Roy always said that Pam and Shelley, side by side, looked like Little and Large, because Shelley was tall and thin.

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Denton is tall and rangy, and has a famously large head that sits precariously on a thin neck and narrow shoulders, leaving the impression of an evolved brain that is perhaps a little too conscious of its pedestrian context.

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Other CIGS makers have run into trouble trying translate the high efficiency and low cost promised by small lab samples of CIGS into large sheets of high-quality, durable and uniform thin films.

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Miss Lora touched you, and you suddenly looked up and noticed how large her eyes were in her thin face, how long her lashes were, how one iris had more bronze in it than the other.

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Visually everything has been stripped down, with thin clean sans-serif fonts, large images and lots of soft grays.

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Meals also usually include malum, a salad of chopped leafy greens and coconut, crispy poppadoms (a large circular piece of thin, spiced bread), dal (a type of lentil stew), coconut sambal (a spicy condiment), home-made chutney and of course, fragrant steamed rice.

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In this invisible world, tiny particles of gold melt at temperatures several hundred degrees lower than a large nugget, and copper, which is normally a good conductor of electricity, can become resistant in thin layers in the presence of a magnetic field.

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Today, however, network computers are making a comeback as "thin clients, " and are currying favor with corporate customers worried about the escalating cost of maintaining large PC pools.

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