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Natural language processing toolbox using Sigma knowledge engineering system.
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;;;;; announce about
; ... she had already eat her Brunswick stew when Milo announced about old Mr. Gupton losing his teeth.
;;;;; ask about
; The use of short videos for patients in the waiting room encourages them to ask about choice, risk and benefits.
;;;;; be about
; Section five is about impact on student learning.
; Who produced the Salzburg Statement in 2010, and what was it about?
;;;;; boast about
; ... Toyota officials boasted about the effectiveness of the effort in which Santucci and Tinto were involved ...
;;;;; care about
; An important consideration is to determine what you really care about.
;;;;; complain about
; They seldom complain about unsafe work environments because of fear of losing their jobs ...
;;;;; consult about
; Women consult about why their menstrual loss has changed.
;;;;; disagree about
; Stakeholders also disagreed about the relative importance of climate change ...
;;;;; explain about
; While I tried to explain about the naked women and my snagged hair, ...
;;;;; feel about
; ... with your urinary condition the way it is now, how would you feel about that?
;;;;; forget about
; Thus IP forgets about a packet and recycles its buffer immediately after forwarding (MRU replacement).
;;;;; generalize about
; When attempting to generalize about the varied and often conflicting viewpoints of many millions ...
;;;;; glow about
; He would glow about how smart she was.
;;;;; gosship about
; It was so we could gossip about everyone who wasn't there.
;;;;; hear about
; We hear very little about this type of transportation because it is the one method that least impacts our environment.
;;;;; inquire about
; After years of inquiring about a girlfriend, Jose Dominguez's dad finally stopped.
;;;;; know about
; ... he or she needs to know about the content to be taught over the next thirty years.
; ... to establish what students know about a topic before instruction begins ...
;;;;; laugh about
; ... maybe, when she's in her 60s, we can sit and laugh about this.
;;;;; learn about
; ... we can learn both about the human drawings (by using the vocabulary of the algorithms) ...
; ... more time for other teacher activities like mentoring students, differentiating instruction, or learning about new technologies.
; ... both contexts provide a reference point for students to indicate what they have learned about important engineering concepts.
;;;;; lie about
; ... should I lie about the letter, and increase her paranoia?
;;;;; love about
; And that's what I love about it.
;;;;; mutter about
; Some passengers say the captain muttered about al-Qaeda ...
;;;;; proclaim about
; Here I kiss what those waters of baptism proclaimed about the world, about ourselves, and ...
;;;;; read about
; Young and Townsend don't know why anyone would want to read about them.
;;;;; remember about
; 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
; She reports about the benefits and detriments of the proprietary Royal Scottish Geographical Society's Images ...
;;;;; smile about
; Proctor smiled about it Wednesday afternoon.
;;;;; speak (up) about
; Speak up about their concerns, questions and what's important to them ...
;;;;; speculate about
; ... policy-makers alike have speculated about the cause of this division.
;;;;; study about
; Teachers make decisions about what to study about themselves and then chart a pathway to new knowledge and skills to improve student learning.
;;;; talk about
; Patients talking about shared decision making ...
;;;;; teach about
; As a field that teaches about technological changes, it is important for educators to keep up with those technological changes.
;;;;; think about
; Programmers may even be encouraged to think about a problem in terms of a language that would better support the task.
; In school settings, one way to help teachers think about and act upon professional development needs is to write a professional development
;;;;; tweet about
; ElBaradei did not attend the rally, but instead tweeted about the police crackdown.
;;;;; understand about
; And 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 about weight gain, the increased risk of hypos and less than ideal lipid profiles ...
;;;;; write about
; Kellyn S. Betts has written about environmental contaminants, hazards, and technology for solving environmental problems ...
;;;;; yell about
; Two girls saw it, yelled about how gross it was, then snapped pics with their phones!
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;;;;; advise X about
; The same study found that individuals regularly did not advise their airline about their allergy ...
;;;;; brief X about
; ... Mark Griffin enlisted three LT 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 ...
;;;;; chat with X about
; ... chat with the practice nurse about the warning signs when blood sugar is getting excessively high or excessively low.
;;;;; change one’s mind about
; She shrugged, and changed her mind about asking him to the country club dance.
;;;;; 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
; These technologies must simultaneously relate to course concepts while engaging and exciting students about technology.
