How To Use Astonishing In A Sentence
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What you do get, however, is a sequence of eleven pieces of music of astonishing variety.
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Over the years the area has struggled economically but what is happening there at the moment is quite astonishing.
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Since draughtsmanship was the foundation of all his art, engravings, etchings, lithographs, linocuts, and drawings poured from him in astonishing quantity and quality.
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Even in 1935 they were being sent an ‘astonishing amount of illiterate and unintelligent writing’, but practised readers spent little time on it.
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As it happens, the setback turned out to be the only hiccup in the 14 race series, and Andy made an astonishing recovery to claim 11 victories in his last 12 race meetings.
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This medal is a fitting recognition of an astonishing research career spanning more than 40 years.
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She had astonishing green eyes that had a slight tinge of blue.
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The subtlety of the fragmentary relics of ancient hominid fossil evidence was astonishing.
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For all its moments of typical silent-movie hamminess, it remains astonishingly modern.
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The scorn and mockery heaped on this particular law firm was astonishing.
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The established churches may be dying back in Christianity's historic heartlands, but Jesus himself shows an astonishing ability to escape their confines and find a new life as an all-purpose 21st century guru.
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The track of the jet stream winds can also meander around in spring, switching between winter and summer conditions at astonishing speed.
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Well, whinges the person who thinks that this is a truly astonishing apercu, Tony Blair listens to him all the time and does what he is told.
I don't necessarily agree with all they do but ....
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It is astonishing to see these tiny birds engaged in such a fierce aerial battle.
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One consequence of the astonishing potency of the MIA myth is the refrain of today's American war films that no one must be left behind.
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There were some astonishing scenes and changes of tempo.
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Billings was a clumsy, maladroit man, his fingers astonishingly competent with a wireless set, his other limbs ungainly and shambling.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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The most desirable properties necessarily command astonishingly high prices.
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The newly formed friendship is severely tested and I won't give the ending away, but it is indeed an astonishing twist of fate for all three men.
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What truly caught his attention was not her astonishingly contrasting beauty, but her secretive ways.
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This singer has a penchant for scatting and surprising material, but where he has an astonishingly pure voice, hers has more feeling.
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It is astonishing that in 99.99% of trials a value better than 99.999% of those in the codomain is obtained with fewer than one million evaluations.
How do evolutionary processes create information? - The Panda's Thumb
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Back in the 1950s, Dutch ethologist Nikolaas Tinbergen conducted now-classic studies of the bird's incubation behavior and discovered something astonishing: When presented with a choice between brooding its own small egg and the giant egg of a much larger bird, the oystercatcher invariably chose to sit on the giant one.
From 'The End of Overeating'
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So the federal government responded with astonishing alacrity, great efficiency.
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Her writing shows astonishing depth.
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The owner and the "surveyor" were the people responsible, and the plans, directions and details given to the workmen were astonishingly meager.
Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today
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The speed of her rise to fame has been astonishingly rapid.
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Pathfinder_ and T.oreau; the scent of the soil, once again, in rain and in shine, is it not conveyed to us with an astonishing distinctness, that is the product of a literary endowment of the rarest order, by such writers as Izaak Walton and Robert Burns, and among recent writers in varying degrees by Richard Jefferies and by Barnes, by T. E.
Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825
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Perrin says in the essay that he believes Williams en. wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Williams_ (UK_writer) is less famous than Tolkien or C.S. Lewis partly because he wrote fiction only for adults, not for adults and children: “All Hallows Eve will never be a TV special – or if it is, it will be so debased and vulgarized as to make most TV specials of great books seem works of astonishing fidelity.”
2008 October 23 « One-Minute Book Reviews
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The striking features of Negro evening dress consisted in astonishing turbans with marabou feathers, into which add accessories of squib shape and other forms were inserted.
A Renegade History of the United States
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A Falkland Islands fur seal perches on a rock outcrop off New Island, where seafood-rich waters nourish a wildlife population diverse in nature and often astonishing in number.
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It was to a large extent a self-education with the characteristic vices and virtues; when he came to power in 1949 he was still the brilliant autodidact, mixing shrewd unorthodox insights with astonishing ignorance.
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Good God, that kind of sloppiness is astonishing, especially seeing as the errors are not due to the difficulty of the words being used.
Five-typo feast of fail
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We couldn't hold on to the ball, and the number of basic errors we made was astonishing.
