But for those looking for something a bit different, several alternative events are also starting to pop up.

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Instead, it plans to continue as a niche player in the market, by offering something a bit different.

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We are going to do something a bit different from the Anglo-Saxons.

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"By doing something a bit different, we want to reach a new audience and make them aware of the risk flooding poses, " said agency spokesman Pete Fox.

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And when we started the initiative, we knew that there was a need for change and a need for innovation and a need for people to have a different choice, for consumers to be able to buy something a bit different and is offering them different options and offering a platform for innovation.

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The Duchess of Cornwall has gone for something a little bit different.

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This year, we decided to try something a little bit different.

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But this year we've included something a little bit different.

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It made me want to do something different, a bit far-fetched, something that no-one would expect me to do - that's why I decided to go to the north pole.

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Dr. THOMMES: Well, what we think happened in our solar system is that we are an example of a system that was sort of near the boundary between something that actually formed gas giants, formed, well, the Jupiter and Saturn that we see today, and something that if conditions had been a little bit different wouldn't have really formed any gas giants at all.

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