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Sigma knowledge engineering system is an system for developing, viewing and debugging theories in first
order logic. It works with Knowledge Interchange Format (KIF) and is optimized for the Suggested Upper Merged
Ontology (SUMO) www.ontologyportal.org.
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; author: Sofia Athenikos - [email protected]
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;;;;; announce about - COVERED
; John announced about his plan.
;;;;; ask about - COVERED
; John asked about my opinion.
;;;;; be about - COVERED
; Section Five is about the impact on student learning.
;;;;; boast about - COVERED
; ... Toyota officials boasted about the effectiveness of the new measures.
;;;;; care about
; An important consideration is to determine what you really care about.
;;;;; chat about
; He chatted with her about his promotion.
;;;;; complain about - COVERED
; They seldom complain about unsafe work environments because of fear of losing their jobs.
;;;;; consult about
; Women consult about the reason for sudden weight gains.
;;;;; disagree about - COVERED
; Stakeholders disagreed about the relative importance of climate change.
;;;;; explain about - COVERED
; He explained about the reason for his sudden absence.
;;;;; feel about - COVERED
; How do you feel about the current state of economy?
;;;;; forget about - COVERED
; Thus IP forgets about a packet and recycles its buffer immediately after forwarding.
;;;;; generalize about - COVERED
; We often attempt to generalize about the varied and often conflicting viewpoints of many millions.
;;;;; glow about
; He would glow about how smart she was.
;;;;; gossip about - COVERED
; It was so we could gossip about everyone who was not there.
;;;;; hear about - COVERED
; We hear about this type of transportation very little because it is the one method that least impacts our environment.
;;;;; inquire about - COVERED
; After years of inquiring about a girlfriend, Jose Dominguez's dad finally stopped.
;;;;; know about
; A teacher should establish what students know about a topic before the course begins.
;;;;; laugh about - COVERED
; Maybe, when she is in her 60's, we can sit and laugh about this.
;;;;; learn about
; Students learn about important engineering concepts in this course.
;;;;; lie about
; ... should I lie about the letter, and increase her paranoia?
;;;;; love about
; And that's what I love about it.
;;;;; mutter about - COVERED
; Some passengers say the captain muttered about al-Qaeda.
;;;;; proclaim about - COVERED
; Here I kiss what those waters of baptism proclaimed about the world.
;;;;; read about - COVERED
; Young and Townsend don't know why anyone would want to read about them.
;;;;; remember about - COVERED
; Then it started to rain and then he remembered about his children and he went home as fast as he could and they were fine.
;;;;; report about - COVERED
; She reports about the benefits and detriments of the proprietary Royal Scottish Geographical Society's Images.
;;;;; smile about - COVERED
; Proctor smiled about the encounter Wednesday afternoon.
;;;;; speak about - COVERED
; They often spoke about events from a long past.
;;;;; speak up about - COVERED
; They should speak up about their concerns.
;;;;; speculate about - COVERED
; Policy-makers alike have speculated about the cause of this division.
;;;;; study about - COVERED
; They study about human biology in this course.
;;;; talk about - COVERED
; Patients talk about shared decision-making.
;;;;; teach about - COVERED
; As a field that teaches about technological changes, it is important for educators to keep up with those technological changes.
;;;;; think about
; Employees should think about their career development plans.
;;;;; tweet about
; He did not attend the rally but tweeted about the police crackdown.
;;;;; understand about - COVERED
; The more you understand about a mechanism, the more you can do to alter it.
;;;;; wonder about
; She wonders about issues such as authoritative provenance.
;;;;; worry about
; We worry worry about weight gain, the increased risk of hypos, and less than ideal lipid profiles ...
;;;;; write about - COVERED
; He has written about environmental contaminants, hazards, and technology for solving environmental problems.
;;;;; yell about - COVERED
; Two girls yelled about the traffic accident.
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;;;;; advise X about - COVERED
; The airline did not advise the passengers about the carry-on luggage.
