| I wish he'd spend less time with his friends and more time with me. Am I being selfish? |
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| While you're enjoying the holidays, you should spare a thought for those who are less fortunate. |
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| There's less danger that you'll lose your money if you have a wide variety of investments. |
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| Polls show that voters are growing less and less content with the current administration. |
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| Through technology and innovation, they found ways to get better results with less work. |
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| These doctorates are now less common in some countries and are often awarded honoris causa. |
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| Payment terms are much closer to those of Amazon and less favorable than those they offer to more established publishers via Lightning Source. |
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| While the length of the thesis varies according to the discipline, it is rarely less than 150 pages, and often substantially more. |
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| If the gap between the blades is less than the thickness of the grass, a clean cut can still be made. |
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| Therefore, it would be able to take off with much less total propellant than conventional systems. |
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| Passenger locomotives develop less starting tractive effort but are able to operate at the high speeds demanded by passenger schedules. |
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| Then it is less costly for the seller to accept money in exchange, rather than what the buyer produces. |
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| Laudabiliter came to be seen as the first step in a process, but modern historians think it less important. |
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| In England, implementation was less even, with some counties and individual schools successfully resisting conversion or closure. |
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| Both are relatively quiet, typically producing less than 75 decibels, while a gasoline lawn mower can be 95 decibels or more. |
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| Everything had a modern look, and a large space in the centre was hardly less handsome than a London square. |
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| The pry seems to have become less abundant now because the climate has turned against it, making it difficult for it to grow from seed. |
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| Wells Film Centre shows current releases and, in conjunction with the Wells Film Society shows less well known and historical films. |
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| Export data tend to be less volatile as exporters tend to be more technologically advanced and have stable production flows. |
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| It should then tax all of that as personal income, less the proportion of the car's annual mileage demonstrably clocked up on company business. |
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| Being smaller in size and mass and being completely submerged, it was also far less prone to damage. |
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| Lawn cut with a cylinder mower is less likely to result in yellow, white or brown discolouration as a result of leaf shredding. |
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| This contributes to a lower maintenance requirement and less wear on the machinery they power than a comparable reciprocating engine. |
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| Sri Lanka has already banned importing filament bulbs because of high use of electricity and less light. |
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| These locations were often subject to the Official Secrets Act and other government restrictions, so many of them are less well documented. |
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| Here, utility refers to the hypothesized relation of each individual consumer for ranking different commodity bundles as more or less preferred. |
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| He is credited with having a less formal approach to the papacy than his predecessors. |
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| The Latin rites were for many centuries no less numerous than the liturgical rites of the Eastern autonomous particular Churches. |
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| For most, a life with subsistence level agriculture, fishing and, in less developed civilizations, hunting and gathering was still hard. |
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| However, they may have less independence from business corporations depending on the source of their finances. |
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| Snowfalls are more frequent in comparison to the coast, but less so in comparison to higher ground. |
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| There are doubts if new staff can be recruited since there are better starting salaries in less stressful and less dangerous environments. |
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| This meant there was less need for large tax revenues and so the taxation systems decayed. |
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| A recent World Bank study found that parliamentary systems are associated with less corruption. |
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| As plants took hold on the continental margins, oxygen levels increased and carbon dioxide dropped, although much less dramatically. |
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| As of 2007, negotiations are ongoing to shift the development to the nearby Dale View quarry, a less sensitive area. |
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| During the winter months, which are the dullest, less than 20 hours of monthly sunshine have occasionally been recorded. |
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| National Express services 564, 560, 350, 320, 310 and 240 call at Sheffield, as do others on a less frequent basis. |
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| This didn't seem at all unlikely, but when I none the less havered, he insisted that his 'Egyptian fortune-teller' had confirmed it. |
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| Please note that rankings for exporters below a billion dollars are less meaningful, as they can be swayed by single contracts. |
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| A low interest rate implies that firms can borrow money to invest in their capital stock and pay less interest for it. |
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| No less than four standard-bearers went before them, carrying huge crimson banners emblazoned with the golden lion. |
