He is suffering from a ghastly disease for which there is no treatment, let alone a cure. |
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They would be hard pressed to manufacture enough to satisfy demand, let alone research a new version of the item. |
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How can he possibly fend for himself at all, let alone manage quite literally single-handed for 30 years? |
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There was in fact no evidence of malicious attack by any third party, let alone the claimant. |
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The MP in question now feels he has bitten off rather more than he can swallow, let alone chew, and is now back-pedalling frantically. |
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We have never acknowledged, let alone reconciled ourselves to, the marginality and passivity of our position in modern times. |
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I do not propose even to summarise let alone to attempt to analyse this vast mass of material. |
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It was my first time playing in an RPG, let alone being the game master for one. |
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Now call me old fashioned, but I've seen the film and it's not for the faint-hearted, let alone a child. |
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I am seething with rage at anyone who dares suggest that, in any way, such acts are even explicable, let alone justifiable. |
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It is a difficult balancing act, but, at the moment, Canadian politicians barely stand on two feet, let alone walk a tightrope of any kind. |
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Most people could not bear the thought of having their every move captured on film let alone watched by millions of television viewers. |
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An experiment on this scale has never done before, let alone in such a short time span. |
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We are nowhere near the river, let alone becks, and are very high up compared to the village which is flooded at present. |
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This sets them apart from similar sequences in other action films, which hesitate to show a child uncomfortable, let alone suffering. |
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Clearly not big enough for one, let alone TWO people to sleep on, Mitch and Jess laid in a tangled mess on the loveseat. |
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It beggars belief that anyone could do such a thing, let alone to a defensive pensioner going about her weekly business completely innocently. |
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I don't suppose even the full concert version, let alone the vigil will be oft performed, which is a shame. |
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Presently it is difficult to locate a mooring to berth a boat for the night, let alone find one to tie to while diving. |
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It's much harder to get traction with editors, let alone readers, to tell that story. |
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My curiosity got the best of me and I inquired as to how she knew this, let alone even knew who I was looking at. |
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Few traitors and fellow-traveling spokesmen in the West have been publicly exposed, let alone punished. |
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I was more then a little surprised to actually wake up, let alone in the sterile, yet cramped surroundings of a shipboard sickbay. |
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And we haven't even been able to set up workable biospheres on Earth, let alone in space. |
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More than 30,000 people were expected to hit town for the race meeting alone, let alone the thousands of trippers roaming York's attractions. |
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The triumphalists hadn't predicted it either, let alone noticed the hollow centre of this great victory, but that is beside the point. |
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The fact you're trying to organise mob rule is enough to make me see the flaw in the plan, let alone anything else. |
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Just 20 months ago Vanessa Hodkinson could not fit into airline seats or get through turnstiles, let alone sit in a cinema seat. |
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These characters are so bland and dumb it's hard enough to remember their names let alone believe or care about them. |
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He had not been wounded, let alone shot, because the attacker's pistol was loaded with blanks. |
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He won't be able to fight with it, let alone carry the blasted thing up a mountain! |
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Many philosophers blenched at the idea even of educating, let alone empowering, the common people. |
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The canvases authored by van Gogh and Gauguin never approached indistinguishability, let alone striking similitude. |
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That is not something I would wish on my most mortal enemy, let alone my friends. |
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They could not believe that any sane man would take on a multinational corporation almost single-handed, let alone succeed? |
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As will be explained later, going to the men's toilets for any reason, let alone to throw up, is unadvisable. |
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Before long the Sioux, who can't speak English, let alone French, finds himself fighting for survival on the streets of Marseille. |
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At this particular time, companies are showing only a slow return to any enthusiasm for investment of any kind, let alone blue-sky developments. |
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Perhaps the most proficient skateboarder of the team, he is difficult to watch, let alone like. |
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Squalid public bickering was unknown to him, let alone the use of uncouth language. |
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Huge reserves of fossil fuels remain to be even considered, let alone tapped, eg gas hydrates under the oceans. |
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We had no money at the time and couldn't afford basic security on our own homes, let alone a bodyguard. |
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It is undoubtable and unarguably an extremely traumatic procedure for anyone, let alone someone who is as vulnerable as a teenager. |
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It's hard enough to muster the confidence to attempt to even talk to an older girl, let alone kiss one. |
