The struggling bird fitted nicely into the pelican's capacious pouch but was too big to be swallowed, so a prolonged mastication took place before the appalled visitors.
The Roderick set-up could have been so much better and so much more prolonged than it was.
Paul Scholes, so influential for United in their prolonged triumphs under the Scot, joined him in retirement.
Authorisation and renewal processes for innovative schools need to be robust, so that bad experiments are not prolonged and failures are not ignored.
So the question becomes, will prolonged high unemployment among men force them to overcome their reluctance to take on jobs normally filled by women?
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But growth has been going on for 30 months, and other indicators of recovery have been visible at least since the start of this year, so the lag is already unusually prolonged.
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The composite rate can never go below 0%, so even if we experience a prolonged period of severe de flation, the I Bonds will still help protect the future spending power of your investment.
At school or college the maximum length of a half-term is seven weeks, so it's also quite a prolonged effort.
It installed stand-up desks, so staffers could escape the unhealthy effects of prolonged sitting.
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The rainy season next month will disrupt transport and so push up food prices, which a prolonged drought has already helped to inflate.
But even a prolonged rise of 10% or so in the cost of energy could still have a significant impact on the world economy.
Still, with the exception of the LG combo playing BH100, none of the major players have shown any plans to change sides, so until they do, prepare for a prolonged stalemate before this war is truly over.
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The prolonged newsreel footage of the actual Mussolini is so appalling that the mystery of his success remains unresolved.
Our central bank has neither prevented nor even predicted this prolonged period of excess inflation, which has so devalued the average pay packet.
So was Lady Thatcher a "draconian militarist" whose actions prolonged the Northern Ireland conflict, as Gerry Adams contends?
Complicating the issue is the volcanic eruption of Toba, in Sumatra, around 74, 000 years ago, which injected so much sulfurous dust into the high atmosphere that it caused prolonged droughts that might have come close to wiping out many human populations.
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So the weekly big food shop in a large supermarket is still shrinking, in a prolonged way that is almost without precedent.
The weather, so balmy in June, reverted to rainy type in July, confounding predictions of a prolonged scorcher, leaving the meteorologists red-faced and the skin of stay-at-home Britons pallid.
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Prolonged success means increased revenue for the university, often to the tune of millions, so granting a head coach more control is seen as a small price to pay.
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Prolonged mass unemployment in Europe has triggered a global debate about the euro currency, and rightly so.
Other doctors prolonged patients' lives even after they had been drained of dignity, and profited from doing so.
However results emerging from the so-called Mars500 project suggests that even carefully screened individuals are likely to suffer from psychological problems from a prolonged space mission.
Dr. Byock states modern medicine has become so good at keeping the terminally ill alive that the inevitable process of dying has become much harder and is often prolonged unnecessarily.
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