Because of this, even a screen area as small as the size of a single pixel contains equal proportions of the three primaries. |
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But without effective compartmentation, a single, well-placed mole can trigger an intelligence leak of catastrophic proportions. |
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The proportions were odd, with cut-down stocks and a smaller handgrip to accommodate shorter trigger fingers. |
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By the time of the 2000 election, the concentration of wealth in the hands of an oligarchic elite had reached unprecedented proportions. |
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My heart swelled to gargantuan proportions in my chest, and my smile broadened. |
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The type of flattery that has reached dangerous proportions today is the absurd adulation and lionization of movie stars and other celebrities. |
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They were cut to pieces by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians in a battle that has assumed legendary proportions. |
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McLauchlan says he gets a rush of pleasure when he walks into the drawing room and the dining room, both of grand proportions. |
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This provided ample opportunity for a partisan war, one which would grow to near-mythic proportions for Lithuanians and the Lithuanian diaspora. |
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Next will be that perennial complaint by predictable hand wringers that children's toy advertising is a modern evil of biblical proportions. |
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The trade protectionism for developing countries that Make Poverty History recommends is a rat trap of gigantic proportions for the world's poor. |
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He also argued that some of the wards contained above-average proportions of drifters, who would not turn out on election day anyway. |
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An unbalance in the proportions of these humors was believed to be the cause of ill health. |
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The scramble is on to get projects onto lists for a coming logrolling of epic proportions. |
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Trunk and limb proportions of early middle Eocene Rodhocetus are most similar to those of the living, highly aquatic, foot-powered desmans. |
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Egypt had a long-established sculptural tradition of blocklike, frontal figures with carefully formulated proportions. |
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In my mind he assumes the proportions of a Bluebeard, all the more sinister for being so thoroughly outwardly respectable. |
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Already a superstar in his lifetime, since his death in 1982, his stature has grown to mythic proportions. |
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At first there is a case here and there, then suddenly this infectious intestinal disease assumes epidemic proportions. |
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By 2015, heart-related ailments will assume epidemic proportions, world over. |
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To pretend otherwise, to present herself as the once and future champion of a sovereign Britain, was to utter a whopper of leviathan proportions. |
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The proportions on the side view are almost what Porsche would really like to achieve. |
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The mature lake has a good head of fish with the original stock of perch, eels and pike attaining specimen proportions. |
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At 12.59 am, a massive deep sea quake struck just off the coast of Indonesia, sparking a tidal wave of monstrous proportions. |
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It was an enormous physical structure, with a base measuring 676 square feet, but more than anything else its proportions were mythic. |
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The company has punctured this fragile mood of optimism with a miscalculation of astonishing proportions. |
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In fact, he has been telling tall tales for a long time to his children, inflating events in his own life to mythic proportions. |
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When Scotland's future looked most grim, a hero arose of mythic proportions. |
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It is this defensive behavior that Hollywood has raised to mythic proportions. |
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As promised in the title, the main plot of the novel revolves around a surgical operation of epic proportions. |
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Growth of such gargantuan proportions, however, invites a corresponding magnification in risk exposure. |
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Horizontal helmet masks of sharks, sawfish, and crocodiles, and hippos of Cubist proportions endow Western and African art history. |
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From that point forward, Marley would become not only a huge superstar but, really, an icon of mythic proportions. |
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The crawl soon gives way to a small collapse chamber where a slither through a narrow slot leads to cave of slightly more civilised proportions. |
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Everything was all very Parisienne chic and the proportions are all perfect to flatter the female body. |
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This is a migration of epic proportions and through the satellite telemetry we will be able to find out how it is conducted. |
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We derived proportions at practice level and calculated medians and 10th and 90th centiles as a measure of variation between practices. |
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It retains the brushed metal bodywork synonymous with the Ixus range, and this gives it a sturdy feel despite its proportions. |
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The oddly attenuated, gothic proportions of her figures, for example, derive from Varo's admiration for El Greco. |
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The cumulus cloud above him revealed a storm was brewing, one of violent proportions. |
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The fine-grained ash groundmass contains equal proportions of scoriaceous tachylite and palagonite with basaltic lithic fragments. |
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Its main characteristics are stylized animals with more realistic proportions and the use of plant motifs. |
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In my eyes this was grand witchery of the same proportions as the zombification chronicled in my comic books, or lightning, or popcorn making. |
