• Look, over the last six months, even though the economy has been growing, even though the economy has been recovering, it has not recovered as fast as it could.

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  • Though even the nearest star is too far away for a planet drifting across its disc to be seen, astronomers can detect the drop in starlight caused by the obstruction.

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  • And wherever he landed in California that day, it was as though the country hadn't known the stock market crash and the miseries of the Depression (or the triumphs of FDR, for that matter), as though even the war he was there to prevent us from entering hadn't so much as crossed anyone's mind.

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  • There were no improvements under the hood (though even the lowly Nokia Lumia 610 was fairly smooth on WP7.5, and still is), no OTA updates, you're stuck with Internet Explorer version 9 instead of the much zippier IE10 and apps created for WP8 won't work -- giving developers very little reason to create new ones for the lame duck OS, or even update existing ones.

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  • That flame, even though the British came here and burned down this great capitol, even though the British shelled Fort McHenry, that flame still remained.

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  • Even though the car is 3.5 inches shorter overall, and even though the front suspension has gone from double A-arm to McPherson strut, it looks as though the team of stylists barely changed pens.

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  • And even though they finished the regular season tied for ninth in the Big East, even though there were some rough spots during the season, these players just put their heads down, they worked hard, and they focused on winning the games that counted.

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  • "The way he skied, he was so light even though he was a big guy, he was so light on the skis, smooth and he could pull it off -- even though if the first run was not that great, he could really do it on the second run, " the Austrian said.

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  • They have said they would spend the windfall gain from selling 4G licences even though Gordon Brown used the sale of 3G licences to pay down the debt, and even though Labour has said that any windfall from selling bank shares should be used in the same way.

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  • This is the case even though the shop doors might still be open.

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  • On the second occasion, he was told, incorrectly, that he could not redeem the property even though the period of redemption had yet to expire.

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  • However, because of the pay protection clause all these doctors have continued to get the payouts even though the 'bonuses' have been formally withdrawn from them.

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  • The industrious Doyle was also holding the ball up superbly and bringing Duff and McGeady into the play even though the Republic were largely feeding off scraps.

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  • The First Minister Peter Robinson likened TUV leader Jim Allister to a Japanese solider who remained in the jungle even though the Second World War was over.

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  • Robin: Dahlia, do you think it is right for relief agencies to try to bring food and other help into the South even though the war is continuing?

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  • It was a straightforward Saturday for the rest of the field even though the second phase of qualifying was halted when a bollard was knocked over at Turn Nine.

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  • It is no exaggeration to state there is an incredible amount of surplus capacity in the economy even though the economy has generated 1.5m new jobs during the past 12 months.

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  • Weak corporate earnings, a dismal outlook and generally gloomy sentiment continues to weigh on the markets even though the federal government's multipronged effort to unfreeze the lending markets appears to be bearing fruit.

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  • The company would mail letters through the post rather than attend in person and charge a fee for the privilege even though the demand would say a bailiff had called themselves and attended.

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  • This was partly due to eBay's acquisition of PayPal, a payments business, last year, though even with the effects of that deal stripped out, underlying sales were up by 56% over the previous year.

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  • Such a view was caused in part by years of MLS expanding elsewhere before coming to the Northwest even though the region had long demonstrated it was very capable and very willing to support a club within the league.

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  • When my agency, StrawberryFrog, was asked to brand Dubai Downtown, and help put it on the world stage, we studied these great campaigns of the past even though the destinstion we were tasked to position is a city of the future.

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  • Much of the country's current success was due to the good sense of its recent governments, in particular those of Fernando Henrique Cardoso from 1995 to 2003, which created a stable, predictable macroeconomic environment in which businesses could flourish (though even now the government continues to get in the way of companies trying to earn profits and create jobs).

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  • Even though the GOP passed repeal in the House, it will not even be considered in the Senate.

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  • Nevertheless, I lingered at the window, even though the night was cold and getting colder.

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  • The gain came even though the German ZEW economic-sentiment indicator dropped to its lowest reading since December.

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  • Socialist mayors from Barcelona to Lleida want to ban the burqa, even though the courts say they cannot.

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