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| The book aroused international interest, with less controversy than had greeted the popular Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. |
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| He set about replacing the older and less numerous classes, and rebuilding the remainder using as many standardised GWR components as possible. |
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| The Argentine doctor Luis Agote used a much less diluted solution in November of the same year. |
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| Alternatively there may have been a lack of political will to achieve more equitable and less linguicist goals. |
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| This device is easy and quick to move, and has no pressure points, making damage to the pitch less likely. |
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| Operating at normal power line frequencies, universal motors are often found in a range less than 1000 watts. |
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| The warmer fluid on one side of the loop is less dense and thus more buoyant than the cooler fluid on the other side. |
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| In some cases a thermosiphon may also be less bulky than a normal heat sink and fan. |
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| For the driver, visibility is good from both sides of the driving cab so the choice on which side to site the driver less important. |
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| This problem is less serious with electrical signalling such as Centralized traffic control. |
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| Britain has been receiving ethnic Chinese migrants more or less uninterruptedly on varying scales since the 19th century. |
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| Along the PPF, scarcity implies that choosing more of one good in the aggregate entails doing with less of the other good. |
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| German migration to New Zealand in the 19th century was less pronounced than migration from Britain, Ireland, and perhaps even Scandinavia. |
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| As immigration rises, native workers are pushed into less demanding jobs, which improves native workers' health outcomes. |
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| These organizations are much less numerous than those in which the Holy See participates either as a member or with observer status. |
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| A European charm of manner and a slight Scandinavian accent completed his front. No one could have looked less like a lush-roller. |
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| After the late 19th century evangelical approaches to the unchurched were less effective and less used. |
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| In the macrotidal environments of NW Australia this is likely to be less for open water areas but may be comparable for semi enclosed embayments. |
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| Use of incendiaries, which were inherently inaccurate, indicated much less care was taken to avoid civilian property close to industrial sites. |
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| After the GCSE reformations, there is less emphasis on coursework and qualifications are awarded either mostly or entirely on exams. |
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| Newspapers were reported as being less favourable and also less reliable than the broadcast media. |
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| Despite such gains in authority, however, the Commons still remained much less powerful than the House of Lords and the Crown. |
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| Thus, word order is not as important in Latin as it is in English, which is less inflected. |
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| The ordinary London growler is considerably less wide than a gentleman's brougham. |
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| Labour was less successful in Scotland than England and Wales, but retained control of Glasgow despite predictions it would not. |
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| It is suggested that alternative punishments should be found for less serious offenders. |
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| The region as a whole is less deprived than the West Midlands and regions in the North of England. |
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| Nottingham City schools tend to perform less well in terms of GCSE standards, with some Leicester schools suffering a similar problem. |
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| The legislation provides that the number of elected members of a parish council shall not be less than five. |
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| The Severn Estuary and most of the embayments around the channel are less than 10 m in depth. |
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| At any event, the far southern continental margins of Antarctica and West Gondwana became increasingly less barren. |
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| In 2003 an unrelated and less successful medical TV drama, Sweet Medicine, was mostly filmed in the historic market town of Wirksworth. |
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| The northern boundary is less apparent but occurs where the chalk submerges below the more recent Paleocene deposits. |
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| The filiform variety are less numerous in cats than in dogs but are more heavily cornified, with backward-pointing hooklike tips. |
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| In spring and summer, the sea is cool compared to the air temperature, causing less convective cloud cover. |
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| Its temperature range and sunshine duration is similar to the UK average and it sees substantially less rain than Scotland or Wales. |
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| Scientists could not care less what faithists think, and we don't waste our time trying to convince them of anything. |
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| For other Leptodirini, the contraction of the life cycle is less radical, being intermediate between this extreme and a epigean life cycle. |
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| The mainland experiences four distinct seasons, with colder winters and less precipitation inland. |
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| The doctor and myself slept in a long, deep, French dugout, with a heavy timbered roof, quite warm, and scarcely less insectiferous. |
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| The second half was a less open affair, in which West Brom grew increasingly and efficiently conservative. |
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| The least sunny areas are the mountains, some parts of which average less than 1200 hours of sunshine annually. |
