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  • I ` d like to see it minus bodywork to see if it ` s got smaller wheels than the big old hoops normal for the period, cos i reckon even tho the bodywork is quite wide, full lock would find large dia. wheels causing a few problems. 1930 Art Deco Henderson
  • Above: South Shore terminus with four Dreadnoughts in line abreast, demonstrating their legendary capacity to absorb crowds.
  • Those who wish to exalt or abnegate Sullivan can do so by linking to his website, discussing his work in their blogs, or can visit the beta version of the Ego Machine online and click on either the "plus" or "minus" sign to add or deduct from Sullivan's store of (after) life points. Immortality Through Google
  • Mrs Scott went across as a minuscule Great Lady - they should have seen Mrs Van L as she set off this morning! THE QUEST FOR K
  • In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
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  • Dominus Papa non mittebat aliqua munera; quia non erat certus, qu騞 ad illos peruenire possemus, et insuper veneramus per loca vald� periculosa. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • We are just like any other country in the region, with our pluses and our minuses.
  • The probe will hit the coldest layer of the atmosphere, the tropopause, at about 28 miles, where expected temperatures hover around minus 390 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 200 degrees Celsius).
  • May I take this opportunity to wish all NLM readers a very happy and blessed Easter, in the words of the EF Martyrology: Hac die, quam fecit Dominus, Solemnitas solemnitatum, et Pascha nostrum: Resurrectio Salvatoris nostri Jesu Christi secundum carnem. Papal Easter Day Mass and Urbi et Orbi Blessing
  • As Els has pointed out, doing what he is currently doing has no minuses and many positives for all concerned.
  • The oil is trapped in minuscule cells of porous subsurface rocks in so-called sedimentary basins. What Lies Below?
  • Yet now he is dead, as dead as any ordinary pikeman who fought to hold back the Horde at the terminus of the Salmisti Bridge. Kingdoms of Light
  • While the far west may have the more vicious winter temperatures, often subceeding minus 40 degrees C, the northeast is infamous for its radically changeable winter atmospherics.
  • The odds against bringing it back upstream, through the tangle of brambles and nettles and against such a flow, were minuscule. Times, Sunday Times
  • Corporations are taxed on their revenue minus their expenses.
  • Daminus mendacii a seipso deceptus, alios decipere cupit, adversarius humani generis, Inventor mortis, superbiae institutor, radix malitiae, scelerum caput, princeps omnium vitiorum, fuit inde in Dei contumeliam, hominum perniciem: de horum conatibus et operationibus lege Epiphanium. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • As a character study, I've often thought this president was the worst of two worlds: a sense of elite Eastern entitlement without the intellectual rigor and Texas bravado minus the bigheartedness. Jamie Stiehm: When Oliver Stone Makes a Movie, Bring It On
  • The troops suffered atrocious conditions in bitterly cold winters, with temperatures down to minus 30C. Times, Sunday Times
  • There are pluses and minuses for each type of program.
  • It went down to minus 20 degrees celsius last night.
  • Minus the film interaction, however, the opus suffered from overwrought verbiage and meandering vignettes.
  • Output 46 provides a signal with an adjusted resonant frequency, minus the inharmonic tones.
  • They have not yet found a comparable party of Iranians, however minuscule, to defend the theory of the emancipationist bombing of Iran. David Bromwich: One More War, Please
  • Ed Overton -- who is a Ph. D, a professor emeritus at LSU, and who unlike yours truly is a scientist (in analytical environmental chemistry) -- spoke to us the next day and told us that the kind of dispersant used was not only not poisonous, but also that the amount, though it sounded immense, was minuscule, given the volume of water in the Gulf of Mexico. Rachel Ben-Avi: Dinner at Tara
  • A metro poem has as many verses as your trip has stations, minus one.
  • Non-residential investment growth fell from 9 per cent to minus 5 per cent.