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Bachelor sons in their early 30s pose a maternal dilemma of unexamined proportions. |
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In the capable hands of his bandmates, largely comprised of Cowtown's art rock luminaries, they swell to epic freakout proportions. |
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Ductility and impact properties are principally determined by the proportions of ferrite and pearlite in the matrix. |
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Birds that are fed diets with large proportions of sunflower seeds, peanuts and walnuts are often prone to obesity. |
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A fine example of balance and grace, Mercury is classically modernist in its proportions and implications. |
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The overall household rate was increased by sampling disproportionately from the strata with larger proportions of households. |
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It was a medieval scene of mythic proportions involving open flames, a large pot of super-heated oil and a turkey hanging from a metal hook. |
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Where possible we tabulated results in terms of means and standard deviations for consultations and proportions for prescribing and referrals. |
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On line service and television footage have taken this event to an audience of world wide proportions. |
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It's elusive, but has all the mythic proportions and qualities of the proverbial pot of gold. |
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The idea that this flu could reach pandemic proportions is a chilling thought. |
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Infant burials in high proportions also have been documented in Iroquoian longhouses. |
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The differences in proportions are often small, and, furthermore they often follow gradual geographical clines rather than abrupt changes. |
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You'll find a steep slope, a rope tow, and a warming house that rents inner tubes of radical proportions. |
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It was then allowed to recover on the stringer in deeper water before being returned alive to grow on to even larger proportions. |
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Heart failure is a clinical syndrome which has reached epidemic proportions. |
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Although the gate looks overdecorated, there's nothing oppressive about it, perhaps because of its pleasing proportions. |
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The subtleties of the font don't translate well to pixels, and the proportions of the letters can cause problems. |
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Its strange proportions and unique charms attracted me as no other structure ever had. |
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In addition, hydroponically grown maize showed proportions of H-units even lower than garden mould. |
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In the front legs, ideal proportions are long shoulder, short arm, long forearm, short cannon, medium pastern. |
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Indeed, it has been historicized so widely and in such large proportions that it may need to avoid epic resonances. |
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It was a Sisyphean task of epic proportions that defied a normal life expectancy. |
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The odds ratio is the same whichever way round we look at the table, but the difference and ratio of proportions are not. |
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Nothing wrong with that especially when the resulting outcome is something bordering on a religious experience of aural ecstatic proportions. |
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Medieval theories of ratios and proportions and of the intension and remission of forms were applied to problems of motion. |
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Eyes with choroidal neovascularisation may exhibit different proportions of classic and occult leakage. |
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Olyphant exudes charm and sleaze in about equal proportions, and his edgy performance steals the show. |
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Removing the largest square contained in the rectangle leaves a smaller rectangle, with exactly the same proportions as the original. |
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Both texts address an issue of alarming proportions for the welfare of the aging and home-bound. |
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Despite the high ceilings and generous proportions the house exudes comfort and homeliness. |
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As for the celebratory dishes they are almost of Homeric proportions and some of them little known elsewhere in Greece. |
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She confused and seduced his senses, inspiring his limbs to greater virility and more masculine proportions. |
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The Australian brush-tailed possum, put simply, is a pest of epidemic proportions. |
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Greek proportions, porticoes, orders, and ornament lent civic buildings a gravity lacking in earlier Palladianism. |
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The emphasis on correct proportions, angles, different values and sheens have created one of the most intriguing collections in the industry. |
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It is miscible with water in all proportions, however, when mixing with water, a contraction of volume and a rise in temperature occurs. |
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But when a rival dad challenges his title, it leads to a roadside competition of epic proportions. |
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We calculated the choice proportions of the higher rewarding flower types for bins of 50 simulated visits. |
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The proportions were worked out in great detail and he used his new understanding of perspective particularly in proportioning of the interior. |
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Skinny ties, slicked pompadours, and lots of lace turn excess into an understatement of seismic proportions. |
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The end result is a photography of mythical proportions that is camouflaged in paint and operates in singles rather than multiples. |
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Hammerheads are 45-m-long box fabrications made integrally with V-shaped supports of similar proportions bearing on the piers. |
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Again, the only real cure to this neurosis, which is apparently taking on apocalyptic proportions, would be for him to feel good about himself. |
