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  • With a diversified collection of bets on announced deals, you can make a steady but unspectacular return, peppered by the occasional big loss when a seemingly surefire deal falls apart.

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  • On WP7 there was essentially just one size of tile, with the occasional app having a double width tile.

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  • And despite the occasional slip of a date reference from various executives, an official ship date still hasn't been set.

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  • Eight kids and the occasional dog produced a bumper crop of necessity.

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  • Many people thought it was thunder, or fireworks or one of the occasional bangs from a local foundry, the biggest employer in town.

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  • All that appeared odd then were the town's wide avenues lined with tall trees and the occasional spire of a Christian church rising upwards.

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  • Still the occasional boundary offered a glimmer of hope, with 33 needed from 16, but the redoubtable Flintoff yorked Denesh Ramdin to claim the seventh wicket.

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  • Aside from catching the occasional movie at a theater or sports game at a bar, players will go bowling or to church services with one another.

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  • Last term, the court seemed to tread water in most of its rulings, giving only occasional hints that a conservative revolution was waiting to take off.

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  • But Australia chose to use occasional bowlers in a bid to speed-up their slow over-rate, and Mahendra Dhoni hit 55 in a vital 108 stand with Harbhajan Singh.

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  • But in the big picture, owners like Jones and Davis have been little more than the occasional strays in a herd of cattle that follows league marching orders blindly.

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  • He buys the occasional ad in a military publication.

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  • Another glorious example of the Gold Coast excess described in the novel, the house is complemented by the many trails of the preserve leading to lovely harbour views and the occasional sighting of a red-tailed hawk.

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  • Then you will regret that thoughtless comment, but I will not wish that on you and hope that you can enjoy IPAs well into your dotage and not have to be content with occasional sips from a regular dining companion.

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  • The rooms had been refurbished several years earlier, when important guests from India had come for a long stay, and so Husna would live in better quarters than ever before in her life, with uninterrupted supplies of good food, servants who more or less did her bidding, and the occasional use of a car.

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