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Doctors now are reluctant to accept medicare patiences '.
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I love how he constantly tells us to have patiences with the economy.
Obama announces $2.4 billion in grants for cleaner cars 2009
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Thank you all so much for the continuing support and counseling patiences because...
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Thank you all so much for the continuing support and counseling patiences because...
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We used to phone the wards when I was a hospital porter and got the nurses to ask out loud for patiences by the names of Emma Roids and a Wayne Carr!
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I don't have time or patiences for complainers who say nothing can be done.
Time To Call Your Congressional Reps to Demand Hearings on Police Abuse of Journalists 2008
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People who are really fond of other patiences don't; they despise it because it comes out.
The Lee Shore Rose Macaulay 1919
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He was sitting near Rhoda, playing that sort of patience called calcul, distinguished from other patiences by the fact that it comes out; that was why Peter liked it.
The Lee Shore Rose Macaulay 1919
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I asked the eldest girl some questions about the way, finding her directions for spotting a trail in this forest maze remarkably lucid, and went again on my wanderings, my last backward glimpse of the mouse-gray cabin under its pink and white geysers of blossom still showing the six little tow-headed, barefooted youngsters standing like six little patiences on a pedestal, staring after me.
Penguin Persons & Peppermints Walter Prichard Eaton 1917
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Or, on other days, 'Oh dear! my patiences is not so good as they once were!' and,
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