• As usual, Allison Fine was already a half step ahead of me.

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  • Though Israel's exasperation is understandable, it would be wiser to take a half-step in response to what some see as a half-step by Hamas.

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  • On Wednesday night she started fast but found herself a half step behind coming out of the final hurdle, then couldn't quite close the gap.

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  • It's a major-key sound, but unlike our major keys, which have a half step between the third and fourth tones, the Lydian scale has a whole step there, and the half step between steps four and five.

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  • Each step forward, however, is often accompanied by a glance, or even a half-step, back.

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  • The FAA took a half-step in that direction in 2008, creating a nonpunitive reporting system for air traffic controllers.

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  • Mr Obama also took a half-step in the direction of bringing down costs through the Republicans' favoured measure: tackling the huge costs of doctors' legal liabilities.

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  • Such research also represents a healthy half-step between pure academic research and for-profit development.

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  • You know, I was worried about getting half a step slow doing this because my whole life is my foundation now.

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  • Somehow feels that I always miss that half a step.

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  • As a first step, the scientists examined half a million genetic markers in the participants' DNA. These markers, known as single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs, can together reveal how genetically similar people are, even though they are not conventionally related.

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  • Nielsen took the first step a year and a half ago when it began including time-shifted viewing data, typically measured within three (termed "live plus three") or seven days ("live plus seven") of a program's original airing.

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  • The visitors had a spring in their step and moved further ahead just after the half-hour, McGillvary taking a superb lofted pass from Brown to dart over in the corner.

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  • But City continued to look dangerous too and they should have won a penalty before half-time when Robinho, after bamboozling Michael Beauchamp with a succession of step-overs, was hacked down by the Australian defender only for referee Alain Hamer to decide against a spot-kick.

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  • Or it may see in Sharp and its Sakai factory, from which Hon Hai will eventually take half the output, the promise of a technological step up.

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  • Five tries in an 18-minute spell early in the second half brought the Bulls a ninth successive victory and a step closer to a fifth-successive Grand Final appearance.

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  • Though the U.S. is Ecuador's most important trading partner, Alberto Acosta, who was elected to the constitutional assembly and serves as its president, opposes negotiations for a free trade agreement with the U.S. Instead, he wants "a commercial agreement"--some kind of half-step toward free trade.

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  • It looks like they've struck a sweet spot with performance and have taken a bit step forward as they usually do in the second half of the season.

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  • However, for Jackson, a measured step is when she only gets to move the goalpost half as far as she wanted to.

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  • One step-sister has been refashioned as half of a secondary couple, and the King and Queen have been dispatched in favor of a wicked stepfather figure for the Prince.

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  • The malaria vaccine is far from perfect, protecting close to half of its recipients from the disease, but it is nevertheless a huge step forward in combating malaria across a continent that needs all the help it can get.

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  • Although that is only half the norm for American and European firms, it would be a useful symbolic step to improve the Japanese average of 9.5%.

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  • If Martin had been on the fifth step however, the gap would only be seven-and-a-half inches wide, the court was told.

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  • Nearly a year and a half into the U.S. mortgage crisis, Congress has taken its most significant step in coming to the aid of beleaguered borrowers and propping up mortgage buyers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac .

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  • All the evidence suggests that, despite more than decade-and-a-half of goods being labelled in both metric and imperial, the British remain defiantly out of step with their counterparts across the channel.

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  • Pennant curled a left-foot shot over as Watford looked to step up a gear, but they suffered a setback when Helguson was injured just before half-time and had to be replaced by Dominic Foley.

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  • Thanks to a second-half surge Saturday night in the semifinals of the West Coast conference tournament, it'll step on the floor Monday night in the championship game of the event as the nation's No. 1 team for a second straight week.

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  • But as the first half wore on Hull KR established a foothold and got their first try thanks to Galea's side-step and surge over the line.

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  • In recent years, Ziglar Corp. has kept in step with the advances in technology by morphing into an all-encompassing performance enhancement consultancy, featuring a half-dozen speakers and productivity training for corporate employees.

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  • England took the inevitable step of moving Monye from full-back to the wing for the second half and England made a dynamic - at least compared to the first half - start.

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