Diclofenac residues have virtually annihilated the Oriental white-backed vulture in Pakistan. |
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There was virtually no foreign investment whatsoever and expats had not so many things to do. |
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Having virtually no THC levels, it isn't used remedially but rather grown for the hemp fibre. |
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Although they are formidable hunters, leopard seals are solitary creatures and it is virtually unknown for them to attack humans. |
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The public knows in its water that throwing zillions into the black hole of virtually unreformed public services does not work. |
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There is no connection with the Vedas, and virtually no mathematical usefulness in these aphorisms. |
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And on the other hand by making a moral issue of it she is virtually playing into the hands of the right wing and other reactionary elements! |
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Lightplane pilots are faced with virtually the same decision-making tasks as are captains of jumbo jets. |
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He said that in the pre-bypass days the continuous flow of huge juggernauts through the centre virtually blocked out daylight into his pharmacy. |
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Let's be honest, a huge number of songs are virtually incoherent usually due to the artist's addled brain. |
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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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Then it suggests that there be a uniform PDS price virtually at acquisition cost, thus allowing BPL prices to shoot upwards. |
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Lucky charms, amulets, and talismans have been found in virtually all civilizations throughout recorded history. |
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Pension provision has become a major political issue in virtually every country with vestiges of a social welfare state. |
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The discharge of the air gun was virtually silent and propelled a projectile that would prove lethal to both man and animal up to 100 yards. |
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Dichter has performed in solo recitals and has appeared with virtually all of the world's major orchestras. |
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These holdings encompass virtually the whole spectrum of Akan gold regalia and related forms and include many unusual if not unique works. |
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She looked virtually the same as when I'd last seen her, though perhaps a closer vantage point would have let me see more wrinkles and lines. |
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There was virtually no publicity but the number of spectators kept increasing by the day, obviously due to word-of-mouth publicity. |
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Ubiquitous for good reason, collapsible doggie bowls are virtually spill-free in the car, totally leakproof, and packable. |
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The Indian genius has applied the nutty richness of highly reduced milk to virtually every vegetable puree and flavouring. |
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During their short and turbulent life he became virtually their cinematic amanuensis, a process which culminated in his first feature film. |
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From the 1920s on, acousticians promoted fan-shaped concert halls, virtually free of reverberation. |
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Dairy products were blamed for virtually everything medically wrong with the younger generation. |
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One of the options is the introduction of electronic keypads or touch screens, which make it virtually impossible to spoil ballots. |
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If kettlebells are too pricey, the workout can be performed with dumbbells using virtually the same exercise technique. |
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His English is virtually nonexistent, and his Krio, the local language, is inflected with his native Italian. |
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The treasury secretary has spent virtually all of 2003 harping on the need for currency revaluation. |
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New manager Phil Wilson has been ringing the changes since taking over the reins and has virtually a whole new squad to sort out. |
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And why on earth were the original kerbs and traffic island ripped out and replaced in virtually the same places as before? |
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The mid-portion of the pressure-volume curve appears to be virtually rectilinear. |
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It is virtually impossible to walk two abreast along the pavement and for wheelchairs and pushchairs it is a complete nightmare. |
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And yet, health is virtually absent from public debates and democratic politics in India. |
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I virtually bit the waiter's hand off, so eager was I to get my laughing gear around the chef's petits fours. |
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Her reading, writing and concentration are improving and her diet is virtually back to normal. |
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Whether it's peanuts, almonds or walnuts, substituting ground nuts for flour virtually guarantees a cake that is deliciously moist. |
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Attributed to Jesus at the Last Supper, these words are quoted in virtually every Eucharistic prayer known. |
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Another group put in place of owners would still wield virtually complete power, and aggrandize itself above workers. |
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Because this disease is virtually always fatal due to the profound bone marrow aplasia, management is not well defined and is rarely successful. |
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Close to 60 percent of twins, over 90 percent of triplets and virtually all quadruplets and higher multiples are born preterm. |
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This is all the more surprising considering his brutality, corruption and human rights abuses were virtually unparalleled. |
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The collection includes virtually the entire wardrobe from formal to casual and party wear, in both Western and Indian sensibilities. |
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Most properties have a large receiving yard or lane which is virtually a small paddock. |
