By 2002 and the Golden Jubilee, Britain comes across as a busier, lonelier, more cynical place.

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Here, the landscape is rockier, lonelier and veined with extensive tunnels and caves.

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To be single must mean to be lonely but far lonelier are those who fear being alone.

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Steadily growing older and becoming slower, fatter and lonelier until the inevitable.

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One of the lonelier stalls among all the busy corporate displays at the Las Vegas Convention Center was sponsored by the Prince of Dubai.

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So why make it any lonelier than it needs to be?

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