• The other half will have extra time off between playoff games, thanks to the league's stretched-out postseason schedule.

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  • This stretched-out calling card rolls laboriously to the finish line yet Dupieux saves his sharpest inspiration for a trick ending.

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  • Maybe there's a long volley, complete with stretched-out forehands and acrobatic backhands, maybe an overhead smash saved by a great return.

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  • As a result, while many Android apps run on Honeycomb, they exhibit a spartan, airy feel resulting from a stretched-out phone experience.

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  • This stretched-out process could take several more years.

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  • But for over 30 years, I've been putting in regular time at the ballet barre, dressed in a stretched-out unitard, baggy shorts or a gauze skirt, and a sleeveless men's T-shirt, accessorized with an elastic knee bandage.

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  • For instance, the plan calls for spending several years researching a new heavy lift launch vehicle for deep space exploration before committing to a design a stretched-out schedule that would likely produce little new technology but deprive engineering teams and production workers of anything to do for the better part of a decade.

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  • And Niemi was called into action when his out-stretched arm somehow managed to keep out MacPherson's goalbound effort.

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  • Firstly, Gall's goalkeeper Ronan Gallagher dropped a Paul McFlynn free before the ball was cleared but the custodian redeemed himself seconds later as he saved a close-range effort with an out-stretched foot after another McFlynn free had pin-balled around the small square.

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  • Preferring the comfort of her knobby-kneed cotton pants, stretched out from sitting day-after-day at her computer, she accents her dark palette with tiger-print bedroom slippers.

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  • But Rangers levelled 13 minutes from time when Bougherra worked a one-two with Jerome Rothen before driving past the out-stretched hands of Jens Lehmann.

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  • Arsenal paid the price for their failure to take the chances they created in periods of domination at Stamford Bridge - and for their continuing inability to contain Drogba as Carlo Ancelotti's champions stretched out a four-point lead over their title rivals.

    BBC: Chelsea 2-0 Arsenal

  • But before you rush out to get your telomeres stretched - were such a process possible - it is worth pointing out that the creatures they have been working with are not humans but altogether shorter-lived zebra finches.

    BBC: Glasgow scientists say telomeres indicate life length

  • Killen found the equaliser with a diving header in the 56th minute after his earlier long-range shot was kept out by a fully-stretched Balogh and Maloney had cut back a fine cross to the back post.

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  • BRAVELY, Muhammad Khatami stretched out his finger-tips, even to the Great Satan itself.

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  • After the break the Ospreys also had veteran centre Sonny Parker to thank for the out-stretched arm that brought pacy Glasgow wing Thom Evans down.

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  • In fact, the White House even missed it, despite spending billions of taxpayer dollars on an already over-stretched budget to ferret out events just like those unfolding abroad.

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  • Siegel hypnotized Nelson as the 6-foot, 265-pound athlete stretched out on a bed at the Westin hotel in Long Beach on the day before his first big competition of the outdoor season.

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  • That was an unassailable lead going into the final period and Coventry stretched it out to 7-2 before Ukrainian Pavel Gomenyuk wrapped up the scoring 21 seconds from time for Strachan's out-gunned side.

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  • Magpies centre-back Mike Williamson was robbed of the ball by Rosicky in the opening minute and the Arsenal playmaker slid a pass through to Carlos Vela, whose strike was saved by the out-stretched leg of Krul.

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  • The 6-foot-8 Griner playfully stretched out on the floor in front of the group.

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  • Because the universe is expanding, any wave of light emitted from a far-flung source is stretched out.

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  • He stretched out on the fold-down bed in his carriage.

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  • Royal XV skipper Willhelm Koch stretched out for a close-range try before hooker Rayno Barnes rounded off an impressive driving maul to give their side the 15-point margin before O'Gara's inside pass set up wing Tommy Bowe to cross.

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  • As the match swung tit-for-tat, Leeds' Collins could have done better but was out-muscled by Burton as he stretched to reach a ball at the far post, only to smash his effort over the bar.

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  • This year, for example, it stretched the holiday out with a week-long roster of parades and attractions.

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  • Bristol managed to briefly up their game after the restart but Gloucester regained the initiative and secured a try bonus point when the 6ft 7in Brown stretched over after some fine off-loading out of the tackle had scattered the Bristol defence.

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  • "After that last burst of clarity, once literacy spreads beyond professional scribes to ordinary readers like you and me, manuscript writing becomes distorted and stretched out by the very difficult-to-read early modern cursive script of the 15th to 17th century, " he said.

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  • Tipton recommends five three- to five-minute immersions -- either one a day or stretched out over two to three days.

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  • Koech, the fastest man in the world this year, took it up and stretched out the field before the 22-year-old Kemboi moved decisively to the front with 200 metres to go.

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