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The article is almost purely rhetorical, with virtually nothing of substance offered in terms of legal arguments. |
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However, virtually all members that acceded this way were newly-independent former colonies. |
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It was a show they had virtually washed their hands of and abandoned, but one which they didn't actually realise was, in itself, a sensation. |
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We then went on to Sri Lanka where the one-day part of the tour was virtually a washout and it meant I played very little cricket at all. |
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In the dying months of the boom, Beggs put together the deal with virtually no personal cash. |
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Bunett's prose is often loaded with arty jargon and heavyweight expressions that are virtually incomprehensible. |
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Jatropha can grow on virtually barren land with relatively little rainfall, so it can be planted in places where food does not grow well. |
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She has been jailed because she refused to kowtow to a government demand that would make any independent reporting virtually impossible. |
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Glycin dissolves readily in alkaline or acetic solutions, but is virtually insoluble in plain water. |
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She reckons you can get away with virtually anything, particularly acid colours. |
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Almost three quarters of the way through his reign, he has accomplished virtually nothing by way of political reform. |
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His body had already begun to break down and he was virtually a being of energy as he ricocheted into the works of the clock. |
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Because there is virtually no prospect of the loans being repaid, it creates a condition of maximum financial instability. |
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This remarkable reversal of roles is the film's strongest dynamic and occurs between virtually all the characters. |
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Living as she did in a colony where the neighbors kept to themselves, she was virtually a prisoner within her home. |
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This will virtually eliminate the need for wired Internet and will radically lower prices. |
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Frames made of steel or aluminum, anodized and sometimes powder-coated, last virtually forever. |
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One is looking in virtually all cases at powers that the police have, intrusive powers which they rightly and properly have. |
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Most are untaxed, others carry out-of-date tax discs and virtually all have flat tyres or have been vandalised and are obviously dumped. |
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The pair then climbed 200m above the sea, to perform an air show that included flying backwards and virtually looping the loop. |
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Readers can see the lead stories each day for free but virtually everything else requires a subscription. |
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I haven't seen much of him, but Julius Francis told me he virtually runs out of his corner from the first bell, like a bull in a china shop. |
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His compositions have retained a universal popularity and continue to be performed in virtually all corners of the world. |
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Body painting, traditional dance and spoken lore are all virtually impossible to safeguard. |
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The takeover of all branches of the federal government by the extreme right is now virtually complete. |
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Our wind turbine and hydro worked virtually without hiccup, making our lives sensitive to fluctuations between energy abundance and paucity. |
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I found that Kathy had the most amazing recall and was quite, utterly accurate in virtually everything she told me. |
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The fact of the matter is that virtually every employee drinks the Kool-Aid and keeps their mouth shut publicly when still on board. |
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At the time the program began, there were only about 500 of the grazing animals left, because they had been virtually annihilated by hunters. |
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Another hour and the virtually constant stream of questions, revelations and personal admissions had all but dried up. |
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Compared to most open-wheel rides, stock cars are heavy and have virtually no give on their front ends. |
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There is virtually no limit to the number of setups that can be stored and recalled. |
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Conservatives ran virtually unopposed in the election after the hard-line Guardian Council disqualified thousands of reformist candidates. |
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This has rendered virtually unenforceable the few remaining rules intended to further grand jury independence. |
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Rogue traders rarely do this, making it virtually impossible for someone to take action for poor workmanship. |
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It is virtually a global issue and more prevalent in the South East Asian nations and wherever Indians live. |
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With the limited amount of possession Ireland gained during the first hour they found it virtually impossible to break the gain line. |
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What's more, not only are almost all of us far from poor and hungry, but virtually all of us are, at least relatively, rich and full. |
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This roundabout has become virtually impossible to cross for slow moving pedestrians, such as arthritis sufferers and wheelchair users. |
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Hay waiting to be baled may have to remain in the windrow for a week and can virtually be ruined for feeding to heavy milking cows, if rained on. |
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In an economy where everyone is overqualified, having an advanced degree is virtually worthless. |
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British-born, he had a level of self-possession that seemed virtually Bond-like in the urbanity vacuum of CBS prime time. |
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And a substantial number of allegations were made when virtually no action could be taken because the offending priest was already dead, resigned, retired, or laicized. |