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Freedom is hard to define, let alone achieve, but those who are unfree know exactly what unfreedom is. |
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The thread from these commentators was that a big boofy bloke, let alone a former political leader, couldn't chuck it in. |
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My driver had navigated through the arid steppe land without compass or map let alone one of those hateful satellite guidance systems. |
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The guitar had a moulded plastic fretboard and friction pegs, and was of course completely untunable, let alone playable. |
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It is an insult to the primary producers of this region to be snubbed by any Minister, let alone one who supposedly represents their industry. |
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My feet were so heavy I could barely pick them up, let alone jog along beside the sled to give the dogs a breather on the uphill. |
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I sat there, dumbstruck, wondering who could laugh at this, let alone applaud. |
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I say this because so many people cannot bring themselves to formulate an opinion, let alone an informed one. |
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This threshold, however, is still arbitrary and has never been evaluated, let alone validated by appropriate methods. |
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Nor has it helped that there just isn't enough data about the specific health problems of South Asians, let alone Indian Americans. |
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On one farm I know in Perthshire they have not even been able to sow their grass, let alone cut it. |
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The United States and other major spacefaring nations have never signed, let alone ratified, the treaty. |
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Again, no one has ventured a coherent explanation of this theory, let alone bothered to hint at what the evidence for it might be. |
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No man, let alone a vexatious litigant, has a vested right to bring or continue proceedings which are an abuse of the process of the court. |
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As his voice trailed I became more irritated, vexed at how he refused to answer me, let alone really pay attention to me. |
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Lee probably couldn't even spell the word subterfuge let alone actually use it as a method of gleaning accurate information. |
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Somehow I can't picture the yakuza funding anything with as low a vig as WMDs, let alone in another country run by an even bigger gang. |
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Unfortunate and virtueless people are unable to hear even the name of the Three Treasures, let alone take refuge in them. |
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Other times, we flounder in our folly, unable to remember the simplest stage direction, let alone the words to save our skin. |
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I often wonder where such people acquire the notion their freedom of speech obligates me to read, let alone publish, their ideas. |
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When one received a letter from the other, he was under no obligation whatsoever to read it, let alone answer it. |
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It shows how narrow economic modelling is, for starters, let alone whether or not it's been done accurately. |
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It's too early to name the runners and riders, let alone pretend we are under starter's orders. |
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From what he knew, Miette was obstinate, so stubborn that it was odd to see her even shed a tear from physical pain, let alone emotional. |
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My own view is that by turning over this information, we obviate the need for Matt to even testify, let alone be incarcerated. |
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No way anybody but Foreman, his handlers, and Cosell thought Foreman could win, let alone actually pull it off. |
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But they're the wrong face to put on this group, let alone lead it, and I'll lay odds it keeps people away. |
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But there is no hard evidence that he ever met Richard, let alone searched for him across Europe. |
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Those are two words which don't often appear on the same page let alone next to each other. |
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Why, if their measure is to be taken from this lass, she hasn't a stitch of clothing, let alone a periapt or weapon. |
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The feed hayed off to dry grass and stalks which won't maintain even a dry cow let alone one with a calf at foot. |
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This Canadian joker couldn't tie his shoelaces on his own, let alone win a major title. |
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The case against them, let alone against the government itself, is unproven. |
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I tried to catch his eye, but, although he noticed me, he seemed uninterested in even acknowledging me, let alone starting in conversation. |
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They were opinionated and unforgiving and couldn't agree about anything, let alone painting. |
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The engines for USA must be built before the Canada engines are used, let alone stripped and inspected. |
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He didn't seem to notice, let alone give a stuffing, that the rest of the political world had stopped, at least for a day. |
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When you have a stutter, your own language is hard enough, let alone trying something new. |
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Anyone who has read any interviews with the composer, let alone listened to his music, will know that these claims are outrageous. |
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Predicting tomorrow's weather is chancy business, let alone a five-day forecast. |
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I find it hard to believe he has high-level sources in the administration, let alone any who would talk to him and no other reporters about this. |
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But it was not intended to stand apart from his scientific work, let alone overshadow it. |
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I find it a nuisance having to write out a cheque as it is, let alone having to do it 11 times a month. |
