"It's such a pity, but I've got to make a living, " he said.

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It is such a pity that because Polydor have eliminated it from the charts it has not been given a chance of becoming the biggest selling record of the year.

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The refinements make the RAZR2 V8 sound like a winner to us: a pity it had to be such a long time coming.

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Yet having done such a good job of knocking down his opponents' arguments, it is a pity he does not have more concrete proposals to offer in their place.

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This is a pity since, in an ideal world, such searches would involve repeated observations of the same galaxies every few days.

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It is a pity that Mr Siegelbaum's book has such poor photographs: for those who never experienced the true horrors of Soviet-era motoring, words are not enough.

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Which is a pity because it would be interesting to see what price is put on such exposure: assuming that a price is being paid of course.

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To the contrary, I express a sentiment that I have heard from a vast number of women, who collectively have said that your recent article entitled "Don't Marry a Career Woman" was read with disgust, disdain, and pity for a group of people who could be so utterly insensitive and boorish in approving such slanderous filth.

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This is a pity, not least because the new bank will operate in far more of a political vacuum than such notably independent central banks as the Bundesbank and the Fed.

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