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Eventually, Blavatsky brought the spiritual wisdoms of the East and of ancient Western mysteries to the modern West, where they were virtually unknown. |
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Because Democrats dissed the Gang of Six, it virtually guarantees that the GOP will bypass it as well. |
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Second, his proposal is premised on the idea that you should make it virtually impossible to leave the military, forcing the economically disadvantaged to re-up. |
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In the 1960 campaign between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy, there was virtually no discussion of crime. |
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Large parts of the city centre were barricaded off, and the windows of virtually all shops and department stores were boarded up with wooden or plastic panels. |
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The grandest of the events is in January in San Francisco, where more than 7,000 wine lovers show up to taste virtually every Zinfandel made, in an atmosphere of madcap fun. |
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For one thing, the Chinese economy, after 35 years of virtually uninterrupted expansion, is faltering. |
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Peat is an accumulation of virtually unaltered plant material, while anthracite is nearly pure carbon with little trace of the original plant material. |
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Yet the cumulative efforts of this massive force had virtually no impact on the course of the war. |
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He argues that virtually all faculty in the liberal arts are Democrats. |
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Attempts by the chief executive to rebase the company's share options, even as the shares sank so low as to become virtually worthless, was typical of the decoupling. |
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Bright aluminum bullion aiguillette shows virtually no wear or age and is complete with slide, cords, and attaching loops in virtually unissued condition. |
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There was virtually no government oversight of safety and operational standards. |
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The reapportionment of 2002 designed congressional districts that favored incumbents of both parties, leaving virtually no room for challengers to be elected. |
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As these centres became politically agglomerated in the 16th century, variations on what soon became virtually an artistic canon became more solely individual than regional. |
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I fished it with such a slow retrieve that the fly was virtually static. |
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For virtually all animals, behavioral responses to odorants are essential for food localization, avoidance of noxious agents, and selection of reproductive partners. |
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Since virtually all the wines are sold with ease on the undemanding local market, there has been little or no incentive to modernize or re-equip the wineries. |
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Locally, hiring is expected to remain virtually flat this year. |
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The walk follows flat riverside pastures for virtually all the way, though numerous stiles and kissing gates need to be negotiated and walking boots are essential. |
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Contrary to the impression given, behind the scenes it was not just non-Test team players who got bored and whinged endlessly, but virtually all the players. |
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He's so good in fact it seems virtually no one has worked him out. |
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In the first flush of fame, when virtually anything he appeared in would be a hit, he spent more on his two-reelers than other directors did on feature films. |
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The New Zealand Government has virtually renationalised Air New Zealand to avoid the job losses and company failures which would follow a collapse of the national airline. |
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Art is confined to art colleges, with life drawing virtually redundant. |
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The contradictions and outlandish claims are never challenged, because drug education in China is virtually nonexistent. |
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There is also a YPT scheme for younger teenagers and the BAC offers opportunities to virtually anyone in the borough who wishes to become involved in theatre. |
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In the middle of Hue, however, was a virtually impregnable fortress known as the Citadel, with towers, ramparts, moats, concrete walls, and bunkers. |
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An agreement was reached in 1960 allowing restricted public access, but the collection retained its almost legendary aura as a virtually inaccessible treasure trove. |
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On the other hand, home economics was virtually empty, with Miss Orton teaching a small knot of girls made to do the cookery class by their parents. |
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In addition, northeast Indians show virtually no genetic admixture with other Indian groups, which has led to a remarkable genetic discontinuity between these groups. |
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As a result of the small size of the spores, anthrax is virtually impossible to see, smell, or taste. |
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As if to drive their antithetical missions home, the two Newsrooms have virtually opposing styles. |
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Marketing data from the initial field test indicated that the game was being played virtually every minute the arcade was open. |
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This is an idea that is supported by virtually every American who does not live in the 202 area code. |
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I watched in awe as he virtually caromed off the walls of the classrooms and hallways. |
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The enemy had been left virtually blind in the area of the English Channel and were unable to mount a naval challenge that could have thwarted the invasion. |
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Back then, the moon race touched virtually every aspect of life. |
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Some archers wore virtually no defensive equipment and were even barefoot, carrying perhaps a small buckler as well as a sword, dagger, or lead maul. |
