These have to be put in these big sludge bits.

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It would also be galling to put all that effort into becoming prime minister only to hand over some of the most interesting bits of the job to Brussels.

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But Croatia is unlikely to put much store on better relations with other bits of the Balkans.

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Or to put it another way, the British-made bits of the products they make represent only a small amount of the overall cost of those products.

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To put this in perspective, a single megabyte contains eight million individual bits, which are the smallest units of information.

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