Naturally the project also aims to improve traffic safety, reduce environmental impact and - thanks to smooth speed control - cut the risk of traffic tailbacks.

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Each enormous block is perfectly cut, polished smooth and fitted so tight not a sheet of paper would slip between them.

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The Baggies had still to find any sort of rhythm when they were cut apart by a smooth interchange of passes involving Bendtner, Gael Clichy and Denilson that led to Nasri's opener.

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She had sometimes looked for sea glass on the beach in San Clemente, and her housekeeper Fina had cautioned her about picking it up, because the edges could cut you even when the rest had been worn smooth.

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Men apt to cut a few moral corners, and then a few more, until all the right angles are as smooth as they are.

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