So many tricks and scams hidden in various aspects of our lives today were almost unheard of just a few decades ago. |
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However, equality was unheard of and land could not be passed down to women. |
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Almost unheard of a year or two ago, sexting cases are popping up with more frequency across the country. |
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The Bolshoi-trained artist says that pop music ballets were unheard of in his native Moscow. |
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An aura of mystery weaves a pattern blended with the unheard of melody of fluting. |
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In addition, Airedales can be aggressive toward other dogs and small animals, a trait not unheard of in terriers. |
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For a Smith duty auto to outshoot a Smith target revolver is almost unheard of. |
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It is not unheard of for countries to put aside partisan differences in the national interest, usually when the enemy is at the gates. |
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Even worse, it wasn't unheard of for foreign expatriates or discharged soldiers to form bands of brigands that terrorized lonely travelers. |
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At home, it's a cesspool of corruption, where charges of theft or employee harassment are hardly unheard of. |
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Girls Aloud, however, are demonstrating a longevity almost unheard of in their genre. |
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There were previously unheard of projects and homework that made a sudden appearance this morning. |
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It was to get to that unheard of city I'd agitated and strained at the leash of Albany Park. |
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He created a storm of sorts in the 1966 autumn-winter collection when he had his women models in tuxedos, absolutely unheard of till then. |
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The cause of death was Addison's disease, extremely rare in children and virtually unheard of in children under 10 years old. |
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Amid the hurly-burly of network TV, it's almost unheard of for programmers to plan beyond their next season, let alone five years hence. |
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The term iatrochemistry means the use of chemistry in medicine which was unheard of before Paracelsus. |
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In the past, it was unheard of to discuss fiscal matters pertaining to security wings. |
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We won the 1977 Chatham Cup, which was unheard of for a team outside the four main centres to achieve. |
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But if it wasn't unheard of for a ruler of Constantinople to die peacefully in his bed, it was also not the norm. |
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In extreme cases it can also lead to suicide and, unthinkable but not unheard of, the death of a child at the hands of its own mother. |
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Cellars and larders are treasure troves here and, inland at least, supermarkets are unheard of. |
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Still, that level of connection actually holds out some possibilities for unification on a level previously unheard of. |
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They had succeeded in killing two of their number as well, a previously unheard of feat. |
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This will work wonders and boost their relationship to levels previously unheard of. |
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In an almost unheard of but definitely serendipitous event, the creative team has been reassembled. |
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I didn't even look at yesterday's poem with a view to revision, and that's almost unheard of. |
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For a book about money, finance and the stock market, those sorts of numbers were previously unheard of. |
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For the past three months, my Wednesdays have been a previously unheard of model of efficiency. |
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A decade ago, private art collectors on the mainland were virtually unheard of. |
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She ordered seafood enchiladas and cleaned her plate, an almost unheard of event and one for which I am always thankful. |
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In 1970s Britain, the idea that a father would be granted custody of a baby daughter was unheard of. |
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What provoked the Manipuri women to protest in this unheard of manner was the custodial death of a 32-year-old Manipuri woman. |
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Orissa was recently devastated by the deadliest cyclone of the century causing death and destruction on an unheard of scale. |
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It is not unheard of that someone in his position could be elected as leader. |
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They could also keep the rights of their images, something previously unheard of. |
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Her black hair was bobbed, and hung level with her chin, a style unheard of at the time. |
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Getting to Shenavall bothy dry-shod is almost unheard of, and we didn't fancy our chances. |
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The Italians' unceremonious drop to fourth place is unheard of in the world of ice dancing. |
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I came into a world in which oranges were scarce, bananas exotic and passion fruit unheard of. |
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As ever, she was delightfully indiscreet and, unheard of amongst politicians, insisted on picking up the bill. |
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While it is rare for network television shows to be simulcast over the radio nowadays, it is not unheard of. |
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Producers in south-central Kansas are ginning a crop once unheard of in their state. |
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Since we have several lab areas where we work, it's not unheard of to have to backtrack to recover a temporarily misplaced disk. |
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Belhadan's location as the northernmost ice-free port of the Empire helped explain its importance, but it wasn't so far south that drift ice or icebergs were unheard of. |
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She said that with this manual, what has been an almost unheard of exercise could be popularised, made easier to understand and made more accessible to families. |
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Proctor saw this and feared, for diabolism was a practice unheard of. |
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Ten to 12 hour trips on dirt roads in 4WDs or trucks are unheard of. |
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The marriage of a man to a woman more than twice his age is unheard of in the country, where nubile, teenage girls are frequently betrothed to decrepit, old men. |
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These successes enabled him to live on the salary of a landscape painter, which was until then unheard of. |
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Many finders also charge retainers, and flat fees aren't unheard of. |
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It is virtually unheard of for political defendants to be acquitted in Vietnam. |
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There was a time, not long ago, when a drug claim involving a fivefigure number was unheard of. |
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The film was shot sequentially, something almost unheard of in film. |
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Passports and visas are unheard of, and the soldiers on duty are too busy rinsing their clothes to notice passing migrants. |
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Three thousand people thronged the grassy area in front of the parish church, something unheard of previously. |
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Thanks to the Internet and its blog-happy pages, we see people obsessing, everyday, on the minutia that makes for the discovery of previously unheard of entities. |
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Alzheimer's disease and other conditions affecting the elderly were still unheard of. |
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They are likely to have access to credit and loans in a way that would have been unheard of twenty years ago. |
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A currently unheard of situation in France but that could develop in other ports of the country. |
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This was unheard of before. But people now realize that, to put things back together, we have to work together. |
