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It was after breakfast in her world, still on a twenty four hour daily cycle, not twenty eight hours and thirteen minutes, more or less
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Dad’s family never really recovered from being bombed out and by the time I was in my teens they had more or less died out
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Where it goes from there is more or less up to it
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We all look ridiculous in our paper hats but who cares! Betty is happy because she has Fred to herself and, although I know Rose and Janet are watching us and more or less taking notes, I am very content to have Nick at my side
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‘The estate more or less runs itself
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Lastriss has about three grids, the ground, about the third or fourth and more or less the tenth to fourteenth floors have networks of streets
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They were more or less following the stream by their camp, it wandered around a lot; after all, it was pretty hard even for water to tell which way was downhill around here
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The crew was quite friendly, but they never stopped for long, an hour for brunch, two hours for dinner, more or less, with a ten-minute warning bell
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It was more or less taken for granted that when my schooling was done I'd go and live with them on their island and it'd be happy holidays every day
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By then she was sitting more or less between Lmore and Yarin with arms over each shoulder
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At that time the family name was long and impressive; D’Agouteville perhaps or Cholmondley-Warner or some such thing, but, as with all families, the generations followed one after another, proving more or less that sons and daughters inherit a mixed bag of genes and ancestral memory
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By lunchtime, I am more or less calm again … I can cope with bad news, it’s not knowing that ties me in knots …
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‘I don’t know though,’ he went on grinning, ‘I’ve got you more or less where I want you
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He rabbits on suggesting all sorts of things and gradually normality is resumed … by the time he parks in the drive of the house I’m more or less on an even keel … if feeling totally washed out
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Capri is more or less on a line with the end of the peninsula – sitting like a jewel in the middle of the blue sea
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It was more or less all in one building, but she could see that there were several apartments
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She wondered if it was being in three-d reality, or the specifics of that reality that made the sentence more or less harsh? Would her sentence seem as harsh if she was at the home in the vale without any magic?
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more or less that sons and daughters inherit a mixed bag of genes
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As they were introduced there were more or less cheering, depending on how they were received
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tolerated and what honestly makes it more or less tolerable? When is the
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It thereby carries more or less positivism/negativity
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The wealthy had plush private cars, the poor rode public cars that were more or less drab depending on the city
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Roland Blake is more or less a recluse now and, before you ask, he won’t see anyone except his immediate family
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Claimed all sorts of pressure had been brought to bear on the committee and more or less accused Bunty of having slept with half of them … there was actually a case brought against him for slander but it fell through when he speedily retracted his statement
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Over the past few years, I’ve more or less come to terms with the fact that it’s not going to happen
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’ I replied, sounding a hell of a lot calmer than I am feeling … where is this confidence coming from? We’ve only been going out for a matter of days and, here I am, more or less offering to have his children … He reaches over and squeezes my hand
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The thing had more or less sat and begged to be caught! Held in her strong grip, it had struggled, its lightweight bones no match for the woman’s strength
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Peter had more or less decided he was going into engineering and it was a big surprise to all of us when he announced that he wanted to go into the ministry
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‘Well, I put in new central heating and hot water systems not long after I moved in, the cottage, but apart from that, it’s more or less as it was when it was built three centuries ago
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Later, when we could speak, he’d explained that he had fallen for me more or less as soon as he met me but had assumed it was hopeless as he could see no reason why someone as talented and attractive as me could ever consider him
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You and I can do more or less what we want to do but Sally is so tied
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” She explained, “I am, I suppose, to be one of the early 'guinea pigs,' although to be honest, I'm more or less uncertain about the endeavor, as I have so little experience with the works of the bard
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‘What can I do to help?’ I asked, but she had more or less finished
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It lets more or less of the force thru to the handle depending on how hard you step on it
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Andrew, Jack, Monica, Julia and Matt were, more or less, normal kids who lived in what was, more or less, a normal village, but the lives they lived had been so far anything but normal
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” Alore, Sharni, Larneh and Desa answered, more or less at once
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We became close and before long he moved in with me more or less permanently
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What was called the ‘Energy Age’ was more or less the 14th thru 22nd centuries
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The chambers may be more or less grand, but you'll not see more of my world this way than you already have
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In every society, the price of every commodity finally resolves itself into some one or other, or all of those three parts ; and in every improved society, all the three enter, more or less, as component parts, into the price of the far greater part of commodities
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Their price necessarily rises more or less, and yields a greater profit to those who deal in them, who can, therefore, afford to borrow at a higher interest
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confidence which every man has, more or less, not only in his own abilities, but in his own