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The sequence included chickenpox and flu, but more often it was tonsillitis that prevented her from practising, let alone playing. |
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How many of today's children know what a periwig is, let alone a waistcoat made of paduasoy? |
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The fact that I had never actually seen a wave let alone surfed one was irrelevant. |
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This paltry amount isn't even enough to heat a cup of coffee, let alone travel to another planet. |
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This particular friend is absolutely useless at driving at night time, let alone when it's hosing down. |
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Not many concert pianists can quote a major symphonist, let alone relate him to their world. |
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Amid the hurly-burly of network TV, it's almost unheard of for programmers to plan beyond their next season, let alone five years hence. |
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And I can't even ice skate let alone work the magic hockey players do on skates. |
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But the report has yet to be subjected to peer review, let alone be published in an academic journal. |
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Scotland's only coast-to-coast pathway is 20 years old but do not expect any celebrations, let alone an invitation to the birthday party. |
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This is most alarming, as I didn't think I had the skills for a personal assistant, let alone an executive assistant. |
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He was particularly perturbed that he had no recollection of even seeing the wine, let alone tasting it. |
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When did we begin to allow, let alone forgive, let alone encourage work that is so rhetorical, so impervious to public engagement? |
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There should be no lingering questions, let alone any whiff of impropriety. |
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The Phillips curve over-predicted wage gains, let alone unit costs and inflation. |
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We could hardly afford to feed ourselves, let alone contribute to some dude's retirement fund. |
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I doubt if they understand what compassion is, let alone know if they are not being given any. |
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Is this, therefore, a time to reduce any infantry battalions let alone four? |
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Political leaders on all sides had inflamed the situation, creating a momentum that they could no longer control let alone quell. |
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Markets do not lead to efficient outcomes, let alone outcomes that comport with social justice. |
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But despite a press barrage of innuendo and insinuations, he has not been charged with, let alone found guilty of, any crime. |
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Little in this record was calculated to inspire enthusiasm among the electors of the Ulivo coalition, let alone those who had voted against it. |
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Such an answer cannot hope to placate the war's opponents, let alone satisfy the conspiracy theorists. |
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None of these people want to be fingered for conniving in lying to the Australian people, let alone on a matter like this. |
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I'd be scared to even touch a guitar that cost that much in case I left even a fingermark on it, let alone scratched it. |
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Claire's troubles began long before she got to the point of hiring tradesmen, let alone sourcing suitable fixtures and fittings. |
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That is why, of course, we do not rely upon either the artificiality or the incongruity of the exercise, let alone its invidiousness. |
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Would the course be in good shape and would there be enough carts for some of our more elderly members let alone for Ed and his iron lung? |
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To date, they remain irreproducible even with state-of-the-art synthesizers, let alone with cassette machines outdoors. |
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No progress was made towards harnessing steam, let alone gas or electricity, as energy sources. |
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It makes me wonder why I never thought of Morrissey in the context of Elvis before, if only for the pompadours, let alone the iconic stature. |
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There were very few flush lavatories even at foreign companies, hotels and apartments, let alone ordinary residences. |
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Of course, he did not counsel indifference, let alone abstention, from the economic struggles of the working class. |
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They get more e-mail than they can possibly read, let alone respond to appropriately. |
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She read one sentence and could hardly believe that such abomination could possibly exist let alone be described. |
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I lay there for what seemed like forever before I could breathe, let alone move. |
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I wasn't sure I knew how to forge a metal like that, let alone how to make the synthetic compounds that made the stock and foregrip. |
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It just kind of seeps out with things that are said in passing, as if there were no other possible view, let alone a creditable one. |
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But it did not occur to me that there could be a mistake, that he could be innocent, let alone the victim of a frame-up. |
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No news on the job front as I haven't even updated my resume let alone applied anywhere. |
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In her haste, she has packed too many items into one huge and cumbersome bundle, which she can barely carry let alone see around. |
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It is unrealistic to expect all our answers to come from a long dead Englishman, let alone a pale Galilean. |
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I have yet to meet a Canadian presbyter or bishop who will even broker the point, let alone agree to one atom of it. |
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I'm loathe to give support to reform which would bring such demagogues into parliamentary politics, let alone government. |
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Most nations of the world do not have complete inventories of their flora and fauna, let alone their fungi, protoctists, and prokaryotes. |
