The result is a sort of high-quality, unusually rigorous coffee-table book, designed to be dipped into rather than read from beginning to end.

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So unlike the traditional bed nets that were on the market--polyester-based and would fall apart after three or four months, had to be dipped--this would enable people to buy a bed net that would last for five years, never have to dip it in insecticide and would actually kill the bugs on contact.

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The effect, which occurs thanks to a conducting fluid in which the yarns were dipped, could be put to use in motors much thinner than a human hair.

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He became fascinated with photography and wondered: Wasn't there an easier way to do it than with heavy, glass-plate negatives that had to be dipped in silver nitrate and processed on the spot?

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This argument did not appeal to Mr Egilmez, who had taken his job in the belief that he would be given a proper chance to beat inflation, which has not dipped below 50% since 1987 and is now running at almost twice that figure.

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Yesterday, the Consumer Confidence Index dipped in response to the notion that a deal would not be forthcoming.

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Although the Indian Rupee has dipped sharply in recent months, its decline in value appears to be relatively minor when compared with falls of up to 35% per cent in Thailand and Indonesia.

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Though others seemed to be enjoying this novel form of public grooming, seconds after I dipped my bare feet and felt the collective suction of the swarm, I yanked them back out.

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Google has dipped a toe in the water of trying to remind iPhone users where they need to be and how to get them there via Google Now, part of its search app for iPhone.

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