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| His return to England less than two years later would be in very different circumstances. |
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| The reach of available petroleum ressources has always been around 35 years or even less since the start of the modern exploration. |
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| Sayles, see the changes brought about by the Conquest as much less radical than Southern suggests. |
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| Avoiding liquefaction improves the efficiency of the engine since less entropy is generated and therefore less liquid hydrogen is boiled off. |
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| Ralph's authority seems also to have been less than his predecessors in the earldom, and this was likely the cause of the revolt. |
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| This would mean that moving a larger ship would take proportionately less fuel than a smaller ship. |
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| And the effect of such notes, as inflaters of the currency, would be less than the effect of greenbacks. |
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| Unfortunately, Savery's device proved much less successful than had been hoped. |
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| As he walked along, the inebriate, whose gait was at first unsteady, recovered his equilibrium and required less help. |
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| Whenever possible, the AABB recommends that O negative blood be conserved by using blood type testing to identify a less scarce alternative. |
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| The shortage of labour also helped advance the transition from the Decorated style of building to the less elaborate Perpendicular style. |
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| Modern aircraft consume less fuel per person and mile travelled than cars when fully booked. |
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| The clipping of words is a harmless habit, used less for speed in spoken communication than for its sense of novelty or insiderness. |
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| Pestilence is less virulent during the winter months, and spreads less rapidly. |
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| Natural selection most generally makes nature the measure against which individuals and individual traits, are more or less likely to survive. |
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| The basic idea is that if only a short time elapses, then the speed will stay more or less the same. |
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| More recently, some historians have been much less keen to define the Renaissance as a historical age, or even as a coherent cultural movement. |
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| There is no necessary, far less automatic, connection between intermediatory behaviour and the production of literature. |
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| The result was that farmers were able to use less seed, and at the same time experience larger yields than under the broadcast methods. |
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| Among those who used Metrolink less regularly, the system scored far better in the survey. |
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| Furthermore, the natural resource abundance provoked a decline in entrepreneurship as profits from resource extraction are less risky. |
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| Those from the less prosperous Hispaniola were eager to search for new success in a new settlement. |
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| Many of those returned without having found their goal, or finding it much less valuable than was hoped. |
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| There is a monsoon season with frequent flooding due to heavy rainfall, and a dry season with significantly less rainfall or none at all. |
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| The strongholds of the royalty included the countryside, the shires, and the less economically developed areas of northern and western England. |
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| Visual arts in the English Renaissance were much less significant than in the Italian Renaissance. |
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| The novel's less accessible aspects were ignored by the Hollywoodian money machine. |
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| Book publishers represent less than a sixth of the publishers in the United States. |
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| It is claimed that this would also help in spreading modern or scientific notions among the less educated and as well democratise public life. |
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| He walked down the street with a jaunty swaggering step, as if daring others less perfectly satisfied to intrude upon his good mood. |
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| Jake has more for-real combat skills and less bluster than anyone else around. |
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| Attendance was less expensive and the student body more socially representative. |
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| As industrialisation progressed, society changed, becoming more urban and less rural. |
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| Some Protestant denominations are less accepting of other denominations, and the basic orthodoxy of some is questioned by most of the others. |
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| With a healthier environment, diseases were caught less easily and did not spread as much. |
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| Methodism was especially popular among skilled workers and much less prevalent among labourers. |
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| In sixteen constitutions, he sought less clerical independence and a weaker connection with Rome. |
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| There is evidence that people in Scotland are increasingly likely to describe themselves as Scottish, and less likely to say they are British. |
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| Additional fresh water comes from the difference of precipitation less evaporation, which is positive. |
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| Royal Yugoslav Army was thoroughly defeated in less than two weeks and the country was occupied. |
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| The per capita costs in the UK are less than for many other European countries that carry out similar censuses. |
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| The curriculum goals of a nursery school are more specific than for childcare, but less strenuous than for primary school. |
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| We less expect That matter needless, of importless burthen, Divide thy lips. |
