He missed lectures, dropped out of courses, spent long nights reading abstruse texts, and slept during the day. |
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And yet how can one not regret wasted time, missed opportunities, failure, as well as happiness of a kind that one can never know again? |
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In 12 cases the pregnancies had already failed as a result of missed abortions or miscarriage and so would not have led to a live child. |
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Their drummer seemed to be half asleep because he missed a dozen beats key beats that were supposed to accent the vocals. |
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Nor was the lack of wheelchair access to the newly-opened Mango shop missed. |
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Too often the switching is not done in time and payments are missed, accruing considerable embarrassment and penalties. |
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He was a very good musician and, from all accounts, a very kind human being, and he will be widely missed. |
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Not sure how I've missed this before as it's something that accords with my own thinking and beliefs. |
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He missed the last couple of matches due to a slight tear in his abductor muscle. |
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I overdosed so wantonly on celluloid, in fact, that the Olympic torch came to town and I missed it. |
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She loved dancing will also be missed in the Raftery Room for the waltz and quick step. |
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There are many abnormalities that may be missed by the untrained eye. |
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Once a cadet dropped a brick from a third-story barracks window that barely missed Jackson. |
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The waiter did mention that this stew-like dish wasn't served with any accompaniment, and although it was satisfying I sort of missed rice or potatoes to round it out. |
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Explaining why she had recently missed several days of shooting, Lohan blurted out the news that she had a miscarriage. |
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Strengths of our review were that each chart was reviewed independently at least twice for data abstraction, which limits the chance that data present were missed. |
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But for the millions of teens and young adults with an ASD, is it a missed opportunity to present a valuable role model? |
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I missed the plane, and the next available flight doesn't leave until tomorrow. |
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We missed the apogee of the hippie revolution becoming something more serious. |
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Gault, for example, did qualify as an alternate in 1988, but didn't compete, and then missed the team in '92 in Albertville. |
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I missed Don's chiseled mug and Roger's blithe wisecracks and Peggy's prickly chutzpah. |
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When his agent asked if he missed his wife, his mind flashed to an image of Alison. |
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I usually watch that show every week, but I missed the most recent episode. |
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He told me that during his chemo he never missed a day of work in the Senate. |
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Reidy was relieved at finally recording a win over his tormentors, but less than happy with the seven kicks at goal his team missed over an absorbing seven-try thriller. |
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It was birch who took Gilbert and George to China, a trip on which Compston was invited, missed the plane, and came along later. |
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That Tarantino never opened a real-life big kahuna Burger out in L.A. seems like a huge missed opportunity. |
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They called him a choker when he missed the shot that would have won the game. |
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David was a very loving husband and father and he will be sorely missed. |
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A missed three at the end of the game by a still bleeding bibby to give the Lakers the win. |
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Last year his team narrowly missed the big dance, losing to Belmont in the Atlantic Sun Championship final. |
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A biting wind and swirling snow kept attendance low and meant that the absentees missed an evening of sparkling music from the Duke Ellington Orchestra. |
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Restaurant For the best Korean BBQ in L.A., hidden hotspot Soot Bull Jeep is not to be missed. |
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He got banged up, but was only seriously injured long after he had missed his chance. |
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Gilchrist missed two stumping opportunities to remove Bell and failing to hold a catch to remove Flintoff. |
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In the evening session, England managed to take three wickets, but also dropped a catch and missed a stumping. |
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England won the championship, however they missed a Grand Slam after losing their final match against Scotland. |
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He was joined by Danny Cipriani on the sidelines after the Wasps player also missed out due to injury. |
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Fish missed the conversion and so the Other Nationalities were able to level the scores a little later, Welshman Thomas crashing over for a try. |
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However, the tide turned against Khan very late in the third round as Garcia was able to land a hard counterpunch off a missed right. |
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However, at the Italian Grand Prix, he missed a gear and let Piquet, who was using an active suspension car, through to win. |
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It proved to be a tense finale as Australia missed four darts to win the title. |
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Taylor also missed two before Lewis took out double five to clinch England's first World Cup of Darts title. |
