Only a rare mistake by goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, who had previously joked that it's sometimes boring between the sticks for Bayern, allowed Arsenal to pull a goal back on Tuesday.

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"Sometimes it's really boring, " Ms. Brickman said of her life.

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Sometimes the list can look pretty boring because Oprah Winfrey so often occupies the top spot (four time in the past six year).

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Sometimes the writer who overloads an opening passage is simply afraid of boring the reader.

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Sometimes the words are difficult to understand or are prayed in flat and boring tones as though the celebrant doesn't believe them.

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Lay encouraged executives to shift cash from Enron's boring, low-growth pipelines into more exciting ventures, sometimes giving the division chiefs a chance to invest in them.

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First, mistletoe weakens (and sometimes kills) its host trees, opening them to infestations by wood-boring insects and similar critters.

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Sometimes they stare mindlessly at the CNN Airport Network or sit with glazed eyes in a boring meeting.

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