It is very thin now. Find a place where the ice has melted, then tie some logs together.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

As a result, central banks are now walking the economy on a very thin tightrope between inflation and deflation.

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She was from Shoreditch, sir, which is about as Cock-er-ney as it is possible to be (or was back in the 50s - now it's full of ruddy eejits in very thin jeans ashamed of their parents' wealth and exhibiting a complete failure to understand that they are the laughing stock of the rest of the London populace).

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"There have been cases that have been brought on very thin factual ground, " says David Roe, then as now a lawyer for Environmental Defense.

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