• As much I'd love to be thin, I'd never sacrifice my health for that.

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  • Then there is the outer-garment rule, intended to thwart someone somehow hiding contraband in a jacket.. I wore a thin cotton sweater on my flights back from rural Australia.

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  • Secondly, when I spread myself too thin, the end result is never the quality it would have been if I'd devoted my full time and energy.

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  • "I feel as if I am walking on thin ice, " he said then, and even now his nervous smile and effete hand wave suggest someone afraid to venture too far from the shore.

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  • There it was, all long and thin, and I thought, let me scan it and OCR (optical character recognition) it.

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  • Through a thin-mesh catwalk I watched the car lights below.

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  • What if I told you that it was as thin as a pencil?

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  • Considering the incomprehensible reams of byzantine documents mortgage and other financial companies file I think their argument is a little thin.

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  • I've often wondered whether I'd really like to be thin.

    BBC: Interactive Essay: The debate

  • In fact I believe they are leading the pack in thin-film CIGS companies on flexible substrates.

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  • The meringue that I'd spread on top of the thin layer of batter had insulated the batter so completely that it did not bake at all.

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  • It sounds like your daughter was naturally thin to begin with, so I imagine that it will be even more challenging to help her gain or maintain weight.

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  • "I know there has been a lot more thin than thick in recent times, but fans have to ask whether they support the club or not, " added Brannan.

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  • And by the same token, police officers can't - I don't believe should be so thin-skinned as to allow someone to get them to do something that they perhaps would not have done.

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  • "In such a wonderful Olympic year like this with so many outstanding achievements in sport honoured and recognised I thought racing would have had a rather thin end of the wedge, " he said.

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  • While the thin girls were wearing shorts, I was wearing sweat pants because my thighs were the size of their waists, and those pants were embarrassingly short because I was taller than the average adult, but still shopped at (pre-teen clothing store) Limited Too.

    BBC: Jennie Runk: My life as a 'plus-size' model

  • She was pale and thin, hair pinned back, and I had an idea that she wanted to look neutral, seem neutral in order to challenge people to notice her.

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  • So I stood silently watching him from the fifth floor, thin but broad in the shoulders, his hair gray and thick.

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  • Only that once parted from them in unexpected circumstances they seem to vanish into thin air, no matter how many calls I make.

    ECONOMIST: Business travel

  • During the flight we pass a thousand feet over the wetlands, and I watch the landscape change rapidly below: Long, thin lagoons slice through thick fields of brown marsh.

    CNN: The story

  • While the Chinese twist is nice, I still maintain that the zombie thing is wearing a bit thin.

    FORBES: Connect

  • Though its Blu-Ray machines have been its biggest money maker, the German technology company has thus diversified into other areas, where it can replicate its expertise for metalization, i.e. the process of coating plastic with a thin layer of metal.

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  • If I told you that the Apple iPad Mini was 7.2mm thin, would you be excited about it?

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  • Her features are sort of see-through, her skin is really pale, and she has thin white-blond hair this is why I say she should be a star, because the camera loves all that, close up.

    NEWYORKER: Natalie

  • Libertarians tend to be sticky about principles and the last time I looked robbing savers of purchasing power by creating money out of thin air was theft no matter how Dr. Friedman or the Keynesians would like to justify the practice.

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  • As we see these new school models emerge that leave traditional practice far behind, I suspect that we will increasingly see that the standard measures are too thin to be adequate at judging how schools are doing for students.

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  • She waited while I carried it to her room, and watched as I took her sheets, a pillowcase, a heavy blanket, and a thin cotton waffle-weave spread from the linen closet.

    NEWYORKER: The Reptile Garden

  • "I want to thank my team for standing by me through the thick and thin and this is also the best home crowd we have ever played for, " Tipsarevic said after his win in Belgrade.

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  • And I realize the economy is in dire straits and our limited dollars are stretched pretty thin.

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  • Having taken my turn at the faucet, I proceeded to the prayer area and knelt on the silk carpet, behind an extremely thin young woman in a black dress and head scarf.

    NEWYORKER: The Sanctuary

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