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  • But a couple of months ago, in a Times Square studio, congas were pounding out Afro-Cuban rhythms, dancers in high heels were twirling to fast-paced mambos, and just about everyone in sight was a shade of brown.
  • Just about every camera in the world these days has a battery, even if it is just to drive the needle on the light meter.
  • The only use he serves as a coach is that his nose just about crosses the touchline when he's sat in the dugout, so there's every chance he'll be able to trip up a tricky winger with his conk.
  • In Iowa, he didn't just win over the Democrats, the college-educated over $55K under 60 crowd, he won overjust about everybody that wasn't a die-hard Republican. Hillary's NH Lead In Suffolk Tracking Poll Cut By Nearly Half
  • Go into just about every boulangerie in France nowadays and a standard baguette costs 80 centimes.
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  • It is not just about productivity, but predictability, speeding things up, making things flow smoothly.
  • Imperialism was not just about colonialism, but the shape of capitalist competition.
  • Checking e-mail is just about tailor-made for this purpose.
  • The vodka and whisky are flowing and it's just about time to chill out on the sofa with a good film.
  • This raises perplexing issues, and not just about what you're dealing with in the here and now. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's been well noted at how the Lib Dems would do just about anything to win a vote but choosing a stripogram/kissogram to stand as councillor to rein in the votes is quite something! Stripping Lib Dems
  • As reported at ThinkProgress, Joe the Deacon, had this to say about replacing baby Jesus with a lump of Christmas coal in Silent Night: "I'll put my years as a Sunday school teacher, church deacon and church musician up against just about anybody else when it comes to understanding hymnology and respect for religious traditions. Justin Callaway: Joe the Deacon and the Church of Clean Coal Carolers: How to Faith-wash Green-washing
  • The trivia enthusiast in me thrilled to discover oodles of esoteric tidbits on every page - and not just about salt.
  • The main and just about only beef I had heard from the minority of critics who at least kind of panned this was that the story was lacking, but I have to disagree. Archive 2009-05-01
  • So the bottom line is that just about any car, even one powered by bio-diesel, is eco-unfriendly to some degree. A fast food morning with the Tesla Roadster Sport - Boing Boing
  • I didn't expect him until dinnertime. He just about scared the bejabbers out of me as he sneaked up behind me and burst into this sudden, uproarious laughter.
  • I can also just about spy my home for the week - bobbing along to meet my group at the end of our ride. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's not just about texture though: not only does meat cooked on the bone tend to be more flavourful, but, in marked contrast to much modern pork, that around the ribs is marbled with fat, which means it's always succulent – even more so with spare ribs, the larger, meatier kind most familiar to us as the obligatory meat element of Mixed Starter number 2. How to cook perfect barbecue ribs
  • She's had red hair, brown, black, bubblegum pink, blue, purple… Just about every color that you find in a crayon box that's stuffed with 50 different colors.
  • Sarah was just about to mount onto one when Fin without so much as a by-your-leave hoisted her up into the saddle and the tied her horse to his.
  • He can just about get away with saying he is upper middle class. Times, Sunday Times
  • You just about get something right when it all goes wrong again. Times, Sunday Times
  • They are easy to blow and get a "ducky" quack, and you can find a replacement just about anywhere if you lose it or break it. I am a beginner hunter and wanted to get some calls for duck and goose.
  • I was in a training course which was just about to start when I noticed that I had gotten an inordinate amount of hits this morning.
  • In contrast, the life-care annuity products could be open to just about anyone not currently receiving long-term care. Package Deals
  • It purely comes down to the players - defending is not just about the defence, it requires the whole team to make an effort.
  • I sat there watching the chat screen zapping up past me, just about going crosseyed trying to read it all.
  • It certainly helped that the U. S. — unlike just about every other major power in Europe or Asia — did not endure a ruinous war on its home territory.
  • It cut through the clubbiness, the sense that politics is just about personalities.
  • And, a jig saw or coping saw is just about the only tool you'll need, so don't fret if you are not particularly handy with a hammer and saw.
  • As an art form, it has survived the dynasties, the warlords, the Japanese occupation of Shanghai, the Communist Revolution, and has just about survived the restless nature of the Other Festival's unappreciative audience.