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The stupidity that excretes from the mouths of the rightwing underbelly is just astonishing
U.S. prepared to push for crippling sanctions, Iran warned
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The problem lies in how to account for this, to the Western observer, astonishing phenomenon.
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Figuring the cost of the patrol car, the patrolman's time and the overall distance covered, the cost per mile for her commute is astonishing.
Sound Politics: What should Mrs. Gregoire cut?
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The sound of the howling was astonishing - not something you could just turn over and ignore.
Times, Sunday Times
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Musical training is, of course, what goes on in our conservatories, and at its most fruitful it produces instrumental technicians of an astonishing virtuosity.
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Borrowing is set to soar to an astonishing ￡60 billion.
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What all these tropical forests have in common, however, is their astonishing biological diversity.
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But his astonishing recovery and that he lasted the whole match have only added to the firepower at his disposal.
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It was believed that the Tuscan giants were all set to buy the remaining half of his contract at the end of this term after his astonishing debut top-flight campaign.
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The works often retain an astonishing degree of emotional intensity and chilling weirdness.
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Even more astonishing is his chapel, designed by Einhard on the basis of the mystic octagon.
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It is likewise astonishing that people select homes, mostly for pecuniary betterment, when their children will mate or mismate with those whom they are thus thrown.
Country life in Georgia in the days of my youth,
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First of all, we have Natalie Portman's astonishingly physical and emotional tour de force, which is worthy of every plaudit and award she has and will win.
Scott Mendelson: 2010 in Review: Favorite Films of the Year
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Two thousand Vietnamese rivers carry nearly a trillion cubic meters of water to the sea every year, fed by rains that in some parts of the country total an astonishing 10 feet a year.
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Finding myself (not often in London on the day that comes so mercifully between the Saturday and Monday) beside the enisled Marble Arch, I spent half an hour in listening to the astonishing oratory that was going on there.
A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions
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It is this unwillingness to listen, to think things over after hearing the other person's point of view that continues to contribute to our intractability in the political arena, to the astonishing rise in hate groups since the election of President Obama and to the general distrust of our justice and other systems.
Andrea Lyon: Sometimes the Other Person Has a Point
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They contained fresh and astonishing details of underground movements and midnight rendezvous.
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Turnout in the election was astonishing.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then as he walked rapidly down the lane, Anthony saw to his left, in a f ield, an astonishing sight.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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The new foliage is astonishingly delicate, as good as any maple, and everyone loves that primitive, fan-shaped leaf.
Times, Sunday Times
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Until now, they've had an astonishing run, most recently having convinced legions of roadies that a $1,000 pair of Ksyriums is a logical choice for an all-around training and racing wheelset despite the fact that you could have a more solid yet equally raceable pair of wheels built for less than half that.
Round and Round: Wheel in the Sky Keeps On Failing
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Gretchen-One split the seconds into a thousand pieces releasing seconds as Einstein split the atom astonishing energy, unfathomable energy she destroyed that day remotely it lay in the distant timeline, she found it destroyed it with atomics with the atomic seconds thus saved mankind forever thus saved what remained of mankind a dry skeleton in an underground bunker deep in the heart of old egypt
Three gretchens
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As they wait for assistance to have the man taken into custody, they studiously ignored taunts and provocations and remained astonishingly polite throughout.
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Fiestas decorated with Mexican red, green and white commemorate the holiday known as Cinco de Mayo, which celebrates the astonishing victory of the Battle of Puebla, Mexico.
BYU NewsNet : Home
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Given that most of Europe is regarded as an undifferentiated mass, however, it is astonishing how little most Americans know or care about the European Union.
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Arguably the world's best player, astonishing skill and power in the midfield and great goal kicker.
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The poshest hotels and some of the most prominent watering holes for tourists and the rich became charnel houses in massacres that threatened to undermine India's astonishing economic growth.
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In your acknowledgments, you not only thank your teachers in flamenco, but also the astonishing guitarists who elucidated and inspired you.
A Conversation with Sarah Bird, author of the novel The Flamenco Academy
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In a series of pro-am events in the north of England he won six times and was an astonishing 96 under par for the month.
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His appearance makes for a quite astonishing bit of theatre.
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An astonishing five billion TV viewers tuned in to see the dazzling display set on a vast artificial lake in Athens' Olympic Stadium.