;;;;; feel good/bad, etc. about
; It does allow a parent to feel good about keeping a home in the family while they are alive ...
;;;;; 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
; Jenkins' supervisor reassured him that nobody would hear anything about this from him ...
;;;;; inform X about
; ... an ETA that informs the user about the presence of a head-level obstacle.
; Inform patients about their condition, about the treatment or self-management support options available ...
; Have each group prepare a media presentation to inform class members about the diseases/abnormalities ...
;;;;; know something/anything/nothing, etc. about
; Therefore, while the children need to know something about the noun soup ...
; Jenkins was asked by the OHA if he knew anything about cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).
;;;;; make notes about
; Listen to their feedback and make notes about how you can improve your case.
;;;;; remember something/anything/nothing, etc. about
; He remembered something about that family with the names.
;;;;; reveal (more/little, etc.) about
; Dana's mother echoed this idea of the meeting process revealing more about the student ...
;;;;; 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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;;;;; 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
; Often it's embarrassing for patients to be candid [one-on-one with a doctor] about bad health habits such as smoking or drinking.
;;;;; 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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;;;;; ad about
; ... I don't think there'll be an ad about it.
;;;;; alarm about
; The WHO indeed sounded the alarm about the H1N1 virus pandemic but did not ensure that the message would be properly understood ...
;;;;; adv
ice about
; Suggest reputable sources of information and advice about diet and activity, such as' The Pregnancy Book'.
;;;;; agreement about
; There are very few clinical decisions that are too urgent to allow discussion and agreement about the best option.
;;;;; anxiety about
; ... contributed even further to feelings of doubt and anxiety about the condition.
;;;;; argument about
; ... that arguments about cost containment and efficacy smack of socialist health care rationing.
;;;;; article about
; ... this article [is therefore] about the things you might just see if you look closely enough!
;;;;; assumption about
; Despite their whole-hearted endorsement of the principle, nurses made assumptions about what a patient might want ...
;;;;; belief about
; For example, parent-child discrepancies in cultural beliefs about family obligations, proper conduct, gender norms, and social role expectations ...
;;;;; belief system about
; ... workers described individualized belief systems about which domestic violence situations were " legitimate " ...
;;;;; book about
; Peggy Wayburn wrote two books about the north while her husband visited Washington to work the halls of Congress.
;;;;; chat about
; In fact, the chat about knowing the signs of labor evolved into a discussion ...
;;;;; choice about
; ... in making informed and considered choices about their future management and treatment.
;;;;; comment about
; One of her comments about it which made me realize she was taking an awful lot of notice was ...
;;;;; commercial about
; sIt's a new baby and a new commercial about a lottery winner.
;;;;; communication about
... may have selectively benefited from more effective communication about influenza vaccine (whether seasonal or H1N1).
;;;;; complaint about
; Hear their complaints about the unyielding speed of life.
;;;;; concern about
; Many travellers will share concerns about requiring unplanned medical care, blood transfusions, treatment with poorly sterilised medical equipment etc.
; ... if the man has genuine concerns - family history, for example -- about prostate cancer.
;;;;; conclusion about
; This study allows us to make several quantitative conclusions about how people draw 3D shapes.
;;;;; consensus about
; ... it may be difficult for the committee to reach consensus about which research base to consider ...
;;;;; conspiracy about
; ... to preempt any further conspiracies about whether it was doctored.
;;;;; conversation about
; In the middle of a conversation about schoolwork, she said tenderly ...
;;;;; counsel about
; Stupak said he sought counsel from Washington lawyer Bob Barnett about how to announce his decision.
;;;;; counseling about
; Is office-based counseling about media use, timeouts, and firearm storage effective?
;;;;; cue about
; This is because optionally transitive verbs provide unreliable cues about the syntactic distribution of direct objects.
;;;;; curiosity about
; ... shared my curiosity about the post-Flavr Savr world ...
;;;;; data about
; In reviewing data about the results by competency, the faculty member discovered four competencies ...
;;;;; debate about
; ... there is ongoing debate about the amount of weight that women should gain during pregnancy.
;;;;; decision about
; Teachers make decisions about what to study about themselves and then chart a pathway to new knowledge and skills to improve student learning.
; ... making clear standards-based decisions about what they need to improve.
