A small black sliver of star-studded sky ran between the brick cliff-faces of the old buildings. |
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With audit fees shrinking to a sliver of overall revenues, accountants had even less incentive to ride herd on their clients. |
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The town of Shanhaiguan lies on a five mile sliver of plain between mountains and sea, a pass that opens like an avenue into the heart of China. |
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Our campsite is a sliver of sand bordered by a dense thicket of trees on one side and a river of gray unreflecting water on the other. |
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Above a slab of white wall, the edge of a window reveals a sliver of blurry blue-green foliage. |
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It was complete with a neon sign of a sliver of a moon, with the name written in glowing blue cursive over it. |
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You present a sliver, a little glass piece of the kaleidoscope, a tiny little prism, in which you may see the greater war, but you may not. |
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Trace the pattern outlines using wax chalk, a soap sliver, a felt-tip pen or an air-soluble marker that contrasts with the fabric backing. |
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Wincing as a sliver of pain traveled down his body, he looked over to the little analog clock set beside the desk lamp. |
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He dived into his pocket and brought out a handful of sliver quarters, which he scattered among the crowd. |
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This being the set I reviewed, they also come in blue, yellow, green sliver and black. |
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So he needed a thin section, for much the same reason that the microscopist pares off a thin sliver of tissue for investigation. |
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Alternatively, dip a toothpick or sliver of wood in glue and break off the tip in the stripped hole, then reinstall the screw. |
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We're willing to do that once, because, except for a few economists, no one really wants to keep dickering over each new sliver of value. |
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The dark sky was crested with a sliver of a moon and faded stars that could barely be seen through the city's light pollution. |
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A shelf held a rush burner of coarse iron, next to a candleholder of finely wrought bronze, and another of horn trimmed in sliver. |
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I'd rather have a sliver of prosciutto or a wheel of spicy sausage than neutral, inoffensive chicken any day. |
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If, like Josie, you crave the taste of cheese, top a slice of fibre-rich, wholemeal bread with a sliver of naturally lower-fat cheese like Gouda. |
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He wore a long black coat over a sliver shirt with the top two buttons undone. |
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Preheat the oven to 175 degrees C. Chop the nuts roughly, and sliver the apricots. |
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Whether this sliver of defectors will once again be big enough to swing a presidential election is less clear. |
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A trace of sadness was barely audible in Cattia's flat voice, perhaps such a small sliver of one that only Tania really could pick it up. |
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A sliver of light sliced into the room, broadening across the floor, and a hunched figure was silhouetted there. |
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If Bertuzzi were to be sued, every player who got a sliver or a hangnail because of an infraction, would be out for some money. |
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The gentle rays glanced over his blond locks, turning them into glistening sliver and gold. |
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The fact is that we all have a beam in our eye, but most people only see the sliver. |
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It came with a red pepper cassonade, crab ice cream and a sliver of passion fruit jelly. |
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He smiled, a thin sliver of teeth between his bloodless lips. |
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House Republicans talk big about spending cuts — but focus solely on that same small budget sliver. |
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Of course, that's awfully good when the alternative is a bank certificate of deposit that may yield a sliver of 1 percent. |
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I had planned on wearing a gown she had made for me, but she came in my door, holding a gown of dark blue, with sliver embroidery on the neck, sleeves, hem, and wasp waist. |
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Leaving the OR that night, I looked up the clear sky, at the flocks of white seagulls and a sliver of crescent moon. |
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Perched atop the rocky outcrop, we look down over the mercury sliver of the Lugenda River. |
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The estate tax, which affects the tiniest sliver of Americans, will likely rise. |
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The collapse of that friendship left a void. The war began as a clash over an obscure sliver of borderland. |
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Carding produces a thin sheet of uniform thickness that is then condensed to form a thick continuous untwisted strand called sliver. |
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And if he can stabilize this sliver of the country, it could prevent another devastating war. |
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Lift up the end of the sliver with the needle and then grasp the sliver firmly with the tweezers. |
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But if you're desperate for a little sliver of stability from this climate policy fandango, then fear not. |
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One recent sliver of information has been more intriguing than most of the tittle-tattle, however. |
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If the sliver is deeply embedded in the skin, you will need to fully expose the end of the sliver first. |
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The Sormac sliver remover is manufacturered with a series of ribbed rollers with an adjustable distance between each roller. |
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Subsequent medical advice provided to the worker and AECL recommended that the sliver of uranium should be left in the skin. |
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It's not nearly as old, but it can be given an approximate date. First, a small section is melted down to a thin sliver. |
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Slivers and splinters A sliver is a foreign object that has become embedded in the skin. |
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The flints come in various colours and sizes and fall into two groups, depending on whether they were made from a flake or a sliver. |
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In doing these things, I learned a sliver of what it is like to live their lives. |
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Yes, this means that technically you own a tiny sliver of every piece of furniture, every trademark, and every contract of the company. |
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His acknowledgement that his true mission is to reach that wafer-thin sliver of voters still sitting on the political fence. |
