Near the docks, I was approached by a hairy creature staggering under a mighty rucksack. |
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The inevitable result is that waiting times have grown and now stand at a staggering 53 weeks for a routine MRI scan. |
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A staggering half of all secondary school children and a quarter of those at primary school say they have been bullied in the last year alone. |
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If he hadn't been blind, staggering drunk, he probably wouldn't have missed. |
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The average fish over the two days weighed in at a staggering average weight of 2lb 12 oz. |
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I have recommended it to numerous people who have purchased it and agree that it is a staggering read! |
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Andreas turned around and kicked out at Justin, sending him staggering backwards to regain his balance. |
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Good to see a local hangout that's within staggering distance home if you're totally mangled. |
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The prison guard reeled back, staggering a few steps and struggling to reach for his saber. |
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He shouted as the man reeled away from Rubiss, staggering to one knee under the force of the blow. |
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He reeled away with the force of the impact, before staggering slightly and regaining balance. |
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On the valley floor, freshwater and alkaline soda lakes support a staggering array of birdlife. |
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After so long in zero G and light gravity, all four of us were staggering like we had had one to many at a party. |
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Insecurity and violence are closely associated with staggering unemployment, social anomie, and corruption at higher levels of government. |
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That's a staggering 300 lifesavers rolling up their sleeves every day in order to touch someone else's life. |
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In other parts of the world, the book is already available, and the lines out front of bookstores are staggering. |
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Trying to match this staggering linguistic ability is a major challenge for computing. |
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Stars, however, come in a staggering range of luminosities, spanning ten orders of magnitude ten powers of ten. |
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We had carried a very heavy bag for a staggering twelve miles with just a short tea break and we were back where we started. |
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He scored a brilliant third-round technical knockout in a battle which saw both fighters staggering across the ring. |
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The cost of copying the staggering amount of materials for my class would have bankrupted her. |
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Soya plantations are highly mechanised and depend on the use of a staggering quantity of agrochemicals. |
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This regulation is considered the most staggering health care law since Medicare. |
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Before his cover was blown, Baron Cohen managed to interview a staggering array of public figures without them twigging he was play acting. |
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Wherever I go, I am awed by the diversity of our fellow creatures and their staggering variety of color, design, adaption and behavior. |
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The figure would have been staggering if the auditing had been expanded to cover middle schools and primary schools. |
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Since the recruitment drive sprung into operation last month, a staggering 248 new members have signed up. |
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There are too many people participating for it not to eventually produce works of staggering intellect, transcendent beauty and infectious humor. |
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As time goes on, I have less and less to say about this mind-blowing work of staggering genius, because as time goes on, I love it more and more. |
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Extensive ground battles also left a staggering amount of unexploded artillery and mortar shells, mines, rockets, grenades and other devices. |
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Herr Murr calculated Britons were shifting beer at a staggering rate of 200 pints per minute. |
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These figures are nothing short of staggering and should serve as a wake-up call. |
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The second half opened with a staggering show of stamina from four girls named The Pantheras. |
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The Scottish Executive's latest calculations say it is a staggering twelvefold increase, much of it spent in rural Scotland. |
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We can drink a little, drink a lot or become staggering drunks that have stopped studying altogether. |
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Nearly everywhere there are signs that the prodigal economy is staggering home from its three-year slough of despond. |
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The staggering fact is that for centuries the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides went virtually unperformed on the British stage. |
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These numbers are staggering, but they are drawn from a bottomless reservoir of discontent in Europe. |
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The industry fills a staggering 50 million-plus bottles of the amber nectar every year. |
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A staggering 77 percent said they were, proving that the Weekender is getting noticed on-line as well as on the news-stands. |
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At vernal Iguacu National Park, the valves are wide open in a staggering demonstration of Nature's force. |
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She spied a lone figure staggering aimlessly across a recently ploughed field just north of the farmhouse. |
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A staggering 10,000 new plays, all from non-professional writers, were submitted. |
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There are a staggering 1700 leaf-succulent species, of which mesems or vygies are the best known. |
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This looks great at first but when you see the actual number of people arriving at the totaljobs site the fall out is staggering. |
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He'd be staggering and falling over and sometimes there was a gang of kids following and poking fun and laughing. |
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Ryu's world exploded into stars as the blow connected with the side of his head, staggering him. |
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The expansive gallery, which is housed in the top two floors of the Mori Tower, commands staggering views all the way to Mount Fuji. |