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| He noted that a polished needle would enter leather and fabric with greater ease, and a polished pitchfork required less effort as well. |
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| Such antispatial, incorporeal, and fragmented modes of communication make physical proximity less important. |
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| Miss Porter bears testimony, like every one else who knew him, to his greatheartedness no less than to his genius. |
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| American bison tend to graze more, and browse less than their European relatives. |
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| Tin was much less common than lead and is only marginally harder, and had even less impact by itself. |
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| The body of the American bison is typically hairier, though its tail has less hair than that of the European bison. |
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| However, since the Great Irish Famine, the population of Ireland has fallen to less than one tenth of the population of the British Isles. |
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| The author is less inclined than Jung to treat freedom as an ideological illusion or false consciousness. |
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| The Botha regime was attempting to make itself look less horrible, but I don't regard it as having been of the faintest political consequence. |
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| The entire state is vulnerable to a tornado strike, with the extreme southern portion of the state slightly less so than the rest of the state. |
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| The remainder are dealt with by Circuit judges and Recorders, although Recorders will normally handle less serious work than Circuit judges. |
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| Dio was less biased, but seems to have used Suetonius and Tacitus as sources. |
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| The Midland Main Line finishes at Sheffield, with a less regular service to Leeds, operated by East Midlands Trains. |
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| The outer integument of the seed or testa is coarsy, yellowish in color and more or less ribbed. |
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| It is more likely that the border between Roman and Iron Age Britain was less direct and more mutable during this period however. |
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| His forces, including Hun and Alan auxiliaries, may in the end have totalled rather less than 15,000 men. |
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| While GLC abolition was highly controversial, the abolition of the MCCs was much less so. |
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| That's less lazy people getting Social Security, or taking jobs that us normal-sized people need. Eat yourself to death, landwhales! |
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| As a lady's lap-dog Leonard did not excel. He was not an Italian, still less a Frenchman. |
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| Concrete construction proved to be more flexible and less costly than building solid stone buildings. |
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| It takes less than two hours to get to York from London by rail, with at least 25 direct trains each weekday. |
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| Limestone is less resistant than most igneous rocks, but more resistant than most other sedimentary rocks. |
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| Calcite exhibits an unusual characteristic called retrograde solubility, in which it becomes less soluble in water as the temperature increases. |
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| Halo and Banga have recently indicated that the elastase content of the pancreas of human arteriosclerotics is substantially less than normal. |
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| Another ealdorman, Wiglaf, subsequently ruled for less than two years before being driven out of Mercia by Egbert. |
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| Compensators ensure less heat is provided to a room on a warmer day. They may be implemented mechanically, electronically or in software. |
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| Instead of becoming more continued, intermittents sometimes become less so, which is always favourable. |
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| The trapper wore deerskins because they were softer than cow leather garments and rustled less than canvas. |
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| When the need for self-affirmation is satisfied through other means, one is less compelled to derogate members of negatively setereotyped groups. |
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| It was ended by a payment which though large was less than one of the richest senators could have produced. |
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| In the North Atlantic Ocean, the water becomes so dense that it begins to sink down through less salty and less dense water. |
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| Therefore, the practical advantages of Roman law were less obvious to English practitioners than to continental lawyers. |
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| Gem is really a very nice small bow-wow, but Mother found that in this case possession was less attractive than pursuit. |
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| What you needed, I reckon, was less book learning and more bread-and-butter learning. |
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| I find the description wonderfully familiar, less the droogish quality, than the loosey-goosey opportunism. |
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| I cannot bear elections, and still less the hash of them over again in a first session. |
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| So I have compiled some tips to help Harvard students act less douchey when they are faced with foreign situations this weekend. |
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| Aren't our affections hopelessly, buttheadedly riveted to the less worthy and the weak? |
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| I was a hail fellow well met with all of the workmen at the factory, most of whom knew little and cared less about social distinctions. |
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| The smaller 9 9 have less elongated fins, drabber corporal colors, and more transparent fins. |
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| Among the flatfish, bothids are mainly found in deeper, less muddy situations while cynoglossids occur in shallower muddy areas. |
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| Oh, the beauty and heavenliness of a home where the empty-handed guest is not the less but the more welcome for his emptyhandedness! |
