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It's funny, cheerfully violent, and eye-wateringly ribald.
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This entirely predictable denouement arrives when, as a result of Tony Blair carefully burnishing his credentials for the job of President of the EU, the Danegeld we pay to the EU for the non-existent benefit of being a member is eye-wateringly ratcheted upwards by 68% in two years.
To Nobody's Surprise 2009
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Aping both shows' cartoonish stereotypes, Newcastle's barely clad nightlife is laid eye-wateringly bare.
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- Their word of mouth all comes from their pay rates being eye-wateringly horrific
GUEST POST: Jennifer Brissett Weighs in on the Writer Pay Rate Flap 2009
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The £ 1.16 billion to £ 1.48 billion ($1.84 billion to $2.35 billion) valuation it is seeking is eye-wateringly expensive given the risks and uncertainties around the business.
Betfair's Unattractive IPO Odds Ren 2010
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At the same time we have had persistently, eye-wateringly high numbers of British born people stuck on welfare.
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The average cost to study at Oxford and Cambridge is around £25,000 in fees, which while still eye-wateringly large, pales in comparison with this.
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Properties in and around Cannes can fetch eye-wateringly high rental income during the annual Cannes Film Festival, the Monaco Grand Prix and during the regular conferences like property trade fair MIPIM or MIDEM, the world's largest music industry trade fair.
Live and Let High Parmy Olsen 2011
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The real peril of "Climate Change" is not the increasingly shaky theory of anthropogenic global warming but the sweeping, eye-wateringly expensive, economically catastrophic policies being introduced on the basis of little more than junk science.
Yet Another Climate-Change Scandal James Delingpole 2011
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Unlike Neil Armstrong and co's small step-cum-giant leap in 1969, it is an expedition that is seldom celebrated or even remembered, given it was undertaken against a backdrop of growing public and political indifference to the eye-wateringly expensive notion of using Saturn V rockets to travel beyond low Earth orbit.
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