Evidence shows that smallholders and cottagers were less likely to have kinsmen on the manor than large or middling tenants. |
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The average Brit spends longer on the job than any other European in return for no more than an average GNP per capita and middling or low wages. |
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Where the middling strata were thin on the ground, as in Spain or Hungary, liberalism could take on a strong aristocratic tinge. |
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A top woman player used to be able to get away with a middling first serve and a cream puff second serve. |
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As taxi drivers they are fair to middling, but with questionable standards of personal hygiene. |
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Huge great Brobdingnagian wooden doors open to the King's Cross building site, giving light and air of fair to middling quality. |
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Of middling height, Arnold was badly overweight, with the bulbous red nose and watery eyes of someone long lost to the bottle. |
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If you take Pennsylvania Avenue now, it bypasses the marshy village and the middling town it once served. |
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Colors are properly saturated and vibrant, black levels are solid, though the sharpness is good to middling. |
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In a series that's known for it's exciting and dramatic season finales, this one is only middling, but it's still very very good. |
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By the eighteenth century, masculine chastity was closely connected with one's respectability and membership among the middling sorts. |
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The fabric, construction, and style indicate an average, utility foundation garment worn by a middling woman. |
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When we asked folks to rate leaders in various types of organizations, most got middling to poor grades on integrity. |
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While most people have a middling amount of good and bad luck, some people are lucky or unlucky for extended periods. |
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We had a feeling it would either go like hot cakes or flop so we ordered a middling amount and we were about right. |
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One is that in the 1980s you find that per capita income growth in the United States was middling. |
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He did the same for Ireland, galvanising a middling team into a team that was far greater than the sum of its parts. |
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I was middling the ball well and continued from where I had left off after my good score against Zimbabwe in the previous game. |
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They either need to work or want to work, or both, but for those on middling incomes it is not possible to have lots of babies as well. |
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To say it has been a whirlwind for the 26-year-old would be like saying Franz Ferdinand's year was, well, fair to middling. |
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After the middling and mundane meal, a sub-group is scooting off to see a play around the corner, while several latecomers stay to eat and chat. |
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Klepp said he stayed in bed so as to ascertain whether his heath was good, middling, or poor. |
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The tenor playing Gerald, the Englishman who dares to love an Indian demi-goddess, was in middling form, dramatically and vocally. |
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Like their social inferiors, however, the middling group was also highly vulnerable to new taxes, economic dislocations and other pressures. |
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Our performance on the show this evening was fair to middling, I would say. |
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Women reply to rich men but, for some reason, men prefer women with middling incomes. |
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There might be one outstanding book and a few middling or indifferent ones. |
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What if he had tried to come back, only to play a couple middling seasons and then grudgingly retire or, worse, become a backup? |
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The public, better employed, with higher incomes, sometimes joined in bemoaning higher taxes which were, in fact, minimally extra on most middling earners. |
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Without the arrival, Aviva's figures for 2015 would have been fair to middling in tricky conditions for all financial companies. |
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Giant new apartment buildings and swanky renovations cuddle up to its flanks, having routed tenants and businesses of middling means. |
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No such routine gourmandise attends the middling range of painting now — or, really, of any visual art, whether contemporary or historical. |
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Few believe the future lies in premium-ish products and middling scale. The two camps are likely to grow further apart. |
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To describe the ways in which a skilled professional differs from a middling one can be difficult. |
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While private-sector activity has grown as well, its overall performance is only middling by global standards. |
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However, this middling position has not lessened the numbers of worldclass golfers. |
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This suggests that the Dutch tendency to compromise in conflict situations leads to generally neutral and middling outcomes for both parties. |
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The middling tactics applied then became enshrined as operational doctrine. |
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Training organizations rated their offerings in communications skills at a middling level. |
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As in the case of Algeria, the position of Morocco is middling, whether judged on the basis of subjective or objective criteria. |
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France achieved only middling results in an online test by Education First. |
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For decades Wycombe were a middling non-league club who played for 95 years at a ground, Loakes Park, notable for an 11-foot slope on the playing surface. |
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After a few middling seasons from the revered hometown team, a few of the neighbors raised their eyebrows in surprise at the news. |
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With a middling ground game, the passing game most move the chains. |
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Unlike hoity-toity displays of pedigree fluff, the average joe Cat Show is a celebration of middling felines. |
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The essayists are not all British but all of their expositions are measured, well stated summations of a middling to moderately conservative treatment of Paul. |
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Coming from a family of middling rank, he received little formal education, but soon developed a penchant for self-improvement and an ambition to better himself. |
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He followed a line of England managers who had had middling amounts of success but who had never realised the strong ambitions of a nation which yearns for success. |
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Perhaps the system will evolve toward a Gaussian distribution, with most people having a middling amount of money, while a few are very poor and a few are rich? |
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His satirical little scheme to create a band so manufactured that they didn't actually exist at all could easily have achieved middling success, or flopped entirely. |
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It is a culture associated with the middling ranks of Scottish society, with the Scottish universities, and with the clubs, societies, and salons of Edinburgh. |
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Forget the middling reviews you may have read previous to this one. |
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I finished my writing course, which was middling interesting, I guess. |
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It's pretty middling stuff, with a tricksy mannerism of freeze-framing the action at the end of a scene, which makes it look like a dodgy DVD pressing. |
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But if you their incomes to other high earners, doctors in the US are actually kind of middling by OECD standards. |
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Still, compared to most academic texts, Jones's verbiage is only middling. |
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In 2005, the Germans had published a middling quality album, Crying of the Whales, with a structure, melodies and atmospheres that took the listener in the straight trend line of the seventies. |
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Round and supple with middling length and fine, filigree tannins. |
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A Green Paper is being prepared and experiments in settling minor and middling disputes will soon be launched with the assistance of consumer representatives. |
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Mr Sarkozy ought to set these firms free to make their own decisions. As for foreign policy, it is hard for middling powers to make a splash in the world. |
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But beneath them are a handful of giant conglomerates that are struggling towards profits, a tier of middling banks with overexposure to risky assets, and a vast base of small banks in deep, deep trouble. |
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Soon I was middling the ball, and the tiredness began to drain away. |
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While the Patriots' presence seemed preordained, the Giants' prospects were stuck on an endless loop of fair to middling as recently as Christmas. |
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His peripherals are middling at best, but he's a young lefty who may blossom as he continues to grow and develop. |
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This is a middling jobs report for the middle of the business cycle. |
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The Council's scorecard on efficiency is middling. |
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Such middling growth is enough to boost corporate profitability without igniting inflation, which is very often a good environment for equity markets. |
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Critics rushed to pan the album, which managed to sell almost six hundred thousand copies in its first two weeks — huge for most artists but only fair to middling for the self-declared King of Pop. |
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I believe I yelped aloud when encountering the name of Nicolas de Staël, a middling paladin of last-gasp School of Paris painting that contested our post-Second World War artistic hegemony. |
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Sure, sheAAEs a middling rapper and an awful dancer, but she still remains larger than life thanks to curatorial superpowers that border on Warholian. |
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