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| Wales is mostly mountainous, though South Wales is less mountainous than North and mid Wales. |
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| When reviewing the research results, we were able to see the emotional structure of the ad was less dramatic than we had intended. |
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| The third author, who lived in the time of Uzziah, though more mythological than the Elohists, was less formal. His standpoint is prophetic. |
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| Then, less melodiously, dissenters of different sects issue a cantankerous emendation. |
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| A second, less used, personification of the nation is the character John Bull. |
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| The team has won three-quarters of its games at home, but less than half of away games. |
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| Mr. Quiverful's appointment to the hospital was, however, a fait accompli, and Mr. Harding's acquiescence in that appointment was not less so. |
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| At the core of their own hearts there stands an inflicter of no less agonies. |
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| Probably it was less painful to have white whelks than red carbuncles and bubukles. |
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| It was never defined as a political border and the names were more or less descriptive. |
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| Famous men, whose scientific attainments were esteemed hardly less than supernatural. |
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| Roger was a Norman, son of William fitzOsbern, but had inherited less authority than his father held. |
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| The congregation cared less about Priestley's heterodoxy and he successfully established a school. |
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| The MSA population was small and dispersed and the rate of their reproduction and exploitation was less intense than those of later generations. |
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| Thereafter the job of euthing was transferred to the chief medical officer, who it was felt would have less emotional involvement. |
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| For something less revealing this summer, take a look at the face-kini, the ultimate alternative to slathering on sunblock on trips to the beach. |
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| Members of a Germanic tribe told tales about the exploits of heroic founding figures who were more or less mythologized. |
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| It is similar to the West Country dialects heard in South West England, but less pronounced. |
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| There is a whole gradation of more or less rigid determinisms and more or less free indeterminisms, as they have been given in various theories. |
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| Cheap, low-quality goods are inferior goods for many people. The more money they have, the less they purchase those goods. |
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| I prefer the white pine, because it is less liable to gutter with the rain, and makes an evener roof. |
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| The disease bypassed some areas, and the most isolated areas were less vulnerable to contagion. |
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| In delivering it forehanded, the ball is dropped in front of the left foot, and is struck when about a foot or even less from the ground. |
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| There are several less formal traditions including service nicknames and Naval slang. |
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| Since the perches can go through a cagewash with the cages, less labor is involved than with tree branches or PVC perches. |
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| Mueller is even less convincing in his suggestion that World War II might never have happened if Hitler had never been born. |
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| Private Members' Bills make up the majority of bills, but are far less likely to be passed than government bills. |
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| Forester soon took an aversion to the game of goff, and recollected Scotch reels with less contempt. |
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| These three are all early manuscripts, but are less useful than might be thought, since L and M are themselves so close to the original. |
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| The frequency of one particular allele will become more or less prevalent relative to other forms of that gene. |
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| Crawling on your knees to the real Graceland over shards of broken glass would be less painful than sitting through this cinemuck. |
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| Persons laboring under pulmonary affections appear to be less liable than others, though I have found softened tubercles in some cholerics. |
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| The birds sung less inspiritingly than usual amid the boughs, which remained as motionless as death. |
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| Using less coal or coke meant introducing fewer impurities into the pig iron. |
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| Stage coaches carried the rich, and the less wealthy could pay to ride on carriers carts. |
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| Identical twins are more common than heteropaternal twins, and less common than fraternal twins. |
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| In the late 20th century a model of European state formation was prominent in which Henry less resembles Louis and Ferdinand. |
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| Infants suck in bursts separated by rests, typically defined as a sequence of sucks with intersuck intervals of less than 2 seconds. |
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| Thou lookest for firmitude and vigour in those graces, which thou wilt allow in thy best disciples, no less than truth. |
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| Rubber tires allow steeper gradients and a softer ride, but have higher maintenance costs and are less energy efficient. |
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| The hissings and screamings of the vulgar against him as he moved forward on his stedfast course he heeded less than those of geese on a common. |
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| Her painted portraits became less realistic and more a set of enigmatic icons that made her look much younger than she was. |
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| A compliment, forehanded, she thought. They were so rare in life and even less often believed. |
