Mr Batterbee says "the Swedes have a strange relationship with Abba, because they were never as big here as they were abroad".

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But like many journalists I always enjoyed talking to him, because he was extremely knowledgeable, decent and fair, and a shrewd observer of Britain's strange relationship with Europe.

ECONOMIST: European politics

Apple has a rather strange relationship with the technical press.

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It was a strange relationship in the sense that her paper was on the opposite side from my views very often, but she never attempted to use our friendship for any benefit for her newspaper.

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It's a difficult relationship, it's always going to be a difficult relationship, it's a very strange relationship given the fact that David and I are not just dealing with the administrative elements, trying to get a four part coalition, a very strange four part coalition administration going, but we have also got to deal with the external issues like these issues that we're talking about today.

BBC: News Online

The result was an article in the Times Magazine that brought that strange and shifting editorial relationship to public light.

NEWYORKER: Rough Crossings

Mr Hullah told the court he thought "there was something strange about the incident" and asked Mr Brewer about their relationship.

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Which means that we can take comfort in knowing that no matter how strange the universe is, we at least know that the physics of Michael Bay movies still have no relationship with the real world.

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