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We shouldn't spend more than a year and a lot more taxpayers' money fannying around with this, he said in a letter to cabinet office officials.
Andrew Lansley plans NHS vehicle to warehouse toxic IT contracts 2011
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Frances Maude - the man for whom the phrase 'fannying about' was actually created.
MPs condemn coalition's bonfire of the quangos as botched 2011
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Stop fannying around. on November 25, 2009 at 9: 31 pm phiangle
Be Carefull What You Wish For « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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Even if you do still insist on fannying about with all that Bride Management crap.
Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010
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Even if you do still insist on fannying about with all that Bride Management crap.
Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010
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If it's true competitive advantage they're after to sort the wheat from the chaff, they ought to have the likes of native Damons setting up protection rackets and be done with all the fannying around.
E (novel extract) 2010
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Are they being paid by someone to sink the election, sink the country and just dordle by the wayside, fannying about .... because seem to be doing really brilliant at that.
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All the screws 'fannying around had cost him half an hour at least.
It's October, 1956. Shelagh Power-Chopra 2010
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Eminem's sixth album, Recovery, comes pre-installed with the kind of histrionic fannying-about now featured as standard on high-profile US urban releases.
Eminem: Recovery 2010
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Back on the floor I'm ambushed by Philpotts who asks me why I'm fannying around when Jamie Oliver's sauces're bleeding their guts out?
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