;;;;; brief X about
; ... Mark Griffin enlisted three psychologists to brief the affected people about the dangerous possibility ...
;;;;; call X about
; ... when they see something they call us about it or they ask us ...
;;;;; do something/anything/nothing, etc. about
; ... now is the time to do something about it ...
; ... participants perceived that their grower did as much as possible about safety ...
;;;;; educate X about
; There are also initiatives dedicated to educating people about phishing scams, including StaySafeOnline.com.
;;;;; excite X about - COVERED
; Great teachers excite students about learning.
;;;;; find out (more/little, etc.) about
; Another way to find out more about professors is simply being part of a student network ...
;;;;; hear something/anything/nothing, etc. about - COVERED
; I did not hear anything about this before.
;;;;; inform X about
; ... an ETA that informs the user about the presence of a head-level obstacle.
; Inform patients about their condition and about the treatment options available ...
; Have each group prepare a media presentation to inform class members about the diseases/abnormalities ...
;;;;; know something/anything/nothing, etc. about - COVERED
; Jenkins was asked by the OHA if he knew anything about cognitive behavioural therapy.
;;;;; make notes about - COVERED
; Listen to their feedback and make notes about the areas for improvement.
;;;;; remember something/anything/nothing, etc. about - COVERED
; He remembered something about that family with the names.
;;;;; reveal (more/little, etc.) about
; Subsequent events revealed more about his character.
;;;;; set the record straight about
; ... set the record straight about rising health-care costs.
;;;;; surprise X about
; What surprises you the most about Snooki's revelations, Joan?
;;;;; tell X about
; Ensure you have travel insurance to cover all your activities and tell your insurer about your allergies ...
;;;;; teach X about
; The first is micro games designed to teach people about phish.
;;;;; warn X about
; ... an example is pretending to be a system administrator warning people about a new attack, urging them to install the attached patch.
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;;;;; concerned about
; The transportation industry and consumers alike are concerned about the environment, energy resources, efficiencies, and economics.
; Is the issue you are concerned about within your circle of concern or influence?
;;;;; delighted about
; But he seemed delighted as well as wary about the attention.
;;;;; embarrassed about
; They are embarrassed about being Astros fans because the team finished with the worst record in baseball.
;;;;; excited about
; Some communities are tremendously excited about the NSO's visit ...
;;;;; impassioned about
; New to the ways of Washington, but impassioned about what her husband had been elected to do, she saw herself as a guardian ...
;;;;; informed about
; ... the user is then informed about whether any of the items in his or her shopping list is in view.
; In addition, teacher educators need to stay informed about advancements in the fields of technology and engineering, and ...
; ... if we are better informed about just how strongly porn can influence us ...
;;;;; known about
; ... little is known about what markers of specific pathobiology we should be measuring to determine treatment success.
;;;;; said about
; Nevertheless, little more is said about where on a figure to place lines in order to best convey shape this decision ...
;;;;; stressed about
; ... if he was feeling stressed about any other matters.
;;;;; worried about
; I was also particularly worried about going on holidays abroad and ensuring that food was suitably prepared.
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;;;;;;;;;; adjective about ;;;;;;;;;;
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;;;;; adamant about
; I believe with one, there was an uncertainty, one that was pretty adamant about it.
;;;;; ambivalent about
; ... who sound most ambivalent about Sunday's election.
;;;; candid about
; He was candid about his bad health habits.
;;;;; careful about
; And so, you know, you have to be careful about running as a businessman ...
;;;;; caring about
; ... she is a wonderful, gracious person, very, very, very caring about the people of southern Arizona ...
;;;;; cautious about
; You should consider swabs for STIs and be cautious about allowing her to think that hormones are the cause of her problems.
;;;;; clear about
; You need to be clear about what it is you are trying to achieve.
;;;;; confident about
; ... you feel confident about what you want to say and can present yourself professionally.
;;;;; discriminating about
; ... by being more discriminating about which applicants they admit.
;;;;; dubious about
; Michaels was dubious about what she could pull out of Cruise, who is not a natural dancer.
