in the land of the permanent wave. |
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The LDS renounced polygamy long ago in response to bigamy laws, and doesn't recognize any splinter groups that practice polygamy. |
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In an awkward scene, Frodo speaks with his uncle about an ambiguous adventure he had long ago. |
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In contrast, the actual chicken pox virus long ago exited my bloodstream and is not detectable. |
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By contrast, not too long ago, a gentleman checked into an exclusive bora bora resort with his mistress. |
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Not too long ago, you simply had to have cable television in order to be part of the national popular culture conversation. |
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The Abkhaz coast appears, fringed with palms, oleanders and groves of eucalyptus trees planted long ago by the Russians to dry out the malarial marshes. |
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Not so long ago, the Chinatown bus industry was subject to fierce price wars. |
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Not long ago she would have denied him, but she had finally accepted him. |
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Of course, the reason you are carrying four wedges is because today's modern pitching wedge has the loft of a 9-iron or even a strong 8-iron from not too long ago. |
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Her ancestors were Englishmen long ago, who upon the very British idea of colonialism left to colonize the Barbados. |
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Christmas long ago ceased to be an occasion for carefree jollity. |
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One photograph reminded me of a time long ago, when I was just a child and the likes of traveling minstrels, tinkers, gypsies, rag-and-bone men et al, were the norm. |
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It is important to recall that not very long ago cell phones did not exist. |
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The space occupied by the air-raid shelters should have been cleared away long ago to provide more public space and not an area for profit-making parking. |
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The last image he remembered from that time long ago was two strong hands clutching his throat, squeezing the life out of him, constricting his air flow. |
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Not so long ago, Neil Young had come up to the tar sands and compared the devastation to Hiroshima. |
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One time, not too long ago, I saw a line of lame dancers unable to participate in class, sitting on the sidelines, questioning when they would return to dance. |
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Not long ago, I observed on television that he is likely to be most electable Republican. |
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No matter what generation reads these words, they are commanded to claim the Mosaic history as their own and not merely to recall what their ancestors experienced long ago. |
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This party, which long ago abandoned its past association with liberal social reforms, cannot and will not defend the programs it once championed. |
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Not that long ago, the right wing press and the Conservative party would have united in outrage at allowing the sale of a morning after pill to teenagers. |
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In fact, fitzpatrick wore no tie at all, one indicator that he long ago left the reservation. |
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Yale teachers and students who have fought the franchising venture from the start said they anticipated this long ago. |
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Not long ago, my partner and I went on a week's vacation to Sicily. |
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It might have been part of a pirate or a viking ship long ago. |
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The energy is all derived from the photosynthesis of plants long ago. |
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The Andamanese have a number of stories which are told to the younger people by their elders and relate to the doings of their ancestors in a time long ago. |
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Not long ago, bicycles were the main mode of transportation here. |
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Not long ago such a demand would have seemed both radical and unfeasible. |
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This reminds me of a discussion I had with a friend not long ago. |
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It is not so very long ago, after all, that press photographers lined the esplanade after the Bishop caused a scandal by running off with one of his parishioners. |
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As long ago as the early 1970s, he had gone on to support most civil rights-related legislation. |
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Carefully aligning the sights and holding the pistol steady as he was taught so long ago, the child thumbs off the safety catch and squeezes the trigger. |
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I've long ago learnt that the breed I encountered today is atypical. |
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I was in for a rude awakening to this fact not too long ago. |
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Those keen features that might have been attractive had they not been so sunken and calculating, recalled to her a smoggy taproom on a dreadful night not long ago. |
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Not so long ago the sight of a large, brown, hairy tarantula was enough to inspire fear and loathing in everyone except the most ardent enthusiast. |
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Few believe these same Cold War hawks actually care about foreign peoples, as they were fairly open about their indifference to human rights not so long ago. |
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If he were a man of honour, he would have resigned long ago. |
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In my inbox not long ago from a friend landed a good example of the evil liberal media ignoring the Dr. Gosnell case. |
