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In my harsh tablet battery test, where I play a constant loop of video with the screen set to 75 % brightness and Wi-Fi on to retrieve email in the background, I got almost exactly five hours, which is Asus's official battery life estimate.
WSJ: A PC and Tablet 'Brick' for the Price of One
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"When I was at Reading we got promoted to the Championship and almost went straight through, " recalled Southampton boss Alan Pardew.
BBC: Southampton in a rush for Premier League return
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Because the market was so high about a decade ago--dividend yields got down to about 1% and PE got up to almost 40 times--as I say in my book and as I said in the speech I gave at Princeton called "Don't Count On It, " if you think the stock market is going to give a positive return in the next decade, don't count on it.
FORBES: Intelligent Investing Briefing Book
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"Stan's almost 90 years old and he's got more energy than you or I will ever have, " marvels Walters.
CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS
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"After the baby, I got bigger, and I like it, " she said, adding, almost reflexively, a digression on our culture's preoccupation with weight.
WSJ: Anna Netrebko | So Long, Ing��nues | Cultural Conversation by David Mermelstein
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Nick Clegg may have got his proposal for mass shareholding in this bank wrong, and I think there is almost no prospect of it happening.
FORBES: What happens when accounts aren't fit for purpose?
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Reading a recent decision I got the sense that William Dodds, a tax accountant, came so close that he could almost taste it.
FORBES: Written Business Plan Is Crucial In Horse Tax Court Case
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By contrast, in the same test, the longest-lived ultrabook I've tested, the Lenovo IdeaPad U300s, got nearly five hours, and the MacBook Air almost six hours.
WSJ: Walt Mossberg: Dell's Slim, Speedy Ultrabook Fits Anywhere, but Loses Steam
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When I got up and went back to the machine, the woman bent her body over the larva, almost concealing it under a black curtain of hair.
NEWYORKER: The Slows
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Almost a year ago we drew attention to the problem which has got a lot worse since and I really do think the government should have grasped the nettle 12 months ago and taken some proper corrective action at the time.
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