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He made the astonishing gates and suite of door furniture for Edward IV's chantry at St George's Chapel, Windsor, between 1477 and 1484.
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He likes to poor-mouth his candidate's chances so that the candidate will appear to have pulled an astonishingly strong victory.
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These uplands preserve some astonishing Roman and prehistoric remains.
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She can't be referring to obloquy in general, since it is her campaign that is firing out slurs and false allegations at an astonishing pace.
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Simon's search leads him to a strip club, where all the dancers sport astonishingly fake breasts.
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He likes to poor-mouth his candidate's chances so that the candidate will appear to have pulled an astonishingly strong victory.
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Last week, I was surprised (and chagrinned) to learn that despite the widespread, inside-the-beltway knowledge of Senator David Vitter's (R-La.) prostitution scandals, an astonishingly large segment of his statewide electorate had no awareness of his past.
Louisiana Democrats Drop Vitter Prostitution Video Opus
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An astonishing majority of Scottish voters cast their vote for candidates and parties running on pro-European tickets.
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If we give up our vague, devastating quest, I suspect the Iraqis will have a lot of suddenly frantic help from the chaos-sponsors and bystanders in their neighborhood, the countries which have been so deeply delighted at the ongoing spectacle of America's ignorant blunder, at the unhoped-for crippling of America, at the astonishing waste of American lives and resources.
Frank Dwyer: Better Numbers
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It is an astonishing comeback for someone who, five years ago, was charged with racially aggravated assault after allegedly calling a black lavatory assistant a 'jigaboo' before charmingly punching her in the face.
Life and style | guardian.co.uk
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She has achieved what must be one of the more astonishingly high degrees of popularity in dance globally.
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Astonishingly, there was virtually no opposition either from booksellers or university professors.
Times, Sunday Times
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John was an astonishing experimentalist, who always seemed to work out scientific ideas from first principles, all those ideas that are taught in introductory chemistry and physics classes.
Martin Chalfie - Autobiography
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With Planned Parenthood killing children and injuring women in abortions, Nixon displays an astonishing impudicity when she adds, "To me, it just makes sense: honor the courageous mothers who are raising kids ... with a gift to the courageous organization that helps so many women.
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These astonishingly well-preserved bones belong to an entirely new species of human ancestor who lived nearly two million years ago - and may have bridged the gap between ocean acidification, which is dubbed the 'evil twin of global warming', caused by a rise in human emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), threatens the world's oceans.
WN.com - Articles related to '10 most wanted' plants inspected for clues to climate change
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The ease with which she learns languages is astonishing.
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I'm not a single malt person like some whisky people I know are, but that stuff makes me astonishingly happy.
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Liszt developed a physical virtuosity for the instrument and transcribed for it, sacrificing musical subtlety to an astonishing mechanical technique.
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One of the perennial streams that sometime rises to astonishing heights of activity is the Leonid shower.
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the dog was capable of astonishing tricks
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This has been the stormiest winter for 20 years, with an astonishing run of violent wind, rain and waves.
Times, Sunday Times
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Both in the uplands and the lowlands insects continued to represent an astonishing diversity of forms.
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The plans were sparked by the astonishing discovery of a Roman stadium at Colchester Garrison.
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The contrast between this astonishing piece of political theatre, televised around the planet, and another event a couple of days later, is so staggering, it is bathetic to mention them in the same column.
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Eurozone leaders have been astonishingly flatfooted in response to this crisis.
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The astonishing first chapter opens in 1950.
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Recent studies testify to the astonishing influence of the little tablet.
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They emerged on stage bathed in a hellish red glow and launched into a set astonishing in its ferociousness and intensity.
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Thousands of families gathered to watch the Red Arrows perform astonishing aerobatics at breathtaking speed.
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Moreover, many widely reported accounts of astonishing experiences are elaborations or flat lies.
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Given Trendelenburg's special emphasis in presenting the Leibnizian system, his significance for the mathematical reception of Leibniz's ideas in the context of the emergence of formal mathematics and mathematical logic in the second half of the 19th century is astonishing.
Leibniz's Influence on 19th Century Logic
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There may not have been actual wrong-doing, but there is manifest evidence of astonishing mismanagement.
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In 1984 Jones discovered an astonishing relationship between von Neumann algebras and geometric topology.