;;;;; enthusiastic about
; ... he appeared to be enthusiastic about choosing a behavioral path and taking more responsibility ...
;;;;; explicit about
; Reviews published in journals are generally not as explicit about these two levels of procedural specification ...
;;;;; forthright about
; They are forthright about their qualifications, competencies, and roles ...
;;;;; frank about
; Jaffe is frank about the complexity that alcoholism treatment presents, however.
;;;;; gentlemanly about
; Well, it sounds -- he's very -- being very gentlemanly about it.
;;;;; giddy about
; Giddy about retracing the Dodgers' journey west, about the promise of instant celebrity ...
;;;;; guilty about
; ... making its followers and addicts feel guilty about their actions.
;;;;; happy about
; She's not very happy about it.
;;;;; honest about
; ... be honest with them about their options, and provide them with support to independently make important life decisions.
;;;;; ignorant about
; We are ignorant about the circumstances within which humanity of the future will be deciding ...
;;;;; knowledgeable about
; ... those principals who were highly knowledgeable about RTI were not the only participants to respond.
;;;;; nervous about
; Do you think he has reason, Edward Lozansky, to be nervous about these?
;;;;; optimistic about
; Birnbaum, for one, is cautiously optimistic about the promise of environment-wide association studies.
;;;;; passionate about
; We can all get passionate about things we have little or no direct control or influence over ...
;;;;; pessimistic about
; But Erskine Bowles, co-chair of the president's deficit commission sounded pessimistic about this panel's chance for success.
;;;;; positive about
; ... making us more positive about everything... including our appearance.
;;;;; prescient about
; Mosher was prescient about what would happen if school examiners began to rely solely on photography.
;;;;; public about
; ... my intention is to be very public about my desire to spread my culture and my cuisine ...
;;;;; right about
; ... if she was right about the rest, she was right about the direction of the shot.
;;;;; self-conscious about
; ... she " was very self-conscious about the way she looked " and often felt " embarrassed. " ...
;;;;; sentimental about
; ... she still felt sentimental about the cottage, with its familiar details, ...
;;;;; serious about
; I personally think he's serious about that ...
;;;;; shy about
; ... aren't shy about saying it's time for the first Englishman to be Masters champion ...
;;;;; skeptical about
; Although her mother and teacher were skeptical about her ability to handle this responsibility ...
;;;;; sorry about
; Sorry about that.
;;;;; specific about
; It's hard to get too specific about this.
;;;;; sure about
; ... excluded 653 (1.9%) participants who indicated that they were " not sure " about their sexual orientation, consistent with previous studies.
;;;;; suspicious about
; Bear in mind that if someone is suspicious about the side effects of inhalers ...
;;;;; thrilled about
; I have always loved this look, but we are especially thrilled about it right now ...
;;;;; tight-lipped about
; And Michael was very, you know, kind of tight-lipped about it.
;;;;; uncertain about
; ... each side remains uncertain about the other's future intentions within the Asian theater.
;;;;; vigilant about
; As a way of encouraging students and parents to remain ever-vigilant about carriage, general interest magazines featured advice columns ...
;;;;; vocal about
; The college was here, and the affluent residents were vocal about crime.
;;;;; wary about
; But he seemed delighted as well as wary about the attention.
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;;;;; advertisement about
; I like the advertisement about beer.
;;;;; advice about - COVERED
; He gave me an advice about exercise.
;;;;; agreement about - COVERED
; We have an agreement about the policy.
;;;;; alarm about - COVERED
; There was an alarm about the danger.
;;;;; anxiety about - COVERED
; I have an anxiety about height.
;;;;; argument about - COVERED
; We had arguments about the health care cost.
;;;;; article about - COVERED
; He gave me an article about the current economy.
;;;;; assumption about - COVERED
; The nurses have assumptions about patient care.
;;;;; belief about - COVERED
; Different cultures have different beliefs about social role expectations.
;;;;; belief system about
; The workers described individualized belief systems about which domestic violence situations were legitimate.
