It was a very long and very boring process.

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And that's very boring for an actor.

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Here are all their boring, not so boring and unfortunately very seldom scandalous posts.

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Science enthusiast Johnny Ball criticised the national curriculum for being too "thin" and he said lessons were "boring gifted children very early".

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If nothing else, it's going to inject some new life into a product niche that until very recently had just started to look boring and short on new ideas.

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But travelling abroad, like a good cup final, very rarely follows the script - and wouldn't it be boring if it did so?

BBC: Welcome to Moscow

It just does boring things like email, calendar and contact management in a very secure and fast way.

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Sharp has just wrapped a rather dry press conference at IFA, where it announced very little, but did rattle off a series of fairly benign and boring numbers (which we will spare you from).

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"I think WAP is very worthy and -- I shouldn't say this -- a little bit boring, " Potter said.

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Armed with this advice you may now go away and write the great epic novel of the 21st century, or at the very least stop boring your mates at parties.

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