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Taylor had missed a total of 23 darts at doubles and, in doing so, suffered his sixth defeat in a major PDC final out of the 72 he had contested. |
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Taylor insisted that he had not realised that the dart had missed and offered to replay the match and forfeit his prize money. |
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In the third round of the 2016 World Championship, Jelle Klaasen missed one dart to knock Taylor out and the match went to a deciding set. |
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In the case of the Union Flag, the difference is subtle and is easily missed by the uninformed. |
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He missed, and the chunk of earth landed in the Irish Sea, thus creating the island. |
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O'Sullivan went to inform Charles Edward Stuart of the change of plan, but missed him in the dark. |
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Some balls appear to have been dropped without being fired, some missed their targets, and others are distorted from hitting human bodies. |
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Relevant NHS performance data was studied showing almost all targets were missed. |
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I missed off the thing too about being a pretty good reader of human body language. |
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The price discount ended yesterday and I just missed the boat on a great deal. |
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The party's manifesto missed the mark and failed to attract people's attention. |
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One bomb missed the compound entirely and the other three missed their target, landing on the other side of the wall of the palace compound. |
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The party narrowly missed winning additional seats in Belfast North and Fermanagh and South Tyrone. |
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However, Frederick missed an opportunity to completely destroy the Austrian army at Leuthen and it escaped back into Bohemia. |
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Cavendish seldom missed these meetings, and was profoundly respected by his contemporaries. |
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For others, flexibility is allowed depending on circumstances, but missed fasts usually must be made up quickly. |
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Thomas told her he had had a terrible week, had missed her terribly and wanted to go to bed with her. |
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Robin, still feeling poorly, missed the New York sessions, but the rest of the band put away instrumental tracks and demos. |
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McAlister, who had missed the conversion, set up Ketteridge and Smith for Scotland's second and third tries respectively. |
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This could be due to an inhibition in the underlying mechanism, or it could just mean that some shorter polarity intervals have been missed. |
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It was arms around, and perpetual endearings, and all that I had missed for a weary twelve-month. |
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I don't remember him saying that. I must have missed that part. |
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I missed the game, but I saw the highlights on the evening news. |
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Hewson maintains its high standards with this rootin', tootin', killin', maimin', shoot 'em up. Not to be missed by arcadey types. |
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I walked first for my grandmother, and my mother was sorry she had missed my first steps. My Baba was so proud, my mother later told me. |
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Without these deprivations we would have missed the exquisite pleasure of a Spam barmcake, bought at a local cafe on pay day. |
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He led at Berks's head, as he came rushing in, and missed him, receiving a severe body blow in return. |
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I tried to hit the bullseye by first bracketing it with two shots and then splitting the difference with my third, but I missed. |
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The car careered down the road, missed the curve, and went through a hedge. |
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The hunter fired at the geese and missed, then shrugged his shoulders and chambered another cartridge. |
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The bus was late so he missed his connection at Penn Station and had to wait six hours for the next train. |
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Its beauty was so fine, so high enblissed, My heart ached for the mystery that it missed. |
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She had missed on fivesies, I'd missed on threesies, and this would be the deciding round. |
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But after one night turned into five days, I was freaking out. I missed him. |
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Only on rare occasions could Grandmother see her granddog, and both of them missed their visits. |
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We've missed our shot by a hairsbreadth and that's the same as missing by miles. |
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Accounts differ as to whether he missed on purpose, an act known in dueling as a delope. |
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Many health think tanks and leaders of the medical profession described the Autumn Statement as a missed opportunity. |
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Targets for improving care outside hospital to prevent bedblocking are in most cases missed. |
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The warning from the charities comes before the Lords debate the Medical supplies bill which Lord Philip Hunt called a missed opportunity. |
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At the party the host made a point of greeting all the latecomers he missed in the first pass. |
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Brunel himself missed this initial crossing, having been injured during a fire aboard the ship as she was returning from fitting out in London. |
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The grave is insignificant by the standards of the cemetery and easily missed. |
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The targeted completion date of August 1998 was missed by ten months, leading to compensation being paid by Altram. |