;;;;; book about - COVERED
; Peggy gave me two books about the North.
;;;;; chat about - COVERED
; The chat about the company evolved into a discussion.
;;;;; choice about - COVERED
; Patients have choices about future treatments.
;;;;; comment about
; Her comments about the matter made me realize that she was taking an awful lot of notice.
;;;;; commercial about
; The magazine contains a new commercial about a lottery winner.
;;;;; communication about - COVERED
; He wants effective communication about influenza vaccine.
;;;;; complaint about
; There are complaints about numerous issues.
;;;;; concern about
; He has serious concerns about prostate cancer.
;;;;; conclusion about - COVERED
; This study makes conclusions about people's behavior.
;;;;; consensus about - COVERED
; The committee has consensus about the funding.
;;;;; conspiracy about - COVERED
; He was charged with the conspiracy about the successor to the throne.
;;;;; conversation about - COVERED
; In the middle of a conversation about schoolwork, she suddenly left.
;;;;; counsel about
; I need a counsel about the announcement.
;;;;; counseling about - COVERED
; Is office-based counseling about timeouts effective?
;;;;; cue about
; Transitive verbs provide unreliable cues about the syntactic distribution of direct objects.
;;;;; curiosity about
; He had a lot of curiosity about the world.
;;;;; data about
; The faculty members reviewed data about the exam results.
;;;;; debate about - COVERED
; There is an ongoing debate about the amount of weight that women should gain during pregnancy.
;;;;; decision about - COVERED
; We have made a decision about the matter.
;;;;; detail about - COVERED
; He did not give me any details about specific hardware.
;;;;; disagreement about - COVERED
; The meeting was deadlocked because of disagreement about the importance of the problem.
;;;;; discovery about - COVERED
; His discovery about the peptide earned him a Nobel prize.
;;;;; discussion about - COVERED
; The discussion about the best option led to no conclusion.
;;;;; documentary about - COVERED
; The winner of the DVD documentary about the Headless Chicken welcomed the award.
;;;;; doubt about - COVERED
; Doubts about the existence of the condition grew as time went by.
;;;;; education about - COVERED
; Education about healthcare is long overdue.
;;;;; encouragement about - COVERED
; The report gave me encouragement about future economic prospects.
;;;;; entry about
; The blog contains many entries about the incident.
;;;;; evidence about - COVERED
; There is ample evidence about the cause of the accident.
;;;;; fact about - COVERED
; This article outlines the facts about malnutrition.
;;;;; fantasy about - COVERED
; I had a fantasy about the country.
;;;;; fear about - COVERED
; The biggest fear about the impact of climate change is that global thresholds will be breached.
;;;;; feedback about
; Staff members need to provide honest feedback about the college-based transition program.
;;;;; feeling about - COVERED
; I had a good feeling about this.
;;;;; film about - COVERED
; The coming-of-age film about these kids is very popular.
;;;;; figures about
; Authoritative figures about Therethe sex industry are difficult to obtain.
;;;;; findings about - COVERED
; Roberto's findings about nociceptin are a potentially great help.
;;;;; frustration about
; There is a mounting frustration about the mayor's incompetence.
;;;;; guidance about - COVERED
; The manager offers guidance about implementation issues.
;;;;; guilt about - COVERED
; He had a guilt about the incident.
;;;;; hypothesis about - COVERED
; The goal of the present study was to test a hypothesis about the contribution of the lexicon.
;;;;; idea about - COVERED
; We had no idea about the fact that her family did not care.
;;;;; indication about - COVERED
; There are indications about economic recovery.
;;;;; inference about - COVERED
; Inferences about language typology based on optional verbs are not always accurate.
;;;;; information about - COVERED
; This asymmetric information about sellers and their goods leads buyers to dramatically lower what they are willing to pay.
;;;;; insight about - COVERED
; The book conveys insights about the complexities, contradictions, and multiplicities of culture.
;;;;; instruction about - COVERED
; They did not provide instructions about the assembly.
;;;;; irony about - COVERED
; There is a huge irony about the impact of Internet porn.
