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  • However, that figure takes into account everyone to whom a pension is being paid, regardless of whether they have spent 40 years working in the public sector or just a few months.

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  • Before you deliver a message, whether it is to a large audience or just a few people, think through the strategy of how to make what you talking about a reality, and how you will get people excited about doing that.

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  • Or for just a few songs, can buy them.

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  • Or just look a few hundred kilometres out of the window at the shoe-making plant which announced on December 9th that it would shut for several weeks, because sales to Brazil, its main market, had collapsed.

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  • While a Google hire might have to endure round after round of interviews, a savvy company can pluck off a candidate at the manager level and below by hitting him with an offer--and giving him or her just a few days to respond.

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  • That effort, known as Project Win-Win, has helped community colleges and four-year schools in Florida, Louisiana, Missouri, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Virginia and Wisconsin find hundreds of ex-students who have either earned enough credits to receive associate degrees or are just a few classes shy of getting them.

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  • Ferries stop at the main islands and make request stops at smaller harbours, and are either free or charge cyclists just a few euros.

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  • And because of technology today, if an organization like that got a weapon of mass destruction on its hands -- a nuclear or a chemical or a biological weapon -- and they used it in a city, whether it's in Shanghai or New York, just a few individuals could potentially kill tens of thousands of people, maybe hundreds of thousands.

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  • If you were to plot this information over a decade or two, rather than over just a few years, you would see a clear pattern.

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  • The remotest hint of liver or heart toxicity in just a few patients among thousands is enough to send a drug back for several more years of testing.

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  • Ending two-plus decades of unremarkable quarterbacking or even just starting for a few seasons is a lot to throw upon the shoulder-pads of a 22-year-old, even one with Griffin's dazzling ability.

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  • Some had laid out a basket with a few eggs or vegetables, others just a couple of bottles of milk.

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  • Whether they are statistical flukes or just represent thinking outside the box, a few of these zany indicators have sometimes been just as reliable as a room full of high-paid security analysts.

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  • Or maybe you just zip across a few streetlamps, take out the target and zip right back out.

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  • Or perhaps there are simply just a few people in private equity who are very much better at it than their rivals.

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  • This is a quality that Ackerman's clients should no doubt appreciate, but I was left yearning for just a little detailed action--or at least a few tears.

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  • It also carries the risk of producing an inaccurate picture of the overall distribution of moisture, as the spots chosen for sampling may be considerably damper or drier than the soil just a few metres away.

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  • If the U.S. joins the ICC, since the temporal jurisdiction of the Court goes back to 2002, one can envision a situation where the ICC prosecutor initiates an investigation of American soldiers or officials relating to actions taken in Iraq, Afghanistan, or Pakistan, to name just a few possibilities irrespective of whether such countries are themselves State parties to the Rome Statute.

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  • If you are using solid fuel, add a few lumps of charcoal or a few briquettes every hour, just enough to keep the fire going.

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  • "I do believe the confrontation was limited to a few (classrooms) or just one classroom -- not anybody roaming around and getting into a large number of areas, " Bernstein said.

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  • Tablet sales will be 6 times (or more) notebook sales in just a few years!

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