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What has never worked for me with the mosaic metaphor is that in a mosaic every piece is insurmountably separated from other pieces by a sliver of space on all sides. |
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At her neck, she wore a sliver Y-shaped necklace studded in faux diamonds. |
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Still, when looked at as a percentage of total automotive lighting, LED use is just a sliver, and an expensive one at that, so why are LED makers so bullish? |
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A tiny sliver of the population has celiac disease or medically diagnosed gluten sensitivity. |
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The water was cold and she only had a sliver of soap to wash herself with. |
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It has also reminded me vividly of my schooldays, when the intellectual horizon of Chilean adolescents had more than a sliver reserved for paradox, mystery and ambiguity. |
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I just want to luxuriate in a sliver of sports that was important and poignant and, in its own way, poetic. |
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The threshold of the door was decorated with gold and silver, while the russet, wood door was trimmed with diamonds along the small sliver of crystal window. |
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Cut a small sliver of the silver solder for each joint to be soldered. |
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And, it does so without engaging in sophistry, for the true horror writer is consumed by a cacoethes to engage his moral imagination, to reveal a sliver of the transcendent. |
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Repeated drawing increases the quality of the sliver allowing for finer counts to be spun. |
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Each sliver will have thin and thick spots, and by combining several slivers together a more consistent size can be reached. |
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The Dartmouth robot is little more than a sliver of flexible silicon, two bits of memory, and two actuators that convert electrical energy into motion. |
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With her bright, alluring sliver of a voice — a darting musical tongue of flame — Stacey Kent has few of the traits commonly associated with jazz singing. |
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In the past, Maharajahs paid enormous prices for a piece of Agarwood, of which the minutest sliver releases a pervasive, mysterious, oriental perfume on an incense brazier. |
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On the seventh day, Gioia prepared dinner for himself at his parents' house, using what provisions he had left: a sliver of butter, a bowl's worth of ziti, and six carrots. |
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Types of adzes, fishhooks, and certain ornaments recur, including reel-shaped necklace units and pendants of whale teeth, unshaped or shaped by carving a sliver from the lower end. |
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Cast iron vase with two handles with a sliver décor on a green background. |
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Between Points 21 and 19 Malaysia claims a sliver of territorial sea striking out almost perpendicularly to the general direction of its agreed territorial sea boundary, deep into Singapore's territory. |
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What worries me is that a large slice of the funding will go to industry, with a tiny sliver for universities, research institutes or small research groups, irrespective of the standard of work carried out. |
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When Stone Age humans first took a sliver of flint to tip the spear, it was the first example of applying technology to improve the weapon. |
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It is now incorporated into England and Wales and a sliver of North America. |
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The floral jacquard stripe pillowslip reveals a sliver of soft color when pulled over the extra long hems of the washed silk pillowcases. |
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Pull the sliver out at the same angle it went into the skin. |
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Whip up sugar cookies, then have guests decorate 'em with everything from gummy bears to sliver dragees. |
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Yarn: generally from the stretching with twist of an appropriate sliver. |
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Lighting his path are the stars, a sliver of moon and the faint green glow of the aurora australis, the southern lights. |
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The Commission is of the view that the health consequences of the incident have already been realized, and that they are minor and localized to the cells immediately adjacent to the sliver. |
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If members from the other side vote for the amendment then they too have given up the last single sliver of opportunity to innovate and fight for ideas in our country. |
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But each of those definitions of self multiplies the systemic violence attached to each of them – every extra sliver of the rainbow widens that gap between safety and danger. |
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The Conservative party is now split three ways, and deeply so, between a tiny sliver of Pro-Europeans, a large group of Grudging Belongers and an increasing number of Better Off Outers. |
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The stars are beginning to appear and there's a sliver of a hunter's moon. |
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Messrs Bush and Rove have been at their most successful when playing political hardball: mobilising the right, winning over a sliver of conservative Democrats and independents, and driving left-wingers to derangement. |
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The back rollers pull the sliver from the bobbins, and passing it to the succeeding pairs, whose differential speeds attenuate it to the required degree of fineness. |
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Carding is a mechanical process that disentangles, cleans and intermixes fibres to produce a continuous web or sliver suitable for subsequent processing. |
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There is a probable presence of an overthrust wedge beneath the Sarawak shelf, which could be interpreted as a sliver of the Rajang Group accretionary prism. |
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There on the pendent boughs her crownet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke, When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. |
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He then swiftly transferred me to the 'big' hospital, where I was prodded and poked and biopsied and left to wait while a little sliver of my flesh was tested. |
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The call center industry is extracting a sliver of Indians who are actively de-Indianizing themselves and adopting Western names and identities, accents and culture. |
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As compensation for the German invasion of Portuguese Africa, Portugal was granted the Kionga Triangle, a sliver of German East Africa in northern Mozambique. |
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There on the pendant boughes her cronet weedes Clambring to hand, an enuious sliver broke, When downe her weedly trophies and her selfe Fell in the weeping Brooke. |
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Volcanology is a sliver of a field within geological sciences. |
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