How To Use Double In A Sentence
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Several selections contain strings of double notes, primarily thirds and sixths.
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Nonetheless, today's pic made me do a little bit of a double-take.
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Upstairs were the bedrooms; mother-and-fathers room the largest; a smaller room for one or two sons, another for one or two daughters; each of these rooms containing a double bed, a washstand, a bureau, a wardrobe, a little table, a rocking-chair, and often a chair or two that had been slightly damaged downstairs, but not enough to justify either the expense of repair or decisive abandonment in the attic.
Chapter 1
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Rose doubled over when Facer walked in wearing his funny clothes.
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The double nosewheel straddled the slots in the deck where the shuttle ran.
THE SHADOWS OF POWER
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A short fellow with a refined bearing, Gavaskar consistently got hundreds and double-hundreds against top-class bowling.
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Finding the swiftest pursuer close upon his heels, he threw off, first his blanket, then his silver-laced coat and belt of peag, by which his enemies knew him to be Canonchet, and redoubled the eagerness of pursuit.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon
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The figure is expected to double with legal costs and more court battles.
The Sun
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A Dry Cappuccino is a double shot of espresso with little or no steamed milk, but frothed milk on top.
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Their risk of dying in childbirth is doubled and of having stillborn babies trebled, and other physical, sexual, and relationship problems are common.
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By having a strapping man say Katherina's words, it is not real and not naturalistic, so it gives the audience a jolt and makes the play double edged.
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Oklahoma had an extra blocker ‘chip’ Wright and then move on to another defender more often than they double-teamed him outright.
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He needed somebody to trust in this morass of intrigue and double meaning that was called the royal court.
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This company's workhorse is lemna, also known as duckweed-a tiny, aquatic clonal plant that doubles its biomass every 36 hours-and is skilled at making proteins that mammalian cells struggle, and often fail, to produce.
News from The Scientist
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After several days of climbing, high on a huge, exposed face of Annapurna, a mountain almost double the height of Mont Blanc, a storm erupted and the two men decided to descend.
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There are three large and fully furnished bedrooms - a twin, a double and a single room, so there is lots of space for a family in Ireland on holiday.
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a drifting double-dealer
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By the close their ranks have doubled into a colourful army stamping out percussive rhythms in wooden sandals.
Times, Sunday Times
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The baby doubled its weight in a year.
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Just one tablespoon of butter, sour cream or gravy can double the calories in a potato.
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Food subsidies are reduced or thrown out altogether and food prices may double or triple overnight.
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Education at the primary and secondary levels has always been rules-based: raise your hand, get a hall pass, obey the dress code, show your work, double-space, check your chewing gum at the door.
Dov Seidman: Breaking the Ruler
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Armani gray covers his body head-to-toe, double-breasted style.
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The double-height section between the elevated bedrooms is covered with a flat glass roof.
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See how good a man looks in a properly tailored double-breasted tuxedo with a hand-tied bowtie.
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A famous art collector is walking through the city when he notices a mangy cat lapping milk from a saucer in the doorway of a store, and he does a double take.
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This article's so full of jargon it's just double Dutch to me.
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While not hefty, this double bill offers two sharp little splinters of wit.
Times, Sunday Times
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Amosite, fibrous anthophyllite, fibrous tremolite, fibrous actinolite, and crocidolite are amphiboles, double-chain silicates, which observed microscopically look like sharp needles.
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This is the ominous new era of doublespeak about land-use planning in the megacity.
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Heavy double doors closed with amplified loud scraping before a final crash as they came together and locked.
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Use an A4 sheet doubled over.
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A double impression 'bite' is made, allowing both the shape of the teeth to be cast and the occlusion to be fixed.
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On his left hung some long axes, some double edged and still others were hand axes, hatchets.
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This risk is doubled for non-smoking spouses of smokers.
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Finally, after they had gotten into the double-digits and we still hadn't scored, we decided that it was time to go inside.