  • Their results remain strong; their ethos is unchanged minus the old social elitism; and none of them would think of going back. Times, Sunday Times
  • I pay and you leach, that is why he is prez for a while, T-minus 31 months and counting. Naplesnews.com Stories
  • Day-time temperatures are frequently in the low twenties centigrade but, once night falls, they plummet to minus ten or even below that in a matter of minutes.
  • While the article vaunts the fact that men spend nearly 3.5 hours a week more on childcare now than they did in 1985, it glosses over the fact that women's childcare load has also increased - -and says nothing about the minuscule increases in men's contribution to housework and food preparation/cleanup. Joan Williams: Chore Wars and the Value of Work
  • The metro central terminus is planned to be located close to the City Railway Station.
  • The average winter temperature is minus 7 degrees with an average annual snowfall of 74 inches.
  • I have that one on tape, minus about five minutes.
  • I can see clearly now that the terminus is nearer than I had earlier thought. Obama picks up four more superdelegates
  • Unfortunately the minuses of the disc so outweigh the scant positives.
  • All of the rites which are normally done when a prayer is said at Mass are omitted: the prayer is not preceded by either of the two formulae that normally precede (“Dominus vobiscum - Oremus” or “Oremus - Flectamus genua - Levate”), the priest does not open his hands, the prayer is not said standing at the altar, but in front of it. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 4.1 - Mass of Presanctified, Good Friday, Mass of the Catechumens and the Solemn Prayers
  • The temperature was minus 10 degrees centigrade so we gathered around the campfire inside, talking, singing and getting to know each other.
  • Page 233 shows three smaller taps (minus guide plates) for about two-inch diameter threads.
  • To the left we had the Champs-Elysees with their noble elms whose terminus is marked, off yonder on an elevation, by the great triumphal arch of Napoleon in the Place de L'Etoile. France Through Canadian Eyes
  • I suspect this is a Russian-Jewish variant on finan haddie, minus the cream. Ed’s Salami and Eggs - Bitten Blog - NYTimes.com
  • What I'm saying - that it is minuscule compared to what Ken Lay did, compared to what Jack Grubman and the other analysts on Wall Street did that had a real impact on people's lives.
  • This truncation shows that the extreme C terminus of the SPM domain is required for protein interactions.
  • The BMTC terminus with a pedestrian subway for safety will also have shops and toilets.
  • A representative sample poll of 4,000 people has a plus or minus one per cent chance of correctly calling the outcome of a national or constituency vote.
  • According to the latter, if you want to do it the Brazilian way, guys should be sporting nothing but a sunga, a tiny piece of square Lycra, and ladies need to invest in a tanga, a minuscule bikini.
  • San Pedro Bay, the terminus for two major coastwise shipping lanes, is full of commercial and military traffic day and night.
  • Bacteria use the enzyme, called subtilisin, as a sort of food processor: After producing it internally, they release the enzyme into the soil, where it uses a minuscule "blade" to chop up proteins into digestible pieces. THE MEDICAL NEWS
  • Flash I was saddled with 'Hologram' for a while, in respect of my annoying habit of disappearing instantly on a run ashore and reappearing magically in camp tucked up in bed minus speech, faculties and an workable digestive system teuchter. it means country folk. Army Rumour Service
  • This food comes minus the usual slicks of oil and unnatural colourings.
  • Minus 5's newie doesn't aim for the same tin-can fuzziness.
  • Dominus Papa non mittebat aliqua munera; quia non erat certus, quòd ad illos peruenire possemus, et insuper veneramus per loca valdè periculosa. The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini
  • Approximately 535,000 gallons of supercold liquid oxygen (LOX, minus 298 deg F) and liquid hydrogen (LH2, minus 423 deg F ) are loaded from storage tanks around the pad to the shuttles mobile launch platform and is nearly complete as of 7 AM. Tweeters and Atlantis Ready for Launch | Universe Today
  • The plus sign is used in addition and the minus is used in subtraction.
  • I had a friend who worked abroad minus his wife and ran off with a younger bird.
