And so three hours were whiled away, giving the appearance that necessary reforms are underway.

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In the city's Condesa neighborhood, Alfredo Sono Dillman whiled away the days watching movies on a home computer.

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The entire West Side of Berlin - in which I whiled away hours at the famous Literaturhaus restaurant in Charlottenburg - belongs to another era.

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At night, by the light of a fire out in the open, Pereda whiled away the time recounting adventures that had taken place exclusively in his imagination.

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Lo's co-workers whiled away their shifts sleeping or playing cards.

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Many of us whiled away untold hours of our youth mashing the D-pad, A and B buttons of the original Game Boy, which is why we've seen many hacks using its iconic hardware.

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This is how I whiled away one long summer night at a wedding reception on the Baltic coast of Sweden: hearing toasts, crooning local drinking songs and draining a profusion of little nips bottles of something called snaps (which is pronounced "schnahps, " but is very different from dessert-like schnapps).

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