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| A flourishing style of chirography is nowhere less in place than on a physician's prescription. |
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| Intraurban commuting would be helped by mass transit but interurban commuting less so. |
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| The Chrysler Nassau concept car, a less costly take on the Mercedes CLS, a sedan with coupelike styling. |
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| The University of Manchester has collected 25 Nobel prizes, though recent years have been less notable. |
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| One factor was the longer range of newer merchant ships that required less frequent refuelling stops. |
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| In the mid-1950s we both wrote for the same weekly, where her contributions were a good deal more serious and less flippant than mine. |
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| Reconstructions of Type A and Type B swords weigh less than 500g, even when hilted. |
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| The more the economy relies on casinolike capital markets, the less the availability of patient capital. |
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| Both studies also observed that the Cornish were less materialistic than the English. |
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| Brought to you by ISLAMOPHOBIAC DAILY Whoever thought this out is nothing less than a genius. The Muslims are not happy. |
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| Paul's cremains arrived by limo service less than an hour before the living room memorial. |
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| Employers these days look for candidates that can hit the ground running, so that they spend less on training. |
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| With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, goods produced by slavery became less important to the British economy. |
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| It does not contribute to making thrust so makes the engine less efficient. |
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| Deflated prices mean that farmers are getting less for their products. |
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| The sources he had access to gave him less information about the west of England than for other areas. |
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| This meant that the government was less able to control elections and therefore unable to manage the parliament effectively. |
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| The American tourist in Japan looks less for what is Japanese than for what is Japanesey. |
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| This corporation law background is less known than his record as a crime-buster. |
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| As in the previous series the chresard decreased progressively with the density, but the correspondence with depth was less consistent. |
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| Discontent foreran the Two Mutinies, and more or less it lurkingly survived them. |
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| My personal ease and independence were less infringed than that of those who are accounted the freeest members of society. |
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| The reloading of the frameset is obviously less attractive than simply changing the location of one frame. |
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| However, the Southern Uplands, and particularly the Highlands were economically less productive and much more difficult to govern. |
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| Their first child, Charles, was born less than two months later, but died in infancy, as did five further sons and daughters. |
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| James worked harder as king than his brother had, but was less willing to compromise when his advisers disagreed. |
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| On the whole, the costumed crime-fighter was a lot less deadly than the justice figure. |
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| Britain maintained a standing army of 220,000 at the height of the Napoleonic Wars, of whom less than half were available for campaigning. |
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| The faster the incoming air is, however, the less efficient it becomes to slow it to subsonic speeds. |
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| Some angels chose their own happiness in preference to justice and were punished by God for their injustice with less happiness. |
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| However, English is used routinely, and although considered culturally important, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh are much less used. |
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| They believed slavery was a human institution which Baptist teaching could make less harsh. |
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| After dissolving the Holy Roman Empire, he reduced the number of German states from 300 to less than 50, prior to the German Unification. |
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| When transports were finally allowed to carry the Jacobins to France, less than a third were still alive. |
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| Where there is the barking of the belly, there no other commands will be heard, much less obeyed. |
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| Men of genius have often attached the highest value to their less genial works. |
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| If the Web server crashes, we can fail over to the spare in less than a second. |
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| After 1848, as the movement faded, its demands appeared less threatening and were gradually enacted by other reformers. |
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| Unlike the Chat rooms which are rampant with genderswapping brief encounters, the MOO is both a world and a more or less stable community. |
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| Without a meaningful place to live, the homeless are less involved and certainly less committed than the homeful and the victimizers. |
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| The British had anticipated the change in strategy and dispersed its production facilities, making them less vulnerable to a concentrated attack. |
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| After leaving the premiership, Churchill spent less time in parliament until he stood down at the 1964 general election. |
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| However, the need to evaluate software before buying is no less important than in the days of the kitchen-table software developer. |
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| Throughout the period monks remained a very small proportion of the population, usually less than one per cent. |