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Should you confront someone that has hurt you in a substantial way, even if the emotional injury was inflicted long ago? |
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The spinal core of Carnival and mas of long ago was creative portrayal. |
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This process, which mechanizes a system long ago completed only by hand, creates the cooking and stretching attributes associated with mozzarella cheese. |
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Not too long ago in Detroit I attended a job fair specifically for veterans. |
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Some of those who were showing great promise not so long ago are now struggling to live up to the billing, notably John O'Shea and the anonymous Liam Miller. |
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I asked a friend who runs aid programs at the U.S. embassy in Kabul not long ago. |
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It was said long ago that he who lives by the sword dies by the sword. |
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However, if innate ability were not only sufficient but necessary, it is obvious from a metagenetic analysis of human history that we would have died out long ago. |
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This year they turned to Bellini, staging Norma, generally regarded as one of the composer's finest bel canto masterpieces, and not so long ago a showpiece for Maria Callas. |
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The road drains here were flushed out not too long ago, and the drainage system out on the fens seems more than able to cope with the rain we've had and a lot more. |
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Not so long ago they watched a neighbouring farm being put to the torch. |
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And there is Simon, the male escort, who finds himself fighting against the longing he long ago swore off. |
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I well recall, and it wasn't long ago, being impressed by a sharon fruit. |
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It wasn't too long ago that Dean was the Rodney Dangerfield of the Democratic race, the long-shot candidate from a minuscule state who didn't get much respect. |
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He was a short, stout man who had long ago lost most of his hair and now had to keep his thick bifocals on a string around his neck or else he'd lose them too. |
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Ensuring more diverse images of women in the worlds of both music and media was a path Latifah decided to trod long ago. |
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Despite having long ago plighted his troth to the lunatic right, he is certainly trying. |
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The bulk of the missionaries who came to Zambia long ago came from Europe. |
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Surely, these are not the most adequate sources for precise biostratigraphic data neglecting other results attained by many authors recently and long ago. |
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I could hear, once more as I'd heard so long ago the people screaming, shrieking in pain and just as before it was the most painful thing I could possibly experience. |
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There were swarms of people there, too, all loud and obnoxious despite the librarian's furious shushing, but I'd learned long ago to ignore all of that. |
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Your steak was part of an animal that was mooing not long ago! |
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Chesterton observed long ago that we only blaspheme what we hold sacred. |
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During takeoff and landing, I mumble a short prayer that I learned long ago in Sunday school. |
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Perhaps designers feel as though they long ago made their peace with the unwashed masses. |
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Many secular activists from the urban areas of Damascus or Aleppo withdrew long ago, sickened by what the uprising was becoming. |
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There has been the constant battle to gain access to the pre-Internet newspaper clip morgues of papers, some of which long ago went out of business. |
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Evaluating a quarterback always is difficult, but it's even more challenging when the beautiful swan of a passer was an ugly duckling not long ago. |
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And by movers here I refer to those organisations with some power to sponsor, mass produce and distribute music in the country from long ago to date. |
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Not so long ago, I took a cable-car from Cervinia to Plan Maison and spent the day with the baby while the rest of my family skied the prepared pistes. |
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Not so long ago these two great Scots on the make were slinging mud at one another in The Spectator, slogging it out over who is the best looking. |
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Death and the awful abode of lost souls, whither my weakness long ago had sent him, had changed him for every other eye but mine. |
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It's true I'm not the full bottle on food trends, but for many years I believed that fondues were something we'd all been into long ago but unlikely ever to stage a comeback. |
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The result is that a lot of folks go to their graves feeling unrelieved remorse for disputes they had long ago with lovers, family members, business colleagues, and others. |
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The world was long ago promised that zimbabwean thug Robert Mugabe would be a great reformer. |
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Not long ago, polite society had only begun to tolerate slamming the Electoral College as a perniciously quaint old institution. |
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Elbaz's power-broker femininity long ago redefined the wardrobe of the working woman. |
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If non-contagious illnesses were seen as having similarly broad consequences, the debate over guaranteed health care would long ago have ended in favor of providing it. |