;;;;; issue about - COVERED
; The issue about economic inequality is going to continue to resonate.
;;;;; joke about - COVERED
; I have heard the joke about it before.
;;;;; judgment about - COVERED
; His judgment about the matter is flawed.
;;;;; knowledge about - COVERED
; Teachers will be developing students' knowledge about medical technologies in this way.
;;;;; language about - COVERED
; His use of plain language about issues such as Social Security earned His rave reviews.
;;;;; learning about - COVERED
; We have acquired improved scientific learning about implementing promotion programs.
;;;;; lesson about - COVERED
Important lessons about shared responsibility should be imparted to every student.
;;;;; meeting about - COVERED
; The meeting about publicity and elections was of no interest to me.
;;;;; message about - COVERED
; Email messages about various scams inundate our mailboxes.
;;;;; metadata about - COVERED
; You can find metadata about books and authors in a library information system.
;;;;; mind about
; She shrugged, and changed her mind about asking him to the country club dance.
;;;;; misconception about
; Common misconceptions about traumatic brain injury (TBI).
;;;;; movie about - COVERED
; The movie about the famous battle is soon to hit the theaters.
;;;;; mystery about
; There are many mysteries about which species confer what dynamics to ecosystems or what benefits to people ...
;;;;; myth about - COVERED
; Many urban myths about the famous incident are merely products of imagination.
;;;;; news about
; Stock market skyrocketed today on upbeat news about the European debt crisis ...
;;;;; note about - COVERED
; Listen to their feedback and make notes about possible improvements.
;;;;; notion about - COVERED
; We had clear notions about the acceptability of the intervention package ...
;;;;; observation about - COVERED
; The assessment and examination considered issues such as initial observations about Jenkins and his environment.
;;;;; op-ed about
; It was an op-ed about the Flavr Savr where the term Frankenfood first appeared.
;;;;; opinion about - COVERED
; People have different opinions about same-sex marriage.
;;;;; perception about - COVERED
; Different people have different perceptions about the same situation.
;;;;; perspective about - COVERED
; What is your perspective about the risks and hazards associated with orchard work?
;;;;; point about
; To your larger point about the press, I don't think markers are different ...
;;;;; policy about
; An organization could also publish its policies about the sources of funding.
;;;;; prediction about - COVERED
; These categories differ in terms of predictions about specific effects of lexical development.
;;;;; presentation about - COVERED
; The location and frequency of presentations about college shifted after the students entered high school.
;;;;; program about - COVERED
; Despite the fierce competition, he was easily accepted into the prestigious program about economics.
;;;;; qualms about - COVERED
; She has no qualms about insects.
;;;;; query about - COVERED
; The system can handle queries about general topics.
;;;;; question about - COVERED
; Any questions about possible treatment options should be directed to the doctor.
;;;;; rage about
; All the rage about the president was soon gone.
;;;;; recommendation about - COVERED
; The committee made public its recommendations about the amount of buffering.
;;;;; reflection about - COVERED
; Reflections about the past, present, and future of the organization led to a new plan.
;;;;; result about - COVERED
; The poll result about people's interests in politics was not surprising.
;;;;; revelation about - COVERED
; Despite the revelations about his pornographic postings, she still believes in him as a donor.
;;;;; rumor about - COVERED
; Rumors about imminent terrorist attacks abound.
;;;;; scenario about - COVERED
; Hypothetical scenarios about commonplace problematic situations are the topics of the exercise.
;;;;; show about - COVERED
; Maybe he was too rational for all the television shows about mediums and psychic children?
;;;;; signal about - COVERED
; We are receiving signals about climate change.
;;;;; skepticism about - COVERED
; Skepticism about scoliosis screening has been voiced at numerous points over the last several decades.
;;;;; snobbery about - COVERED
; An indie-rock snobbery about such trappings from rock's monolithic arena era remains.
;;;;; speculation about - COVERED
; There is growing speculation about the potential contribution of climate change to violent conflicts.
