"Manufacturers don't always take everything to the nth degree, " admits Paul Gagliardi , a Porsche technician.

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Today I spoke with Tim Woodward, a managing director at cleantech venture firm Nth Power.

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Mr Routledge said all the evidence being presented against him was being "twisted to the nth degree".

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There was no spontaneity in the evening's proceedings - everything anyone said was scripted to the nth degree.

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"They did everything to the nth degree, " says Adams.

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The show contains 150 examples of "the most extraordinary shoe styles of the 21st century, " which means designs from the past 12 years that are the nth degree in embellishment, abstraction and transgression.

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While studying for my course in Environmental Economics (at the nth moment and the night before my Environmental Policy exam, I might add) I came across what is commonly known as the Precautionary Principle.

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However, although the properties of these basic chemical reactions have been measured and understood to the nth degree, no one has been able to show from first principles exactly why lead and lead dioxide tend to be so electropositive and electronegative.

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