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1. The higher energy sources provide to the plants a quick pick me up, Higher energy food sources are easier to be absorbed then lower energy sources which require more energy to assimilate leaving the plant in a minus situation which in turn causes stress etc
2. Thank goodness I went out that evening … if I had been at home on my own, I’d have been completely minus any sort of alibi …
3. Her husband was not impressed when she eventually returned home minus the shopping trolley, without any money and too scared to make amends for her failings by popping down to the off-licence for him
4. whole lot more for simply fun-time dating minus the hassles of a real relationship
5. impressed when she eventually returned home minus the shopping
6. which would be within the usual year, plus or minus
7. So it had come down to Kulai to tell Enjteen that he was no longer allowed below minus twenty three and he would have to return his key and the memory of that lab
8. “Same things I’ve told you, minus the love notes
9. The small front garden is still choked with last summer's weeds, a tattered bag of rock hard cement and the frame, minus wire basket, of a super market trolley
10. On the minus side, the wallflowers are all weedy and straggly … maybe you should tie them up to sticks or something
11. $40,000 plus $8,000 interest minus the repayment of $5,000 gives us $43,000, correct?”
12. those who perform charitable acts minus the fanfare are people who stand to gain the most admiration, in the end
13. It must be minus thirty out there and humans don’t last long in that kind of temperature, even in a HEPO
14. Now he requested it: minus 27
15. Chris begrudgingly admitted that it would be foolish to attempt to pilot the shuttle through the mountains in the dark and land in temperatures below minus thirty degrees
16. Black buttons flew across the floor as her white shirt was exposed, minus one button
17. It looks very similar to the wind and rain storms we just faced, minus the tornado
18. Whilst the temperature within the habitat was maintained at a brisk minus five degrees Celsius, it was almost 150 degrees warmer than the surface above
19. Trying to reach it was like pushing against an oncoming tsunami, minus the sound of rushing water
20. butchered in the abattoirs of the north, minus all their messy blood and guts and dung
21. If you wish to have the most elegant decks minus the maintenance and the expensive cost,
22. They punted on their first three possessions and had a total of minus 26 yards
23. The rest of the children continued introducing themselves, including Wyll, Cheeryup, and the large Parfinn contingent, minus poor Soapy, who had vanished without a trace
24. In the end, the animals will have stripped the battlefield clean, minus odds bits of clothing and weaponry, and finished the tasks to which they’d been appointed by nature herself
25. He started the car and drove back to Kate’s home minus the one passenger he had hoped would be with them
26. It wasn’t until François was locked in a cell minus his shoes and belt that he learned he had been charged with savagely beating his wife
27. He charted the movements of the planets among the stars, the hour the moon would rise and set, its phase and the level of the tide in the harbor plus or minus an inch at any given moment
28. The same report stated that by 2014 the net cost (benefits minus taxes paid) to the taxpayer for low-skill immigrant households will approach $1 trillion/year
29. The option should still be worth its intrinsic value of $5 ($60 minus $55
30. Minus the $2,000
31. together, that your friendship would be minus sex
32. Still, what was wealth if it couldn’t be used? The temperature was lower still today, minus thirty two, which he was assured was only slightly unusual for the time of year
33. minus side was that we missed the calm part of the party
34. The Ninety Nine (minus Somonik) filled the outside of the great hall, occupying over half of the floor space
35. It’s the amount of his assets minus his liabilities
36. All of my colors, minus the blue
37. "Bingo minus two," Ramrod Three transmitted in a voice quiet and apologetic
38. Johnny had told him that Gandalf arrived back at the stables minus his bridle, which meant that Lorna had most probably removed the bridle herself and therefore it could be assumed that she was not hurt but either abducted by the gunman or lost somewhere in the woods, although he felt sure that if the latter were true, they would have come across her by this time
39. Profit The difference between the cost of production of goods and services and the price received for their sale, or gross income minus all overhead expenses
40. If each particle is considered a pixel, we can imagine an infinite perfectly symmetric 2d checkerboard screen of complementary pairs of pixels of plus 1s and minus 1s
41. largely confined to plus or minus 10km
42. " Adam glanced up at the thermometer on the wall, minus twenty-five degrees centigrade, Adam shuddered
43. “I could see that as a minus
44. You mean what I have already, minus the pills right?
45. With the assessment of the other jewels on top of the agreed price for the power stone and minus Jacoba’s ‘commission’, the total came to just over 132 gold sovereign
46. band is minus 2 deviations below the middle line (moving average)
47. curly que handle that is minus a locking mechanism, and takes her seat back at her desk with a
48. I didn’t think they were talking about me, nor did I notice that the clown was the same one that stood at the entrance, minus the barker’s garb
49. Despina looked at the tray minus the vase and then back at Zoe, who was shaking her head
50. "I should throw you off this building, minus the flying horse, and see how heroic you sound on the way down