;;;;; statement about - COVERED
; A statement about the government's position on the issue is long overdue.
;;;;; statistics about - COVERED
; Luther includes statistics about the size of the market.
;;;;; story about - COVERED
; Pinocchio is a story about a wooden puppet who wanted to become a boy.
;;;;; story line about - COVERED
; The storyline about the popular comic-strip character is very funny.
;;;;; suggestion about - COVERED
; The author's suggestions about embarking on a new enterprise are highly useful.
;;;;; suspicion about - COVERED
; We had our suspicions about the new drug.
;;;;; testimony about - COVERED
; In his public testimony about the service probe, Sullivan sometimes gave conflicting numbers.
;;;;; theory about
; ... Aaron recommended that the new discipline create better theories about policy impacts ...
;;;;; transparency about - COVERED
; There is often a lack of transparency about governmental decision-making.
;;;;; trial about - COVERED
; The trial about the murder case became a global sensation.
;;;;; truth about - COVERED
; The truth about the source of privileged information could not be revealed.
;;;;; uncertainty about - COVERED
; The uncertainty about the economic prospect looms large.
;;;;; unknowns about
; ... which revealed significant unknowns about how oil and gas activities might affect local ecology.
;;;;; views about - COVERED
; The senator's views about the responsibility of decision makers clash with those of many other senators.
;;;;; wonder about - COVERED
; His wonders about the natural world stayed with him all his life.
;;;;; word about - COVERED
; The police chief did not give the reporters any word about the case.
;;;;; worries about
; All the worries about the economic collapse could not save the market.
;;;;; writing about - COVERED
; I have a student writing about a zombie.
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(there is something/nothing ... about X; what is ... about X, etc.)
;;;;; alarming about
; Most alarming about Shands's results was not the incidence but rather the medical profession's inability ...
;;;;; beneficial about
; Experimentally disentangling what's beneficial about elderspeak from what's not.
;;;;; courageous about
; And I don't think there's anything courageous about asking for sacrifice ...
;;;;; inappropriate about
; ... that there was " nothing inappropriate about the way the guns were sold " to class participants.
;;;;; inevitable about
; However, there is nothing inevitable about any of the possible eventualities
;;;;; interesting about
; What struck me as so interesting about South Carolina, is indeed it is true ...
;;;;; odd about
; There was something odd about the man, about his look.
;;;;; peculiar about
; Something peculiar about it.
;;;;; shameful about
; ... there is nothing remotely shameful about any pornography ...
;;;;; special about
; What is special about special education?
;;;;; striking about
; Most striking about the American enthusiasm for scoliosis tests was that it occurred at the same time that ...
;;;;; tough about
; What's so tough about taking insulin?
;;;;; unique about
; What's unique about this police station is that they actually fired 100 percent of the police officers here ...
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;;;;; something about
; There's something about your party that limits them to smaller landslides.
; There's something about that.
;;;;; spirit about
; May Lynn had an adventurous spirit about her, and I think she was no more than a few months shy ...
;;;;; thing about
; And, you know, the thing about Romney is his opponents don't have to make a case ...
; The nice thing about villages is there is no rule book, " says Mollison.
; Because there are a few things about Southern food that the man just can't stand ...
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; The lake is about 100 feet wide. - COVERED
; Lake-Tahoe is about 1 mile wide. - COVERED
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; The lake is about 1 mile deep. - COVERED
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; The road is about 1 kilometer long. - COVERED
; The road is about 10 kilometers long. - COVERED
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; The building is about 100 floors tall. - COVERED
; Thomas is about 6 feet tall. - COVERED
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; On the other hand, long-lived N2O has about 300 times the warming potential of carbon dioxide.
; The inpatient and outpatient visit rate among men was about 2 times that among women (Table 2).
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; Indeed, about one-fourth of those reporting significant vision loss are 65 years of age and older.
; Using the online calculators, you determine that your PV system can provide about half of your electricity needs, so you would save $1000/year.
; Patients will report only about one in 400 episodes of tiredness to their GP.5 ...