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Nevertheless, he argued, that pleasure is due to an unconscious appreciation of the mathematical proportions of the object. |
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The features that look like craters have the wrong proportions to be impact craters. |
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For more precise proportions, measure your neck size right below your Adam's apple with measuring tape. |
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Earthquakes and tsunamis of those proportions have hit us in the past as we do live in a very vulnerable part of the world, on a tectonic plate. |
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Similar proportions of mothers in both groups began breast feeding within 12 hours of birth and reported feeding colostrum. |
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This was mixed in various proportions to produce fuel for American and British flame-throwers and to fill some incendiary bombs. |
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It didn't help that half my face was swollen to blimpish proportions, either. |
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Indeed, the triggering event was an embarrassing error, which precipitated a scandal of regal proportions. |
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We are introduced to the resident amnesiac, who is hurled into a conspiratorial crisis of immediate proportions. |
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Her relationships assume other proportions even as the country goes through the throes of upheaval. |
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I just thought it was in different proportions than it is, and that is partly due to the zoom used by the agent who took the photos on the web. |
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Can Africa mount a prevention campaign successful enough to avert an epidemic of Western proportions? |
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None of this is mentioned by Phillips, yet it is a scandal of massive proportions. |
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Montreal has one of North America's highest proportions of renters, as well as students. |
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Patients are classified by body types, or prakriti, which are determined by proportions of the three doshas. |
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The chemical composition of eggshell includes calcium and phosphorus, in similar proportions to bone, or to the rock called dolomite. |
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Equal intervals on a logarithmic scale correspond to equal proportions on an arithmetic scale. |
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Roughly like a giant squid, or one of those micoscopic hydras, but blown up to immense proportions. |
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At one stage she was wrestling with Jenna when Barbara leaped from atop the ropes to deliver a smackdown of epic proportions. |
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One needs a spouse to keep accomplishments like these from assuming unseemly proportions. |
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Yet it is more than just a skin, attested by the generous proportions of the apartments and the way in which light animates the interiors. |
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In much of the early work, the relative proportions of the collaged source material were left largely unchanged. |
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This allows types of degradation process and proportions of degradation products to be determined. |
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During this earlier period, middle ear disease was of epidemic proportions in the north. |
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This subset of patients was randomly chosen to include similar proportions of hereditary and nonhereditary disease. |
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The three products tested were calso, Portland cement and asphalt emulsion, in proportions varying from 1 to 2 per cent. |
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Typhoid fever had risen to epidemic proportions among migrant workers in the borough communities of London during this time. |
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The province is populated by the Sinhalese, Tamils and Muslims in roughly equal proportions. |
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The ingredients include the oils of lemon, sweet almond, cajuput, clove, eucalyptus, peppermint and thyme in specific proportions. |
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Nonetheless, the relative proportions of each mineral in the ore and airborne dust are not known. |
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With this procedure, we assume that the relative proportions of the trunk and legs are the same in males and females. |
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Having rotated the same image, we feel that now the sword bag does not look good and the proportions seem distorted. |
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One recipe gave relative proportions of grape juice, apple juice, cider vinegar and Certo. |
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Beer can range from light ales to dark stouts depending on the proportions of malt and barley. |
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The proportions of gum and water to be added to a fixed oil, in order to produce a satisfactory emulsion, will vary according to the oil used. |
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These proportions are relative only to one another and do not in any way represent the whole plant diet. |
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Does it take a disaster of these proportions to convince us all to give so freely? |
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Recipes for gunpowder, relative to the proportions in the mixture of its three components, varied over the centuries of its use. |
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Similar proportions of nonradioactive Deet were measured chemically after evaporation and washing. |
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It's true natural wilderness, with a peace of spiritual proportions, but it comes at a price. |
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Faced with a crisis of enormous proportions, how do we motivate governments to mount a vigorous public health response? |
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He later went on to star at the University of Minnesota where he would take his training to a new level and bulk up to his current proportions. |
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However, it is impossible to place in synonymy all those species, which have different sizes and display different proportions. |
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The prevalence of obesity in the United States has reached epidemic proportions. |