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Extra miles, extensive preparation and exhaustive efforts usually show astonishing results. Dr Roopleen
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His most famous work is the Summulae de dialectica (Compendium of Dialectic), a text of astonishing breadth and originality aimed at redeeming the older tradition of Aristotelian logic using the newer, terminist logic of
John Buridan
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They were originally gilt and the effect must have been astonishingly different, radiant and looking like a golden altar canopy.
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Finally, in 1995, Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz in Switzerland made a claim that stuck: 51 Pegasi b, a Jupiter-size planet about 50 light years away that orbits its star, 51 Pegasi, at the astonishingly rapid pace of once every four days.
It's Crowded Out There
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There's some astonishing imagination at work here, and when the big central concept is revealed, near the end, it makes sense and is convincing rather than being empty technobabble.
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Our benefits were astonishing in comprehensiveness and quality of care.
Excerpt: Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
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An astonishing diversity of life dwells in the crystal-clear pools that format low tide along America's Pacific coast.
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Supreme in her graceful style and astonishing power, she took her second gold of the championships, with another likely to come today.
Times, Sunday Times
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In 2007, an even more astonishing record was established by a bar-tailed godwit.
Birdology
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It's an astonishingly accomplished piece of carving.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nothing is predictable in this astonishing novel, which expands on classic tales about selkie brides with unsettling imaginative thoroughness.
Times, Sunday Times
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If so, they were rewarded with a fresh perspective on a composer of astonishing versatility, one whose best work speaks to high- and lowbrows alike without condescending to either.
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In addition to these findings, the discovery – by Danish scientists a few years ago – that the last ice age ended with astonishing rapidity has also played a key role in reappraising the recolonisation of Britain.
Bones from a Cheddar Gorge cave show that cannibalism helped Britain's earliest settlers survive the ice age
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The former Wimbledon champion, heart-throb, wannabe rock star and the man who made the first ascent through the crowd on Centre Court, is the most astonishing interviewee I have encountered: he is both delightful and quite terrifying.
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The decorations alone, often of densely packed plants and flowers with a symbolic significance now lost on most of us, are astonishingly imaginative, sometimes bawdy and often droll.
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It's astonishing in volume and tone, like listening to a huge flock of sheep.
Times, Sunday Times
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I find it astonishing that policymakers are only just admitting the need for radical change.
Times, Sunday Times
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This astonishing question was asked by a corporate medical department nurse who should know better.
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The film forms part of an astonishing video chronicle showing how the plot unfolded.
The Sun
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Voter turn - out in the second round was an astonishing 84 %.
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It is astonishing that it is possible to move the king forward with a board full of pieces.
Times, Sunday Times
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On August 7, 1974, French funambulist Petit, then 24, performed an astonishing high-wire act on a cable that he and his accomplices had surreptitiously rigged between the north and south towers of the World Trade Center.
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For this part, she has traced an astonishing abundance of literature and unpublished archival material.
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These remarkably beautiful beaded pieces are presented alongside an astonishing array of objects created expressly for the Victorian tourist market, including pincushions, photo frames, decorative boxes and wall pieces.
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And he makes the astonishing statement that American society "is not gerontophobic now," for if it were, "we would be pushing the old into gas ovens or letting them die in squalor.
Growing Old: An Exchange
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A hundred miles long and soaring seventy-five hundred feet above the plains, the Macarena is an island of astonishing diversity, one of the richest biological preserves in the world, a lost world of mist and rain that to this day remains largely unexplored.
One River
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There have been some astonishing passages of play in this series.
Times, Sunday Times
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So astonishing are the anecdotes, so bizarre the characters, that eventually the reader has to suspend a truckload of disbelief.
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Last year in those zones an astonishing 166,430 visitor permits were issued.
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In the end, regretfully, I chose none of them, preferring instead two books I read quite frequently, one for its astonishing use of language and the other for the haunting quietude of its tale.
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But what should have been one of the publishing events of this year has now descended into astonishing depths of bitterness and acrimony.
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For grandstand views of the golf course, the astonishing sunsets and the distant Slieve Bloom mountains, the junior suites with balconies are your best bet.
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It's rather a good speech, ruined by his quite astonishingly poor delivery.
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On the one hand, ballooning Credit and a glut of liquidity creation were a boon inspiring astonishing asset and earnings growth.
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Some jackrabbits have been clocked at 70 km/hr, an astonishing speed for a small animal.
