Two years ago, Microsoft scrapped its old mobile operating system and started from scratch.

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With little hope of getting anything recovered, I gave up, fired up my Mac and started from scratch.

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Mortgages are only one of the products that have started from scratch.

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With Wasteland, we are a year in, and it would have taken at least two years to get this far if we had started from scratch.

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"I just really started from scratch, " she said.

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In a later calculation, the Grid's software could then automatically detect whether a computation had to be started from scratch, or could take a short cut using a previous result stored somewhere in the system.

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So banks have started from scratch.

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They started from scratch.

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Following glitches with hi-tech voting and counting systems, the vote-tallying process was started again from scratch, and by hand, on Wednesday.

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As you point out, I was very active in local government, but I'm really running as a guy that started up a business from scratch, and I think maybe that experience is pretty good in the halls of the U.S. Senate - somebody who hasn't been on the public payroll but has met a payroll.

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A. We started the China apparel business almost from scratch.

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