  • In puteis est remedium, quale et crebri specus praebent: conceptum enim spiritum exhalant: quod in certis notatur oppidis, quae minus quatiuntur, crebris ad eluviem cuniculis cavata. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1
  • Moreover, what building could better symbolise Britain's territorial expansion in the industrial age than the world's first purpose-built railway terminus?
  • Players earn points for each hole, ranging from minus one for a bogey to five for an eagle. The Sun
  • Dominus conservet eum, et vivificet eum, et beatum faciat eum in terra, et non tradat eum in animam inimicorum eius. Pray for the Holy Father
  • What the farmer gets is what the urban dweller pays minus transportation and distribution costs.
  • At another - possibly on the same night - it might be minuscule portions of conch ceviche on a bed of lime and chilli, drenched in aged balsamic and served in a trumpet fashioned from the re-frozen meltwaters of Arctic glaciers.
  • In Brazil Elaps lemniscatus is copied by Oxyrhopus trigeminus, both having black rings disposed in threes. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays
  • Speed of writing changed the appearance of many letters, however, and along with the introduction by the 4th century of loops and linking of letters this formed the basis for the development of minuscule scripts.
  • And walked back to the hotel minus her ball and chain.
  • A shirt with a Chinese collar or high roll-neck, minus necktie, can spell casual elegance.
  • Dominus conservet eum, et vivificet eum, et beatum faciat eum in terra, et non tradat eum in animam inimicorum ejus. The St. Gregory Hymnal and Catholic Choir Book
  • Istis duobus Imperatoribus non creditur inueniri maior Dominus sub firmamento Coeli. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
  • L s M: Pbilofophk Optm., neceffario femper ab inuicem ad Retinam vfque magis di~ uaricantur j &: in eam pro fitu fuffieienter diftinguibili inci - dentes j nihilominus, iuxta di&a, coincidentes cum ajiis eiuk dern Signabilis, ordinant diftin&am imprelTionem repra*fen - tatiuoruni, pluribus huiufmodi Signabilihus 5 in Vifione con - diftinguendis s refpondentium .. Optica philosophia experimentis et ratione a fundamentis constituta, Nicolai ...
  • Nevertheless, in the ninth century, Danila, the scribe of the three-columned bible of La Cava, mastered capitalis, uncial, half-uncial, a slanting half-uncial with uncial admixture, and minuscule, all with equal elegance." (p. 99) December Books 11) Latin Palaeography
  • * Ex nequissimis in ipso vitae exitu gratia invenit quos adoptet, cum tamen multi, etiam qui minus nocentes videantur, doni hujus alieni sunt. The Sermons of John Owen
  • This can only mean that Martine McCutcheon must own a Burberry mac too, hence minus points.
  • From 1989 to 1999, the total wealth or net worth of households (their total assets minus debt) more than doubled.
  • Among other items of interest beside the taxonomic classification, Polygeminus grex how original, were the presence of spiracles, a single gonad, and a uterus. STRANGE NEW WORLDS
  • Item sunt alie expense facte in Curiis Regis annuatim pro officio generalis procuratoris in diversis Curiis Regis, que de necessitate fieri oportet, pro brevibus Regis, et Cartis impetendis, et aliis, negociis in eisdem Curiis expediendis, que ad minus ascendunt per annum, prout evidencius apparet, per compotum et memoranda dicti fratris de Scaccario qui per capitulum ad illud officium oneratur ... lx m. Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850
  • These residues expand a region extending from the C-terminus of S5 to the N-terminus of S6.
  • He's keen, but his youth is a minus factor.
  • At the top of the troposphere, the temperature reaches minus 55 degrees C.
  • He has minus two points for the game and has minus eight overall. The Sun
  • She told me all about her life at the Academy, minus the song hunting parts, and I told her all of the goss from back home.
  • Hoc nempe ab homine exigiture, ut prosit hominibus; si fieri potest, multis; si minus, paucis; si minus, proximis, si minus, sibi: nam cum se utilem caeteris efficit, commune agit negotium. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
  • At one time his father had a pub and grocery business, situated near a large Dublin railway terminus.
