• The armed neighbor on neighbor violence of the zombie vision is just a thin celluloid line away from real life in say, a prolonged gas shortage.

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  • Most photomasks are created by etching away a thin film of light-blocking chrome from the surface of a quartz plate.

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  • William Boden of the University of Buffalo says the idea that the arteries were thin does not explain away worries about Zetia's effectiveness against heart attack-causing atherosclerosis.

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  • As part of the fastest eroding coastline in Europe, many experts thought that the thin parts would be swept away in storms, leaving the point isolated as an island.

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  • His rugged face, bulbous nose, thin strands of hair, give away some years of alcohol misuse.

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  • Even the models seemed to get a tiny bit rounder, possibly taking a step away from the painfully thin runway ideal of the past decade.

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  • As the pressure builds up in these bubbles, they expand and rip the thin layer of silicon above them away from the rest of the wafer.

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  • While most brass pens are heavily lacquered to preserve their lustre, the Hatch is finished with just a thin coat intended to wear away quickly, leaving the hygienic surface exposed.

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  • To keep bedbugs away, Leung and his roommates put thin pads, bamboo mats, even old linoleum on their cages' wooden planks instead of mattresses.

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  • Although the evidence for any spiriting away of the body may sound decidedly thin, the Giuseppe Garibaldi Foundation believed it had managed to persuade the Italian government to allow an inspection of the tomb.

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  • In a time of war, many of our military families are stretched thin, with fathers doing multiple tours of duty far away from their children.

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  • The idea is to inject clouds of material into the stratosphere, creating a thin haze and deflecting some of the sun's rays away from the Earth, at least temporarily.

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  • Rubs his eyes to shake the dust of these musings, not a dream exactly, this late-sleep panic fine glass thin as paper, shattered and swirling, cutting as it blows away.

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  • Flintoff was soon given the ball and picked up two wickets in his initial burst, firstly Ramnaresh Sarwan, whose fluent 23 ended when he backed away to one that bounced just that touch more and got a thin edge through to keeper Prior.

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  • In the nineties and around the turn of the millennium, some of the clever idea people in very prestigious firms got a little carried away and figured out a way to essentially create basis out of thin air, which would mean that nobody with substantial capital gains would ever have to pay tax on them again.

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  • They just about get away with it, which is more than can be said for the interpretation of Thin Lizzy's Whiskey In The Jar.

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  • Winky Dink said he wanted the children to mail away for a "Magic Window, " which was actually a cheaply produced, thin sheet of plastic that adhered to the TV screen by static electricity.

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