That said, most people sitting near someone who is ill probably won't get sick.

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Actually, the suspicion that American firms have stitched up the lucrative contracts to come in Iraq is probably ill-founded.

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Also, that litterers, of whatever socioeconomic group, are probably ill-bred.

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On the basis of these studies, Dr Dybul estimated that a patient could probably go seven days without the drugs with no ill effects.

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On the one hand many people probably think that Kenneth Lay was a scoundrel whose gains were ill gotten.

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The defence had argued Bikubi was mentally ill when he carried out the killing, with a scan of his brain showing lesions which "probably contributed to an abnormal mental state".

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"If you survived to the third or fourth round of layoffs, the company was probably cutting to the bone, " says Tim Honn, president of Fortis Recruiting Solutions in Lisle, Ill.

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