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The school is in a poor district of the province and students often go without the simplest of items, let alone educational funds. |
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European newspapers published denunciatory editorials by writers who had never set foot on any mountain, let alone the Matterhorn. |
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How does one begin to comprehend, let alone treat with, this kind of moral depravity? |
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In developmental psychology it's considered impolite even to mention it, let alone test it. |
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But even four uprights would have overcrowded the small stage of the Arts Centre's Great Hall, let alone four grands. |
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It's hard to say how many times we are going to play each other here, let alone in a grand slam final. |
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On the day he met Watson he had not even earned a PhD, let alone made a discovery or a reputation. |
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In truth, we know diddly-squat about what is just around the corner in terms of earnings, let alone what will happen over the long term. |
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The details suggested a mean streak, an exploitive nature, a sloppy greediness, none of which seemed especially pleasant, let alone presidential. |
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Is it possible that either of those statements could be true, let alone both at the same time? |
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Poverty in itself does not immediately and directly lead to conflict, let alone to terrorism. |
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On most of his leaps, he was too discombobulated at first to think clearly, let alone to come up with such a clever story. |
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The episode would have discomforted anybody, let alone a writer whose public image is integral to his marketing. |
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It is not at all obvious that such underlying structures exist, let alone that they are discoverable by us. |
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I was really gun-shy about signing anything, let alone signing a contract with a management company. |
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It was not capable of being enacted into law, let alone put into operation or enforced. |
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He can plot and plan, lie and dissemble without fear of contradiction or enquiry, let alone protest. |
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Perhaps most distressingly of all, there has been little progress in assisting rape survivors, let alone convicting those responsible. |
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If anyone doubted his right to be a Ryder Cup player, let alone a hero, that result speaks for itself. |
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He said, look, you have become wealthy beyond your wildest dreams, through certain things that perhaps weren't very legitimate, let alone fair. |
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The gamble turned out to be a busted flush, he could not even catch his quota let alone anything extra. |
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So it is extremely hard to get close to the car in front, let alone pass it. |
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In remote areas, there are not even roads let alone rudimentary education and health facilities. |
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They walk a short distance and enjoy a normal school life without having to worry about the abominable weather, let alone the wind. |
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How did so much bad writing get past the early script development phase, let alone into a final cut? |
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Most National Guard and Reservists sign up thinking they'll never see action, let alone deployment overseas. |
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I wasn't even allowed to take a closer look, let alone photograph the machine in action. |
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It is unfortunate that most people are not in a position to come into contact, let alone sympathize, with radical musical ideas. |
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He never really expected to actually see this girl again, let alone live in the same town. |
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He's a calm, well-adjusted guy who seems to lack any outward foibles, let alone disabilities. |
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You need to understand what are important to all the different groups in order to be an effective associate dean, let alone dean ad interim. |
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No room for Adirondack chairs or playing children, let alone that great, romantic porch swing. |
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Hanging from an overhang by a bare knuckle with not so much as a carabiner, let alone a safety net to halt your fall, I hear you gasp. |
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Rarely have I read, even privately, let alone in public, anything more raunchy. |
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They obviously do not include injury to feelings or psychiatric damage, let alone aggravated damages. |
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It was obviously clear within the first twenty seconds, let alone five minutes, that I had lost, and by a wide margin. |
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Yet, worship leaders, armed with electronic keyboards and bass guitars, may not be theologically, let alone liturgically trained. |
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There had not been a single contact with the terrorists, let alone a confirmed kill. |
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Audra wouldn't even be able to graduate from kindergarten, let alone high school! |
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Rescue forces were barely able to identify plane parts, let alone the identity of passengers, most of whom were burnt beyond recognition. |
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This was the first time Harmon had been knocked down let alone down for the count. |
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What kind of a person even gives that sort of nonsense the time of day, let alone writes six-hundred-odd words about it? |
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He attempted to say a few things, but none of the noises actually turned into words let alone sentences. |
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The plant was filled with workers who barely knew their way around, let alone grasped the dangers they faced. |