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But we certainly were there to chronicle the missteps and the absolute staggering human tragedy. |
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Ministers have discussed staggering teaching hours to ease rush-hour road congestion. |
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Most of these districts are staggering the days off instead of closing early, in order to avoid paying unemployment benefits to the teachers. |
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Continue stacking layers on top, staggering them toward the center so the last tulips stand upright. |
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The numbers grow more staggering everyday, making the recovery from Hurricane Charley seem even more daunting. |
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The Chilkoot was unbelievably steep, and the stampeders were staggering under huge burdens. |
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The place was rammed full of partying people and drunken old men staggering up rocky castle path walkways. |
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In fact, the proliferation of viruses and the onslaught of spam have left companies and consumers staggering. |
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Despite origins far more humble than his relatives, Sir Alec achieved international celebrity and staggering wealth. |
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The ability of the human mind to rationalize away stupidity is absolutely staggering. |
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Nationwide, the average dropout rate for Hispanic Americans already stands at a staggering 30 percent, nearly four times that of white students. |
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After walking a little I sat on a bench, and there was a staggering sunset on that evening. |
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When the field turned into Churchill Downs' long homestretch, the horses stopped running and began staggering. |
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Ms Leach also found a staggering number of mothers did not follow up the references of their childcarers or organised care at the last minute. |
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Inside, the rich and famous would be chinking glasses of Champagne, and looking forward to yet another staggering gourmet experience on the move. |
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His social layer owes its social prominence to the ruthless assault on the working class and a staggering growth in corruption and parasitism. |
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Some small local cinemas were still staggering along, run by enthusiastic amateurs. |
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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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With long grass on the fairways and greens uncut, it made hard going for Mimi as she came staggering in with 10 big points. |
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A phrase book which helps doctors communicate with patients in a staggering 36 languages has been a huge hit in Bradford. |
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Two foreign tours later, my garden had become a cider-pond, surrounded by staggering inebriated wasps. |
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Subsequent viewing reveals fascinating conceptualizations of mid-1930s America and staggering images in narrative and dance. |
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In dollar terms, the change in contribution pension plan investment is staggering. |
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Gustafsson plays contrabass saxophone, but his contribution is also too brief, though staggering enough when it does enter the fray. |
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The waiter, almost literally staggering under the weight, plumped a huge oval plateful of sizzling ribs in front of Lili. |
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During the nail biting night, he was inundated with a staggering 140 text messages from well wishers. |
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Judicial contempt for the coordinate branches on this scale is simply staggering. |
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In the furious first movement, Vivaldi unleashes these and other afflictions to music of staggering floridity. |
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She groaned and stood up, staggering a bit as sleep continued to fog her brain. |
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En route are wildflower meadows, rushing streams and staggering views of craggy peaks, cliffs and glaciers. |
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The age difference was a staggering 20 years but on this occasion, as on so many others down the years, talent bridged the generation gap. |
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The abuse and ignorance we deal with from defacers and defacement victims is staggering, and some of that abuse spills over into actual attacks. |
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Everybody watched with vicarious intensity as the demolition derby continued, with both fighters getting caught and staggering. |
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His derisiveness was staggering, but she couldn't help but to feel sorry for him. |
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The amount of engineering that goes into designing, building and testing a rocket is staggering. |
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He turned to see Ned staggering, and then collapsing on to the floor, his face ghostly grey with beads of sweat across his forehead. |
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He raised his voice as he walked down the corridor with a groggy, staggering gait. |
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In the US it is staggering how many people ride around in dune buggies, which is fun but is a significant cause of dust storms and pollution. |
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The financial exposure arising from the activities of the prolific abusers is staggering. |
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When someone drinks between 12 and 13 units in one sitting the effect can lead to staggering, double vision and memory loss. |
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The sword glanced off its arm, making the beast gasp, staggering it to one knee. |
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The plan to relieve congestion by staggering working hours is sound but it would need the full co-operation of businesses large and small, which might prove difficult. |
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Part of what I like about Spider-Man is that despite its staggering budget and daunting market clout, it stays in touch with the unpretentiousness of the source material. |
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Truly staggering amounts of money, from a variety of well-meaning friends, disappeared into his labyrinthine system of debts, leaving nothing to show. |
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A driver who rammed two cars was so drunk he could not manoeuvre his vehicle and was seen staggering away after it hit a lamp post, a court was told. |
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A great deal of splashing, paddling and sheer determination was evident as children swam their way to a staggering 83,380 baht in raised sponsorship money! |
