More than rain on a Sunday afternoon with a good book, more than the first bite of a T-bone steak at Les Halles.

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Is this the first bite of the apple?

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But it was the gooseberry-cream-filled, meringue-topped, towering glory known as Hannchen Jansen that had me at the first crunchy and creamy bite.

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North Shore is one of the first big customers to bite.

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This is not the first time the Uruguayan striker has been sanctioned for a bite.

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The Bar Council's former chairman Matthias Kelly QC said the law changes could "lead to prosecutions routinely seeking a second bite of the cherry, if a case flopped first time for good reason".

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For the first time, most courses this year were taken in bite-size chunks, although coursework has been cut down and replaced with school-based controlled assessments.

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First, the discipline imposed by the debt rule would have to bite gradually, rather than all at once, allowing time for corrective action, and avoiding sudden rollover crises so the plan calls for overlapping tranches of short-term debt.

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The first is that abortion after 20 weeks is in fact rare, so moves to outlaw it lack real-life bite.

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