  • A household savings rate of minus 11 percent is not good news for New Zealand - it is very bad news - and the Government could be taking a first step by backing our amendment.
  • Imagine this - a service that has large parking lots at its terminus stations, clean trains, and decent reliability.
  • They've been promised their full July salary minus the hardship payment.
  • Let the shade of blind Homer be called up to say whether the bard who composed the tremendous line — “Surgit ad hos clypei dominus septemplicis Ajax” — equal to any save ONE of his own, was a mere amatory songster. Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery
  • On the one hand, there's the firm's collaboration with Danish architect Bjarke Ingels to develop a daring gashed pyramid on the western terminus of 57th Street. At Apartment House, a Blend of the Old and the New
  • First, the Civil War period saw Congress define net income as revenue minus expenses.
  • The relative aspect is defined as the subject's aspect minus the solar azimuth.
  • Ipse vero imperator munera accipit et nihilominus vt veniat mittit pro eo. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • The total per cent. of barium minus that of barium chloride gives the amount present as barium valerate, from which is calculated the per cent. of amyl alcohol. Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882
  • Then 'brrr' as we realised the temperature had now fallen to minus 5,000 degrees. The Sun
  • I've seen both Merchant of Venice and Time Stands Still; the latter could play differently now thanks to new cast member Christina Ricci, the former I imagine will be much the same as it was, minus the magic of the park. Cara Joy David: On the Verge of a New Fall Season
  • While the thylacine, the devil, and the eastern quoll had been lost altogether, two minuscule species the white-footed dunnart and the swamp antechinus, a couple of mousy carnivorous marsupials did maintain populations on some of the tiny islands. The Song of The Dodo
  • After remitting the sale proceeds - minus 40 per cent commission - to the bookstall owner, he winds up the show.
  • The medieval constitution of the town, with its minuscule political franchise, was frozen in place.
  • It must have been minus 5 with the wind chill factor .
  • Paman's explanation looks like our present definition of infimum and supremum, but whereas our infimum and supremum given a set (of real numbers) gives a real number, the Maximinus and Minimajus of a quantity is a quantity of the same kind.
  • Next, we update the bills again, setting the total bill to the price minus the discount plus the sales tax, which is read from the state table.
  • The margin of error was plus or minus three percentage points.
  • I went through a somewhat similar situation with my sister, minus the rudeness on her part.
  • Am I ok wearing a knee-length pencil skirt and closed-toe heels minus the nylons?
  • Its capitalization is minuscule, maybe about $20 billion to $30 billion.
  • The eggs had been microwaved, minus their shells, but with the yolks still intact.
  • Most of the works of the ancient Greek mathematicians which have survived do so because of this copying process and it is the ‘latest’ version written in minuscule script which has survived.
  • In 1913, Charles Sprague wrote that ‘the balance sheet may be considered as the groundwork of all accountancy, the origin and the terminus of every account’.
  • Girls Hunt Too!!!" and "We've Got Braggin 'Rights," the bimonthly is similar to "the grown-up magazines, but minus the grown-up language," says Kiihnl. Teens Launch HunTeen Magazine for Young Hunters and Anglers
  • Between the hymen and the frenulum of the labia is the fossa navicularis, while in the groove between the hymen and the labium minus, on either side, the small opening of the greater vestibular (Bartholin’s) gland can be seen. XII. Surface Anatomy and Surface Markings. 10. Surface Markings of the Perineum
  • Nominus says, “I bet it would be more accurate to say that they illiterately finalized the deal this week.” COMMENT OF THE WEEK WINS A PORNO
  • For a five-door compact, the styling gets at least an A-minus. Alfa Romeo Readies a Stirring Stateside Return
  • ( 'Supernatural,' minus one hot bachelor, is on ours.) | EW. com What are your Must List picks this week? ('Supernatural,' minus one hot bachelor, is on ours.) | EW.com
  • Each player's score for the hand consists of: the total value of any bonuses they are entitled to, plus the total value of all the cards they have melded, minus the total value of any cards remaining in their hands.