;;;;; detail about
; Abstracting away details about specific hardware and physical location makes seamless migration possible.
;;;;; disagreement about
; ... a measure of the level of agreement or disagreement about the priority of the particular risk.
; ... because of disagreement [among stakeholders] about the importance of the problem.
;;;;; discovery about
; Roberto's study's contribution, however, was a discovery about the second peptide, nociceptin ...
;;;;; discussion about
; There are very few clinical decisions that are too urgent to allow discussion and agreement about the best option.
;;;;; documentary about
; ... the winner of the DVD documentary about Mike the Headless Chicken ...
;;;;; doubt about
; However, skepticism about screening does not imply doubts about the existence and physical reality of the condition.
;;;;; education about
; ... patient education about self-adjustment of the insulin dose and management of hypoglycemia.
;;;;; encouragement about
; They have less encouragement about future economic prospects ...
;;;;; entry about
; Doug Johnson, another great survivor, has posted a series of entries about leading and managing the library program in lean times.
;;;;; evidence about
; ... tools designed to help people weigh up evidence about a test or a treatment ...
;;;;; fact about
; This article outlines the facts about malnutrition and how to tackle it ...
;;;;; fantasy about
; I had a fantasy about sneaking into the camp.
;;;;; fear about
; One of the biggest fears 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
; I had a good feeling about this.
;;;;; film about
; ... a coming-of-age film about these kids ...
;;;;; figures about
; In truth, authoritative figures about the sex industry are difficult to obtain ...
;;;;; findings about
; Prospects for Prevention Roberto's findings about nociceptin are a potentially great help ...
;;;;; frustration about
; ... there's a mounting frustration about what the city is not doing.
;;;;; guidance about
; MPEP offers guidance about implementation issues, including concerns about health disparities and access barriers.
;;;;; guilt about
; ... many future viewers will still be as susceptible as their contemporaries to feelings of guilt about what they have seen.
;;;;; hypothesis about
; The goal of the present study was to test a learnability-based hypothesis about the specific and the general contribution of the lexicon ...
;;;;; idea about
; ... that her family didn't care about her, which we had no idea about.
;;;;; indication about
; ... may give important indications about what kinds of treatments are most likely to be effective.
;;;;; inference about
; Inferences about language typology based on optional verbs ...
;;;;; information about
; This asymmetric information about sellers and their goods leads buyers to dramatically lower what they are willing to pay ...
; Contextual information about the environment can also be provided to the VI user ...
; ... to provide a blind person with information about an object (such as the brand of a can of food).
; How much information would you like about the different available treatments, their risks and benefits, and the cost implications?
;;;;; insight about
; Underlying these insights about the complexities, contradictions, and multiplicities of culture ...
;;;;; instruction about
; We do not provide instructions about whether lines should represent shape features, lighting features, or anything else.
;;;;; irony about
; There is of course a huge irony about the impact of Internet porn.
;;;;; issue about
; The issue about jobs, about economic inequality is going to - is going to continue to resonate ...
;;;;; joke about
; Because like we'll sit here making jokes about everything and everyone will laugh.
;;;;; judgment about
; Use an' X' to make a value judgement about where you see each key stakeholder in relation to the issue.
;;;;; knowledge about
; In this way, teachers will be developing students' knowledge about medical technologies ...
;;;;; language about
; ... got rave reviews in part because of his plain language about taking on issues like Social Security.
;;;;; learning about
; ... improved scientific learning about implementing promotion programs ...
;;;;; lesson about
Indeed, students with and without disabilities can learn important lessons about shared responsibility ...
;;;;; meeting about
; I thought our meeting [was] about publicity and elections.
;;;;; message about
; ... teaching people who click on phishing email messages about such attacks.
;;;;; metadata about
; ... library information systems, which are based on MARC 21format and also can hold metadata about ETDs.
;;;;; misconception about
; Common misconceptions about traumatic brain injury (TBI).
;;;;; movie about
; No one ever made a movie about Nik Kershaw.
;;;;; mystery about
; There are many mysteries about which species confer what dynamics to ecosystems or what benefits to people ...
;;;;; myth about
; Dispel any myths about what and how much to eat during pregnancy, ...
;;;;; news about
; Wall Street rocketed higher today on upbeat news about the European debt crisis ...