  • 'Did you reach your sales target?' 'Just about.'
  • To make sure that the formwork stays put, the company has nylon fiberglass camlock clamps that hold the boards to just about any stake.
  • What he does not go on to say is that Adenauer saved the day by municipalising just about everything.
  • Just when a draw seemed inevitable a break upfield saw the ball fall to Collingwood and he kept his cool under pressure to send over the winning points to give his side a win they just about deserved over gallant opponents.
  • They've been documented in just about every major basketball publication and airwave.
  • I was just about to walk out the front door of my office when our receptionist's cellphone rang.
  • These days you can just about guarantee that any yams you see in your grocery store are really sweet potatoes.
  • Looks like Madonna will do just about anything to stay thin and look young. reports claim that Madge has started a salmon "retox" regimen in order to look younger. Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity rumors Hollywood gossip blog from Perez Hilton
  • We've got a rock wallaby and koalas and a rosella and they are, to my mind, just about as fine as natural history art gets.
  • In the meantime, you just rest up and think about what things you want to pack, because we'll just about have to set up housekeeping on your stuff -- leastways, the front part of the house. Chapter XXIII
  • Because he didn't have to think about the subject matter - it was just about painting. Times, Sunday Times
  • Track and field athletics is beset by problems, and just about all of them are drugs. Times, Sunday Times
  • What separates him from the average band leader is his willingness to pursue just about every wacko idea that enters his mind.
  • English football has just about exhausted its room for manoeuvre in the domestic market.
  • We made the most of truck stops, showgrounds, and just about anywhere else you could park a bus and not get a ticket. True Spirit
  • If the immune system learns how to recognize only one of these cornstalk molecules, it can attack just about every parasite in the body. Parasite Rex
  • He has informed every GM that just about anyone on the roster is available, the only exceptions being third baseman Eric USATODAY.com - Toronto in danger?
  • But for a uniform service which is steeped in its history, culture and tradition, it is not just about the technical skills that you bring, it is this recognition of peer solidarity.
  • Britain's voters have now just about got it clear in their heads that these particular politicians are not omnicompetent either, but, having now lost faith in the whole idea of omnicompetence (good) don't know what to do about it except be miserable (bad).
  • For a group like ours, two and a half billion naira, that is actually just about 10% of our cement turnover per month. Businessman Criticizes Nigeria's Central Bank for Debtor List
  • Some company actually produced a series of die-cast racing cars called ‘Dot-Com Racers,’ which is just about the most idiotic idea ever.
  • They have just about sailed between the twin jagged rocks of Maastricht and recession.
  • He pushes the edge of the envelope in just about every category.
  • Now, I can deal with just about anything that happens (my three years at the animal hospital also gave me a fair bit of exposure to some grody stuff), but barf always makes me gag.
  • To a certain extent, just about every business here is dependent on tourism.
  • Not all plants should be pruned in February or March, though - evergreens or plants just about to burst into bloom are best given a wide berth.
  • "There is a housing crisis looming and we're just about in it.
  • Some are surely just about music critics showing off. Times, Sunday Times
  • I'm when you're coming in for an approach, that's just about the diciest time of your entire flight, isn't it, take-off and landing? CNN Transcript Feb 13, 2009
  • Wind sounds exactly as it should, and the swoosh of the sail as it catches air and takes the boat for a ride rings just about perfect.
  • The shouts were merged and confused, but she could just about make out a common cry: ‘Kill the witch!’
  • I've had just about enough, ie quite enough.
  • For him it was just about writing and producing stuff from home. The Sun
  • Surprisingly, the E1027 is just about childproof, if you make sure the spine is firmly against a wall so the cantilever supports your infant's weight as they haul themselves up to swipe off everything carefully arranged on top of it.
  • If astrologers, creationists, IDers, etc. are all doing science, then just about any activity counts as science and the term loses all meaning. Plantinga, Intelligent Design, and Uninformed Opinions - The Panda's Thumb
  • United have just about shaken off the flu bug and are back to more or less full strength.