  • Not one of them is written in the type of small, utilitarian script, called current minuscule, which was the common form of handwriting used in liturgical handbooks and schoolbooks in the seventh and eighth centuries.
  • Plus, minus, multiply and divide can each be used once only. Times, Sunday Times
  • ‘The rate of housing increases at the southern terminus of the migration route is in direct proportion to the number of gas wells that are being drilled,’ Berger said.
  • But it's only minus five or eight! The Sun
  • $check_tz_minus12 = -12; if ($data [ 'tz'] = = $check_tz_minus12) $message = $user - > lang [ 'YOU_SPAMBOT_TZ_MINUS12'] PhpBB.com
  • I have been dogsledding in Finland and Russia in the middle of a cold snap, and instead of the January average of minus 15, it's minus 30.
  • Her CV bore her maiden name … Smythe, minus the hyphened Enright. Purchased By The Billionaire
  • The odds against bringing it back upstream, through the tangle of brambles and nettles and against such a flow, were minuscule. Times, Sunday Times
  • Zero Kelvin is minus 273.15 degrees Celsius, theoretically as low as a temperature can get.
  • For many viruses, a small segment of the fusion protein usually located at the N terminus of the fusion protein is responsible for the early stage in the membrane fusion process.
  • As for watermelons, pick the ones minus dents or scratches and a light thump should yield a dull hollow sound.
  • Navasota grew as it became established as a railroad terminus.
  • He is skeletal and scrawny with his minuscule bones poking through his clothes.
  • The star's surface temperature is reckoned to be minus 75 degrees Celsius.
  • From plus to minus to not at all? Times, Sunday Times
  • Due to the sub-zero temperatures, around minus 52C including the wind chill factor, the body burns more calories a day to maintain warmth.
  • Although Taunton is raceable today, overnight temperatures could slip to as low as minus 2C. Sport news, comment and results | guardian.co.uk
  • You could go back perhaps, he hasarded, still thinking of the very unpleasant scene at Westland Row terminus when it was perfectly evident that the other two, Mulligan, that is, and that English tourist friend of his, who eventually euchred their third companion, were patently trying as if the whole bally station belonged to them to give Ulysses
  • Currently these businesses contribute a minuscule amount to the total revenues.
  • Minus One is a social support group for separated, widowed or divorced people.
  • The figure, the number arriving minus those leaving, was welcomed by ministers. The Sun
  • The Men Commandments: Three dozen universal rules and regulations for guys (minus the beer).
  • Anthony Buckeridge assembles the real essence of the retired schoolmaster - Panama hat, silver-tipped cane, swan-necked pipe (minus tobacco since a heart attack last year).
  • The telephone poll's margin of error is plus or minus percent.
  • On 22 March 235, in a repeat of the fate of Elagabalus and Soaemias, twenty-seven-year-old Alexander and his mother, Julia Mamaea, were set upon by soldiers under the command of an officer named Maximinus Thrax. Caesars’ Wives
  • Shrouded in a sheet of transparent plastic to keep off the wind and trap the warmth of his breath, he sat on his wooden tackle box wrapped in furs and sheepskin as the temperature hovered around minus 15C.
  • When you're faced with so many negative and draining situations, realize how minuscule problems will seem when you view your life as a whole--and remember the positive things.
  • If dissatisfied return unused within 7 days for a full refund minus postage and express delivery charges. Times, Sunday Times
  • All the passengers were told that our train would be shunted across the suburbs to join up with the other train, now waiting for us at another terminus, and this would take two or three hours.
  • Some authors extend the notion of writing even further and call terminus scriptus “a term perceptible by senses other than haering” (terminus alio sensu quam auditu perceptibilis) (Peter Margallus, Log. utriusque scholia, Medieval Semiotics
  • There are more pluses than minuses, but we have to use the technology carefully and wisely.