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If anything, I thought it would delegitimize those who were questioning him because this was such a stunning, staggering development that put the nation into a state of shock. |
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I cried out in pain, staggering back and falling on my back to the ground. |
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Compared to the three million weapons, both legal and illicit, in private Ukrainian hands, the gulf in firepower is staggering. |
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It is proper for both parties to talk via their host about staggering their attendance times, and far preferable to one being invited and not the other. |
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Adam withdrew his hand and stepped back and clenched his fist and as Joe sprung at him he threw a punch that sent Joe staggering backwards and falling back into the dirt. |
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The audience roared with laughter at the staggering social comment of the in-your-face but indispensable documentary, winner of the Audience Award. |
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I was extremely tired and emotional that night, wearing my British Rail peaked cap at a rakish angle, staggering along the sub-zero-temperature Edinburgh streets. |
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The staggering truth, as we discovered, was that the degree of avarice and greed was so much that you could actually work yourself all the way up. |
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It came, to me at least, as a staggering shock, sweeping away entirely, and for many days to come, the light-hearted and almost frivolous mood of the morning. |
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It's a film that will have red-blooded cinemagoers pantingly clambering off the ride at the end and staggering over to the queue for tickets to get straight back on again. |
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As a treatise on the essential vacuity of the white liberal male, Boyhood is a staggering achievement. |
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In fact, the diversity of corals and staggering formations of vast virgin forests and coral heads equal the best to be found anywhere in the world. |
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A staggering 25 tonnes of rubbish and building rubble was left behind after the four day encampment on the main car park at Pennington Flash Country Park. |
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My parents' obvious aging, brought sharply before me instead of gradually as the last few years had passed, when I'd seen them every day, was a staggering shock. |
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After staggering about under this intense thunderclap of irony, we moved. |
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He had, they insisted, slightly misquoted a staggering number of lines. |
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Our provincial bird, the puffin, nests here in staggering numbers. |
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After a bit of staggering between bars and buses, we were missing the attention of the local hasslers, and were plotting on better ways of dealing with touts and hustlers. |
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If you're not staggering in the street, you're just not a real FNQ Man. |
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Basically, a bunch of women are shrieking laughter at each other while they neck Lambrini before heading out on the pull, staggering around like chimps at a tea-party. |
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If you are running four rods, it is a good idea to cover a few different depths by staggering lines every 15 to 20 feet until you begin to hit fish. |
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So if you see me staggering around clutching at my stomach being followed by a very calm and collected guy with an accent, you'll know what's going on. |
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In fact, they are a staggering triumvirate of imagery crafters. |
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The irony here is that, while the film is too melodramatic by half, Lohan delivers a staggering performance. |
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Bearing these staggering figures in mind, it's not surprising one shopping centre in the borough has decided to take a stand and address its own waste issues. |
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She's staggering under the weight, moaning and weeping and acting scared. |
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The forests, with their mind-boggling biodiversity, are a staggering 10,000 times older than those of North America and Europe. |
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These are staggering figures and have bitten deep into the British soul. |
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The staggering of the panels creates a step-like effect, which echoes the motion of the dog and emphasizes the painting's disharmonies of scale, color and reference. |
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I'm blissed out at the mountains striking and staggering hugeness. |
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But rosin was perhaps the first to string all the economic realities together in such staggering form. |
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As evidenced right here, he could masterfully disguise his talents with an Italian accent so staggering in its unfunniness that it euthanizes an already terminally ill script. |
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That's in the face of a staggering 51,840 possible lacings for a shoe with just five eyelets on each side, and millions more for shoes with a larger number of eyelet pairs! |
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By the time he was fourteen he was a full fledged docker staggering under the crates his boyish frame hauled from the ships unloading at Algeciras. |
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With staggering amounts of recovery aid on the line, will the Christie-Cuomo bromance hold? |
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The mud underfoot is fast becoming a river and various members of the crew are skidding and staggering across the car park, like inebriated Bambis. |
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He has already walked down the aisle a staggering five times. |
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But the music is often painfully beautiful, especially the love song Marie and the emotional wallow of Guilty, and Newman's craftsmanship is consistently staggering. |
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According to Mr Clare, a staggering 71 out of every 100 washing machines sold with an extended warranty incur claims within three years of purchase! |
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For a Jane Doe such as myself the sight of all this hardware with massive antenna extended and satellite dishes pointing to the heavens was staggering. |
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A staggering 80 percent of college women do not report the crime to police, compared to 67 percent of non-students. |
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This small sheltered port boasts its own wine museum and a staggering 35 restaurants for its 2,000-odd population, but there's not a greasy spoon or a chippie in sight. |
