Although barely visible in the air, the ash -- made up of tiny particles of rock, glass, and sand -- poses a serious threat to aircraft, stalling engines and causing electrical failure, experts have said this week.
Although she barely exercised, Misty lost the weight by eating smaller portions, drinking lots of water, not eating three to four hours before bedtime and avoiding her biggest craving--potato chips.
Another difficulty is the financial plight of neighbouring Russia, although Mr Nazarbaev barely mentioned this.
And although Im Dong-Hyun can barely read the big letters at the top of an optician's chart, he can hit that small, yellow circle time and time again.
Although this new influx of immigrants barely registers at a national level in Argentina, it is keenly felt in Buenos Aires -- particularly in its most fashionable districts, like hip Palermo Soho, upscale Recoleta and emerging San Telmo, where the majority of new expats now choose to live.
And although the rollout of those products has barely even started, Apple investors have to be thinking what comes next: the new, new thing.
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Worcester worked tirelessly in defence but lacked the cutting edge to cause an upset, although they did take the lead after barely a minute.
The leading actors, Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams, barely put a foot wrong, although the story is crammed with wrongness and awkwardness of every kind the pair of them trying and failing to rekindle old desires, for instance, on the floor of a cheap motel, or the unforgettable sequence in which she dances, badly, to his tortured singing on a cold night.
Fulham had barely threatened as an attacking force, although former Everton striker Brian McBride did bring a simple save from Howard on the stroke of half-time.
Although they report that nearly one-third of their peers are barely adequate or worse as board members, rare--until recently--was the board that evaluated its own performance, whether of individuals or as a whole.
Although the Federal Reserve dramatically increased liquidity, the money supply in the banking system barely budged.
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Porterfield and Niall O'Brien barely gave the unpredictable Sri Lankan bowlers a sniff early on and, although they were scoring below the required rate, their principle aim would have been to negotiate the opening overs unscathed.
But Ukraine itself-although a potentially inspiring story, like Estonia (see p. 16)-is barely a bilateral blip on America's economic screen.
Although restrictions have been easing for years, the proportion of problem gamblers in Britain has barely changed since 1999, the survey holds, and, at about 0.6% of adults, it is lower than in more puritanical America.
The stockmarket is still at only half its 2007 peak and, although house prices have risen sharply this year in Shanghai and Shenzhen, the nationwide average is barely higher than it was a year ago.
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And although West Indies, surprisingly inserted by Dutch skipper Peter Borren, encountered few alarms, a few deliveries barely bounced as they skidded through the dry surface.
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At 4-3 up, Federer cranked up the pressure and although Soderling held serve with a thunderous inside-out forehand winner, the 6ft 4in right-hander was barely given a sniff in game nine.
Although its economy grew at a robust 5% a year in the four years up to 2009 it has managed barely 3% since then, making it one of the slowest-growing in Africa.
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