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I had to go get a double shot of espresso to calm down.
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despite our redoubled efforts
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Features: a cooking stove double flavor and taste of fresh compound.
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The total output is double that of last year.
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On to the stretcher with him, strapping on, doubled back along the landing, started down the stairway.
RIOT
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We also decided to get our tattered, old couch reupholstered, and I doubled our annual contribution to a local conservation group.
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Tara of Helium saw it coming and leaped for the tree toward which she had been moving, and the banth realized her intention and redoubled his speed.
The Chessmen of Mars
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Besides, double bottom fermentation and multiple bottom fermentation are simple and effective measures.
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Organized labor is down to less than double digits in representation of the work force.
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The Lard's watchin 'over you -- watchin' double tides, as the sailors say -- and so this bit o 'airth's smilin' from the herb
Lying Prophets
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For example, in the cemetery of St. Cyriacus two women bought from the fossor Quintus a bisomus, or double grave, retro sanctos (near a martyr's tomb), and there are several other references to this practice.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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As such, video game enemies in sibling-based stories are more likely to be doppelgängers, shadows or doubles of the player-characters.
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It was so upmarket that we could only afford a room between us, with one double bed.
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Ou mieux, le mode capitalist: humm.. si je laisse un com sur son site.. elle pourra pas m'en rendre le double selon la formule 5=10 qui fait fureur donc je gagne rien quoi.. pourri son truc, y'a meme pas les pubs marrantes sur son blog aussi!
Seesmic Addiction — Climb to the Stars
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It's important to me because as someone who also watches films I can always tell when a double is being used.
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In all, some 15.5 million pills were confiscated and the street price for the drug doubled or trebled over the course of the three months from February 1 to April 30.
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David Eckstein blooped a leadoff single and scored from first on a double to right-center by Wilson, who began his career with the Mets in 1998 and is the stepson of former New York outfielder Mookie Wilson.
Weaver, Pujols lead Cardinals to verge of pennant
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It has also doubled the workforce and now employs eight full-time and two part-time staff.
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Another stable girl said: ‘The horse did a full double-barrelled kick.’
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Another rematch is KY-3 (Louisville), in which Proud Liberal John Yarmuth is up double-digits over Smirky-fellator Anne Northup, whom he upset in 2006.
Polls: Dems Could Sweep House Rematches
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The botel offers an accommodation in comfortable single and double bedded cabins and apartments.
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G 6 A FTP patch cord reaches the best exterior crosstalk performance via its unique double - sleeve design.
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Statistics compiled for the Group show that the male suicide rate has more than doubled over the past twenty years while the female rate has remained fairly constant.
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There was joy on the double for racing's first Lady Jessica Harrington at Leopardstown as the County Kildare trainer saddled the winners of the two feature races.
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If this were so, it could very well be that the chain or pulley or linkages to the back end were removed in the photo retouching because they were too difficult to cut around (if the manip was done as a collage) or to frisket out (if the manip was a double exposure process in a darkroom).
1933 Walker: Fact or Fraud?
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We used ipe wood strips as the skin of the structure, the ipe wood skin is devised as a double wall system, in which horizontal ipe strips are placed over vertical, furring strips.
The Choy Residence by Terry & Terry Architecture
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Then he arose and clomb the mast to see an there were any escape from that strait; and he would have loosed the sails; but the wind redoubled upon the ship and whirled her round thrice and drave her backwards; whereupon her rudder brake and she fell off towards a high mountain.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Viv was British rugby's pre-eminent full-back through the 1930s, last line and top dog for Wales and the Lions, an Oxford double blue, a Glamorgan cricketer and, conspicuously, the first full-back ever to score a try in a Five Nations match – against Ireland in 1934.
Tons of reasons to support the monarchs of sport | Frank Keating
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Other chants, like Agnus dei: Qui pius ac mitis, were expanded, or “troped” with additional text and music, and it was perhaps as an educational gesture that Greek, Hebrew, and Galician words were added to the ancient double-versicle “prosa” Alleluia: Gratulemur et letemur.