  • Now, much of the so-called barrenness of country life is the oak minus the polish. Chapters in Rural Progress
  • Reading a 5,000 word contract printed in minuscule print, full of legalese, is one thing, understanding it is a totally different thing. Think Progress » Pentagon Pushes For A Strong Consumer Agency To Protect Troops From Abusive Financial Practices
  • The absolute end of the earth, the terminus of an equator of cool that wraps around the globe and begins in New York.
  • I'm not sure of the importance of any of the questions except numbers 4 18 minus the word multitask and number 20. Play Web 2.0 Truth AND Dare
  • The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 5 per cent.
  • The odds against bringing it back upstream, through the tangle of brambles and nettles and against such a flow, were minuscule. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the mid-1880s, Pierre Curie had used minuscule quartz crystals to craft an instrument called an electrometer, capable of measuring exquisitely small doses of energy. The Emperor of All Maladies
  • A funicular railway scales the mountain to the jumping-off point for the sledge run, which winds five kilometres downhill back to the railway terminus.
  • Deflation would be equivalent to an inflation of minus two percent pa, with prices generally decreasing.
  • Refractive error is measured in dioptres, and myopia is designated with a minus sign.
  • The odds against bringing it back upstream, through the tangle of brambles and nettles and against such a flow, were minuscule. Times, Sunday Times
  • Alex had spoken the truth - Drake had sheared his blonde hair to something that resembled Alex's hair cut, minus the spikes.
  • The rails will be a permanent reminder of the heyday of the station as a thriving terminus.
  • One profit measure was net farm income from operations, calculated as total revenues minus total costs.
  • The configurational entropy of the human genome is minuscule, and if I had to define it, I would have to count the number of possible DNA base permutations of the human genome (easy) vs. all the permutations that leave a human essentially unchanged (hard). Sewell's Thermodynamic Failure - The Panda's Thumb
  • The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 5 per cent.
  • He found no evidence of a prior restoration and most importantly determined that the white colour used contained the pigment lithopone which was not available until 1874, thereby setting an 1874 terminus post quem date for the codex. The Art Newspaper - RSS
  • In the majority of these cases, a fibrous nubbin of tissue is found at the terminus of the spermatic cord.
  • This suggests that the distribution of minus ends where microtubules depolymerize and thus, the pole itself, extends over a large area.
  • Bills for winter heating came to 200 for gas during a particularly cold month last year when temperatures dropped below minus 20 degrees.
  • Nominus says: in soviet russia, the roflcopter laughs at you? GET SMART LIVING UP TO ITS NAME
  • For those who like a more sedate evening minus the cowboy whoops and lariats, Jockey Club may be the best place to be in.
  • In other words, saving is the baker's real income (his production of bread) minus the amount of bread that the baker consumed.
  • Water striders are covered stem to stem and toe to toe with a layer of tiny, waxy, feathery hairs in which countless minuscule air bubbles are trapped.
  • They'd long since outgrown his father's minuscule house where they looked after his sick mother.
  • Yes, it's true, I've won first prize in the Writer Online Minuscule Fiction Contest.
  • In the centre is a minuscule island housing a former monastery which dates back to the ninth century.
  • Minus those skills a person can only rely on his/her ability to instill fear in employes, which is another way of getting the job done. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
  • To the Pasadena, California-based management team, this set of channels debouching into the ocean-like dark lowlands were reminiscent of the Los Angeles River's terminus at Long Beach, California.
  • Extremely steep slopes encircle the northwestern terminus of the ravine and conglomeratic sandstone slump boulders lie on the lower elevations of the ravine.
  • What's left over, the dry remnants of the cane minus its sugar content, is called bagasse. THE THORN BIRDS
  • When a long, thick needle was inserted into a minuscule vein on the back of her teaspoon-sized hands and she didn't even flinch, I knew she was in the best place.
  • The star's surface temperature is reckoned to be minus 75 degrees Celsius.
  • The least defined regions are residues 1-4 at the N terminus of CyP and the loop composed of CyP residues 41-45.