  • Now, we need to show people who are just about managing that we are on their side. Times, Sunday Times
  • After a few weeks of learning the fingering on the chanter, and learning to keep the bag full to generate the sound, though, Cowling figured he was just about ready to try out his two songs onstage.
  • It's not just about telling me not to become conceited, but keeping things normal and not treating me any differently. The Sun
  • I was just about brushing my teeth in Fajuyi Hall, OAU, when guys in different halls began to shout all over the place. everyone tuned up their radios and the whole campus went gaga ... there was an unarranged parade on the streets, students who hadnt had their bath thronged everywhere waving makeshift flags of victory, beating drums and dancing all over the place ... JUNE 8 AND THE DEATH OF ABACHA
  • That level of coverage should just about deal with most parts of the UK that matter.
  • Sport is not just about buying cheap and selling dear. Times, Sunday Times
  • Humane but unsentimental, unabashedly artsy but instantly approachable, this is a movie for just about everybody.
  • Would there also be a lower threshold for'just about managing' families? Times, Sunday Times
  • I can just about survive on what I earn.
  • These studies are not just about individual character or personality. Times, Sunday Times
  • Agent software is now available for just about every type of hardware device, from the latest communications servers through to the most ancient of Digital Equipment PDP - 11 minicomputers.
  • The food is edible but unremarkable, usually a meal that could be found in just about any basic cookbook: chicken cacciatore, beef teriyaki, veal parmigiana, pasta trio, roast beef or stuffed cabbage.
  • The kids and I enjoyed having her company, apart from the fact that she just about asphyxiated us all each morning with the amount of hair spray she was using.
  • The _Maggie'll_ just about be able to hold her while us four up with the anchor -- _an 'cockbill_ it agin! Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates
  • A week in the high desert country of the Wind River Range, with time for silence and solitude, sounded just about right.
  • Thanks to Curly's Corner Shop we can read that: I am just about heartily sick and tired of the “nanny state” that we are living in, the regulation, the overbearing health and safety rules, the maternalistic approach to risk, the fear of the compensation claim etc., etc., etc. The importance of hygiene
  • It is not just about picking the playing eleven, setting the field and ringing in the bowling changes.
  • As a choice for the discerning boater, character boats are actually not just about good looks; they do have a practical side.
  • This album's lairy gloating is made just about bearable because Tinie is, at heart, a nice guy, who – like his most obvious referent, Kanye West – mentions his mum every few songs. Tinie Tempah: Disc-Overy
  • Who would have believed, just weeks ago, that America's most famous self-described "oilman," T. Boone Pickens, would be spending millions of dollars on an advertising campaign to convince Americans what had been obvious, but what had been denied by just about every other "oilman" in America: we can't drill our way out of our energy problems. Alan Fein: It's Not Good Luck, It's Consensus
  • There were just about enough people present to form a quorum.
  • When my wife worked for an important Napa Valley winery, at all parties involving management, winery worker snad vineyard workers, there was very little social interaction between the three groups and any attempt to break the ice would have embarrassed just about everybody. Bubba�s
  • No one wants to read just about wizardry and witchcraft.
  • It's just about impossible to type normally on the simulated keyboard, since it's across from the user's hands, not below them, making e-mail a hunt-and-peck affair.
  • I could identify by sight just about 500 of its species -- a pittance of its total diversity.
  • Just about every quiz show on television ends with some sort of vote to send a contestant packing.
  • Once upon a time I was able to skate down stairs, jump curbs, slolam down steep hills, in short, navigate just about any urban situation that got thrown at me. Madrigle Diary Entry
  • The site covers just about any type of music you can think of, from rock and country to pop and dance, plus all kinds that can't easily be slotted into one genre or another.
  • The trick is known to just about every two-bit crook in the cellular age: If you don't want the cops to know where you are, take the battery out of your cell phone when it's not in use.
  • The NHL regular season is just about a week away and IslandersTV and MSG have teamed up for a special one-hour long edition of Islanders Illustrated, which airs tomorrow on MSG+ at 6: 30 pm. Islanders Top Stories
  • Life isn't just about taking in oxygen and giving out carbon dioxide. Malala Yousafzai 
  • You throw me a thirty-letter word and I can spell it with just about as much ease as a ten-letter word or a five-letter word.