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Hope to find MH 370 was virtually destroyed by a month of bungled searching. |
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In some parts of the world it's virtually impossible to calculate the number of executions. |
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Over short periods of time the growth rates remain virtually constant. |
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The opinion of virtually every health care economist I have ever met is that those two things are causally related. |
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They have 27 people in the company now, with virtually no absenteeism. |
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Within a century, chattel slavery ceased to exist in virtually every modern nation. |
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This play, despite having virtually no words, and absolutely none spoken by the central character, is one of the most moving things I have seen in ages. |
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The open layout of the venue virtually encourages wanderlust, resulting in a fluctuation of numbers in each zone as curiosity led both cats and dogs from room to room. |
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The result was that the college virtually quadrupled in size. |
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But once the dust settles and shoppers in record numbers continue to be attracted to the town the inevitable spin off will make virtually everyone a beneficiary. |
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The CD pushes the listener to the limit of endurance, virtually begs you dismiss it as a depressing case of style over substance, then suddenly reveals hidden depths. |
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Saved from the public gallows, Weeks was virtually exiled from the city, and wound up in Mississippi, where he raised a family. |
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They are found in virtually all poxvirus infections but the absence of Guarnieri bodies cannot be used to rule out smallpox. |
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Save for ancestor worship, the gods they consecrated were virtually identical to those of the Han Chinese. |
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In contrast, other nations are virtually devoid of sheep predators, particularly islands known for extensive sheep husbandry. |
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Around the year 1500, slavery had virtually died out in Western Europe, but was a normal phenomenon practically everywhere else. |
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The targets were destroyed with virtually no architectural damage inflicted on the city itself. |
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In Finnish, it is mostly a literary device, as it has virtually disappeared from daily spoken language in most dialects. |
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Its jurisdiction was virtually unlimited, with executive, judicial and legislative functions. |
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The Shagari government became viewed as corrupt by virtually all sectors of Nigerian society. |
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It was accepted as the ultimate authority on meaning and usage and its preeminence was virtually unchallenged in the United States. |
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Americans such as James Otis maintained that the Americans were not in fact virtually represented. |
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Every offence created under the IPC virtually imports the idea of criminal intent or mens rea in some form or other. |
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Such concepts are virtually synonymous for wrongful copying and are in no meaningful fashion distinguishable from infringement of a copyright. |
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The 18th century saw the whole of Rajputana virtually subdued by the Marathas. |
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Jurists developed various restrictions which in many cases made them virtually impossible to apply. |
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The building was completely altered externally, with the plain Georgian structure being virtually rebuilt. |
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According to Milton Friedman, before the Industrial Revolution virtually all children worked in agriculture. |
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This concept dramatically decreased production costs for virtually all manufactured goods and brought about the age of consumerism. |
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During the 18th century, the imperial library was constituted, but excluded virtually all Taoist books. |
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The Roman Church consists representatively in the cardinals, but virtually in the pope. |
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Wainwright's The Western Fells, and is thus classed as a Wainwright, despite having virtually no topographic prominence of its own. |
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As was the case across England, the native ruling class of Surrey was virtually eliminated by Norman seizure of land. |
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William Morris considered them to be the greatest poems in the language, while Algernon Charles Swinburne knew virtually all of them by heart. |
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While some robo-signers were middle managers, others were temporary workers with virtually no understanding of the work they were doing. |
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It pays to network and rub shoulders virtually with potential customers on the Web. |
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In North America, use of sheet rock has virtually replaced plaster and lathe for interior walls in new construction. |
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One of Switzerland's largest and most snowsure ski areas that is virtually unknown internationally. |
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Most preserved parts of the axial column were found in virtually direct articulation. |
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Although very different laws apply, telechecks and electronic transfers may appear virtually the same to a consumer reading a bank statement. |
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Slice 1 medium banana and top with 125g pot virtually fat-free bio yoghurt and 1 tbsp wheatgerm. |
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Even among the most adverbially disinclined, virtually everyone recalls backtracking on promises not to use the adverb. |
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Plus it includes Flickr and Instagram feeds for each park, so you can window-shop, virtually, for your next outing, caliparks. |
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According to Jeff Damour, CAC's engineering manager, COR-LOK core adapters are effective with virtually all types of air shafts and thru shafts. |