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My wife is such a luftmensch she missed our anniversary dinner because she was too busy reading her books! |
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In the tenth frame, Liang missed the final black in a clearance which would have given him victory. |
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In 1596 Bacon became Queen's Counsel, but missed the appointment of Master of the Rolls. |
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In her own lifetime, Mary Shelley was taken seriously as a writer, though reviewers often missed her writings' political edge. |
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It is quite apparent why a matrician missed this generalization, because his creed is to build from low-order matrices high-order arrays. |
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The bullet had missed his main artery by the barest margin and his voice was barely audible. |
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To give the film added life is really cool for both those who missed it and those who really loved it. |
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Netball is not a required sport and has missed selection, particularly when former French or American territories host the games. |
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He missed just four games for Stoke and upon his return he helped the side to maintain their First Division status. |
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Ninty have missed the boat this Xmas in the 20 something bracket, Starfox Adventures is not going to convince people to buy a gamecube. |
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This irony appears to have been missed by many for both names were used in the naming of the National Park that incorporates the range. |
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He also had to pay a fine for the missed opportunity for procreation if appropriate. |
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The United States has only missed the 1980 games due to a boycott led by American president Jimmy Carter. |
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Also that season Wrexham just missed out on the promotion spots, finishing in 4th place at the end of the season. |
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Kevork Malikyan, who played Kazim in Last Crusade, also expressed interest in the role, but a traffic jam meant he missed his audition. |
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When fired at a convoy, this increased the probability of a hit if the weapon missed its primary target. |
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Twice we got fouled and missed the front end of one-and-ones that could have pretty much cinched it for us. |
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Thomas Austin, a British landowner had rabbits released on his estate in Victoria because he missed hunting them. |
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The British submarine E4 had observed the action and launched a torpedo at Stettin, but missed. |
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A number of opportunities to attack enemy ships by torpedo had presented themselves but had been missed. |
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Even if both shots had penetrated Kearsarge's side, they would have completely missed her vital machinery. |
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In 2008 he missed Olympic qualification in the 1500 metre by finishing third at the Australian trials in Sydney. |
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Oxford fired twice, but either both bullets missed or, as he later claimed, the guns had no shot. |
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Sutcliffe flung himself backwards and the blade missed his right eye, stabbing him in the cheek. |
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Typically, owners who have missed three mortgage payments or more and whose lenders have filed suit are considered to be in preforeclosure. |
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Indeed, the famed British explorer James Cook narrowly missed the Strait of Juan de Fuca in March 1778, almost 200 years later. |
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Mame Diouf missed a chance to put the game to bed when he fired straight at Carson. |
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However, after quelling Burnley's threat, Southampton failed to build on their growing danger culminating in Tadic's missed penalty. |
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In his unfortunate absence at this far remove of 2007, Zevon's musicianship and irascible wit are as missed as ever. |
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The difficulty in targeting bombs meant that the shipyards and steelworks were often missed, at the expense of the residential areas. |
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He missed Paris, considered Toronto boring, and wanted to return to the life of a writer, rather than live the life of a journalist. |
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If we missed stays and failed to tack we would sag off to leeward, onto the sandbank. |
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The others missed the water, and I rejoined them in the long sandbelt, which extended beyond where we halted. |
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The way through the wood was shorter, but it was also sinuous. He missed his way, and, as a direct consequence, missed his train. |
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She missed on sixies, and then it was my turn, my last chance to beat her and claim the championship. I selected my spot, tossed the jacks. |
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The Dutchman then missed a retaken second spot-kick, before the Trotters hit back when Daniel Sturridge's shot squirmed under Heurelho Gomes. |
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The stayaways missed a goal feast, as Liverpool's Fernando Torres scored a hat trick in the first 17 minutes. |
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We teetered on the fence about buying getaway tickets and missed the opportunity. |
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Her face made him smile, and twitterpation swirled in his belly. He missed her. |
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I am exhilarated when art historians point out some aspects of a painting that missed my comprehension. |
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Septic arthritis of the sternoclavicular joint is an uncommon condition, and the diagnosis can be missed until a complication occurs. |
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Wallaby will alert users to upcoming bills through Notification Center alerts, helping them avoid late fees and missed payments. |
