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  • He arrived at the Sutton as a sprightly 62-year-old after a divorce.

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  • Delving into the relationship between caste and entrepreneurship, the researchers have found that scheduled castes and tribes, the most disadvantaged groups in Hinduism's hierarchy, owned very little businesses despite a decade of sprightly economic growth and a long history of affirmative action.

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  • Nor does the 76-year-old Mr Mukherjee, though sprightly, make a convincing leader.

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  • That would give it an orbital period of 341 years the longest yet measured and far longer than, for example, comet Halley, which goes around the sun in a sprightly 76 years.

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  • That marathon battery life is made possible in part by the slow-spinning 4, 200 rpm 30GB hard drive and low-power (in more ways than one) Core Solo U1300 processor, running at a sprightly 1.06GHz.

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  • Sherchan climbed the 29, 028 feet (8, 848-meter) Everest at the age of 76 in 2008 but when the 2009 Guinness Book of World Records came out, Japanese national Yuichiro Miura was recorded as the oldest person to reach the top of the world aged a sprightly 75.

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  • After a sprightly first ten minutes, the magic simply evaporates from the surface of the film, and one actor after another comes to grief: Will Ferrell overheats as a fading star called Jack, who fancies himself as a Darren de nos jours, while Shirley MacLaine is handed the part of Endora and pretty much abandoned to her fate.

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  • The sprightly 18-year-old, in for the suspended Emmanuel Eboue, was first to pounce on a loose ball, from a challenge between keeper Taylor and Emmanuel Adebayor, and stabbed in from eight yards.

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  • Liverpool finished the half on top, Gerrard shooting wide from a promising position after being teed up by Maxi, but it was Bolton who made the more sprightly start to the second period.

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