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Xylosma and boxwood shrubs, for example, whose flowers are virtually invisible, are highly allergenic. |
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Well into the second half of the last century, the Yemen was virtually medieval, and its traditional ways of building survived almost unchanged. |
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However, their rat-a-tat zaniness is a function of the genre, evidenced by virtually everyone in a screwball movie. |
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Technology has allowed humans to colonize six of the Earth's seven continents and adapt to virtually all climates. |
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It's virtually impossible to book a flight just before the holiday. |
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To Victorian bardolators, Shakespeare was so elevated a hero that he was virtually immobile. |
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Mr. Beerman testified to San Diego's growth and reported that the city has made virtually maximum possible use of local waters available to it. |
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Light grey calves are virtually blubberless when expelled from the womb, but still weigh a ton. Mothers move in close to land for nursing. |
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Four minutes of stoppage time were virtually up when Ricketts climbed to head in the equaliser from substitute Nicky Southall's centre. |
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With the fall of the fascist regime, Italy was virtually overrun by several political parties who came out of the woodwork to fill in the vacuum. |
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Like virtually every other director in the '30s and '40s, Ford was obliged to be a company man, rankling under his boss's gaze. |
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On the other hand, while net communities are virtually interconnected, cyberdiscourse is not exempted from parochialism. |
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There were about 80 deuteriums for every million protiums, and virtually no tritium. |
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By multiplying these modules into a grid, the structure could be extended virtually infinitely. |
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In contrast, Aristotle's philosophical endeavors encompassed virtually all facets of intellectual inquiry. |
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At the Battle of Aquae Sextiae and the Battle of Vercellae both tribes were virtually annihilated, which ended the threat. |
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Knowing the terrain from his prior military service in Britain, he was able to move quickly to defeat and virtually exterminate them. |
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Marciana's name reveals that she was of Punic or Libyan origin but virtually nothing else is known of her. |
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In September 1494 Charles invaded Italy with 25,000 men, and attained his object by 22 February 1495, virtually unopposed. |
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By the 13th century the terms Aquitaine, Guyenne and Gascony were virtually synonymous. |
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By around 1400 serfdom was virtually extinct in England, replaced by the form of tenure called copyhold. |
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Having inherited a virtually bankrupt state from previous reigns, her frugal policies restored fiscal responsibility. |
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However, the British blockade virtually ended overseas and colonial trade, hurting the port cities and their supply chains. |
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In late 1810, at the height of his popularity, already virtually blind with cataracts and in pain from rheumatism, George became dangerously ill. |
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After a difficult crossing over the Alps, the French army entered the plains of Northern Italy virtually unopposed. |
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The armistice was signed three weeks later on 12 September 1944, on terms virtually dictated by the Soviet Union. |
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The Church was virtually a law unto itself in this period as it had its own system of religious law courts. |
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The Conservatives gained 2 seats with virtually no swing from Labour to Conservative. |
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The office of lieutenant was honorary, and held during the royal pleasure, but virtually for life. |
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With the abolition of the Poor Law system in 1930, such urban parishes had virtually no function. |
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The top clients and major producers are virtually all located in the western world and Russia, with the United States easily in first place. |
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The Rankine cycle is used in virtually all steam power production applications. |
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All cars are virtually identical except for 600, which has shorter body panels. |
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The second official language is the recently standardized Haitian Creole, which virtually the entire population of Haiti speaks. |
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By 1914 the conscience was weakening and by the 1920s it was virtually dead politically. |
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Most Arabic pagans became virtually extinct during Muhammad's era by way of Islamization. |
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By 1853 the original PRB had virtually dissolved, with only Holman Hunt remaining true to its stated aims. |
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He virtually created the Tudor consort and keyboard fantasia, having only the most primitive models to follow. |
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In the interim came The Beatles, a double LP commonly known as the White Album for its virtually featureless cover. |
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Through the decade, heavy metal was used by certain critics as a virtually automatic putdown. |
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This is because virtually all music created for music libraries is done on a work for hire basis. |
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The binding for the Appleton Alice was virtually identical to the 1866 Macmillan Alice, except for the publisher's name at the foot of the spine. |
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For several decades this decision meant that women's football virtually ceased to exist. |
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This led to his being virtually ostracised by the British tennis establishment. |