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Winger Akihito Yamada was so excited he jumped into the sea at Brighton, got stung by a weever fish and missed the Scotland game. |
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Two Whinchats were on the Great Orme, but North Wales seems to have missed out on the numbers seen farther east. |
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I'd only been off a couple of months, I was whipper-in for the Fife Hunt, but I missed it badly. |
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And just a minute later the same player missed timed his aerily challange in the box cluttering Kirvoski and the offical pointed to the spot. |
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Freshman All-American Shaun Cody missed most of his sophomore season with a knee injury. |
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Equipped with Clarity Power technology, the C410 amplifies sounds that are frequently missed by those with a hearing loss. |
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He missed me by a hair's breadth when he ran past me yesterday. |
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The agency projected the more protective standard would also prevent an additional 26,000 cases of aggravated asthma, and more than a million cases of missed work or school. |
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Please go over the reports to make sure we haven't missed anything. |
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Our respected foreign minister, whose gaffe for declaring Pakistan as being neutral in the wake of the Mumbai attacks, was largely missed by our yokelish media. |
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Squash also missed out as an event in the 2020 Olympic Games. |
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I had expected to see some of the dogs, but we were following the wooden markers and the dogs are trained to go afield and search for the ones that missed the markers. |
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As he moved to London a year before their third child was born, the area narrowly missed being able to claim the great scientist Michael Faraday as a Mallerstang man. |
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Then I figured he'd missed my point, and I went through the whole blamed rigamarole again, and it ended the same way, with Tweel on his nose in the middle of my picture! |
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Olivier missed him greatly and asked his father how soon he could follow. |
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George and Caroline missed their children, and were desperate to see them. |
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I've somehow missed Frank Caliendo on YouTube, MySpace, Mad TV and Fox NFL Sunday, where his John Madden impression has made him at least semifamous. |
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With 2 minutes 56 seconds left, the referees missed an easily seen reach-in by Webber, which sent him and Horry sprawling, but whistled Divac for his sixth foul. |
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The sharp-eyed detective noticed things the ordinary patrolman missed. |
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But Gyan missed the best openings, shooting into the side-netting after showing good strength when chasing a long pass, and then hopelessly miskicking from six yards out. |
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There was one visit when he told me how much he missed my grandmother. |
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Pure mathematics at Cambridge in the 19th century had great achievements but also missed out on substantial developments in French and German mathematics. |
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The bullet missed its target and lodged in the bark of a tree. |
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As the fire delayed the launch several days, the Great Western missed its opportunity to claim title as the first ship to cross the Atlantic under steam power alone. |
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They again missed key players for some games in this tournament though, and thanks to their loss against Ireland, finished second in the tournament. |
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Miliband's conference speech was criticised, particularly after he missed sections on the deficit and immigration, after attempting to deliver the speech without notes. |
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Alexander, who was First Sea Lord, wrote to me to say that, contrary to expectations, music was flourishing and would I come back as I was missed. |
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He was reported to have missed out on selection for Ashford in December 1994 after failing to get to the selection meeting as a result of train delays. |
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In the tie-breaker, Adat scored all five times while ADH missed once. |
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Conrad, who had had little contact with everyday spoken Polish, simplified the dialogue, left out Herup's scientific expressions, and missed many amusing nuances. |
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This flushing out of weak-handed, short-term gold speculators will prove a valuable entry point for those who have felt they missed the gold rush over the last few years. |
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If you hadn't got us out of that traffic jam, we'd've missed the flight. |
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Ambulance paramedics are leaving the profession because they find the work too stressful, shifts can overrun by two hours and meal breaks can be missed. |
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Borini missed another glorious opportunity to give his side the lead after brilliant set-up play by Sterling, but with only the exposed keeper to beat, he struck the post. |
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Titania missed the 1851 Royal Squadron Cup race, which America won and started the America's Cup challenge, but lost to America in a private race a few days later. |
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The Scots lost by just two points, with Lee Penny, Danny Arnold and Jason Roach all scoring tries for Scotland, but John Duffy had missed one of his crucial four goals. |
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Mick Nanyn missed both conversions and so the scores were tied. |
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Such a connection lowers risk of missed flights due to traffic congestion. |
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However, the Scots allowed the remains of the English army, led by Salisbury, to escape and so missed an opportunity to remove the English from France. |
