Specialized prostheses (replacements) and orthoses (braces) for competitive disabled athletes who run, ski, and cycle can be more complex.

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Changing the figure to take account of the cycle would make more sense, but it would introduce a complex and disputable new calculation, with countries arguing endlessly over precisely where they were in the cycle.

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The immensely complicated astronomical clock built by Richard of Wallingford, abbot of St Albans, was so complex it took eight years to run through its full cycle of calculations and was the most intricate machine ever built up to that point.

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So we have more complex processes and more waste at beginning of the Thorium fuel cycle with chemically toxic metals.

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"He is carrying out, let's say, assimilating as he would say, in the spirit of battle, but they're complex treatments... that should at some point begin to close the cycle of treatment of his illness, " Maduro said.

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