For example, the Highways Agency recently changed its specification for road surfaces to a French standard, recognising that roads are going to have to cope with higher average temperatures.

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Although his choice of apparel is off-beat, his songs consisted of standard French romance songs, as you would expect to hear played on an accordion.

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William Christie and Les Arts Florissants, the gold standard in French baroque opera, brought Marc-Antoine Charpentier's "David et Jonathas" (1688) to the Brooklyn Academy of Music last weekend.

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The Standard Grill 's french fries are superb, as are its desserts and other offerings.

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By any standard, the record of the French intelligence services has been impressive to date, aided by some of Europe's toughest anti-terrorism laws.

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The comments from senior French figures followed a recent warning from US credit ratings agency Standard and Poor's that France could lose its triple-A credit rating over the eurozone crisis.

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Within this standard barrel, Boswell had inserted ten slats of aged French oak.

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It's no secret that French fries served crispy on the outside, tender on the inside, are the golden standard.

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The number of American filers for U.S. patents, the global standard for protecting intellectual property, was five times the number of British, French, and German filers combined in 2010.

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