Too much icing, too much cake, too many sprinkles and drizzles on top, the testers grumbled.
If this was all she had come to say, grumbled some, why did she bother?
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Record labels grumbled at being strong-armed over song prices by Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
The duel in New Hampshire, it grumbled, had degenerated into an apolitical beauty contest.
This, voters grumbled, felt like your lawyer telling you to sign a contract he has not read.
We frequently grumbled about Windows: its bugs, the blue screens of death, the bloatedness of it all.
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In June the European Commission grumbled that American restrictions on European online-gambling firms break World Trade Organisation rules.
Some Turks grumbled privately that Mr Uribe (apparently Mr Ban's choice) might be too pro-American to be objective.
While some may have grumbled at the appearance of favorable treatment with the delay, there is a rationale behind it.
In an interview with The Economist in May, Ms Otunbayeva grumbled about the difficulty of getting her colleagues to agree on anything.
Brick-and-mortar retailers have grumbled for years that Amazon has an unfair advantage in not collecting sales tax at the time of purchase.
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"It's the best of times, it's the worst of times, " grumbled Shafter's business partner, Xybotyx co-founder Dan McShan, surveying the madness surrounding him.
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Another grumbled that 15 pesos would buy only a bun and a slice of ham and was no substitute for a hot meal.
All of these changes and the concept of outcome based evidence for guiding treatment (that many physicians grumbled about) I am very familiar with.
So far it has merely grumbled that the new factory will not change the fact that Airbus has benefited from huge subsidies at home.
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Although some Tory commentators grumbled that Mr Letwin's plans lacked radicalism or any clear commitment to cutting taxes, they can't have been paying attention.
Or were his victories more or less predetermined (as his own officer Cleitus grumbled) by the innovations and training methods devised by his father, Philip?
Cosmopolitan moneylenders were harder to tax than immobile landowners, governments grumbled.
In an informal test of solar lights carried out by The Economist in Africa, users grumbled about the soapy quality of light and lantern-style design.
For years, critics have grumbled about the export controls at meetings.
Some grumbled, but Writers Workshop was a beacon, not a charity.
Farmers, ranchers and other land users have long grumbled about this.
Hedge funds have grumbled for years about paying high fees for hard-to-locate stocks only to find that they were never delivered, even after the trade was executed.
Specialty hospital doctors grumbled that the compensation was designed to injure a new competitor--and represented the same kind of conflict-of-interest pay that the big hospitals objected to.
They grumbled about Beijing's rents and food prices, but they also knew they were doing all right - at least compared to people in their home towns.
The organisation points to decimalisation in 1971, when the UK's currency was swiftly changed and "people grumbled for a few days and then they got used to it".
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After we landed, the farmer we met grumbled that he had to drill his well deeper each year so he could grow more rice in the dry lands.
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Invited to have fun, people first grumbled then formed committees.
The trade unions and the government's left-wing backbenchers objected to any cut in the state provision, while employers grumbled about the increase in contributions and therefore to labour costs.
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