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That icon among fiddlers Jascha Heifetz is also revered but from a distance, as a staggering technician whose performances Frank finds exciting but not especially nourishing. |
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The amount of rubbish that's built up over the years is staggering. |
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Champagne, fine wines, smoked salmon and strawberries have been wolfed down in staggering quantities during the five-day Royal Ascot at York festival. |
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The cost of prescription drugs in this country rising at such a staggering rate that nearly 40 percent of us can no longer afford to fill our prescriptions. |
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His collection includes emeralds and spinels of a staggering size. |
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All of these books contain the author staggering and swearing his way through the messes of socialism and do-goodery in our country and elsewhere. |
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A city notorious for its congestion, with a staggering population of 15 million, swells further by another million during the pujas. |
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The ritual still continues as an immensely grand festival and visual magnitude attracting staggering numbers to the doors of this great temple. |
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For two decades, with a staggering single-mindedness, she cut a swath across Europe, America, and Russia, sharing her visionary dances. |
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It looks pristine, but drug peddling, gang violence and a staggering number of murders every year make for Goa's seamier profile. |
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Seven years after their first staggering appearance on a popular Irish TV late show, the Boyzone boys are now the old men of boy bands. |
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He was referring to the United Arab Emirate sheikdom whose stratospheric rise was rivaled only by its staggering debt woes. |
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What is staggering is that there are an estimated 1,500 buildings in the Palenque area of Mexico which remain covered by dense jungle. |
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One woman did an abstract gestural study that we accompanied with a recording of Gregorian chants, and the depth of sadness was staggering. |
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It's staggering because these adaptations to your schedule can dramatically change your life forever. |
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With a staggering walk, ragged clothes, and a terrifying dead-eyed stare, the zombie is an instantly recognizable monster of the big screen. |
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Genie swung a full-handed slap that sent the gaudily dressed cop staggering back. |
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Nietzsche scales staggering mountains, but he turns up ultimately in Tibet. |
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After the staggering Battle of Stalingrad in 1943, the German offensive in the Soviet Union turned into a continual fallback. |
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This has resulted in a staggering variety of smoking tools and paraphernalia from all over the world. |
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For instance, the Antikythera wreck contained a staggering collection of marble and bronze statues including the Antikythera Youth. |
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The cultural differences were staggering, fed with honey and cake, they spit them out and were deeply surprised with the sight of a chicken. |
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Since the beginning of the armed conflict, human rights defenders have fought for the respect for human rights, despite staggering opposition. |
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It is a staggering work, leathery and reliclike, with most of Pop Art embedded in its fragile surfaces. |
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The obliviousness of your reply is staggering, or would be, if you weren't such an obvious spergy sociopath to begin with. |
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The Bucs committed a staggering 7 errors in the game, including 3 by the usually sure-handed Groat. |
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She stood at the open door, staggering herself with this enigma, on a rainy, thundery evening. |
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What matter of musical strangeness is this, actually acknowledging that your drunken, staggering bedmate could do better than you? |
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But a staggering 28 of those 80 in the top ight are named unimaginatively after points of the compass, North, South, East or West. |
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Last year a series of Moonwalks around the country raised a staggering pounds 6 million for breast cancer charities. |
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Paul Hiller, a groundbait agent from Surrey, has landed a staggering 46lb catfish. |
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On July 14, 2006, staggering paresis of the hind legs, incoordination, and intermittent opisthotonos developed in a female barbary macaque. |
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And a staggering 70 per cent of mums who employ nannies admit they have not carried out proper background checks. |
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Walker, head of the Ipso Facto syndicate, sent him to Fahey and the outcome was staggering. |
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The economic cost of not prioritizing implementation of even basic cerebral recanalization techniques is staggering. |
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Given this staggering data slam, it is quite possible that the best and most relevant data and information needed to produce the most appropriate knowledge slips by unnoticed. |
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Mick Easterby and Dale Gibson stole the show by combining forces to land a staggering 2,676-1 treble with Cat's Whiskers, Lago and Lough Bow, writes Tom O'Ryan. |
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It's staggering that the PFA would chose to endorse a convicted rapist when there are many footballers who are better role models for our young people. |
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The laissez-faire capitalism that has brought about our staggering debt which will have to be paid off by our children and their children, has had its day. |
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The scriptwriters sat down and put together the staggering cast. |
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The Saints, who started the day third in the table, went marching on thanks to their own swish play and some staggering defending by the visitors. |
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Miniature schnauzers are the run-away winners of the most spoilt pooch award, with a staggering 42 per cent of owners spending in excess on pounds 50 on a single gift. |
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It's a staggering number, and somehow I doubt that many more future Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniaks were working on PCs in the nascence of that industry. |
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