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The chance of gain is by every man more or less over-valued, and the chance of
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In all the different employments of stock, the ordinary rate of profit varies more or less with
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more or less with the risk
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The being was, more or less, the city's ruler, and he was, most certainly, its most powerful crime lord
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All commodities are more or less liable to variations of price, but
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As men, like all other animals, naturally multiply in proportion to the means of their subsistence, food is always more or less in demand
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The difference is greater or less, according as the fashionableness and scarcity of the wine render the competition of the buyers more or less eager
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The price, therefore, of the coarse, and still more that of the precious metals, at the most fertile mines in the world, must necessarily more or less affect their price at every other in it
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But the average produce of every sort of industry is always suited, more or less exactly, to the average consumption; the average supply to the average demand
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In every different stage of improvement, besides, the raising of equal quantities of corn in the same soil and climate, will, at an average, require nearly equal quantities of labour; or, what comes to the same thing, the price of nearly equal quantities; the continual increase of the productive powers of labour, in an improved state of cultivation, being more or less counterbalanced by the continual increasing price of cattle, the principal instruments of agriculture
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It must have had this effect, more or less, at all the different markets in the kingdom, but particularly at those in the neighbourhood of London, which require to be supplied from the greatest distance
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A commodity may be said to be dear or cheap not only according to the absolute greatness or smallness of its usual price, but according as that price is more or less above the lowest for which it is possible to bring it to market for any considerable time together
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Such successive reductions of the tax, however, though they may not prevent altogether, must certainly retard, more or less, the rise of the value of silver in the European market
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That of the third, though its natural tendency is to rise in the progress of improvement, yet in the same degree of improvement it may sometimes happen even to fall, sometimes to continue the same, and sometimes to rise more or less, according as different accidents render the efforts of human industry, in multiplying this sort of rude produce, more or less successful
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But when the demand rises beyond what this quantity can supply, when it becomes necessary to raise food on purpose for feeding and fattening hogs, in the same manner as for feeding and fattening other cattle, the price necessarily rises, and becomes proportionably either higher or lower than that of other butcher's meat, according as the nature of the country, and the state of its agriculture, happen to render the feeding of hogs more or less expensive than that of other cattle
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These circumstances, as they are altogether independent of domestic industry, so they necessarily render the efficacy of its efforts more or less uncertain
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It has accordingly done so, I believe, more or less in every country
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The quantity of those metals in the countries most remote from the mines, must be more or less affected by this fertility or barrenness, on account of the easy and cheap transportation of those metals, of their small bulk and great value
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Their quantity in China and Indostan must have been more or less affected by the abundance of the mines of America
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But from the high or low money price of some sorts of goods in proportion to that of others, we can infer, with a degree of probability that approaches almost to certainty, that it was rich or poor, that the greater part of its lands were improved or unimproved, and that it was either in a more or less barbarous state, or in a more or less civilized one
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Chatuum was here more or less a year now, depending on just when you called her 'moved in'
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The extension of improvement and cultivation, as it necessarily raises more or less, in proportion to the price of corn, that of every sort of animal food, so it as necessarily lowers that of, I believe, every sort of vegetable food
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I wound up more or less running the place, business-wise
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It is not more or less real that a night dream
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Thirdly, of the materials, whether altogether rude, or more or less manufactured, of clothes, furniture, and building which are not yet made up into any of those three shapes, but which remain in the hands of the growers, the manufacturers, the mercers, and drapers, the timber-merchants, the carpenters and joiners, the brick-makers, etc
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problems is troubled by ideas more or less fixed and
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each other with all the means more or less admissible
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I had decided, more or less, if you recall, that I’d
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Such a paper money would, no doubt, fall more or less below the value of gold and silver, according as the difficulty or uncertainty of obtaining immediate payment was supposed to be greater or less, or according to the greater or less distance of time at which payment was exigible
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This additional value was greater or less, according as the quantity of paper issued was more or less above what could be employed in the payment of the taxes of the particular colony which issued it
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If you need more or less resources,
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The beauty of the country, besides, the pleasure of a country life, the tranquillity of mind which it promises, and, wherever the injustice of human laws does not disturb it, the independency which it really affords, have charms that, more or less, attract everybody; and as to cultivate the ground was the original destination of man, so, in every stage of his existence, he seems to retain a predilection for this primitive employment
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This benefit was not even confined to the countries in which they were situated, but extended more or less to all those with which they had any dealings
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Though he contributes, therefore, to the maintenance of them all, they are all more or less independent of him, because generally they can all be maintained without him