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In short, humanity faces a growing global mental illness crisis of epidemic proportions. |
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With a miracle of even greater proportions required to propel his new side to similar glories, he is keen just to focus on the next round. |
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A timebomb disease has reached epidemic proportions in East Yorkshire with specialists seeing more and more cases of a once-rare fatal cancer. |
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A scandal of mammoth proportions has hit the media industry, but no-one seems to be giving it a second thought. |
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They got the message across effectively enough to stop the disease reaching epidemic proportions. |
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What she uncovers is an epidemic of unimaginable proportions within the world's most prosperous nation. |
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This is manga for anyone who ever watched Airwolf, filled with angst and aerial combat in equal proportions. |
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These myths about mange reach gigantic proportions causing fear to strike in the hearts of dog owners. |
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By the 1990s, the scholarly literature on implementation had ballooned to immense proportions. |
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The topics, however, being of monumental proportions, can only be cursorily sketched in less than three hundred pages. |
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Mean proportions for both states during testing are shown on the two rightmost columns. |
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It is therefore impossible to fix exact proportions, or to establish a list of ingredients which will be appropriate to everyone. |
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Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease that has reached epidemic proportions. |
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For me, low-rise jeans are a godsend because they help lengthen my waistline and give the illusion of more balanced proportions. |
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The proportions of the distal limb bones in theropods were generally intermediate between the extremes of cheetah and elephant. |
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Diabetes has reached epidemic proportions in this country, particularly among the Aboriginal population. |
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She plays Silly, a Nova Scotian seasprite of girl who is the subject of a marine tragedy of, er, Titanic proportions. |
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It's made more money and won more universal acclaim than any film for decades, but never has there been a trilogy of such proportions. |
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Suddenly, the heavens opened and there followed a rainstorm of biblical proportions. |
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It would take a miracle of biblical proportions for them to find a single useful bit of information from all the dirt and debris. |
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I couldn't help but think of that column as we faced news of truly biblical proportions last week. |
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On the second day, a storm of biblical proportions unleashes hail, rain and floods that carry away valuable equipment on rivers of mud. |
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The heavens opened and a deluge of biblical proportions had within minutes, turned roads into fast-flowing rivers and gardens into lakes. |
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If you are of more generous proportions, pleated trousers may be ideal for you. |
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In his figurative works he let the figure bulge out of anatomical specifications and proportions. |
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There is no doubt in my mind at all that volcanic eruptions of biblical proportions have occurred many times in the history of this planet. |
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Now, a year later, a new locust threat is poised to wreak havoc of biblical proportions, but this time, it's headed for Montreal. |
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Another seems to be happily hanging on, which is surely a miracle of biblical proportions. |
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The slightest indiscretion from me would be enough to cause a tantrum of near biblical proportions. |
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Contrary to initial reports, a great flood of biblical proportions is not being considered as a possibility. |
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It's not as if false accusals are occurring at dangerously epidemic proportions. |
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The disease assumed epidemic proportions for the first time in Taiwan in 1998, claiming 70 lives. |
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Although Type 2 diabetes mellitus appears in almost epidemic proportions our knowledge of the mechanism of this disease is limited. |
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There is no doubt that the issue of fraud has been blown up to inflated proportions by media attention. |
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Both men helped to systematize chemistry, to define the law of definite proportions and the underlying atomic and elemental principles. |
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All four samples are medium-grained, and comprise variable proportions of hornblende, feldspar and quartz with accessory biotite and titanite. |
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Scalp ringworm is reaching epidemic proportions in parts of Britain's cities. |
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When a sickness reaches epidemic proportions, there is a frantic search for a cure. |
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We have had a storm of apocalyptic proportions this morning, with gale force winds and torrential rain for hours. |
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Maybe I could tell you that our feat of alcohol consumption was of truly epic proportions. |
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The proportions of these isotopes have been computed from spectrographic analysis. |
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The wintry weather took on freakish proportions with torrential rain turning to sideways sleet as the blustery wind continued to create havoc. |
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The combination of the body proportions and poorly developed dentition suggest that the hatchlings may have required parental care. |
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The experience was something like finding oneself shrunk to Lilliputian proportions and forced to live in a jewel-casket. |
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Barring an event of seismic proportions, the ruling party's candidate will be Namibia's President-elect. |
