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Crash Bandicoot has come up against his most difficult opponent yet, a bottle-necked health care initiative.
Top 5 Games That Should Come Out For New PS 3 Controller | Manolith 2010
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The runners are super nice and have their act together for what was an incredibly congested, and at times completely bottle-necked, race course, Hot soup at the end of the race is a huge thumbs up- so much nicer to sip hot chicken noodle soup.
Loving the Austin Vibe Zombie Mom 2009
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In a nutshell: if you consume more than X number of dvds in X number of days - and it is indeed a well researched formula - then your usage will be ‘throttled’, i.e., down-shifted, slowed-down, bottle-necked, retarded.
Blockbuster Slaps Its Biggest Fans - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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All ship-traffic is 'bottle-necked' through a passage.
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If there were an incident how do you evacuate all the additional visitors, who are effectively bottle-necked at the top?
A Plan to Temporarily Alter Eiffel Tower’s Silhouette - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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When the Batmobile is bottle-necked by throngs of wedlock-wacky women, Cleo comes to the rescue, and her cool, dismissive manner immediately captures Batman's attention:
Batman's Marriage Trap! Brian Hughes 2007
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When the Batmobile is bottle-necked by throngs of wedlock-wacky women, Cleo comes to the rescue, and her cool, dismissive manner immediately captures Batman's attention:
Archive 2007-08-01 Brian Hughes 2007
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Marine life experts in London are giving a five ton bottle-necked whale a huge lift back into the wild, as you take a look at the live pictures there.
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NGUYEN: It was a little bottle-necked up there in the Thames River.
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The modern ones are all getting dangerously bottle-necked and stupid.
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