Over the past 12 months, Lendio has seen a significant surge in the number of alternative lenders that are stepping up to the plate to fill in the funding gap and provide loans to small business owners.

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Fill your plate with all the flavours of this escape to Thailand, and you'll savour it until the very last bite.

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Never set it down on the buffet table to fill your plate.

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Prof Sanders agrees that fruit and vegetables are not "super foods" that protect against cancer but - like many nutritionists - takes the view that it is better to fill up your plate with vegetables than a lot of the other high-calorie food it's so easy to snack on.

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In their experiments, the two Wisconsin researchers use a solution of the nickel isotope to fill sets of microscopic channels in a silicon plate.

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Each time Clarisse came around to fill my glass, I kept my eyes on my plate, unable to look at her.

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