  • Eventually he gets near the beach, and jumps out into water that's just about shallow enough to stand in.
  • It is not just about attacking or expansive football. Times, Sunday Times
  • You know what, I've just about had it with these dunderheads.
  • So was the atmosphere in the National Stadium on April 22, with gun-toting and decidedly edgy cops and soldiers just about outnumbering the spectators.
  • As we explain in this video, the new site reformats the extensive information found in our iconic Ratings charts and their accompanying product pages to make them accessible and easily navigable on just about any phone that offers web access. New Consumer Reports mobile website offers complete Ratings
  • He was just about to drive off when the secretary came running out.
  • Over the next seven decades, as pro sports increasingly became the city's remaining portal into the nation's consciousness, you could add the epithet "boorish" to "boring" -- there were snowballs at Santa Claus (sort of) and catcalls for just about anyone. Will Bunch: How Philadelphia Got Its Groove Back -- And Why N.Y. Is Jealous
  • All the meat is free range and the coffee, tea and chocolate are all organic and fair trade, so you can just about justify tucking into the calorie-crazed sticky toffee pudding for afters.
  • Just about all the staff are very conservative, good church-going types - and I stick out like a purple goat in a flock of white-washed sheep.
  • You should just about notice the effort in your thighs. Times, Sunday Times
  • Or because he disliked the use offeree to solve everything, even when he was guilty, or more guilty than just about anyone, of employing it? Fall of Angels
  • Pedal position is just about perfect for heel-and-toe footwork. BMW 1M: Miniature, Mighty and Miles of Fun
  • GUPTA: If you take an embryonic stem cell, it is a-- what is called a pluripotent cell, a cell that can grow into just about anything. CNN Transcript Mar 7, 2009
  • The accident just about finished him as a footballer.
  • Being an entrepreneur, Groover says, isn't just about selling a product.
  • This tale unfolds according to a formula so rigid, just about anyone could tell it.
  • Art isn't just about newness and originality you know.
  • Like the programme itself, the music has been dumbed down until it just about holds an essence of the original without any of the emotion.
  • And my friends at eyebeam just got a fancy 3D printer that allows them "output" just about any small three dimensional object they can imagine. October 2005
  • Coriander features in just about everything, save a dish of satay with a nicely savoury sauce.
  • I can "incent" my students to know enough to pass just about any test, but mastery requires time, effort, and love. Ollie Ollie In Come Free!
  • And we're dealing with a real hardened criminal that's violated, I believe, just about every international law.
  • Was I just about to become another statistic, one of the many lost souls who go missing, never to be seen again, until their skeleton is found under a patio two decades hence?
  • Whenever anyone yelled the magic "bingo," people groaned and just about threw their daubers around the room.
  • The Bank just about shrugged off suggestions that it turned a blind eye to Libor manipulation. Times, Sunday Times
  • Maska pav/brun sliced horizontally and buttered generously, then sliced into fingers just about to hold all digits together. Meme : Table Talk
  • A peacherino like Helen Trick up and vanishing, well . . . that might be just about anything. Giving SATAN SLEUTH the Gong
  • These days the word confit is used loosely to describe just about anything cooked slowly and gently to a rich, succulent consistency: onions in olive oil, for example, or shrimp cooked and stored under clarified butter. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
  • The amp and speakers will also work with just about any other audio source, from CD players to phones and tablets. Times, Sunday Times
  • This is not just about the delivery of a hot meal. The Sun
  • But then again, just about everything about this remarkable woman is atypical.
  • He just grabs his leading lady and bulldozes right on through, trashing just about every institution near and dear to the moral majority on the way.
  • The wooden boat was built to withstand just about every weather condition at sea.
  • Just about anyone who had interesting or important things to say in dance-men and women, black or white-was worthy of consideration.
  • And my friends at eyebeam just got a fancy 3D printer that allows them “output” just about any small three dimensional object they can imagine. Tools vs. Craftsmen | Impact Lab
  • Nowadays, just about every haircare line makes curl activated products.
  • In fact, it was just about impossible to stay on Eighth Avenue all night long, like Father Time did, and not see a hell of a lot. Manchild in the Promised Land
  • He could just about see the little man behind the counter.