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After all, the Beta vs. VHS videotape war wasn't so long ago. |
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That has changed even more rapidly than Hansen predicted so long ago that Seinfeld was still a year from premiering. |
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It wasn't so long ago that I told off the Nats for having a bung site. |
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Sneak the book back into the stacks and tell them they screwed up because you returned it long ago, or else hold onto it until the next amnesty period. |
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Why shut it down so long ago if it was just going to stand empty? |
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I reread the above two paragraphs and I see that I sound a bit like a textbook, and a quaint one at that, one printed long ago. |
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They built it not long ago, big and ugly, with a massive sloped roof rising up to the top of the bell tower, which is capped with a fat building-block cross. |
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The close association between hiatus hernia and the symptoms of reflux esophagitis, observed long ago, led to the belief that such hernias cause reflux. |
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And as Rousseau told us long ago, equality breeds comparison, and comparison breeds competition. |
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It is the same in all the broadcasting groups and in many newspapers, where hard news long ago lost the battle with celebrity gossip and vapid opinionising. |
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The Chickasaw language is still so similar to Choctaw, for instance, that linguists surmise that the separation of the two could not have occurred very long ago. |
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Come to think of it, not so long ago even Puccini was trashed by superior people, who considered his contemporaries decadent, shabby frauds beneath contempt. |
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Nothing easier. I received not long ago a map from my friend, Augustus Petermann, at Leipzig. Nothing could be more apropos. |
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The real estate market in Heaven for his kind of self-aggrandizing pomposity dried up long ago. |
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Not too long ago, there was a YouTube of you two brawling. How did the musical collaboration happen? |
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Not long ago, most people associated the Forest Service with its benevolent spokesbear, Smokey. |
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Not so long ago, if you fancied a Polish sausage for your dinner you would have had to journey to Warsaw. |
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It wasn't that long ago when getting a bank job after school meant you were set for life. |
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They had either been previously removed by friends, or the burial must have taken place long ago. |
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I should have quit this job long ago, but I guess I'm just a glutton for punishment. |
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Some of the species of moths and insects show evidence of having been indigenous to the area from as long ago as the Alpine orogeny. |
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It's not so long ago that Argentina looked to be in complete control of this match. Now Paraguay are forcing their backs to the wall. |
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He was supercute, with emo bangs over one eye and a hint of guyliner that would've sent my heart aflutter not too long ago. |
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Not long ago, as eternity flows, most of humanity felt earthbound, sin-bound, limitation-bound, deathbound, fear-bound, and guilt-bound. |
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Coal has been mined around Worsley from as long ago as 1376, originally in bell pits. |
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It would be dangerous to rely on memories of events that occurred so long ago. |
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Language scholars long ago denied that the myth of a standard American dialect has any validity. |
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However some Turkologists argue that Cossacks are descendants of native Cumans of Ukraine, who lived there long ago before the Mongol invasion. |
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Maurice, however, had long ago determined to limit his efforts against the Lombards to intrigue and diplomacy, pitting the Franks against them. |
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This is a good reminder of how long ago the waxes were produced, when epigenesis had yet to fully overcome the idea of preformation. |
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Traditional Chinese medicine discovered long ago that we all have a pressure point at the top of our necks. |
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Perceiving that personalities were not out of order, I asked him what species of beast had long ago twisted and mutilated his left ear. |
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Not so long ago the Tories wanted Jeremy Corbyn to win the Labour leadership as they assumed he was a total no-hoper. |
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She lost that claim long ago, but her symbolic importance has only grown. |
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At a stroke the bhangis will raise scavenging to a fine art and give it the status it should have had long ago. |
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The rorquals are believed to have diverged from the other families of the suborder Mysticeti as long ago as the middle Miocene. |
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Not so long ago, college students chugged sugary soda for breakfast or fueled all-nighters with pots of no-frills black coffee. |
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Not long ago, Turkey was faced with stagflation but now it has a strong currency and its economy is thriving. |
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Indeed, the Talmud taught long ago that non-Jews are also to benefit from tzedakah. |
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Not long ago, I learned that organophosphates make up part of a list of permissible compounds for fracking fluid. |
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