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I interjected that it took three burly blokes to get our 5m workboat into the club van, let alone onto a plane. |
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Sleep-deprived, worn-out adults can barely care for themselves, let alone an active, needy child. |
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It made you do silly things and it gave you an awful headache, but we never worried about the risks, let alone the long-term health consequences. |
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He had no devoted readership and little chance of remaining in print for long, let alone being republished in thirty or forty years' time. |
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Life's getting harder in this so-called independent country, let alone for people in the low-income bracket like me. |
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It was impossible for us latecomers to squeeze in far enough to see either of the giant TV screens, let alone the approaching buses. |
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Once the sun reached its zenith, it was too hot to even move, let alone travel. |
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With two latrines for a community of 22,000 people, the only option for most doesn't include any sort of room, let alone sanitation. |
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He didn't want his 50th jubilee to be celebrated at all, let alone celebrated with the customary pompous laudatory speeches. |
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The idea that such an organisation is likely to have any sort of vision, let alone a long-term one, is laughable. |
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Until the mid-1990s there was no history of organised nationalism there, let alone republicanism. |
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I just can't bear to read the detailed analysis, let alone the actual report, of an enquiry into a very narrow and arguably esoteric event. |
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But it is not moral revulsion, let alone newsworthiness, that is animating the news media. |
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I don't, by the way, in any way suggest pregnancy as a cure for anything, let alone anosmia. |
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Most Americans would not be seen dead in a leisure suit let alone anything bright green. |
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He has the unenviable task of promoting a product that few want to think about, let alone buy. |
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I don't want to share the same room with her and the hounds, let alone a mortgage. |
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There is barely enough demand in Scotland to keep one film studio in business, let alone two. |
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In Scotland we can have a range of weather conditions in one hour, let alone one day. |
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There was a chance that he might not be able to breathe for himself or swallow, let alone walk or talk again. |
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Who on earth would be prepared, let alone equipped to take on such a challenge? |
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After a long search he came to the conclusion that he cannot afford to rent a home in Epsom, let alone buy one. |
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It gets so crowded here in high summer that there's often no room to sit down, let alone lay out a towel. |
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At the time he had no idea how to start a business, let alone find the financial backing to realise his dream. |
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For years, the summit has refused to even discuss LGBTI human rights, let alone support LGBTI equality. |
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Too few dancers seem to me to have even a decent sense of rhythm, let alone demonstrate musical understanding. |
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He had dislocated a cervical vertebra and torn a cartilage in his lower ribcage, and was ordered by his doctors not to train, let alone compete. |
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I'm usually hard-pushed to stay conscious for 7 hours without a lie-down, let alone 7 days. |
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The truth of the matter is there isn't anything in the gift line that I want, let alone need. |
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When I chose to go away to Bombay and entered Hindi films, he never ever said a word about it, let alone gave any sign of reproach. |
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Theatre is never real, even which it approximates to reality, let alone when it is Expressionist, or Absurd, or Tragic. |
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He moves around opponents with a litheness and grace unexpected in most prizefighters, let alone movie stars. |
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It is expensive to litigate in defamation, even in the smaller cases, let alone monster cases like this. |
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It made calculations in arithmetic so much easier, let alone the multiplication tables. |
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As yet there is no proven means of arresting the disease's progress, let alone curing it. |
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I know how the prune-craze can grip you when you set to with the secateurs, let alone a pair of loppers and an axe. |
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If I was as drunk as these bottles say I was, I couldn't have cast a rune, let alone a spell. |
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Armies would thus come under fire long before they could even see their enemy, let alone attack his positions. |
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Tiger Woods never plays tournaments in shorts, let alone black denim and Lycra. |
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In short, the augmented tuition fee fails to meet current costs, let alone the requisite investment in infrastructure. |
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Your parent would have no brothers or sisters and hence you couldn't have aunts or uncles, let alone cousins. |
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I'd hesitate to spend a third of my take-home pay on mortgage repayments, let alone more than half! |
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Serif and sans-serif have no meaning to them, let alone when it's best to use one over the other. |
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He is scarcely a competent speech-maker let alone an exciting one. |
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The eulogy ends before it begins and Thackeray is barely alluded to again, let alone revered. |
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It was a faltering start, but still an important moment for the women who just seven days ago could not leave the house unaccompanied, let alone show their faces. |