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Portuguese, in its original homeland, Portugal, is spoken by virtually the entire population of 10 million. |
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In the eleventh century, conti like the Count of Savoy or the Norman Count of Apulia, were virtually sovereign lords of broad territories. |
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By the fourteenth century, conte and the Imperial title barone were virtually synonymous. |
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When the Americans captured the Bermudian privateer Regulator, they discovered that virtually all of her crew were black slaves. |
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However, these larger gold and silver issues were virtually commemorative coins and had limited circulation. |
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By June 1933, virtually the only organisations not in the control of the NSDAP were the army and the churches. |
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However, over time the Russian monarch reduced Polish freedoms, and Russia annexed the country in virtually all but name. |
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Canadian officers wore uniforms which were virtually identical in style to those of the British. |
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The speech, written by Charles Bohlen, contained virtually no details and no numbers. |
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The rulers were counseled by the Taoist clergy that a strong ruler was virtually invisible. |
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Corporate America went astray largely because the power of managers went virtually unchecked by our gatekeepers for far too long. |
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The vehicles also appear virtually identical to typical UK police vehicles, but are left hand drive. |
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Because of this, and its dependence on the House of Commons for election, it had virtually no political impact. |
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Early in the war, the BEF was virtually destroyed and was replaced first by volunteers and then a conscript force. |
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Since many such imperfect conditions exist in virtually every market, there is in fact little presumption that markets are in general efficient. |
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He also refined the binary number system, foundation of virtually all modern computer architectures. |
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Additionally, the Basque population has virtually no B blood type, nor the related AB type. |
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This means that it targets virtually no policies directly at racial or ethnic groups. |
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Many Muslims also went to China to trade, virtually dominating the import and export industry of the Song dynasty. |
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Eventually, cows took over much of Ireland, leaving the native population virtually dependent on the potato for survival. |
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While the film was a great hit in Pakistan, it went virtually unnoticed elsewhere. |
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Berlin's English was virtually nonexistent at first, but he became fluent within a year. |
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In rivers succession is virtually absent and the composition of the ecosystem stays fixed in time. |
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However, unlike virtually every other sovereign nation, Liechtenstein does not have its own ITU prefix. |
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Machado de Assis, one of his contemporaries, wrote in virtually all genres and continues to gain international prestige from critics worldwide. |
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The network is mostly focused on passenger rail services and connects virtually all major towns and cities. |
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Since P is virtually zero in most elections, PB is also near zero, and D is thus the most important element in motivating people to vote. |
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This wing of Cornwallis' army was virtually destroyed on October 7, irreversibly breaking Loyalist support in the Carolinas. |
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It reached its peak in 1910, and by the beginning of the First World War it was virtually finished. |
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The boundaries of the town are virtually indistinguishable between its neighbouring small towns and villages forming a contiguous urban area. |
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This view, while attracting broad popular appeal, has virtually no following in contemporary linguistic scholarship. |
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Others, like virtually all British motorways, have entered the system as a result of new construction. |
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Ottoman suzerainty remained virtually unchallenged throughout the following 90 years. |
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In fact, the Basque region displays virtually no MtDNA for which Pontic Steppes origin could be claimed. |
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The rest of the body is nearly transparent, virtually invisible under water and in natural lighting conditions. |
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In the 1931 British election the Labour Party was virtually destroyed, leaving MacDonald as Prime Minister for a largely Conservative coalition. |
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In the 1931 British election, the Labour Party was virtually destroyed, leaving MacDonald as Prime Minister for a largely Conservative coalition. |
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At that time, a few streets led off Woodville Road and Cathays Terrace, but by 1900, the urbanisation of Cathays was virtually completed. |
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The nuplexes, virtually independent of fuel supplies, could be dropped into jungle or tundra. |
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A feature of a canal aqueduct, in contrast with a road or railway viaduct, is that the vertical loading stresses are virtually constant. |
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Many of the locations used in The Prisoner are virtually unchanged after more than 40 years. |
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In early 1990s Albania, protestors waved leeks in defiance of the Communists whose policies had virtually reduced many to this staple. |
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By the point of his resignation, Chester were virtually safe from relegation. |
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It is 100 percent paint as there is virtually no evaporation and therefore no off-gassing. |
