When loan officers present loans as clean and bright and shiny as possible, there is a higher probability of approval.

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The ward was clean, bright and cheerful.

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Walking into the arrivals lounge, I was struck by how bright and clean everything appeared.

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Fair- haired and slight of build, Edward is not so long- limbed as Henry, less angular, and his clean- shaven cheeks are bright with the admissions of one who, despite his ambitions, has actually spent little time out of doors.

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Flat 5 Madrid has a fresh, clean-lined look with bright colours, flatscreen TVs, free wi-fi and flower boxes on the window sills.

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Though the parents are a little worse for wear after a night spent clinging to the edges of a gently swaying bunk, the children are bright eyed, bushy tailed and content to lick their jam packets clean while watching the south Egyptian world go by.

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Many experts and investors, among them Warren Buffet, forecast a bright future for the clean energy market.

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Lying in the shadow of the active volcano Mt Tarawera, Rotorua Lakes is an unrivalled natural landscape where water is clean enough to drink, sweet-smelling air comes alive with native birdsong and fern-filled forests are as bright as a bottle of absinthe.

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