Because if there's more crisis, let alone a break-up, that could easily sink our recovery for a long time, and cause havoc for Britain's banks.

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Yet on September 14th an associate of Mr Fini declared that Mr Berlusconi's former deputy prime minister would never leave the party he helped to found, let alone set up a rival.

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At the time it was tough to get funding for any idea, let alone a new processor that would go up against the incumbents.

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Such strains would have tested any country, let alone a small one with a violent history, a population made up of 18 jealous religious minorities and a weak central state built on power-sharing between them.

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Nothing eats up a federal budget like a war, let alone two wars.

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No one, needless to say, has a clue what anyone else is up to, let alone what happened before the marriage craze set in.

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In the years ahead, investors will be hard pressed to keep up with inflation in these assets, let alone achieve a positive real return or meet their financial goals.

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Noguchi might never have found the urge to climb, let alone clean up his conquests, had he not been suspended from a strict British boarding school when he was 15.

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Ribble Valley MP Nigel Evans, who is from Swansea, says it was hard enough growing up in Wales as a Conservative, "let alone being gay".

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Soderling won a stunning rally, moving in to hit a smash only for Federer to anticipate it and throw up a devilish sliced lob that the Swede did brilliantly to reach, let alone flick away a winning backhand smash.

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