;;;;; note about
; Listen to their feedback and make notes about how you can improve your case.
;;;;; notion about
; Furthermore, we had preconceived notions about the acceptability of the intervention package ...
;;;;; observation about
; 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
; Religion and public opinion about same-sex marriage.
;;;;; perception about
; Work safety climate describes the shared perceptions [of workers] about how employers operationalize, support, and value safety in the workplace.
;;;;; period piece about
; In both of these period pieces about masters and servants sharing a divided household, ...
;;;;; perspective about
; An exploration of Hispanic workers' perspectives about 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 what keys can sign content under a particular name prefix ...
;;;;; prediction about
; ... these categories differ in terms of predictions about specific effects of lexical development.
;;;;; presentation about
; The location and frequency of presentations about college shifted after the students entered high school.
;;;;; program about
; ... other postsecondary programs about the possibility of students with ID attending ...
;;;;; qualms about
; ... he has no qualms about any unfair advantage the hosts might have over legal restaurants like his.
;;;;; query about
; Send queries about the Smithsonian Institution to infosi.edu ...
;;;;; question about
; ... ask a question [anonymously] about anything to do with the prostate or their treatment ...
;;;;; rage about
; Gingrich who left Iowa incandescent with rage about Romney, but somehow lost his fire by the time he got here.
;;;;; recommendation about
; Complicating this is that recommendations about the amount of buffering have been influenced ...
;;;;; reflection about
; This section of the IPDP is for the teacher to demonstrate higher-order reflection about their professional development.
;;;;; result about
; There was an amazing Gallup result about people's concerns.
;;;;; revelation about
; ... despite revelations about his pornographic postings, she still believes in him as a donor.
;;;;; rumor about
; ... maybe even rumors about this cast getting back together.
;;;;; scenario about
; Students can ponder hypothetical scenarios about commonplace problematic situations pertaining to the academic, social, and financial realms ...
;;;;; sense of peace about
; I've got a sense of peace about it and prayed about it a lot.
;;;;; show about
; Maybe he was too rational for all the television shows about mediums and psychic children?
;;;;; signal about
; Is the Cryosphere Sending Signals about Climate Change?
;;;;; skepticism about
; Skepticism about scoliosis screening has been voiced at numerous points over the last several decades ...
;;;;; snobbery about
; ... an indie-rock snobbery about such trappings from rock's monolithic arena era remains.
;;;;; speculation about
; ... there is growing speculation about the potential contribution of climate change to violent conflicts ...
;;;;; statement about
; ... ranging from general statements about the importance of considering environ mental health impacts ...
;;;;; suspicion about
; Bear in mind that if someone is suspicious about the side effects of inhalers ...
;;;;; statistics about
; Luther includes statistics about the size of the market ...
;;;;; story about
; ... narrating the plan as a story about what Dana would be focusing on over the next year.
;;;;; story line about
; One of the story lines about the popular comic-strip character centers on the Great Dane being pressured ...
;;;;; suggestion about
; The article offers useful suggestions about embarking on an enterprise such as theirs.
;;;;; sweating about
; You're better off using your gadgets efficiently than sweating about your bloated archive.
;;;;; task force about
; he had established a special task force about three years ago to track Mladic ...
;;;;; testimony about
; 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
; In addition, there is often a lack of transparency about how the practices are actually determined.
;;;;; trial about
; This is really the testimony that court observers have been waiting for all this trial about the final moments of the singer's life.
;;;;; truth about
; I couldn't tell the truth about how I got it, so I figured I pull that journalistic thing and say ...
;;;;; uncertainty about
; Part of the problem, generally speaking, is that the multiple uncertainties about how ecosystems do what they do ...
;;;;; unknowns about
; ... which revealed significant unknowns about how oil and gas activities might affect local ecology.
;;;;; views about
; ... in line with views about the responsibility of decision makers in democratic states.
;;;;; wonder about
; Daniel's passion for sound recording emanated from his wonder about the sounds of public transportation.
;;;;; word about
; I never heard another word about it.
;;;;; worries about
; ... whose primary worry about spinal curvature was how it affected their cosmetic appearance ...
;;;;; writing about
; I have a student writing about a zombie.
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;;;;; 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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; 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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; ... she had taken cover and was watching the foam that was tossed about in the waves, ...
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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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