  • Quae longo tempore consueta sunt, etiamsi deteriora, minus in assuetis molestare solent. Anatomy of Melancholy
  • However, we also switched time for daylight savings like New Zealand which bugged the hell out of me because at the same time USA pacific time switched too and we went from them being 3 hours ahead (minus a day) to 5 hours ahead (minus a day) which makes phone calls som much harder. To the Ends of the Earth
  • A neighbour, who had found it in a skip, minus hands, glass, and other vital components, had left it in Martin's coalhouse as a present.
  • Richard does a kamikaze run in minus 20 celsius and snowing weather, getting pelted with paintballs.
  • A nasturtium is a brightly colored edible flower that grows on vines with leaves that look like water-lily pads minus the water. SeMissourian.com Headlines
  • As he told me this, Barrie sat across the table, dressed in dark colours, wearing a black three-piece suit, minus the jacket.
  • A nuanced, intelligent review from a critic whose taste I trust means much more to me than an agglomerate of plus/minus scores. On Things Fresh and Rotten
  • The best tend to have fewer species, provide a great deal of space, and sometimes almost reproduce the animals' natural habitats - minus most of the dangers.
  • But it blows them away in fuel consumption (17 / 25 mpg TDI, 14 / 19 mpg for the V-6 gasoline, 12 / 17 mpg for the V-8 FSI gasoline), and it performs much like the V-8 minus a little top end urge because the redline is a bit below 5,000 rpm. The Car Connection
  • No, the new target of minus 2.1 per cent looks much more hittable. Times, Sunday Times
  • Minus: It's on the loud side, and the ice cream came out mushier than most. WSJ Test Kitchen: Ice Cream Makers
  • For the medius terminus being to join the extremes, i.e. the intermediate ideas, by its intervention, to show the agreement or disagreement of the two in question, would not the position of the medius terminus be more natural, and show the agreement or disagreement of the extremes clearer and better, if it were placed in the middle between them? An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
  • A photo of Reinhold Messner's feet minus seven toes lost to frostbite during a climb of Nanga Parbat in the Himalayas (his brother also died on the climb) raises the question of whether alpinism can actually be called a real sport at all, assuming sport to be a game in which losing doesn't necessarily equal death or disfigurement. Why Climb a Mountain?
  • The average British voter, the survey found, was marginally to the left of centre, at minus 2.
  • Bon..., cela dit, ... la prochaine fois que Kristin ira à Châteauneuf-du-Pape, j'espère qu'elle prendra quelques photos de maisons typiques, comme vous nous les décrivez - avec quelques marches, petit perron, grille de protection et plantes fleuries, minuscule porte au ras de la rue … La routine - French Word-A-Day
  • From the mighty to the minuscule, the cute and cuddly to the creepy-crawly, amazing adventures await budding young explorers with the Smithsonian Networks Kids Pack, available on DVD today from Infinity Entertainment Group. Giveaway — Smithsonian Networks Kids Pack
  • The organizer has built a large refrigerator covering 1,500 square metres and temperature inside is kept below minus 14 centigrade degrees.
  • This swimwear is a full body swimsuit, minus the head covering. Woman Banned from Public Swimming Pool for Wearing a Burqini : Law is Cool
  • If you eat with the green, hot wasabi mustard but minus the soya sauce, this is a well balanced and filling meal. Times, Sunday Times
  • I imagine a world where any required communications hardware is minuscule and acts merely as a relay-- it could be carried on something like a keychain or necklace, or maybe implanted subdermally if you're more sci-fi inclined. Archive 2008-06-01
  • We had a very satisfying jam, with bass guitar, theremin and a drum kit minus sticks and cymbals.
  • This means that, as in Latin, the distribution of primary /f/ was defective in Etruscan. see linkFirst, Dosuna observes the same p-lenition as I've mentioned many timed before on Paleoglot, minus the conditioning by u. Archive 2009-12-01
  • In fact, so bizarre are these minuscule penile structures that boffins will often rely on them to tell various insects apart.
  • To countercheck the view that pluralism is tolerable or inevitable, the CDF published a declaration, Dominus Iesus.
  • The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 5 per cent.

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