Archive 2009-04-01
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In the few places where a bike lane is present, more often than not, a double-parked car is there as well, forcing the bicyclist into the traffic lane.
Maryland bike law isn’t enough
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You should ensure against loss of heat by having double glazing.
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There it was, finally, complete with the slate-gray lighting, blaring hippish soundtrack and chirpy “greeters” — Britney, Mariah, Amber, Becky, Megan, you know the type — just inside the double doors, anxious as all get-out to welcome you to your next dining experience.
Lil Patty Grows Up : Patricia Smith : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
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Resolution has rewarded its shareholders with a double-digit increase in the dividend and promised stellar investment returns despite putting acquisitions on hold.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whether in a cup or a cone - single or double dip - and sprinkled with chocolate or rainbow jimmies, ice cream evokes happy memories.
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His garments were about like ordinary street clothes, belted tunic and baggy trousers, but a certain precision in their cut-as well as blue-and-gold stripes and the double fylfot embroidered on the sleeves-indicated they were a livery.
The Earth Book of Stormgate
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When Sir Beaumains heard her say so, he abraid up with a great might and gat him upon his feet, and lightly he leapt to his sword and gripped it in his hand, and doubled his pace unto the Red Knight, and there they fought a new battle together.
Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1
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It has now given its response, in which it also said the partition identified in the fire report was ‘not designated as a compartmental wall requiring double sheets of plasterboard to provide 60-minute fire resistance’.
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They doubled their tally late in the game with goals by Hill and Ben Connolly.
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When shooting doubles, as in sporting clays, you get the option of having two different chokes for ea. shot with an o/u.
High grade trap guns
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Here comes the opening double bill of yet another wave of space monsters.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wrap the cake in a double thickness of foil.
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Some have large flowers with longer spurs, while others have shorter spurs with double flowers, depending on the species.
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I paused outside the carved double doors, gathering my dignity and composure around me like a shield.
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As well as standard doubles, the hotel has well-equipped suites overlooking the golf course, each with two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen and a living room.
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Put your tongue against the back of your front teeth to firm up a double chin.
Times, Sunday Times
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Exceptions are the zampogna, the musette, and the uillean pipes, which have double reeds throughout.
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Leave the dough in a warm place to rise until it is double in bulk.
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The spatial proximities between labels are determined by heteronuclear dipolar couplings, which are measured by rotational-echo double resonance (Gullion and Schaefer, 1989 ab).
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Or is it like macrame - full hitch & double half hitches
Many Morning
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Lessard leads a double life as a wrestler in the Ontario wrestling circuit and a UW grad student in CS; certainly a feat to behold.
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So we got an open-top double-decker bus and drove round playing on the roof.
Times, Sunday Times
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To get around this he would have only a double string quintet play during a very quiet flute or oboe solo.
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The double punishment was harsh and killed the game as a contest.
The Sun
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Some choices include azalea, calla, hydrangea, miniature rose, moth orchid, Oriental lily, tulip, and ‘Wonder Bells Blue’ double campanula.
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The blades were usually double-edged and up to 90 cm, or a little over, in length, but early single-edged sabres are also known.
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He's in a double bind: he needs experience to get a job but he can't get experience without working.
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Technical trade barrier will have double impacts on economy and trade.
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The double-barreled results: Lowering levels of a protein called CRP, or C-reactive protein, a marker of inflammation, seems to be protective even when cholesterol levels are okay.
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So I went to get a pack of Salem Lights and the woman does a double take at me to double check my age, so I lean across the counter and say, "Look I'll give you five bucks if you don't ID me".
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Barnes was slain in a double murder one week before the Baltimore Ravens selected Lewis in the first round of the 1996 NFL draft.
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They were served in generous quantity, almost double normal size.
