We'd all lived together when Tia was a baby and she was my mum's 'mini-me'.

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"Some of them are the 'mini-me's' and I want them there, " she said.

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It's worth stressing that the 308 and 309's new classification isn't just marketing fluff -- the pair perform just like mini-me smartphones should.

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The mini-me stimulus will be both smaller and better behaved.

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It seems folks are just incessant in the quest to create new kinds of microphones, with a California-based inventor patenting the latest attempt in the form of the sure-to-be-Mini-Me-approved laser microphone.

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My route to work on the mini-bus takes me past Government House each day.

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He described it as "the mini-World Cup" and convinced me that the team were fresh and "up for it", despite their hectic schedule of late.

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She owned an Aiwa mini disk player, which, she told me, used a special lithium-ion battery.

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