  • In these days of public inquiries into just about anything, perhaps the Council ought to instigate one of its own to see if the Leeds Rhinos managed to insert a mole in the Bradford planning department.
  • I've just about had enough of your lip!
  • And so far just about the only thing that cuts through the nausea consistently enough to let me eat, like ya do, is going from 45 minutes of biking on the big sturdy recumbent bike 4-5 days a week -- plus PT and yoga and Pilates -- to doing about 90 minutes of biking on the said recumbent bike 7 days a week -- still plus PT and yoga and Pilates. Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
  • Moving the control of the Census from the Commerce Department to the White House is just about guarantied to bring a law suit for violation of the Constitution. Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege
  • The almighty dollar can rejuvenate the fleet of just about any airline.
  • I just know that when my money and my capacity to earn have just about sputtered out, I will be hobbling on my lame grasshopper legs to Cooper, begging for a corner in his semi-detached utility room/laundry shed where I can lay me doon and die. The bums haven’t lost. | clusterflock
  • In the backstage area, just about everyone except the competitors has crowded around clipboards full of paper.
  • It is incredibly funny, and while it does occasionally meander with the laboriousness of a test match, the heart of this expansive novel isn't just about cricket. Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew by Shehan Karunatilaka – review
  • For prospective suitors keen to expand in Europe's largest economy, however, Commerz is sized just about right.
  • Physics isn't just about pure science with no immediate applications.
  • Overall it was a well contested game but it never rose above mediocrity with Rangers just about deserving their win.
  • Most modern calculations rely on the fact that we believe the inner core to be made up of iron and nickel that is just about at melting point.
  • It's a lot of hard work, and I don't mean just about what happens on the racetrack.
  • I was just about to borrow some money when bingo! - the cheque arrived.
  • Okay, maybe it's just me, but David Copperfield and I have just visited Steerforth's family home, and between Steerforth calling the lad "Daisy," and the Queer Eye-view of the decor and inhabitants of the house, I feel like the book is just about to burst into little flamy flames. Archive 2006-04-01
  • I am very well aware that I, like just about everyone else I know, rubberneck at traffic accidents.
  • Regular wearers know they are unlikely to be challenged when entering businesses, building sites or just about anywhere else. The Sun
  • I think the answer is yes, which leads to a depressing conclusion, and not just about disability.
  • It was replaced with one that does just about meet the 10 target. Times, Sunday Times
  • The clouds and sea fret can make it just about any shade of orange, red, yellow, pink or purple you might care to imagine.
  • Just about anything could happen and we'll be there to catch it on camera when it does.
  • In the opening cue, he employs it in just about the most inventive way imaginable: a tuba plays the theme, sounding both sinister and comical.
  • Political Pluralism and the Media Media analysis often arouses controversy, not just about the findings themselves but about their policy implications.
  • Just about every collective pitch helicopter available should be capable of performing this manoeuvre, but some are more capable than others.
  • It is not just about owning the painting and flaunting it but more about displaying it with style and the right interiors.
  • The roads are just about wide enough to take two vehicles abreast. THE EARTH: An Intimate History
  • Today, the Boulder, CO, company that makes them basically freeze-dries just about anything it can think of and labels it astronaut food. Popular Science
  • Schweitzer's discussion of coal liquefaction on Thursday just about charmed the pants off Beck, who was particularly struck by Schweitzer's "doggone" terminology and used it half-a-dozen times in the next 5 or 10 minutes. Archive 2005-10-01
  • ) -- no, siree, I'm watching just about the most hotly tipped Belfast band in yonks, and I'm in hysterics. MUSIC FOR BOYS
  • Scheduling is a different form of optimization problem ... it's not just about packing, but also has 'dependancies', things that must occur as prerequisites. New Scientist - Space
  • Already deeply suspicious of just about everything, China is no stranger to using such strong-arm tactics to regulate the Internet.
  • But it's not just about looking 'hench'. The Sun
  • So, to me, this part is not just about coloratura acrobatics.
