• This is the sort of project which might attract those longed-for clusters of science and biotechnology research companies.

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  • The National Assembly elections, however, seem to have given Plaid its longed-for breakthrough.

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  • So the UKIP factor threatens to make it harder still for the Conservatives to secure their longed-for overall majority.

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  • Mr Ehrlich pointed out that some Indian and Chinese parents would go on having daughter after daughter until the longed-for son arrived.

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  • Or the resurfaced rumblings about the debut of the long longed-for Apple iTV or even the next iteration of the iPhone.

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  • Jackson's former Gills team-mate Josh Gowling said everyone wished the striker well on Tuesday when he revealed he had got his longed-for move.

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  • Its choice as the Palestinian delegation's headquarters ten years ago, when Israel and its Arab neighbours boldly embarked on the Madrid peace conference, made it an emblem of the longed-for turn from war to peace.

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  • Somehow, though, the record found its way to South Africa, where, via cassette-copying, it went viral, striking a chord among young Afrikaners, who found in it a sense of longed-for justice stifled in their apartheid-defined society.

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  • Nearly every day, he sat at the back of Galway court house and listened to the details of his wife's last days, and her miscarriage of their 17-week-old female foetus, a much-longed for child.

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  • Rounded out by Nik Pfeifer on guitar and Brian Boesen on drums, Love in October is the sort of group that fans of Top 40 pop-punk have longed for.

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  • Not often have I, as an American, longed for another country's can-do spirit.

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  • The former made him one of the highest-earning writers in the world in the mid-twentieth century, and barred him from achieving the top-rung literary status that he longed for.

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  • Claiborne hoped to regain much-needed edge and relevance, while Rodriguez longed for a protective partner.

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  • One of a kind, self-involved and living in his head, he longed for comradeship.

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  • If you've ever longed for a computer that kicked legacy technologies and power-hungry components to the curb, the Intel NUC will come as an incredibly refreshing piece of hardware.

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  • In 2003, unable to find a bra that would give her the smooth line she longed for, she took scissors to a pair of control-top pantyhose--cutting out the gusset and legs to create a makeshift bra that wouldn't be lumpy from the back.

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  • The moment of truth, longed for and dreaded, did not come last Monday, when a question-and-answer session, featuring both candidates, was broadcast simultaneously all over the country by all the television and radio networks, as a non-commercial public service, and was watched by it is hoped some 80 million people.

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