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The first blow missed her neck and struck the back of her head. |
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Another scoring opportunity went abegging for Pakistan soon when an unmarked Muhammad Dilber missed an open chance, hitting the ball wide with only the goalkeeper to beat. |
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Crawley missed two penalties but still edged out League Two Torquay to become the first non-league side to reach the FA Cup fifth round for 17 years. |
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The party took the Ochil and South Perthshire and Stirling constituencies in central Scotland and missed out to the SNP in Perth and North Perthshire by just 21 votes. |
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Most of the offshore bombardment had missed the German defences. |
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During the Spanish Armada of 1597, a Spanish ship, the Bear of Amsterdam missed her objective at Milford Haven and ended up having entered the Dyfi estuary. |
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In March 2012, it was announced that Wrexham had again missed out on city status as the community of St Asaph, which was previously a city, was granted city status. |
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I missed the train home and I couldn't get any kind of a yoke to give me a lift.... So there was nothing for it only to stay the night or to foot it out. |
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Blake, however, pointed out that results in local elections had been moving against the Conservatives, and doubted if Disraeli missed any great opportunity by waiting. |
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In October 2006, she missed the opening of the new Emirates Stadium because of a strained back muscle that had been troubling her since the summer. |
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The following season, Giggs missed a lot of games through injury, but when he was fit his form was excellent and he played in both of United's cup finals that season. |
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Because of this, he missed several rehearsals and live concerts. |
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And after Rodallega missed two early opportunities, the first a header, the second a low drive easily held by Lukasz Fabianski, it was N'Zogbia who created the opening goal. |
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I know it to be the property that the child wore at the time that I missed her, by the oldness of it, and the mending of it. I have not the least doubt about it. |
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Safe to say this year's Stockton Weekender main event is not to be missed. |
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Button missed out on a podium at the British Grand Prix, finishing fourth after problems with the balance of his car in qualifying had left him fourteenth. |
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This has led to considering the phenomenon as of psychogenic origin and can explain why the condition is sometimes missed on a single otorhinolaryngological examination. |
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Having clinched the championship, Hamilton missed the last two races of the season to make his debut in the season finale of the British Formula 3 Championship. |
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Lee Barnard swung at Chaplow's cutback and missed completely and then was just too far away to connect with Harding's flashing ball across the face of goal. |
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She missed the fish diet of her own country, and twice every summer she sent the boys to the river, twenty miles to the southward, to fish for channel cat. |
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Beatty, in particular, was convinced that Jellicoe had missed a tremendous opportunity to annihilate the High Seas Fleet and win what would amount to another Trafalgar. |
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After yet another missed penalty by Kvirikashvili from bang in front of the posts, England scored again, centre Tuilagi flying into the line and touching down under the bar. |
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Fisher noted in his letters that he greatly missed his wife, but also missed his work on torpedoes and the access to important people possible with a posting in England. |
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He missed the opening matches of the 2005 Six Nations Championship and on his return to Newcastle on 13 March 2005 he injured the same knee again. |
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The presenters had aimed for Calais, but missed, finishing in Sangatte. |
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By turning back at what he thought was the limit of Germany, he not only missed the Balts, but did not discover that more Germans, the Goths, had moved into the Baltic area. |
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He hurtled the wad of paper angrily at the trash can and missed by a mile. |
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Australia closed on 264 for 7, still 180 in arrears, but England probably felt that they missed several opportunities to put the game beyond their opponents. |
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Bloom argued that though Lewis was correct on all these points, he missed the importance of Price's will to be herself as a causal agent in the plot. |
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In List A cricket Hampshire again missed out on the knockout stages. |
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McNeill, who missed out on selection for the Great Britain team at the Winter Olympics in Sochi by a whisker, had been set to miss the high-profile competition. |
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If the ball is held in two hands and either dropped or a shot at goal is missed, the same player cannot be the first to touch it unless it first rebounds off the goal. |
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Furious Brocket, who was wearing an Akubra with a champagne cork hanging from it, was forced to hand over his credit card but he argued for so long he missed his plane. |
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Then suddenly the men were jarred by a discordant ptooey-splat! Soot had missed his shot, and hit the already juice-blackened wall behind the spittoon. |
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Right wing Nathan Horton, who tried to skate late last week but had to be reined back in because of post-concussion wooziness, missed his eighth straight game last night. |
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