| His sixty-four lines of rhyming hendecasyllabic couplets are juxtaposed with a considerably briefer fifty-three lines of English free verse. |
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| Even the longest intercontinental flights are briefer than the incubation period of any human infectious disease. |
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| During this briefer spell he formed a mutually enriching friendship with Gustav Holst. |
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| He had years of brief, unsatisfying relationships and even briefer flings to prove it. |
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| Although similar to cluster headache, paroxysmal hemicrania headaches are briefer and are treated effectively with indomethacin. |
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| I told the briefer I was an avid bird-watcher and asked if I could find anything in the field beyond the airstrip. |
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| On my right we have a briefer from the Pentagon, from the Office of the Special Assistant. |
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| Defense attorneys wanted the briefer to provide the jury with vivid details of the confidential intelligence. |
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| The only thing that was not surprising was the refusal of the briefer to allow his name to be published. |
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| Close to this decoding, however, the Holy Father added various others, briefer and more concise, but no less instructive. |
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| Would you please therefore be so kind as to keep your remarks somewhat briefer on future occasions. |
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| I've already warned you that we have some business at the end, so the briefer you make it, the more likely we are to get to the business. |
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| As women show more of their bodies in briefer and simpler clothing, the exposed skin itself has provided a new surface for embellishment. |
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| The Security Council also encourages each briefer to limit initial remarks to 15 minutes, unless otherwise decided by the Council. |
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| At York, the carriage ride will be briefer but a lot noisier, as the Ascot landaus make their way past stands crowded with up to 56,000 race-goers. |
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| Mr. Mawson is a twenty-nine year veteran with Environment Canada and began his career as a weather observer and briefer. |
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| Each section contains case studies of projects or individuals, supplemented with slightly briefer overviews of some individual systems, applications or design groups. |
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| That, of course, has made the whole debate briefer because it is not interrogatory. |
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| For some reason she now couldn't recall, she didn't want to bring her purse with her, thinking it would somehow make the outing briefer than usual. |
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| Some of his best mates are journalists, but generally he is sceptical and distrustful of the media and never saw his role as a background briefer to reporters. |
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| Both eschew long, horizontal self-explorations in favour of briefer, less mysterious treatments. |
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| If a summary or executive version is prepared, it should be much briefer, probably more at the level of conclusions than findings. |
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| The 1995 GCARs regarding rest, duty and flight time were much briefer than the 2002 regulations. |
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| The forecast and current conditions for the Grand Prairie and Fort St. John area prompted the pilot to advise the weather briefer that he would stay the night in Calgary and continue the next day. |
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| The longue duree of river and rocks throws into relief the trivial pursuits of the dying man whose last thoughts are of a briefer time span. |
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| United Nations staff needs assistance both in gaining the skills to produce briefer, more succinct and to-the-point materials and in obtaining access to extracts, précis and executive summaries. |
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| But there is an awfully long way to go, and Hong Kong and the mainland show worrying signs of backsliding. In Shenzhen plans are afoot to create a new exchange for smaller companies with briefer operating histories. |
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| The Handball World Championship managed 15 days, and women make it briefer still: the Netball World Championships later this year will last just eight days. |
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| The briefer you are, the more questions there will be. |
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| And of course, in countries in which the case law did not develop definitions of the skilled person like in Greece or the Philippines, the answers are necessarily briefer. |
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| She also served as the principal briefer to Congressional staff on all budget and finance issues relating to the UN and other international organizations. |
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| While he still experienced some problems with depression, his self-injury was less destructive, and the bouts of depression were much briefer in nature. |
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| Department's response: In the context of the move to Agency status, Revenue Canada will examine the development of a briefer, easier to understand information document on ethics, values and conduct. |
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| A briefer consultation model has also been developed. |
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| The international market turmoil in August and early September, whose underlying causes had already led to some briefer episodes of volatility in February and May, had a fairly limited impact on the region. |
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| Although experience with the data collection framework has been briefer than originally foreseen, an early review is appropriate to adjust the technically complex Community framework for data collection. |
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| I will be briefer on this aspect because the decisions made by the European Council in this regard have already been the subject of more objective commentaries on the part of participants and observers. |
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| Every successive mother has transmitted a fainter bloom, a more delicate and briefer beauty. |
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| B and C diverge after 1203, C having fewer and briefer Welsh entries. |
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| The book's many adages, while thought provoking, would have been more accessible and possibly had more impact if they'd been made briefer and crisper. |
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