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Thea, astonishingly and beamingly eight months pregnant, read two essays from her book, brief and impressionistic pieces that capture as no other kind of testimony can, the ways in which "intersex" is dismissed and pathologized.
Lambda Nominee Reading
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Otherwise he is all red and black - red shirt, black strides, black jacket with rhinestone trim, and an astonishing pair of lace-ups in red crocodile skin.
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The development from Orfeo to those two masterpieces is astonishing, and one can only speculate from the composer's madrigals and sacred music how it all happened.
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Although this astonishing horse never sets hoof on stage, it looms large in the mind's eye, thanks to this stand-up comic monologue.
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The film forms part of an astonishing video chronicle showing how the plot unfolded.
The Sun
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Premier League win against Arsenal in aeons and an astonishing demolition job on Chelsea later and those of us who confidently predicted Tottenham's end-of-season collapse have been left picking eggshell, albumen and vitellus from our gormless, slack-jawed faces.
The Guardian World News
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These investigations can yield astonishing information about what an incumbent did or did not do.
Times, Sunday Times
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The rooms I like best are the ones that contain casts of all sorts of astonishing statues, monuments and sections of famous architecture.
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The second Elizabethan era has been a quite astonishing display of selfless service to her people.
The Sun
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Bardem's performance is astonishing, not so much in his ability to mimic a wasted body, but by capturing the essence of a lively intelligence.
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The astonishing collection of antiques, bygones and collectibles of Lincolnshire artist is expected to attract hundreds of fans.
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Perhaps the most astonishing thing about this astonishing story is the smugness of its tone.
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The university responded with astonishing swiftness.
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Despite the astonishing abundance of echinoid spines in the coral reef horizon, echinoid tests were not found here.
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_ I heard Uncle Sam read the first three chapters of Genesis, which he translated into his own lingo as he went along, calling the subtile serpent the most "amiable" of beasts, and ignoring gender, person, and number in an astonishing manner.
Letters from Port Royal Written at the Time of the Civil War (1862-1868)
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Billings was a clumsy, maladroit man, his fingers astonishingly competent with a wireless set, his other limbs ungainly and shambling.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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Then he threw the corpse over his shoulder and swarmed up the rockface with quite astonishing speed.
Tin
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How else could one account for the astonishingly abrupt shift in the American horror film from the progressive, exploratory, often radical late '60s-'70s to the reactionary and repressive '80s?
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Watch a serious game of cricket and you see two teams competing fiercely, but you also see astonishing collaboration.
Times, Sunday Times
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The volume they get from this sharp rapping of beak against tree is astonishing.
Times, Sunday Times
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The cavitation/jellifying of his internals had taken place, but astonishingly he had virtually recovered completely, apart from the loss of a few feet of small intestine, ten years later.
Army Rumour Service
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After two full-fledged weeks of coins clashing and crashing into the jugs set up in Branksome's hallowed halls, an astonishing $9,000 worth of pennies had been collected.
Marissa Bronfman: Greg Mortenson Inspires Branksome Hall to Raise $9,000 in Pennies for Peace Drive
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Now experts hope her astonishing mind power will unlock the secrets of the human brain.
The Sun
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Extra miles, extensive preparation and exhaustive efforts usually show astonishing results. Dr Roopleen
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I scarcely know whether The Fighting Sheeney made more of a nuisance of himself during his decumbiture or during the period which followed it -- which period houses an astonishing number of fights, rows, bullyings, etc.
The Enormous Room
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This blog seeks to promote the most notable examples of documentary film-making and the truly astonishing stories they cover.
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It is astonishing to see the notebook that Darwin had in his pocket as he walked around the Galapagos.
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The 40-year-old has seen an astonishing rise in his fortunes.
The Sun
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But it demonstrates something much more astonishing: that in a sense all matter is illusion!
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But then she was splashed all over websites and gossip mags after shedding an astonishing 3st in a matter of months.
The Sun
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The children's phased tambourine crescendo and diminuendo near the start was astonishing, like a leaf opening and then curling - James Blades, doyen of postwar percussionists, couldn't have managed it better.
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That she made that journey at all is to me quite astonishing.
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He has a wry sense of humour and an astonishing smile.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then science made some astonishing leaps and bounds, and it became possible to construct a theory of consciousness that involved nothing more complex than the physical brain.
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What is astonishing is how little our cartographic concept of the world has changed since then.