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| There are other much more effective and less depressing diffusable stimulants. |
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| The collar was made less than twenty-four hours after the hunky bastards butchered the old man. |
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| His tendency to overact made his performance less realistic. |
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| The tool, a clawlike gripper less than a millimeter in diameter, could grab cells from tissue for a biopsy, for example. |
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| The historian was not much read in late antiquity, and even less in the Middle Ages. |
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| Since the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949, the powers of the House of Lords have been very much less than those of the House of Commons. |
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| The crush may be embarrassing to the crushee, but it was found to be such far less frequently than not. |
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| I drink but two thirds of a pint in the whole day, which is less than the soberest of my countrymen drink of claree at every meal. |
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| I'm lucky enough to remember to take my horse pill, much less drop it into a glass and wait 45 minutes. |
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| Glaciation of the Southern Hemisphere was less extensive because of current configuration of continents. |
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| The buz of flies has been found no less difficult to explain than the hum of bees. |
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| So the circuit or compass of Ireland is 1,800 miles, which is 200 less than Caesar doth reckon or account. |
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| By way of comparison, most bronzes are considerably less brittle than cast iron. |
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| They are generally about 10 percent denser than steel, although alloys using aluminium or silicon may be slightly less dense. |
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| A flurry of darker, less effective cyberthrillers in the 1990s might have landed too soon. |
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| Her hair was far less elaborately coiffured and her toilette less magnificent than the toilettes of the women by whom she was surrounded. |
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| Consequently, cultivating also takes much less power per shank than does chisel ploughing. |
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| By the middle of the 3rd century, the conditions for the flourishing of a refined legal culture had become less favourable. |
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| Each subsequent rank consisted of those with less wealth and poorer equipment than the one before it. |
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| Clinically, some signs of disease are less apparent than they would be in the normal home or work environment. |
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| Large scale Roman agriculture replaced them in lowland Britain and they are more common in less accessible regions such as the West Country. |
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| Ptolemy's work included a single large and less detailed world map and then separate and more detailed regional maps. |
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| Their counterparts in Canada, Europe and Japan made less than half as much, sometimes while beating the pants off them in the marketplace. |
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| As the numbers grew, the manager offices gave way to coffices with a bit less privacy of course. |
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| They will not sustain even the din and the shout of so many thousands, much less our charge and our blows. |
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| Hull and Scarborough have less snow as their weather is moderated by the ocean. |
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| The outline became less and less distinct as the light faded. |
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| Another view considers systems with significant market power, inequality of bargaining power, or information asymmetry to be less than free. |
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| Lighter steel is used on less expensive models, and heavier steel on more expensive models for durability. |
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| We should try to help others who are less fortunate than ourselves. |
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| While both are poets of exile, Dante is more of a belonger and less of a loner. |
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| He was succeeded by Abdus Sattar, who served in office for less than a year. |
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| The inquest on keeper Davidson was duly held, and at the commencement seemed likely to cause Tony Palliser less anxiety than he had expected. |
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| Other areas which are less deep are Cleaver Bank, Fisher Bank and Noordhinder Bank. |
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| I mean it's certainly less polemical than having some Greenpeace types confront these hunters with Zodiacs and boycotts and insults in the media. |
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| Note that the acentrosomal spindle pole completely lacks astral MTs and is associated with much less ER than the centrosome-containing pole. |
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| The sign lists from Fara show an structure unrelated both to VE and to the OB lists, their acrography is less strict. |
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| Come retirement, their Social Security may turn out to be a lot less than they counted on. |
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| Aidless navigation has the advantage of not requiring equipment, but is much less accurate. |
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| His record is all the less impressive once you discover that he made half of it up. |
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| And next to Rosa is Mont Charre, which is great, but just a hair less great than Rosa, am I right or am I right? |
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| Driving on the interstate at night, you will see less traffic, but more big rigs. |
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| All species may be considered as more or less specialized entomophagous or ichthyphagous predators. |
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| These teaching terms are shorter than those of most other British universities, and their total duration amounts to less than half the year. |
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