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Natural language processing toolbox using Sigma knowledge engineering system.
; author: Sofia Athenikos - [email protected]
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;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; Concerning, Regarding, Referring To (subject matter) ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
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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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;;;;; 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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