Half of them lost at least 5 games and as a whole they have lost 42 games so far this season (bowl results will add to this total).

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Visiting A Company last month, the fact that it (and indeed the Green Howards as a whole) have not yet lost a soldier on this tour was a topic that provoked a good deal of superstition, or indeed evasion.

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His team have already lost seven times this season -- two more defeats than the whole of the 2011-12 campaign -- and all of them have been away from home.

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Although the ultimate outcomes of the low-fat and low-carbohydrate diets in the experiments were the same, in that people lost similar amounts of weight over the course of a whole year, this is unlikely to deter the hordes of Atkins aficionados who swear by the diet.

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