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Astonishingly though, it's a conifer and is one of the oldest surviving tree species on earth.
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The way that the effects people make the dummies look eerily life like is astonishing - everything from puncturing in real hair to marbling the skin is done.
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There is plenty of such colourful metaphor in this book - it is one of the consolations as one contemplates the astonishing greed, vanity, chutzpah and arrogance of the CEO.
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Still, the masterful tone and astonishingly sophisticated writing in this novel redeem a lot of the awkwardness.
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The problem lies in how to account for this, to the Western observer, astonishing phenomenon.
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The faulty wiring in a body after spinal injury is astonishing.
Times, Sunday Times
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But … then … in an ASTONISHING display of rhetorical contortionism … you IMMEDIATELY spin around and righteously and arbitrarily CONDEMN another group of human beings – homosexuals, as you choose to put it …
Think Progress » Controversial Florida Politician Unsure If Muslims Should Hold Public Office, Says He’d ‘Prefer’ If Gays Stayed Out
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February 2nd, 2010 at 12: 00 pm tombaker says: the self-absorbed cynicism and fatalism of righties is astonishing. no faith in their own country. no can-do attitude. no regard for their fellow americans. just hundred-proof nihilism & narcissism.
Think Progress » Rep. Frank Wolf claims trying terror suspects in civilian courts would be treating them better than our military.
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Here his power of providing new and apparently necessary material for the left hand of the cembalist (or, in the double concertos, two left [v. 03 p. 0128] hands) without disturbing the already complete score, is astonishing; and it fails only in the slow movements, which he prefers to leave obviously in the condition of an arrangement rather than to spoil their broad cantabile style by a too polyphonic bass.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
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Formidable programmers, these hackers produced and debugged computer code at an astonishing rate.
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He had a hand in all four goals that gave Celtic an astonishing victory over the Serie A giants.
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Astonishingly, or perhaps not so astonishingly given her unstinting energy, enthusiasm and skills of organisation, Alexander even manages to have a life.
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It is astonishing that these superstitions, in the partial guise of sophistical successor versions, retain any credibility.
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He has a wry sense of humour and an astonishing smile.
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these great best canvases still look as astonishing and as invitingly new as they did...when...his fulgurant popularity was in full growth
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Yet nowhere do these prefaces warn us that certain editors have taken the most astonishing liberties with the music.
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The second Elizabethan era has been a quite astonishing display of selfless service to her people.
The Sun
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She said: 'It was astonishing to me.
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The astonishing thing is that this parttime composer produced gigantic masterpieces encompassing whole worlds.
Times, Sunday Times
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Finally, after weeks of walking, you will arrive at the foot of the mountains themselves – astonishing heights from which gigantic avalanches tumble earthwards in apparent slow motion, dwarfed by their surroundings.
Motion Trek | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
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These lithe, slim beasts bear the weight of an astonishing amount of history, belief and superstition.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mr Berkeley said: ‘Over its 60 years, Cheltenham has fathered an astonishing array of new music.’
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Instead of stepping out of the spotlight, she offers herself up for intensive scrutiny, delving into her own foibles and failures with astonishing candour.
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Add the astonishing price in human lives that we pay for our automobility—they kill the equivalent of a dozen jumbo-jet crashes every day—plus the countless number of hours we waste in gridlock traffic commuting to work, running errands, picking up our kids, and searching for parking, and we can't help but ask: Haven't we had enough already?
Autophobia
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The non-professional cast of mostly children assembled for Turtles Can Fly, many of whom bear the scars of real war and deprivation, is uniformly astonishing.
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It is an astonishing scene, almost straining credulity.
Times, Sunday Times
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And we already know that it was one of the most astonishingly UGLY hoaxes in recent American politics: Black "Obama supporter" robs, gropes and then "carves" a "B" for Barack backwards on the face of a Tareyton ad fake McCain staffer
HS Blog - Homeschool Blog
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From being manacled to Baron Cohen in a hotel room in Kansas City to swapping blows in an Arkansas cage match, the actor was astonishing in his versatility and bravery.
Sacha Baron Cohen on “Brüno”: “I won’t do it again.” Here’s why: » Scene-Stealers
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The freak rains also triggered an astonishing bloom of flowers.
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It's an astonishingly accomplished piece of carving.
Times, Sunday Times
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such an enormous response was astonishing
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Old people often have astonishing powers of recall.
