• It's expensive at a time when there's no money to spare, it's complex at a time when politicians need to keep an eye on other things, it can be got very wrong at a time you really can't afford to make mistakes.

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  • "I gave up sports so I could spend more of my spare time at the computer learning about programming, " he said in his testimony to the Senate Judicial Committee.

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  • For those who've yet to give it a whirl, Babbel uses a mix of repetition, visual cues, spelling exercises and voice recognition, and it does a pretty stellar job of segmenting things into digestible lessons for those who only have five or ten minutes at a time to spare.

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  • This all during his spare time while enrolled at the Kings College private school in Wimbledon.

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  • In the meantime, if you do forget a doctor's appointment, as most of us have done at one time or other, please spare a thought for the practice or hospital, and give them a call.

    BBC: Doctors warned to check no-shows

  • Andrew Pagani has left the service now, but he volunteers in his spare time to help soldiers who are still at Fort Carson.

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  • "For years I suffered from chest pains but no one knew what was really wrong with me, " said Laymond, who despite her pains led a very active life -- working at a gym and teaching children street dance in her spare time.

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  • At 3 in the afternoon, the servers and cashiers have plenty of spare time to bus all of the tables.

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  • The weakness in output growth at home will open up a growing margin of spare capacity that will over time bear down on inflation.

    BBC: Central banks' official statements

  • And, secondly, many take umbrage at being told what they can and can't do in their "spare" time.

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  • But proximity to the posh highlands resort didn't spare Wambugu and her nine brothers and sisters from going a day or two at a time without eating.

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  • In her spare time, since retiring from the accounting department where she worked for 34 years at Goodyear, she has been writing down her story with the hopes of publishing it.

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  • At the time, however, things were getting exciting in a sport that occupied a lot of her spare hours: windsurfing.

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  • Ira (Dr. Ike) Padnos is an anesthesiologist who has poured much of his free time and spare cash into the Ponderosa Stomp, a two-day show that runs at the House of Blues Apr. 28 and 29.

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  • He attended Cardozo Law School, where, in his spare time, he tutored the children of Frank Macchiarola, the former NYC school chancellor and a professor at the law school.

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