Then it runs forward three weeks again and then backward, continuing to improve its estimate.

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They are bending over backward again to please them.

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Through the bare windows the sun shone, lighting up the floors as if her life were going backward and she was again a young bride in a new-built unfurnished manse and with a somewhat frightening husband twice her age.

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As the picture goes backward in time and then forward again, there are eloquent debates, much moral and physical anguish from Wilberforce, and a spirit of Christian resolve, attended, fortunately, by wit.

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It was not long before Tendulkar took the lead again, however, blasting Afridi over cover, backward of and in front of point for three boundaries in as many balls.

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Then a moment of inspiration put the tourists firmly on top again as Dalrymple's stunning one-handed catch at backward point ended Watson's innings.

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And while many of us are looking ahead to a time when it is safe again to check our financial statements, law enforcement officials are looking backward.

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He took a step backward and was about to leave when his eyes fell again on the stack of the books, Zola, Dostoyevsky, Hugo, all the titles had been there, as they were a few weeks before.

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In both cases, Seidenberg took a step backward to the number two position, before eventually moving up to CEO again.

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As global trade took off again in the 1960s, the idea that a nation, especially a smaller or more backward one, could wall itself off and come out ahead lost respectability.

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