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  • RICHARD QUEST, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, they say that the prime minister is fighting-fit and is on a strong (UNINTELLIGIBLE).

    CNN Transcript Mar 7, 2003 2003

  • But he now led fewer than he had at dawn, and of those, not all were fighting-fit.

    Conan and The Mists of Door Green, Roland 1995

  • They were coming at Conan and the remaining defenders on the ground with barely half their strength remaining fighting-fit.

    Conan and The Mists of Door Green, Roland 1995

  • They moved stiffly at first, but that they were fighting-fit was proved on the third day.

    Conan and The Mists of Door Green, Roland 1995

  • This fighting-fit Briton has not been formed without Churchill's promised blood and sweat and tears-his own and others.

    Blinds Up In Britain 1942

  • They had lived among men these many and many years -- never permitted to fight -- they could not be equally fighting-fit.

    Son of Power Zamin Ki Dost 1905

  • He did not feel fighting-fit that morning, and so Moti Guj was left standing alone with his ears cocked.

    Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • It's also on record that he'd helped out Athletic de Madrid immediately after the civil war, merging them with the airforce team, renaming them Athletic Aviación (and later the more Spanish-friendly Atlético Aviación), then forcing the best young players into military service so they could turn out for this new fighting-fit side.

    The Guardian World News Scott Murray 2010

  • The most noticeable consequence is that BP will be a much smaller, less fighting-fit company for some time, according to analysts at Bank of America Merrill

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Debuting tonight on M-Net, this is a programme about transforming out-of-shape guys into fighting-fit machines.

    Tonight 2010

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