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Reading some of the editorials you would think it was an event of seismic proportions. |
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It was the mischievous irony of historical proportions and not the accumulated wisdom of Sovietologists that celebrated its triumph. |
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Summary descriptive statistics were computed by using proportions or medians and interquartile ranges. |
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Beneath the ruffled cambric of her night dress the proportions of it seemed huge. |
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P esters and phosphonates are present in unchanging proportions throughout the ocean. |
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Standard sutural drawings were made using a camera lucida, and measurements of the sutural proportions were taken from those drawings. |
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He doesn't help much with determining proportions for mirrors or what to do with our almost aggressively unstylish house. |
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I nearly choked on my shock, the meaning of that song taking on proportions I hadn't fathomed. |
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It is true that the ham-handed attempts by the Health Ministry to regulate this sector have now reached stifling bureaucratic proportions. |
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Some segments are truly megalithic in proportions and appearance, with boulders exceeding 1.20 m in length or height. |
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Yet half a boot is still man-tall, which suggests the Brobdingnagian proportions of the vanished monument. |
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The proportions of isobutyric and valeric acid tended to increase when zinc was added to the diet. |
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The students also tailored the shape and proportions of their blade to keep the airflow subsonic. |
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This is a public health, criminal, and civil law crisis of staggering proportions that few, if any, have fully comprehended. |
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The Cottier occasional table, for example, has squatter proportions than Godwin's and appears to have a glass top. |
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Lambs fed the soybean hull diet had lower proportions of valerate than lambs fed the corn diets. |
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Bottlebrushes, gums and lillypillies, too numerous to mention here, also include splendid specimens of towering proportions in their genera. |
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Sounds do have certain mathematically expressible accidents, but the science of proportions does not establish the substance or nature of sounds. |
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In fact, you can vary your proportions according to how much risk you're happy with. |
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He hasn't changed that recommendation, even though it's still unclear if the oilfields of Lake Albert really are of elephantine proportions. |
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Jen is neither a typical villain nor a persona of heroic proportions in the conventional sense of chivalry inherent in the notion of wuxia. |
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We analysed the proportions admitted to nursing homes or residential homes by using the test. |
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The proportions of loci typed and the loci mistyped are average values for both sexes across the 10 loci typed. |
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In other words, only quiet demonstrations of picnic proportions would be allowable. |
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Historically a seafaring nation, its merchant marine achieved success of international proportions. |
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Using a lightweight, electroplate metal, Wood was able to fit and shape the exact dimensions and proportions of the patient's face. |
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I'm talking about classical proportions, perfect symmetry and ideal conditioning. |
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The tree was huge, its titanic proportions reminding him of the redwoods that grew in the US, only three times as large. |
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In the original Greek sense, analogy involved a comparison of two proportions or relations. |
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First, they contained variable proportions of transformed and untransformed nuclei because protoplasts are often plurinucleate. |
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While not well preserved, the elegant carving of the zoomorphic chair displays elongated proportions similar to those seen on the Megiddo ivory. |
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Wilbur is a cross-bred Chinese boar of considerable proportions and a fascinating genetic history. |
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Students had learned in fifth grade how to draw figures in a full-face and profile view using proportions based on the size of a head. |
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The boat was captained by Bob and his wife, Mary, whose mission was to feed everyone up until they matched her husband's giant proportions. |
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However perfect its symmetry and proportions, a room might still leave us cold without such direct appeals to the eye, the body, and the spirit. |
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Both shank and line are in turn struck through by a diagonal, recalling the harmonious proportions of a golden section. |
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At Yohji Yamamoto, the proportions were also theatrical but perhaps more wearable. |
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It is about oversized, puffed-out proportions and dramatic silhouettes. |
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Illustrations in works of natural history frequently showed apes assuming erect posture, using human tools, and approximating human proportions in the trunk and limbs. |
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What the fmri machine detects is the shifting proportions of oxygenated blood in any given region of the brain. |
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What should be a routine story in most national papers suddenly assumes gigantic proportions when the editor of a leading paper uses it to thrash the present government. |
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To my mind this was the defining moment in the great India-Pakistan cricketing divide when contests assumed proportions and dimensions other than mere sport. |
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One of main reasons for the channelling of large proportions of conservation funds to these species has been that these animals can be used as flagships to gain broad support. |