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prohibitions, the importation of such goods from foreign countries as can be produced at home, the monopoly of the home market is more or less secured to the domestic industry employed in producing them
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The value of its annual produce is certainly more or less diminished, when it is thus turned away from producing commodities evidently of more value than the commodity which it is directed to produce
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Hematheus says our old friend stayed alive for hours, more or less a woman after they also took his--”
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The money of such banks, being better than the common currency of the country, necessarily bore an agio, which was greater or smaller, according as the currency was supposed to be more or less degraded below the standard of the state
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The former pay in a species of money, of which the intrinsic value is always the same, and exactly agreeable to the standard of their respective mints ; the latter is a species of money, of which the intrinsic value is continually varying, and is almost always more or less below that standard
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In years of scarcity, though the bounty is frequently suspended, yet the great exportation which it occasions in years of plenty, must frequently hinder, more or less, the plenty of one year from relieving the scarcity of another
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The rise in the money price of all commodities, which is in this case peculiar to that country, tends to discourage more or less every sort of industry which is carried on within it, and to enable foreign nations, by furnishing almost all sorts of goods for a smaller quantity of silver than its own workmen can afford to do, to undersell them, not only in the foreign, but even in the home market
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Whatever be the actual state of tillage, it renders our corn somewhat dearer in the home market than it otherwise would be in that state, and somewhat cheaper in the foreign; and as the average money price of corn regulates, more or less, that of all other commodities, it lowers the value of silver considerably in the one, and tends to raise it a little in the other
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As long as your image of the world is a more or less accurate reflection of the real world, you can successfully interact with it
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It increased the business of the corn merchant in both; and in the years of scarcity, it not only enabled him to import a greater quantity, but to sell it for a better price, and consequently with a greater profit, than he could otherwise have made, if the plenty of one year had not been more or less hindered from relieving the scarcity of another
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They loaded the public revenue with a very considerable expense: they imposed a very heavy tax upon the whole body of the people ; but they did not, in any sensible degree, increase the real value of their own commodity; and by lowering somewhat the real value of silver, they discouraged, in some degree, the general industry of the country, and, instead of advancing, retarded more or less the improvement of their own lands, which necessarily depend upon the general industry of the country
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By raising the price, he discourages the consumption, and puts every body more or less, but particularly the inferior ranks of people, upon thrift and good management If, by raising it too high, he discourages the consumption so much that the supply of the season is likely to go beyond the consumption of the season, and to last for some time after the next crop begins to come in, he runs the hazard, not only of losing a considerable part of his corn by natural causes, but of being obliged to sell what remains of it for much less than what he might have had for it several months before
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By supplying them, as nearly as he can judge, in this proportion, he is likely to sell all his corn for the highest price, and with the greatest profit ; and his knowledge of the state of the crop, and of his daily, weekly, and monthly sales, enables him to judge, with more or less accuracy, how far they really are supplied in this manner
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The freedom of the corn trade is almost everywhere more or less restrained, and in many countries is confined by such absurd regulations, as frequently aggravate the unavoidable misfortune of a dearth into the dreadful calamity of a famine
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The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition, when suffered to exert itself with freedom and security, is so powerful a principle, that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions, with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations: though the effect of those obstructions is always, more or less, either to encroach upon its freedom, or to diminish its security
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In a country where the expense of the coinage is defrayed by the government, the value of the coin, even when it contains its full standard weight of gold and silver, can never be much greater than that of an equal quantity of those metals uncoined, because it requires only the trouble of going to the mint, and the delay, perhaps, of a few weeks, to procure for any quantity of uncoined gold and silver an equal quantity of those metals in coin; but in every country the greater part of the current coin is almost always more or less worn, or otherwise degenerated from its standard
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This will give you more or less the whole world’s figures, or at least the largest English speaking nation’s figures – either is fine
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In their dependency upon the mother state, they resemble those of ancient Rome; but their great distance from Europe has in all of them alleviated more or less the effects of this dependency
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The great distance, too, from the mother country, would enable the colonists to evade more or less, by smuggling, the monopoly which the company enjoyed against them
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The labour of the English colonies, therefore, being more employed in the improvement and cultivation of land, is likely to afford a greater and more valuable produce than that of any of the other three nations, which, by the engrossing of land, is more or less diverted towards other employments
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Every European nation has endeavoured, more or less, to monopolize to itself the commerce of its colonies, and, upon that account, has prohibited the ships of foreign nations from trading to them, and has prohibited them from importing European goods from any foreign nation
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Shootfighting, as it is more or less a self defense system that was originally
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His body was more or less the same but made of a slightly heavier substance than it was in the Thought Realm proper
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His body was exhausted but in one piece, more or less normal