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BP says it has taken steps to reduce Alaskan workers' maximum hours and won't operate any facilitie s unless it is sure it can do so safely.
BP's Safety Drive Faces Rough Road Guy Chazan 2011
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Higher steel and resin prices, as well as investments in new manufacturing facilitie, also hurt the company's bottom line.
Magna Earnings Slip Despite 24% Jump in Sales Ben Dummett 2011
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If I should faile in the manner of their facilitie, yet love and duty hath enstructed me, to forbeare your least paining, which no unmannerly Barber will do.
The Decameron 2004
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And such like, for such composition makes the meetre runne away smoother, and passeth from the lippes with more facilitie by iteration of a letter then by alteration, which alteration of a letter requires an exchange of ministery and office in the lippes, teeth or palate, and so doth not the iteration.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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In the same time or not long after was the Lord _Nicholas Vaux_, a man of much facilitie in vulgar makings.
The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
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Turnings, without affectation of strayning, as it should seeme with facilitie and careles ease at pleasure and sweete iestures, as in such a thing may bee imagined, and not else where to bee seene.
Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna
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Lordship that I did not thinke yt he could frame himselfe to every kind of good Learning with so great a facilitie and passion as he doth, having tasted already a little drope of ye Libertinage of ye Court, but
English Travellers of the Renaissance Clare Howard
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The imitation of speech, by reason of the facilitie of it, followeth presently a whole nation.
Of the Institution and Education of Children. To the Ladie Diana of Foix, Countesse of Gurson. 1909
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In this new kind of lesson he shall declare unto him, that the prize, the glorie, and height of true vertue, consisted in the facilitie, profit, and pleasure of his exercises: so far from difficultie and incumbrances, that children as well as men, the simple as soone as the wise, may come unto her.
Of the Institution and Education of Children. To the Ladie Diana of Foix, Countesse of Gurson. 1909
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For, the chiefest thing my father required at their hands (unto whose charge he had committed me) was a kinde of well conditioned mildnesse and facilitie of complexion.
Of the Institution and Education of Children. To the Ladie Diana of Foix, Countesse of Gurson. 1909
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