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However, in its stead I have resolved to keep a comprehensive journal, as I always do, and will hopefully blog a Brobdingnagian entry of gastric proportions upon my return. |
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These proportions are advantageous in sports in which strength rather than speed is at a premium. |
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Remarkable, too, are the long, narrow proportions of the painting, resembling a filmstrip that we scan from left to right, slowly perusing each of three vignettes. |
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The buildings in the centre of Sofia are of impressive proportions and it feels great to hear how they vibrate to the sound and how the music resonates against their windows. |
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Tropical spiderwort, inconsequential for seven decades, has recently spread in alarming proportions in fields in Georgia, Florida and North Carolina. |
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Orthogonal contrasts were used to test linear, quadratic, cubic, and quartic effects of proportions of SFGS in diet substrates on rate of fermentation. |
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The captain's family would sleep in the quarters situated in the butty boat, a cabin of meagre proportions which makes today's touring caravans look vast. |
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The crescent ray grew to immense proportions and then flew downward. |
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We suspected that the relatively high error rate of the model based on all lissamphibians resulted from differences in body proportions between Anura and Caudata. |
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I consider looney Tunes on the tube as being just a snake of massive proportions. |
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The windows are surmounted by rusticated wooden jack arches with superimposed keystones, and a heavy modillion cornice crowns the bold Georgian proportions of the facade. |
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This may have been a non-event of Olympic proportions, but at least it all looked jolly impressive for 15 seconds on local TV news later in the evening. |
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It has been a while since time and circumstances have afforded me this luxury of stepping aside and looking at this creature of strange proportions and measures called as me. |
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Their features are more thick and in different proportions than men. |
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He asserted that the reason we classify certain people as beautiful is because they come closer to Golden Ratio proportions in the face than the rest of the population. |
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Thinking back, I could see their resemblance in some ways to the starlings I knew, though they were notably different in structure, proportions, and behavior. |
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For Vitruvius the proportions of the human body were fundamental in achieving beauty and he says that the proportions of the temple should follow these human proportions. |
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The difficulties of childhood now assume quite different proportions. |
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Vines on weaker rootstocks had fewer long shoots, so higher proportions of older shoots with short one-year-old laterals were therefore retained as the fruiting crown. |
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The cement-faced ground storey contains the doorway and a sashed window of normal proportions, above which is a wide sashed window of three lights. |
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Though Marxists argue that under communism the state will wither away, it is precisely in communist societies that state control grew to enormous proportions. |
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From that perch, one's picture of the cosmos grows to galactic proportions, dwarfing any prior world view and yielding a perspective transcendent beyond imagination. |
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The consumption of recreational drugs has reached epidemic proportions. |
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The Guardian warns, in a page-wide headline, that it could degenerate into a fiasco of Suez 1956 proportions. |
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Among the colossal redwoods, proportions change and dimensions shift. |
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There were curious proportions with saggy leather jodhpurs and nipped-waist jackets with tiny peplums. |
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Over the last two years, the PC Classic has developed into a race of such proportions that it has become a showcase event for yachting on the Eastern Seaboard. |
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Rain, thunder and lightning of epic proportions have not succeeded in cleaning the air and we are laid low with massive headaches, blocked sinuses and pervasive brain fog. |
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Of the two the Byzantine was nearer to the classical tradition, for it broadly recognized the articulation of the limbs and their relative proportions in nature. |
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Most plants contain several pigments, whose relative proportions may vary considerably, producing colours which differ noticeably from each other. |
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This caused us to examine the relative proportions of myosin and actin. |
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With its generous proportions and relative distance from the main accommodation, this area lends itself for use as a home office or teenager's den. |
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By Christmas, the site, RedditGifts.com, had registered 4,500 users in a secret santa gift exchange of massive proportions. |
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Cut refers to the proportions, symmetry and finish of the diamond. |
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The stage is set for a class-conflict of Marxist proportions. |
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The bigness, as evident in the Penguin Random House merger, has reached obscene proportions. |
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The background is a solid turquoise blue and creates a scintillating color scheme of migraine-inducing proportions thanks to bright yellow and neon-orange typefaces. |
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The finale takes on almost orchestral proportions, demonstrating the composer's wish to be associated with more than folk music and cute miniatures. |
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A battle of biblical proportions is brewing in full-size pickup trucks. |