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One of the things that goes hard with Hetty in the trial is that she at first refuses to give her identity and obdurately denies that she ever had a baby, let alone killed it. |
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The fact that they are keeping us in the dark for so long about whether or not we are actually going to have a hospital let alone a maternity unit disgusts me. |
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The current batch of robotic helpers can perform only one designated task and cannot think for themselves, let alone converse or function unassisted. |
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Dresses irked him, let alone such things as bonnets, gloves, and parasols. |
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Having forced herself never to ask for help, let alone admit to needing it, Beck was awed when help repeatedly was offered to her, quietly and unassumingly. |
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I never was a sixer or a seconder, let alone a patrol leader. |
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She couldn't stand it when someone disliked her, let alone hate her! |
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Without these mittens, I would not have been able to even open the zipper on my survival vest, let alone try to work a flare or other signaling device. |
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It was an unconstructive way to spend a day let alone a life time. |
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Up until about an hour ago I had been the only person I knew who even knew what a ley line was, let alone could actually use them, but the rule still applied. |
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They looked petrified to do anything, let alone be creative. |
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The election is so near, and the polls so close, that it's now a mug's game to predict the outcome with anything approaching confidence, let alone certainty. |
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In this 21st century society, with its diverse male and female lifestyles, the imperial family can no longer function as a model, let alone a symbol of national unity. |
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Meanwhile the Malays and Chinese had managed to build impressive civilisations without so much as a past tense, let alone a subjunctive, or genitive plural. |
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Neither had even heard of Olson, Norris or Stewart, let alone interacted with them. |
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He wasn't even moderately religious, let alone fanatically religious. |
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But it's hard enough for some people to acquire an instinctive sense of the different uses of commas, let alone the employment of colons and semi-colons. |
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Murderers, let alone orchestrators of genocide, are different. |
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In many cases the person under threat does not have enough time or distance to unholster their firearm, point it and fire let alone aim for the legs or arms. |
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Seeing Jay Z and Kanye onstage together, two of the biggest names in pop music, let alone hip-hop, is truly a sight to behold. |
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Many cannot afford to pay their surrogate mother's expenses, let alone the cost of in vitro fertilisation or artificial insemination procedures in a clinic. |
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How many schoolteachers could explain the rules for long division, let alone the algorithm for taking square roots, in terms other than the execution of a routine? |
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Leaving aside the practical problem of how on earth he could force them to stay, let alone be productive labour, the source for this claim is entirely unreliable. |
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This is a question that We Could Be King, for all its gritty pleasures, never dares to raise, let alone answer. |
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The fact he could be won round to this cranky idea demonstrates that he shouldn't be trusted in charge of a whelk stall, let alone the national economy. |
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You'd be hard pressed to buy any decent Heidelberg school paintings in Australia let alone getting into the serious, cravat wearing Impressionist buyer's scene. |
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It was certainly not a typewriter, let alone a photostat machine. |
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Made us roar in the mess, though I've had to put up with a certain amount of good-natured chaff about having a father who reads the Guardian, let alone writes for it! |
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The New York Yankees will not even make the playoffs, let alone win the American League pennant or the World Series. |
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Who even needs a court of law, let alone victim testimony, now that we have the hashtag? |
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I suspect that much of their puerile resentment stems from their inability to comprehend, let alone match, the erudition, wit, and urbanity of the Professor. |
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The crowd has swelled so you can't move, let alone photograph, so I make for a restaurant on a first floor from where I can look down on the concert below. |
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Regardless, she's phenomenal, and it's egregious not to give her the Best Actress trophy, let alone not to even nominate her. |
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Current infrastructure policies are in some respects ill equipped to deal with the current backlogs, let alone the challenges of the next millennium. |
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It is blatantly obvious that the current incumbents at the Home Office cannot even spell the words civil and liberty, let alone grasp their meaning. |
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Because he's a lowly adjunct professor who can't even dream of a full professorship let alone tenure, he discovers that neither side will have him. |
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Air speeds of a few thousand miles an hour are of little use in the exploration of planets scores of million miles away, let alone solar systems light years beyond our own. |
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Gaida, who until then had never met a celebrity, let alone been with hundreds in one room, was starstruck. |
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I don't know what kind of trouble police were expecting, but I can't see any of these kids picking a fight with anyone at this point, let alone cops with guns. |