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Intellectually property was unheard of a mere 20 years ago and now it features regularly on a daily basis in our newspapers. |
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It shot into the charts at number 10, unheard of in those days, but stalled well short of the expected number 1 slot and vanished from the charts in six weeks flat. |
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That is breathtaking speed unheard of years ago, with the possible exception of Shannon's second to Blue Legend, after being left at the post, in the 1946 Epsom. |
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That's unheard of in an industry where design, engineering, and manufacturing often argue over quality problems right up until the first car rolls off the assembly line. |
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After decades of violence, flights to Kisangani are unpredictable and Western tourists are virtually unheard of. |
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Such shocking behavior is unheard of in a Japanese classroom. |
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Pillay used the 747 to deliver creature comforts, particularly for business travelers, that were previously unheard of. |
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Such a case against a victim of crime had previously been unheard of. |
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It is not unheard of a second round pick to end up, as Cooke did, in panamanian professional basketball. |
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One year later, barrels were changed to nickel steel to handle the extra friction caused by jacketed bullets at then unheard of muzzle velocities. |
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The marriage of a man to a woman more than twice his age is unheard of in Kenya where nubile, teenage girls are frequently betrothed to decrepit, old men. |
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Accurate historical records were almost unheard of and every empire used its own calendar system which was often based on totally different criteria. |
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There's something about the Christmas season that defies even the most secular of societies and brings out the people to fill up church pews in normally unheard of numbers. |
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Jailing children in such cases is almost unheard of, said Mary Becker, a University of Chicago law professor. |
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A few years ago, Eritrea's main airport looked more like a sand-pit than a modern landing field and international flights were unheard of. |
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Efforts to unionize are rare but not unheard of in the fast food industry. |
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Kandahar Provincial Police Headquarters boasts nine female ANP, a resource unheard of in the provinces surrounding Kandahar City and in southern Afghanistan. |
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Such a calamity is not unheard of even after years of apparent stability. |
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The high resolution commercial satellite imagery that will soon be available to everyone with a credit card and a computer will provide unheard of opportunities for warfighters and peacekeepers. |
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Probation is virtually unheard of for corporate offenders. |
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Numbers like these are unheard of on a public policy question. |
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I regard her adventure, unheard of at the time, as embodying everything that a journey should represent, whether short or long, to somewhere near or far. |
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Grievances still caught in the grievance process after ten and even twelve years are not unheard of, and those of two or more years at the level of the CDS seem to be the norm. |
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Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter did something unheard of for a politician. |
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In the interests of lending transparency to this practice, which is apparently unheard of in other States, collective bargaining has begun to establish a special set of rules. |
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The scope of this filtering is virtually unheard of and would not have been possible without the experiences gained from their handling of the Code Red incident. |
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No longer is it unheard of for a child to have a second experience of lone-parent life after a parent and stepparent break up, followed perhaps by a second stepfamily. |
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It was like living in the 1940s, a woman leaving a man was unheard of. |
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Thirty years ago, it was unheard of not to earn your stripes, so to speak. |
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Developing technology, including the monitoring and surveillance of the seas, makes for integration of data services to an extent unheard of in the past. |
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It is not unheard of and it is not an unknown fact. |
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Although it was unheard of for a woman to venture into the wilds of the African forest at that time, going to Africa had been Jane Goodall's childhood dream. |
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Remember, O most loving Virgin Mary, that it is a thing unheard of, that anyone ever had recourse to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thine intercession, and was left forsaken. |
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That was when internet radio was in its infancy, terrestrial radio was still dishing out squeaky analogue fare, streaming music to mobile phones was unheard of, and iPods had yet to reign supreme. |
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That the Council should disregard our right to be consulted is nothing new, but it is unheard of that the Commission should aid and abet it in doing so. |
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Satellites, ultramodern aircraft, electronic systems, human sources, cameras, imaging and electronic devices, and a host of other systems permit the amassing of information on a scale that was unheard of in the past. |
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Anthropodermic bibliopegy,' the archivist explained, 'quite rare but not unheard of. |
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This means that microelectronics can power a multitude of increasingly demanding applications, such as digital video-disc players and web servers, which were practically unheard of a decade ago. |
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Logodaedaly is filled with odd reflections and odder usage for words unheard of by even the most educated in English. |
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Sweetsop and soursop are popular around Miami, but nearly unheard of in other areas of the South. |
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Investigators acknowledged that the cat's eye bodies occasionally came loose, but added that such an accident was previously unheard of. |
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Hurricanes and tropical storms are rare in the New York area, but they are not unheard of and always have the potential to strike the area. |
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They thought it was unheard of for a woman to suggest being in a position of control, especially in sickness. |
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Spring and autumn are cool but snow and frost are not unheard of in either season. |
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The fact the Dodgers made the playoffs, after a 12-month period of tremendous roster turnover, is almost unheard of in modern times. |
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By contrast, in developing countries, outside a few initiate circles, Hib is often unheard of, unthought of, undiagnosed and, generally, submerged under the surrounding deluge of childhood disease and death. |
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Although indoor lawn bowling, also known as carpet bowling, is popular in British commonwealth nations, it is practically unheard of in the United States. |
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The term is almost unheard of in the modern context and was primarily used in the earlier days of the EU with countries such as Greece and Turkey. |
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However, with political opposition having long since been vanquished, Paraguayans were by then so resigned to their fate that dissent was virtually unheard of. |
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Dubai A black-headed gull had birdwatchers in disbelief last week, after it turned out to be a rare and almost unheard of visitor to the Middle East. |
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The main characters, swept by tumults of the earth, the skies and the hearts, are strange and often possessed of unheard of violence and deprivations. |
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