  • I was just about to go upstairs and seek him out when Gosling came sauntering along the bay. THE SCHEME FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT
  • The problem is, of course, that as networks become less neutral our virtual household turns into a public space where police, advertisers and just about anyone strolls in arrogantly and takes a peak. AT&T and Other I.S.P.’s May Be Getting Ready to Filter - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
  • I was just about to make breakfast, would you like some?
  • Indeed, "The Runaways" is owned and just about swallowed up by Fanning's riveting portrayal of the singer (not too dissimilar from the way Currie overwhelmed the group). Sundance Review: Kristen Stewart And Dakota Fanning’s ‘Runaways’ » MTV Movies Blog
  • It's not just about the city being a safe haven, people can live here if things get tricky. Times, Sunday Times
  • Love is not just about finding the right person, but creating a right relationship.
  • He also spared few people his assurances that just about no one was as powerful as he was.
  • The problem lies in the fact that as the field grows, more and more people want to get in on the trend and the designation "coach" is being adopted by just about anyone looking to sell their services -- no matter how far from legitimate their claim. James M. Lynch: 5 Signs They're Probably Not a Coach
  • The band played impressive versions of numbers from just about every musical sphere including soul, reggae, trad and rock.
  • It applies to just about every state, county or city agency, department, subagency, or any other entity that makes decisions or adopts rules relating to public matters. Facebook vs. face to face: Preserving the integrity of open meetings in the Net era
  • The wooden boat was built to withstand just about every weather condition at sea.
  • The roller coater is just about to reach the top of the hill and it's all down hill from there. carolflowery Pelosi prepared to 'step in' to end race
  • TOM FRATANATO (ph), RETIRED HAWAII POLICE OFFICER: Yeah, in Wai - Hai (ph), that's just about a mile north of Lapahoi-hoi (ph) town, the gulch, which is the Lapahoi-hoi (ph) gulch, the landslide took out the water lines, which supply Waipunalai (ph), Malka (ph) and Waipunalai (ph) Makai, the camps down in Makai. CNN Transcript Oct 15, 2006
  • It's not just about his unflashy lifestyle. Times, Sunday Times
  • The vodka and whisky is flowing and it's just about time to chill out on the sofa with a good film.
  • I heard Simmons talk about how they are thinking of putting the character's stories on the DVD or in comic book form and I just about plotzed. Scott Derrickson will direct ‘Hyperion’ adaptation | We Are Movie Geeks
  • I was just about to speak when a carefully manicured hand landed on the desk in front of me.
  • They need to be able to communicate well with each other - not just about the positive aspects of their work but also to tackle problems as well;
  • He took the boy in and up to the little room on the second floor which he called his den; and, turning on the light, motioned him to a chair, laid aside his hat and gloves, and was just about to pull up a chair for himself when he caught sight of an unstamped letter lying upon his writing-table. Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces
  • That was just about bearable, but then they started spraying the table-tops with chemical cleaners, the thin mist wafting over onto our plates and up our noses.
  • And chestnut flour can be used in just about anything in which wheat flour is normally used. Times, Sunday Times
  • And need I point out that a pony’s hoof is just about the perfect implement for crushing fragile crockery? The Volokh Conspiracy » Bloggers agree: Little chance for immigration bill, and they hate the VAT
  • He wasn't a class officer or an honor roll geek, but he was certainly above average in just about everything he did.
  • If I google myself, just about the only hits are of that poor unfortunate child who got attacked by a pit bull.
  • Nowadays you can fly just about anywhere in the world. The Sun
  • They might just about have grasped the rudiments of e-mail, but they haven't a clue about the new media.
  • In fact, one of my first solo four-wheel lock excursions was taking a Montero through a dry riverbed which ran through Joshua Tree (Google it) for about 20 miles or so and provided just about every off-road challenge and escapade possible for dirt rookies and veterans alike. Steve Parker: Mitsubishi's 2010 Outlander Off-Roader a Serious Vehicle
  • But so long as the whale shark made no discernible attempt to propel itself through the water I could, by finning vigorously, just about keep pace.
  • Brunch can mean just about anything to your date, though, from an English muffin with butter to Nova Scotia lox on a bagel with a side of caviar and a pitcher of mimosas.
  • Just about every pub displays a sign or notice advising women to keep an eye on their drinks.

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