Who cares, under most circumstances, whether a reader holds its charge for 10 hours or a week?

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If you come back in a day or a week, it's not going to make any difference.

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The wall of the reservoir could collapse within a day or a week, Environment State Secretary Zoltan Illes said.

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Rather than end after 15 minutes or an hour, the game may take a day, or a week or two.

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But Vioxx is often prescribed for a few days, or a week.

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And even the day after the debate, last week or a week and a half ago, he was fired up in Wisconsin.

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And I'd go home, do some calculations and a day or a week later I'd apologize and say: You were completely right.

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For equities, though, the reality is that most fluctuate more than this additional tax, however concerning, in a day or a week.

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No, not once or twice a week that each user finds someone in the vicinity, once or twice a week among all users?

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If an extension is announced again this time on Friday, expect it to be either a 72-hour extension to Monday night or a week long extension.

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Any ad hoc reports would be sent as a request to your friendly business analyst, who would then come back with something for you after several days or a week.

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So, in stressed market conditions, if you are a bank in need of cash, it is saner to borrow for a day or a week rather than for a year.

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It costs them nothing for you to sit at the airport for a day or a week, even though it might cost you and your family hundreds or thousands of dollars.

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"The Annan plan is on track and a crisis that has been going on for over a year is not going to be resolved in a day or a week, " spokesman Ahmed Fawzi said.

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But it might be worthwhile to take a weekend writing workshop or a week-long summer workshop and get a teacher and just say show me with 10 pages, show me what to do with the first 10 pages.

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These guidelines recommend people get at least 150 minutes of walking or 75 minutes of running a week, along with two or more days a week of resistance training.

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Already, people are going online to pledge to make giving back a part of their lives, not just for a day or for a week, but all year round.

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But the real deadline is typically a week or two before, as it takes most providers a week or two to setup the plan for launch.

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While news of a deal might boost the stock market for a few days or even a week, longer term nothing has changed.

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One of the duties of a pope is to meet at least once every five years with his more than 5, 000 bishops from around the world - roughly 1, 000 a year, or 20 a week.

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It has filed 49 securities lawsuits over the past two years, sometimes at a rate of two or three a week, making a mockery of provisions in the Public Securities Litigation Reform Act that prohibits any entity from serving as a lead plaintiff in more than five cases in a three-year period.

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An arctic explorer needs 6, 000 to 7, 000 calories a day, or 49, 000 a week or so.

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Now here's a real head-scratcher -- imagine that instead of having Netflix ship you a new movie on disc every few days, you had some other company sending you a new hard drive once or twice a week.

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Now a new analysis of using Natrecor once or twice a week in patients here at the American College of Cardiology is reviving both parts of this debate.

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Surveys show that some 50% to 80% of us dream about work, with a significant portion admitting they often wake up in a cold sweat and experience work nightmares once or more a week.

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Others perhaps can no longer afford to hire a maid full-time, and are switching to contract cleaners who come in once or twice a week.

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Barbara Doulyeraki, who runs Agia Marina Donkey Rescue in Crete, said she gets about two or three calls a week from villagers selling or giving away donkeys, up from about one call a month in years past.

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But after a week or two of using it twice a week she started to feel relief.

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Study leader Dr Martin Wildman, consultant in respiratory medicine at Northern General Hospital in Sheffield, said in an averagely-sized hospital the decision to admit a patient with COPD to intensive care probably happens once a week - or two to three times a week in winter.

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