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Double bright pink two - tone wavy. TL variegated, plain. Standard trailer.
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This recipe will make around six to eight pancakes - but be warned, you may want to double up as they get devoured pretty quickly!
The Sun
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You could almost regard earth and moon as a double planet.
The Sun
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The Great Western Hotel costs around ￡60 a night for a double.
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MOHAMMED MAMDANI, MUSLIM YOUTH HELPLINE: Many young Muslims feel they're leading double lives because they have to behave a particular way within the Muslim community.
CNN Transcript Sep 16, 2007
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See an eye care professional if you have any loss or dimness of vision, pain, fluid coming from the eye, double vision, redness, or swelling.
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Trinidad reverberates to soca, and Martinique to the racing double beat of zouk.
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Reminiscent of a traditional baronial style house, the Strathallan is entered through a vestibule with double doors.
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Court of Miracles, a crutch metamorphosable into a club; it is called vagrancy; every sort of spectre, its dressers, have painted its face, it crawls and rears, the double gait of the reptile.
Les Miserables
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I started towards the double doors, thinking that I should explain in person.
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While not hefty, this double bill offers two sharp little splinters of wit.
Times, Sunday Times
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Accordingly, he had indeed doubled the surveillance team, detailing two men to each side of the Eldorado apartment block.
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North American deciduous tree (Ulmus americana) having double serrate leaves and winged fruits. It is grown chiefly as an ornamental shade tree but often dies from Dutch elm disease.
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For good measure, he also lost his doubles match.
Great Sporting Failures
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Next month the amount of material recycled should further increase, since charges for garbage pickup will double.
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It is burned in a metal or earthen dish called a brazier, and a double handful may last a family a whole day.
Conservation Reader
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Feldman scored it for an ensemble consisting of doubled woodwind quartet, brass septet, string quartet, and a trio of harp, piano, and vibraphone.
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I already had them figured for bourbon drinkers, and on receiving confirmation I poured a pair of doubles, left the bottle out and placed a tray of ice on the counter.
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Bent double in a jolting droshky, I kept asking myself whether I should tell Varia all as it was, or go on deceiving her, and little by little turn her heart from Andrei ...
The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories
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For example, the cis double bond at the centre of the fatty chain in erucamide and oleamide appears vital for slip performance.
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There is songwriter, lead vocalist, and flutist, Johnny Burkemeister, and his brother Arlo Burkemeister who plays a Gibson EDS-1275 double neck guitar.
Albatross Antics
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You know, Raymond, very often, we hear about so-called jailhouse justice, where other inmates take on the role of Lady Justice -- for instance, in the double murders of Nicole Brown and Ron Simpson.
CNN Transcript Dec 9, 2008
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To this end M. Saint-Saens wrote his fine septette for piano, trumpet, two violins, viola, violoncello, and double bass; and M. Vincent d'Indy his romantic suite in D for trumpet, two flutes, and string instruments.]
Musicians of To-Day
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Look at those hollyhocks, like pyramids of roses; those garlands of the convolvulus major of all colours, hanging around that tall pole, like the wreathy hop-bine; those magnificent dusky cloves, breathing of the Spice Islands; those flaunting double dahlias; those splendid scarlet geraniums, and those fierce and warlike flowers the tiger-lilies.
Our Village
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A Yorkshire historian is calling on the Queen to help to clear Richard III of the double child murder which has blackened his reputation for more than 500 years.
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This 11 mm hardened steel, double-locking padlock has 100,000 key variations and a lifetime guarantee.
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Then he was left with a double jaw fracture.
The Sun
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Sure enough, the book has sex, death, trains and double-crosses in far-flung corners of Nazi-occupied Europe.
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Chela has three break points and Henman surrenders his advantage with a double fault.
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The double-sided checker-board is also useful for breadboarding with surface mounted components.
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This applies double if the profanity occurs during a quarterly conference call.
