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A spokesman for Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Union confirmed that no action will be taken for another four weeks, and said it was due to "some fairly well-spread reliability issues with the airline at the moment."
Qantas Union Calls Off Next Week's Strikes Ross Kelly 2011
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Mr. Prideaux added the share gains are well-spread, including Germany, Russia and Argentina.
BAT Rides Recovery Simon Zekaria 2011
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An easterner by birth and a connoisseur of fine wines and a well-spread table, he nevertheless was completely comfortable in the roughs of remote mountains, prairies, and deserts.
A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009
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An easterner by birth and a connoisseur of fine wines and a well-spread table, he nevertheless was completely comfortable in the roughs of remote mountains, prairies, and deserts.
A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009
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"We have a very well-spread risk," Mr. van Boxmeer said.
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He had hardly taken his seat at the well-spread table, when Mrs. Steele entered the room, and carefully closed the door behind her.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2009
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But his sisters heard his pitiful wailing and sprang down from their well-spread beds: one of them took up the child in her arms and laid him in her bosom, while another revived the fire, and a third rushed with soft feet to bring their mother from her fragrant chamber.
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The very name reminds me of early rising, healthy activity, merriment, and a well-spread board.
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And laughter-loving Aphrodite, with face turned away and lovely eyes downcast, crept to the well-spread couch which was already laid with soft coverings for the hero; and upon it lay skins of bears and deep-roaring lions which he himself had slain in the high mountains.
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The familiar room, with the dark ceiling, the well-spread table, the old chairs, had never before spoken so eloquently of the times ere she knew or had heard of Charley Stow.
A Changed Man 2006
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