• To exploit the effect, the wires have to be so close as to be almost touching.

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  • The thick hair - not so long as before - hangs over a narrow forehead, almost touching the shoulders at the back.

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  • His face is turned up, his nose almost touching the roof of the car, his throat arched and vulnerable, his eyes closed.

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  • Rajaratnam sat not with his lawyers but, rather, on a bench behind the defense table, the shiny wave of his hair almost touching his hunched shoulders.

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  • Jobs had come with one of his software engineers, Bill Atkinson, and Atkinson moved in as close as he could, his nose almost touching the screen.

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  • The Senate chamber is laid out in four concentric semicircles, with adjacent desks almost touching on the crowded Democratic side, and the desks of the much smaller Republican minority spaced loosely apart.

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  • Early phone books offered tips on how to use the receiver - "the lips should be almost touching the mouthpiece and there is rarely need to shout" - and to "announce your identity at once upon receiving a call".

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  • Three miles on this path, with no light beyond the scope of our high beams, no moonlight, no starlight, just trees and a blackness so heavy that we both stopped talking and stretched our necks until our foreheads were almost touching the windshield, trying to make sense of the tarry vastness around us.

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  • Ask him if he feels different, with the world championship almost within touching distance, and he does not hesitate.

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  • Ahead of them a horse whinnied in the timber and then, through the brown trunks of the pine trees, only a little sunlight coming down through their thick, almost-touching tops, he saw the corral made by roping around the tree trunks.

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  • For many, touching Bachchan is almost as good as winning the jackpot prize.

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  • "You're expecting something evil, almost as if you are touching evil, but what you find is someone who is very well caught up in the prison administrative system and is actually quite tedious, " he said.

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  • Suddenly every streetlight seemed to reveal some touching, unlikely, almost staged tableau.

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  • Paterson did his best to keep Edinburgh in touch but almost every time the home side scored to get within touching distance of Glasgow they would concede and Parks would restore the Warriors' lead.

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