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Set in Scotland, it follows two families torn apart by a brutal double murder.
The Sun
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Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry has more than doubled its visitors after abolishing admission charges.
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Under a likely scenario, world population will double by 2050.
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The, for 1420 alloy at double - ageing, the maximum corrosion depth was consistent the Gumbel distribution law.
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Is that a single or a double you want?
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Food subsidies are reduced or thrown out altogether and food prices may double or triple overnight.
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Starting with DNA surrounded by lipid vesicles and DNA binding proteins, a double membrane may spontaneously self-assemble around the DNA, a process which happens at every division in telophase.
Albert de Roos: A design hypothesis for the evolution of the nucleus
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Friars Cowle, which was so snottie and greazie, that good store of kitchin stuffe might have beene boiled out of it; as also a foule slovenly Trusse or halfe doublet, all baudied with bowsing, fat greazie lubberly sweating, and other drudgeries in the Convent
The Decameron
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Any benefit for middle and higher earners will be offset by a bigger than expected rise in national insurance and a double-digit increase in capital gains tax.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the main bedroom imposing beams support a domed roof space above the double bed.
Times, Sunday Times
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And here we are in these floor-length indigo-dyed cotton culottes that have 25 pleats in them, and this sort of heavyweight double-stitched cotton top.
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I might be able to afford the preverbal double-wide if this gets passed.
Key conservative Democrat urges health care slowdown
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This is roughly double the average daily consumption of fibre in the Western diet.
Healthy By Nature
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Brazil's prospects of becoming a leading oil producer increased yesterday when it emerged that a giant offshore field could be double the size of BP's discovery last week in the Gulf of Mexico.
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There were enough guitarists to double up on parts .
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The scoring is for a simple classical orchestra, strings, double woodwind, four horns and two trumpets.
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The RT enzyme converts the single-stranded virion into doublestranded DNA for subsequent integration into the host cell genome.
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Both of the three-year trials found that the drug reduced the occurrence of precancerous polyps called adenomas in people at risk for colon cancer," Health Day wrote, "but it more than doubled patients 'risk for heart attack and other serious cardiovascular events.
Pfizer Celebrex Lawsuits - 1500 and Counting
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This full-length jersey has a double shoulder/yoke with full-cut sleeves and underarm gusset, plus elastic ribbed gathers on edges of sleeves.
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She was doubled up/over with the pain in her stomach.
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About every 18 months, the number of transistors in computer chips doubles.
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The work on double stars had been undertaken as a continuation of his father's work which attempted to measure the parallax of a star.
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Not only this, but, fortified by the fact that I had drunk his lager by mistake, Ken managed to hit the winning double in the second leg of the last match.
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Pregnant women received a double ration of milk.
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Double Representation; nay almost enjoining it, so loud is the jargon and eleutheromania.
The French Revolution
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Violins and clarinets were used in instrumental combinations in all areas, with the bagpipe (ubiquitous since the Middle Ages) prevalent in Bohemia, and the double bass and dulcimer in Moravia.
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It contains a double fold of pia mater, and its floor is formed by a transverse band of white substance, the anterior white commissure, which is perforated by bloodvessels on their way to or from the central part of the medulla spinalis.
IX. Neurology. 3. The Spinal Cord or Medulla Spinalis
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This is a book you can trust, although it is always worth double checking the advice about chemicals, which can become outdated very quickly.
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Regional manager Gavin Pritchard said the number of pitches more than doubled and they now have 113 hardstanding pitches, as well as a new toilet block with modern facilities, new reception and roads.
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I did a double take - I couldn't believe it was her.
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After three hours her bulletproof double-decker bus had moved only 300 yards.
Times, Sunday Times
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I used a very tall, husky double for the scenes where you see all of him.
Times, Sunday Times
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This cake can also be iced: melt together 150g dark chocolate with 150 ml double cream and 25g butter.
