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  • By the time we--at a time when we suffer disproportionately from all of these diseases, such as heart disease, even some forms of cancer now because of our obesity and overweightness, hypertension, Type II diabetes, we really need to be working on ourselves from the inside out.

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  • None of us have the luxury of finding more time by simply turning back the clock except when Daylight Saving Time ends.

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  • In both cases Mr Blair has given himself room for manoeuvre by promising referendums when the time is ripe.

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  • The new kit was worn by the team for the first time last Saturday, when City beat Newcastle United 4-1 in a pre-season friendly.

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  • For politicians on both sides of the Atlantic, corporate terminology is also a way of ducking scrutiny by the media at a time when it is more searching and extensive than ever before.

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  • The dollar was on its back making hard assets all the more attractive and the inflation a weaker dollar generated was being overlooked by the Fed at a time when other central bankers were starting to act by tightening credit.

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  • Britain supplied 30 such guns to Morocco back in 1977-78, made by Royal Ordinance at a time when the company was still owned by the Government.

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  • But Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones told assembly members he was worried that the Queen's speech had been "hijacked" by the European issue "at a time when people were concerned about jobs, about the economy, at a time when people want a roof over their head".

    BBC: Wales

  • For the first eight months of 1997, our exports grew by 23% at a time when the exports of other Tigers are going down.

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  • It would deprive the Scottish Labour Party of its best-regarded (by the voters) public face at a time when it should be building up for the elections to the Scottish parliament.

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  • "If we can shorten the cycle so that new kinds of measurement can be pushed out rapidly to many sites, the period of time when the CAPTCHA is broken by miscreants shrinks, " he says.

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  • In his book, Make It In America: The Case for Re-Inventing the Economy, Dow Chemical Company CEO Andrew Liveris calls us to turn back the clock and return to a time when America was defined by the things it built.

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  • "This includes the time period when the site was managed by the former Ceredigion and Mid Wales Trust, and Hywel Dda NHS Trust".

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  • The painting will be seen by the public for the first time in more than 45 years when it goes on view at Sotheby's in London from 3-7 October.

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  • By the time of the epilogue, when the 19th-century Alice has become a 21st-century young woman with an iPhone, the ballet's length has begun to weigh it down, but this dramatic conceit lifts the narrative.

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  • Spanish company Pateria de Sousa, in Badajoz province, is seen as more ethical because it makes its foie gras by slaughtering the birds at a time when they have naturally eaten more to create reserves for what would have been migration.

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  • Medical school admissions are down by 6% at a time when the Association of American Medical Colleges predicts a shortage of 160, 000 by 2025.

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  • It can, for instance, decide at what time in the evening to turn on the heating by checking when he came home on each of the previous four days, and also what time he came home on the same day last week.

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  • It is also the first time since the May 2000 Romsey by-election (when the Conservatives lost to the Lib Dems) that the main Opposition party has lost a seat in a by-election.

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  • In this regard, CNCU President highlighted the need to articulate all these projects so that all the work by the voiceless and the faceless on the continent can be jointly disseminated, for example, by Foreign Ministries, at a time when the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) is already a reality in the region.

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  • The passage of time is irrelevant when considering the stonewalling by banks and insurers.

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  • Wakefield reduced the deficit to 10-4 by half-time when Jamie Rooney fed Paul White, who scored in the corner.

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  • The resellers stoked growth at a time when MCI, lit up by the halo of the Internet frenzy, was prettying itself up for a sale to someone bolder.

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  • Stirling Council archaeologist Murray Cook said the fort was occupied at a time when mainland Scotland was ruled by the ancient tribes of Picts, Celts, Britons, and Angles.

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  • Our correspondent says that he is set to take over the reins of power at a time when most Pakistanis are preoccupied by the challenges of daily life amid lengthy power blackouts.

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  • The fall in violent crime in Los Angeles began in 1992, a decade before the introduction of Compstat, and a time when the LAPD was hated by many residents, particularly blacks and Latinos.

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