The Hammers offered little in response before the break, apart from Matthew Etherington seeing his effort cleared off the line by Del Horno.

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Mr Bird's father, Vere Bird, dominated local politics, apart from one five-year break, from 1951 to 1994, when his son took over the family firm.

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The war between the Arabic-speaking north and the African south has, after all, been going on since 1956, apart from a ten-year break after 1972.

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And, Capellas claims, technology and sales teams that can break apart the infrastructure so that customers can install parts from other suppliers if they want.

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Fittingly, a matchup between schools from the soon-to-break-apart, rough-and-tumble Big East became quite a struggle on the offensive end.

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McClaren's men passed the ball well enough but, apart from a promising five-minute spell before the break and a couple of periods of pressure in the second half, they barely looked like scoring.

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Wander into any eighth-grade science fair and you're likely to see an example of this destructive process at work - place two dissimilar metals in an electrolyte solution and one of the materials will slowly steal ions from the other, causing it to oxidize, become brittle and eventually break apart.

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Arsenal managed to steady the ship after the interval, but they never seriously threatened United apart from a tame Cesc Fabregas shot and a volley from Emmanuel Adebayor after the break.

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