• He had recently started a neighbourhood-watch scheme and he frequently called the police to report everything from potholes to people he thought might be involved in a spate of burglaries.

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  • Matsuda, who teaches and writes at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, penned a frequently cited paper called "Voices of America: Accent, Antidiscrimination Law, and a Jurisprudence for the Last Reconstruction" for the Yale Law Journal.

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  • M. exchange, had called each other frequently and begun trading heavily in Polycom stock.

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  • This revealed the four-stranded DNA arose most frequently during the so-called "s-phase" when a cell copies its DNA just prior to dividing.

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  • As is frequently the case with the so-called human sciences, the latest thinking recalls some of the very oldest.

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  • But Harold called me very, very frequently.

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  • The boat, called Route 66, cruised at more than 20 knots and frequently hit speeds in excess of 30 knots, or 35 miles an hour.

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  • The boat, called Route 66, cruised at more than 20 knots and frequently hit speeds in excess of 30 knots, or 55 kilometers an hour. (Note that America's Cup racers max out at 16 knots, and they're basically empty shells with nary a cushion to sit on.) Route 66 boasted a full luxury interior with air-conditioning, desalination equipment and even an air compressor for underwater breathing hoses.

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  • While analysis of spirulina has shown that it does not contain a harmful toxin called microcystin, other blue-green algae has found to be frequently contaminated.

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