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With the yen at these levels, Japanese exporters could not even cover their variable costs, let alone return a profit on sales in international markets. |
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There were no reports of supernatural sounds, translucent ghosts, or mischievous poltergeists, let alone greenskinned reptoids in an undergraduate girls dorm! |
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It's hard enough dealing with kids in the car, let alone barfy kids. |
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So they shoved the beginners, the ones who had trouble with first position, let alone third position, onto the viola, where they were never heard again. |
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Nobody who knows the tragic history of 20th century Ireland, let alone the Middle East now, could disagree with his judgment then. |
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But they have not officially confirmed whether or not the jawbone is even human, let alone if it belongs to the missing girl. |
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According to Mill, many mathematical propositions are not even true at all, let alone necessarily true and indubitable, and let alone a priori knowable. |
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Strictly speaking, there is no gene for a sucking reflex, let alone for female coyness or Scottish thriftiness or cognizance of the concept of zero. |
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But human beings, let alone elephants, find brutalism hard to love. |
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With a camelteer in view there is nothing to worry about, but I would not like to be left alone with a camel, let alone have to hobble a herd of bull camels at night. |
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Yet, when people meet the man, they find that he is funny, genial, witty and charming and seemingly wouldn't hurt a fly, let alone drive a rival out of business. |
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The Baltimore Sun elaborates on an ongoing dispute over the decoding of Isthmian, a writing system whose linguistic base, let alone characters, are unclear. |
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There she worked in the studio incessantly, so much that her teacher, Alexander Yacovlev, genuinely believed she had time for little else in her life, let alone a boyfriend. |
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I kept my voice steady, but I wasn't even fooling myself, let alone Aaron. |
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The other person for whom a path to the nomination, let alone a candidacy, seems much less likely is Mitt Romney. |
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They have not been articulated, let alone strongly advocated, by Democrats recently, including the president. |
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But since it is rare in any book aimed at children to see a discussion of economics, let alone imperialism and militarism, that criticism might be held in abeyance. |
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In passages such as these, his most distinctive, Thackeray comes perilously near abnegating his responsibility as a human being, let alone as a moralist or satirist. |
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In the Oklahoma case, over 12 tons of material were heaped in storerooms, but much of it was never touched, let alone properly analysed by investigators. |
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I never expected them to be twins, let alone triplets or quadruplets. |
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I'm not even sure how to ask that question, let alone answer it. |
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In that respect, any free independent publication will be starting behind the eight ball, with no subsidies, let alone a historical tradition or audience. |
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Working in a largely male-dominated office, the arrival of any new female face, let alone a young, innocent and possibly virginal one, is greeted with much excitement. |
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In both cases the young girl is discouraged from being independent and exploring, let alone realizing, her capacities including her awakening sexuality. |
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The watery, tough-skinned figs were barely cooked let alone caramelised. |
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Kids that were trapped in that locker room are scared to say anything, let alone leave. |
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The corollary to that, of course, is that without the supporting hand of ale or whisky we cannot bear to look reality in the face, let alone conquer our worst fears. |
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Also, the medical support for the efficacy of the corset diet, let alone its safety, is questionable. |
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One friend pointed out that the prospect of gathering her own rather volatile family into one small room for three hours, let alone three days, was a total nightmare. |
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Petrol was scarce in the world let alone Ireland and was available on ration for essential services such as fire, ambulance, police, taxi and doctors. |
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Miss Wilson can't even control her tragic 70s hairdo let alone a class. |
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In many, if not most, cases, the charge itself will have been executed before the execution, let alone the exchange, of the conveyance or transfer of the property. |
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Some of the freer churches don't even ask their ministerial candidates to commit themselves formally to any belief about Scripture, let alone creation. |
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But off-camera the consensus was that by election time those listed would be in no condition to cast a ballot, let alone offer themselves as candidates. |
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Due to the latest round of redistricting, most Republicans are in districts with very few Democrats, let alone Latinos. |
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Ten years ago Jay-Z could not have worn his medallion even on a visit to prison, let alone inside of one. |
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Society is creating an underclass without standards, principles or decency, but nobody seems to recognise this, let alone be doing anything about it. |
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Though Pam had no doubt that her mom loved her, she didn't remember ever hearing her put it into words, let alone express it with an unsolicited hug or kiss. |
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In fact, looking at the porky physiques on parade at the Lakeside, it's doubtful whether they could even manage a hop or a skip, let alone the jump. |
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