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This gives a very even overall power supply and virtually no loss of energy and uses no more water. |
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Proponents advance the notion that nuclear power produces virtually no air pollution, in contrast to the chief viable alternative of fossil fuel. |
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Belfast Lough is a long, wide and deep expanse of water, virtually free of strong tides. |
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By the late 1950s, the port had virtually ceased trading and the railway was in terminal decline. |
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However, the energy harvested from the turbine will offset the installation cost, as well as provide virtually free energy for years after. |
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After the fall of Carthage, the islands seem to have been virtually independent. |
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The Paris region is enveloped with the most dense network of roads and highways that connect it with virtually all parts of the country. |
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Most of the nests are constructed on precarious perches nestled in the virtually vertical cliffs of the basalt and conglomerate. |
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A monotypic habitat is one in which a single species of animal or plant is so dominant as to virtually exclude all other species. |
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But it assumes that the dilutant is in virtually unlimited supply for the application or that resulting dilutions are acceptable in all cases. |
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Within a year, his scientists had worked out a system that virtually elbowed CBS out of the picture. |
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Concurrently, Russia lost virtually its entire Pacific and Baltic fleets, and also much international esteem. |
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Since virtually all economic sectors rely heavily on petroleum, peak oil could lead to a partial or complete failure of markets. |
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It is the mechanism by which virtually all sinusoidal waves and vibrations are generated. |
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The very light wind rendered manoeuvring virtually impossible for all but the most expert seamen. |
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Fall Gelb began on the evening of 9 May, when German forces occupied Luxembourg virtually unopposed. |
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By the time 5th Indian Brigade set off, the defenders had started to withdraw and their objective was taken with virtually no opposition. |
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It is virtually the only work which describes the work of artists of the time, and is a reference work for the history of art. |
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Throughout life, this species is regularly curious about the potential of eating virtually any organism or object that they encounter. |
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The ocean is virtually icelocked from October to June, and the superstructure of ships are subject to icing from October to May. |
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His text was copied almost verbatim by virtually all subsequent ancient writers on the area, including Diodorus Siculus and Photius. |
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The depression had devastating effects in virtually every country, rich or poor. |
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There is also the resemblance between the Hindu game of pachesi and the Mexica patolli, so close as to be virtually identical. |
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Insurance rates skyrocketed and the American flag virtually disappeared from international waters. |
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It was found that the liver, lungs, and kidneys of a centenarian turtle are virtually indistinguishable from those of its immature counterpart. |
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The probability that these changes could have occurred by chance is virtually zero. |
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Documentation on Bayonne for the period from the High Middle Ages are virtually nonexistent. |
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Leaving the letters, numbers, and emblems exposed on the stone, the blaster can create virtually any kind of artwork or epitaph. |
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The coal seams are up to 100 metres thick, with multiple coal seams often giving virtually continuous brown coal thickness of up to 230 metres. |
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The Swiss German dialects are the default everyday language in virtually every situation, whereas standard German is seldom spoken. |
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It is virtually unaffected by UV exposure and provides exceptionally low stretch. |
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At night, especially in winter months and at times of low solar activity, the lower ionospheric D layer virtually disappears. |
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Altruistic action in the interests of the larger group is seen in virtually all societies. |
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A bathtub virtually identical to modern ones was unearthed at the Palace of Knossos. |
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The rain prevented them from using their bows because the sinew strings become slack when wet, and rendered them virtually defenseless. |
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Two of them, the Alans and Siling Vandals were virtually wiped out in 418 by the Visigoths at the order of the Romans. |
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In the devastating defeat the Cimbri were virtually annihilated, and both their highest leaders, Boiorix and Lugius, fell. |
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The following year, Marius virtually destroyed the Cimbri in the battle of Vercellae. |
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The work of Domitian's court poets Martial and Statius constitutes virtually the only literary evidence concurrent with his reign. |
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The sap-feeding planthoppers are ubiquitous in virtually all Hawaiian terrestrial ecosystems. |
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It was claimed that in the area formerly inhabited by this culture, prevalence of the gene is virtually universal. |
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Victory over a Roman army left the Huns virtually unchallenged in Eastern Roman lands and they raided as far south as Thermopylae. |
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The Ottomans moved through the Morea and conquered virtually the entire Despotate by the summer. |
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