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He indicated a steel roll-up type double door on the far right wall.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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The thought depressed him so much he double-parked outside a candy store on Southern Boulevard and had a cigarette.
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And your double venti triple frap half-caf twist of lime thing won't cost you four bucks.
The Palace
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Preferably swathed in a scarf which can double as a belt, a bikini top - or even as a scarf.
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We are bound together in this bloody conflict where the body counts have to break double digits to really get our attention anymore.
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You should ensure yourself against loss of heat by having double glazing.
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Most apartment buildings were rent-controlled, which meant that a tenant only paid about double what an apartment was worth.
DOUBTING THOMAS
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Mr. Lockhart shall furnish us with the brightest aspect a British Ferney ever yielded, or is like to yield: and therewith we will quit Abbotsford and the dominant and culminant period of Scotts life: It was a clear, bright September morning, with a sharpness in the air that doubled the animating influence of the sunshine, and all was in readiness for a grand coursing-match on Newark Hill.
Paras. 50-73
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Had they known, they would, I am sure, have redoubled their efforts.
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Expanding a restaurant business is the terrible double-edged mezzaluna of high-end catering.
Times, Sunday Times
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Double all the quantities in the recipe to make enough for eight people.
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It doubled as a bedroom and a sitting room with its two deep blue chairs inviting one to sink down and meditate by the fire.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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He claims that the morale he had developed during the double-header against Iceland and Canada in October, closely followed by the trip to Portugal, was unravelled by nearly three subsequent months without a match.
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In addition, sequences at the genomic termini were believed to be recombinational hot-spots due to the induction of an additional double-strand break mechanism or due to the high GC content at the DNA ends
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
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Anheuser has posted double-digit profit gains for 20 straight quarters, while its nearest competitors, Coors and Miller, have flatlined.
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It was a set of platonic bodies: there was an octahedron and a double tetrahedron.
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Shake and double strain over cubed ice.
Times, Sunday Times
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The two schools ended up as joint winners of the 1998 Carnival, which meant a double celebration for the team.
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The terret would originally have been attached to a chariot yoke, probably serving to guide the reins for a double harness.
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The Jessie swung off under her full staysail, then the foresail, double-reefed, was run up.
Chapter 3
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A double oscillation is also a possibility, for example if the trees are defoliated by predators and then put out a second growth of leaves.
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The rudder blade is - balance, double plate(Sentence dictionary), stream - line type. Able to turn to 350 rudder angle side.
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Spending is due to double over the next decade, feeding on more and more of the federal fisc and national wealth.
Medicare for a New Century
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His only claim to fame was his double-barrelled surname.
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Matsui finally gained some redemption in the fifth, singling home Williams from second after the Yankee centerfielder had doubled.
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Birth involving such close relations doubles risk of congenital defects.
Times, Sunday Times
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We both really wanted to have the same last name, however, so we did a double last name, unhyphenated.
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Bent double under their loads, the savants spend hours unpacking and repacking their sacks whenever they meet each other.
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A player uses the wild double in his turn to end the gameround.
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No one has done the double, won both the US and British Opens since 1982, since Tom Watson.
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Not an identical one but the kind you do a double take with.
The Sun
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The house has double-glazed windows throughout, and fitted curtains and carpets are included in the sale.
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Double boxes are stable species and the arrows represent photolysis.
Developmental buffering, or how to live with your bad genes - The Panda's Thumb
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The accustomed double cat-shaped depression on the bedspread was missing.
HIDING FROM THE LIGHT
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Had the Li family been double-crossed by a once faithful employee?
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Joe Grue successfully ran the jack of hearts, crossed to the ace of hearts, and led the king of spades in the hope of felling a doubleton jack in the South hand.
Netherlands win at home
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West led top of her doubleton club, East playing out three top clubs.
Times, Sunday Times
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When opponents double-teamed him, no one else on the line could take advantage.
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Enter through the glazed double doors into a lofty beamed sitting room.
Times, Sunday Times
