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Examples
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You can fool all of the people some of the time-some of the people all of the time-but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
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The way they simply give up their homes and move on when it's time-but mourn the loss of every hawk and owl, hertasi and human-that showed me where we should be putting our effort.
Widows and Orphans R. Daniel Lester 2010
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Once he was higher in the tree he could hear the kitten mewing-hoarsely, as if it had been doing it for some time-but with the leaves in his face Kellen could no longer see it.
Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010
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Dor didn't remember this from his own time-but of course the channel could have shifted in eight hundred years, and with the charmed paths he might not have noticed a river anyway.
Falcon Street 2010
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It might take a great deal of time-but she would do so, eventually, and she would devote every waking moment to the task.
Widows and Orphans R. Daniel Lester 2010
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Finally I travelled back to that city area where is my working place and I went to bike workshop where I had left my bike, which should have been repaired by that time-but it was still not repaired.
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Change is a process and does take time-but 85 years?
Stacey Radin: From Girls to Women: Struggling with the Dilemma of Naughty or Nice 2009
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Clinton would also dramatically change welfare-prohibiting women from staying on aid for more than two years at a time-but he retains programs geared toward the working poor.
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We've managed to create iron-clad itineraries through which we impel our kids-no hang time-but a gaping hole in the heart of it all.
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That's how they became "unpopular" at the time-but time has proven they were right, while the glib Thomas Friedmans were wrong, about virtually every detail of every issue of importance in George Bush's America.
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