Sceptical Poles, scarred by their dealings with suspicious, nit-picking bureaucrats, may take some convincing of this.

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If I'm nit-picking I'm disappointed we lost a goal but Newcastle are a good side with good players.

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That may sound like nit-picking, but I buy the logic of excluding the Sprinter vans from the relevant category.

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The related, and peculiarly British, appetite for nit-picking also reared its head with Lynne Truss's bad grammar diatribe Eats, Shoots and Leaves.

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We end up nit-picking our kids while ignoring the real problem.

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Now, this could be regarded as me just nit-picking.

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Miss Chang could not bear this nit-picking.

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