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Football truly is in the midst of a crisis of biblical proportions. |
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The experimental tank was constructed from glass of 1 cm thickness held together with silicone rubber and divided into two equal proportions by a watertight partition. |
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We had to reconstruct proportions, re-create colors, and find materials drawing upon publicity photos of the time. |
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Repairs can be acceptable provided the proportions are not destroyed. |
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When a piece of illusory knowledge spreads to epidemic proportions and turns into common knowledge, bubbles and panics can result. |
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For this to happen it will take a cultural change of seismic proportions. |
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Good proportions and substance are the hallmark of a fine St Bernard. |
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But different proportions of mononucleated and binucleated myocytes may be present, and this possibility complicates the distinction between karyokinesis and cytokinesis. |
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I will be singing her praises with hyperbolic terms of exaltation, extolling her to the highest degree, her aura will be raised to mythical proportions. |
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Each of the ingredients in the concrete, the proportions of those ingredients, and how the concrete is mixed, placed, and finished all affect the outcome. |
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As a result, it is now acting as matchmaker in encouraging mergers and alliances that will slim the civil aviation sector down to more competitive proportions. |
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This is yet another masterpiece, even though the tone and diction are all wrong, and the proportions totally off. |
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Even where old, proven recipes were used, wildly differing results could be obtained depending on the materials and proportions employed and the temperature of the furnace. |
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Without that response the endangered yellowhead, which lives in that valley, will be in grave danger if rat numbers continue to rise and reach plague proportions. |
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Large cystiphragmconstricted zooidal void spaces, a low overall proportion of zooecial space, and a low overall proportions of space taken up by cystiphragms. |
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The bride was resplendent in a meringue of epic proportions. |
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Their arguments lead to shouting matches of epic proportions. |
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The proportions may be different in the polar regions and the tropics. |
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Camelot, which has ploughed thousands in lottery profits into the four in which Pinsent and Cracknell will now row, may have stumbled on a bonanza of big-screen proportions. |
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Inside the ring, he is a gladiator of apocalyptic proportions. |
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Birds consumed dermapterans, orthopterans, arachnids, and coleopterans in proportions equal to the prey's availability and did not select for prey size. |
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The film promises to be a bloodsoaked extravaganza of epic proportions. |
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Very few domestic rooms have the proportions of a grand hall that are needed to carry off one of those huge wrought-iron chandeliers sporting fiercely flaming torches. |
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Because the components must sum to unity, converting values to proportions produces a linear constraint, which causes the sample covariance matrix to be singular. |
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In this manner the figure loses its proportions and acquires a sinuousness and flexibility suited to the space in which it finds refuge after the various mirrorings. |
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As a result of this work it is now known that the site began in the 5th millennium bc, the Ubaid period, growing to urban proportions by the early 4th millennium bc. |
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Who knew all we needed to fix politics was a natural disaster of epic proportions? |
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The giant squid has always enjoyed a reputation of mythic proportions. |
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This may be related to variable proportions of mantle-derived material in an otherwise similar source, or it may reflect melting of different source rocks. |
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Whilst he is certainly an outlaw and bandit of historic proportions there is little or no connection with the notion of hereditary criminal tribes. |
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Significant proportions of us die every year on the flimsiest of pretexts. |
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The man has achieved almost mythic status of ludicrous proportions. |
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The saga of the computing industry is rich with outsize characters and surprising plot turns, but there's one story that has risen over time to mythic proportions. |
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And cycling in London really is a war zone of mythic proportions. |
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Enter the Jaya Marthanda gates and you are struck dumb by the perfect proportions and sweep of the palace, though you may be visiting it for the 20th time. |
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If the widening of the wage differential is allowed to proceed unchecked, it threatens to create within our own country a social problem of major proportions. |
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There assistants corrected the proportions of the initial sketches in carefully diagrammed drawings and clay models so they conformed to the perfect mathematical ratios. |
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High proportions of connective tissue increase the toughness of meat. |
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Ad hoc guidelines developed in response to an outbreak of epidemic proportions in Great Britain have been implemented holus-bolus in response to one sick cow. |
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The American people largely thought him a crazy man in 1964, and of course he lost to Johnson by titanic proportions. |
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I was expecting his residence to be of palatial proportions. |
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This is indeed a shame and a travesty of national proportions. |
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