; This means that about one in 20 of the UK population has diabetes.
; For instance, only about half of all the nitrogen applied to soils as fertilizer actually becomes part
; Indeed a 2011 survey of the US population showed that about half of religious adherents believe that society should accept homosexuality ...
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; Manipulating the Linux transmit queue on my laptop reduced latency Upload Bandwidth about 80% ...
; Urine production is reduced by about 50% at night in response to the circadian rhythm of the antidiuretic hormone ...
; ... concluded that about two percent of the state's population had non-disease-related scoliosis ...
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; Dinners happen about twice month.
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; ... 2 for' Less than 1/2 the time', 3 for' About 1/2 the time', 4 for' More than 1/2 the time ...
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; ... about 70 miles offshore in roughly 140 feet of water.
; ... an innocuous office building about a ten-minute drive from Robbins Hall, is the birthplace of the most audacious plant ...
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; At the Arkansas-Texas boundary, average annual precipitation is about 125 centimeters ...
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; ... size each image so that it measures about 21/2 inches high.
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; If you touch one, it explodes, spraying seeds over about a three-foot area around each plant.
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; In one study, people driving a car or riding in a bus inhaled about 4.5 L air per minute ...
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; ... about 10-second periods followed by long periods of what looked like normal behavior.
; ... about five seconds pass without a drop ...
; Notice the RTT ramps up quickly to about 1.2 seconds and mostly stays there.
; ... delay is about 10ms initially; then the window size increases, the buffer fills up, and ...
; ... the author of this article almost fell for about five years ago ...
; If the test is positive, a wheal will appear after about 20 minutes ...
; The dates of Ramadan follow a lunar calendar and the start gets about 10 days earlier each year ...
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; There is a peak in the childhood incidence of CFS/ME at about 13 years.
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; One bank the author has spoken to said it cost it about $1 million per attack in terms of call-center costs ...
; Let's say the total bill for annual electrical consumption is about $2000, or $167 per month.
; That's about 40 U.S. cents.
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; ... but possibly via a nonmonotonic relationship, with a decrease between about 3 ppb and 7 ppb.
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; In regard to the younger U.S. population, about 60,000 individuals 21 years old or younger are legally blind.
; ... with about 110,000 users in the U.S.
; ... people are in need of organ transplants (113,075 in the U.S., with only about 1,000 donors per month giving organs or tissues to transplant) ...
; There are about 30 million people in the United States who have been diagnosed with liver disease.
; The Muslim Council for Britain estimates that there are about 1.6 million Muslims living in the UK ...
; Of the 25 or more million Americans experiencing significant vision loss, about 1.3 million are legally blind ...
; Dog guides may also support blind mobility, but have many fewer users (only about 7,000 in the U.S.).
; ... that about 2,000 Taliban fighters, operating in more than 100 groups, use motorbikes ...
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; He believes that Britain is likely the hardest hit, with about 2,000 deaths annually (Pearce, 2009).
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; ... this does not mean ranks of individual titles all stayed about the same.
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; That's about as easy as it gets.
; Westwood and Poulter have both bitten that apple about as deeply as you'll ever see.
; It's about time this event caught a break.
; Stephen Colbert has about as much a chance of being elected president in South Carolina ...
; Designed by a 6-foot-7 man who has modified just about everything to fit his height ...
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; The wreckages of the crashed airplane floated about in the ocean. - COVERED
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; What about involving a real sighted person in the loop, perhaps through crowdsourcing?
; What's so tough about taking insulin?
; ... how about the separation or the margin that is widening of women voters.
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;;;;; about to
; ... he was convinced he was either about to die or go completely mad and that he needed help.
;;;;; bring about
; How much influence do you have to bring about this change?
;;;;; come about
; One's chief objection, when reading such poets, should come about as a result of noting the successes; ...
;;;;; go about
; ... practitioners should go about balancing this information with other constraints on problem solving ...
;;;;; set about
; ... that you are prepared to do something about it, you are ready to set about influencing.
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