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  • It settled into a pattern of flaring up every now and then before dying back to a grumble.

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  • "I would buy a book now and then about death and dying, " he recalls.

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  • The second recounts a family dinner during his childhood at which his mother, then in her 40s and dying of multiple sclerosis, struggled desperately to enjoy her meal.

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  • If marine mammals are turning up on beaches or dying in nets, then these events should be warning flags for the whole ecosystem.

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  • The judge said Baker then removed the "dead or dying" man's clothes and placed him in the bath with a degree of "calculation and cunning".

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  • "President Bush says he is concerned about the Iraqi people, but if Iraqi people are dying in numbers, then American policy will be challenged very strongly, " he said.

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  • Wakefield then grabbed a consolation try in the dying seconds, which Veivers converted.

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  • Sometimes she is unhappy, and then she will tell us, I am dying.

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  • Why is it then that there are so many ways of dying, and that we're made in different ways and feel so many different things?

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  • As Dr Goldacre points out, if one drug is even a shade more effective than its competitors, then thousands of people prescribed the inferior ones are dying needlessly every year for want of a bit of simple research.

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  • If you do join the military and first work hard to be a good team member and then take on the responsibility of fighting and perhaps dying for the other members of your platoon, they will see that as far more important than anything else.

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  • Remkus' grandfather William and father, George, purchased the then 5-acre pet cemetery in 1950 after a dying customer of George's grocery store implored him to buy and maintain it.

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  • If every cloud has a silver lining, then the bright side of the Great Recession may be fewer people dying from on-the-job injuries.

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  • Hazard finished calmly in the game's dying stages when sprung through on goal and the Belgian then teed up Torres for his sixth goal in five games.

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  • Her house hasn't been cleaned in decades, and she thinks she can win the heart of a doctor who treated her dying mother in the early 1950s, deliriously believing her then infatuation was actually reciprocated.

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  • When Mills' header put Reading in front for a second time, Paulo Sousa's side were unable to come back - as in the dying stages Federici pushed away a headed effort from Moreno and then parried a Fryatt shot.

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  • Pierre Alain-Frau then put them ahead with 20 minutes to go before the floodgates opened in the dying stages.

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  • That's the updated version of the man police said killed four people, apparently randomly, then holed up for nearly a day in an abandoned bar called Glory Days before dying in a gunfight with police who tried to root him out.

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  • The visitors then lost McShane for a wild tackle on Hleb before Walcott hit a post in the dying seconds.

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  • Then I thought back to the worst thing that ever happened to me: my mom dying at age 48 of breast cancer.

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  • Some buy dying retailers like Sears and K-Mart in order to nurse them back to health, and then some simply invest in companies that they view as promising.

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