How To Use Notch In A Sentence
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Blackpool Scorpions notched their first away win of the season against a good attacking Leigh team.
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My first indication that I'm going to need to let out my belt a couple of notches comes at the hotel's raclette and fondue evening.
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He swept his hands up and down the smooth sides, trying to find a notch or groove.
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With this performance, she has notched up her third championship title.
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That mountain, running with springs, is basically pyramidal and shaped and notched in the center.
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Gippsland's Horse of the Year was announced recently which went to a top-notch racing horse in the region.
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He charged his work for the mileage he notched up on just the detour home.
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The President is keen to notch a political triumph that would foster freer world trade and faster economic growth.
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All the excesses are left to the top-notch restaurant below.
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Whatever your choice, make sure you buy top-notch works of art that you really like.
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It is a paltry return compared to the 34 he notched up in total last year.
The Sun
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Take your Good Grips zester, and using the notch on the side, make a twist from the lemon rind.
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The treatments were top notch, but the food also deserves an honourable mention.
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Anything to take down the ELPD a notch is great in my book.
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He was ably assisted by his partner Michael Togher who notched up a goal and a point.
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So my heterosexual male readers are merely invited to recall the most exotically beautiful woman they've ever seen and imagine her two or three notches better-looking.
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He said the police were forced to show results and intonated that if his client, Mr Zulu, was refused bail it would be a notch on the police's belt.
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Song L, Aster JC, Blacklow SC (2006) Structural basis for cooperativity in recruitment of MAML coactivators to Notch transcription complexes.
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This restaurant reportedly has top-notch seafood, slick service and awe-inspiring decor.
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The spiny, reddish-brown stems are clad with oval-shaped, glossy green leaves with notched margins.
The Sun
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Transverse notches are cut in the circumference of the disks to the bottom of the score, for the convenience of marling the wad before taking it off the mould.
Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.
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Half the arrows were notched as the second dragon burst from nowhere.
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I was torn all month long between not wanting to make the cake and wanting to add another notch to my Daring Baker "bedpost".
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My sense of impending doom rises another notch.
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Scotland; this second notch was made in the rib-bone of an impious villain, the boldest and best soldier that upheld the prelatic cause at
Old Mortality
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notch the rope
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Sharpe aimed through the bars of the balcony's balustrade, lining the notch in the rifle's backsight and the leaf of the foresight on Aksel Bang's face.
Sharpe's Prey
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He has a fine record fresh and notched three course victories.
The Sun
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Other tools, such as scrapers, gravers, drills, and notched flakes, accounted for only 4 percent of the formal artifacts.
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Moreover, both loss and gain of Notch function cause hyperkeratosis as a consequence of hair cycle disturbance
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The forward had not scored this season, but notched two in each half.
The Sun
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On the “disgust” theory, moving the bracketing out one notch, the nonword “puqwification” has a nice Elmer Fudd ring to it.
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My medical knowledge was certainly notched up, and for a few brief weeks I managed to slip "cryptogenic fibrosing alveolitis" into casual conversation.
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He had cut notches into the wooden surface of the longbow, counting how many foes he had slain with the weapon; so far there were forty-nine marks.
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Across the intertragical notch is the prominence known as the antitragus, part of the stiff cartilaginous shelf from which hangs the fleshy auricular lobule earlobe.
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A stellar third-person shooter that pulses with feverish invention, A&D welds together top-notch controls, a truly mental plot, and some of the most strategic gunplay to hit consoles in ages.
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The Dengue patrols (from the Health Dept) have stepped it up a notch and instead of believing people who say they don't have a pila in the back yard, (or any standing water) are checking for themselves.
Dengue A word of caution
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She assembles a bow with a string on it, and sharpens a cylindrical spindle of lime wood, then inserts it into a notched hole in a flat piece of wood she holds with her foot.
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She sheathed her swords and notched an arrow onto the string of her bow.
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Shopkeepers and traders used wooden sticks with deep notches cut in them to keep their accounts.
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Jackets also sport a higher button stance, narrower notched lapels and flap pockets.
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Frankie Dettori's bid to notch up his third straight victory in the race was dashed as his mount Doyen finished fourth.
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And as the restaurant is top-notch.
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He's a classic winner, the very deuce of a top-notcher.
Grey Town An Australian Story
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Needing to win the second set to reach the final, the York pair were rocked as the Erewash pair notched three successive singles to lead 3-1.
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Wizards, sorcerers, and other arcane spellcasters of the world, we need to step it up a notch.
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There are two pry points on the leading edge of fuel-cell panels that are marked with notches cut in the corners of the panel, but this fact is not described in the procedures.
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It really is going to be topnotch entertainment.
The Sun
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Between there and the end, Freeman notched a further three points with substitute James Judge also getting on the scoresheet.
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With the large ones they catch bonnetos and albicores, by putting them to a bamboo rod, twelve or fourteen feet long, with a line of the same length, which rests in a notch of a piece of wood, fixed in the stern of the canoe for that purpose, and is dragged on the surface of the sea, as she rows along, without any other bait than a tuft of flaxy stuff near the point.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time
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Making any sort of progress is made worse by the gearchange, which is notchy, has too much play in the gearlever and has a throw length last seen on the levers in a Victorian signal box.
In Which Dungeekin is Jeremy Clarkson. . .
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The dimension of the greater sciatic notch is variable.
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My back measures 13 from scye to scye that would be the little notch in the armhole in the back pattern piece - the squarish ones.
So many dresses, they're coming out of the walls - A Dress A Day
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As the glamour boy of the country's glamour club, Manchester United, he had everything: abundant talent, money, looks and a never-ending supply of leggy blondes willing to be notches on his bedpost.
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Also, dinner jackets do not have notched lapels and they are worn with cummerbund or waistcoat.
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The profile of the label jumped up a couple of notches over that period, reflected in a week-long 10th anniversary party held in downtown Toronto in '86.
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Hint: A four-door sedan with a traditional notchback trunk is available.
Mazda2 Touring hatchback does small well but is missing the 'zoom-zoom'
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They have five bright white petals so deeply notched that they look like ten.
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His rehabilitation has advanced another notch.
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In the Middle Ages these were known as ‘clog almanacs’, made of metal, wood or horn, with notches and symbols marking the lunar months and the church feast days.
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Among the debris in the buried concentration was a small, shallow side notched biface which has been identified as a hafted biface.
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Nico's is really only a notch up from cheap and cheerful, but does deliver some great Italian staple dishes such as minestrone, calamari and spaghetti Bolognese.
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It's really only been in recent months that people have been tightening their belts by a notch or two and, to my mind, there's little room for complacency yet.
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This thin volume of india-ink illustrations took the term maudlin up a notch and failed miserably to engage.
Notes from the peanut gallery
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The narration is clearly articulated and the video and audio quality is top notch for a low-budget presentation like this one.
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Thus, in this small set, notched points and those hafted onto foreshafts are substantially smaller than contracting-stemmed points.
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On the other hand, my chest - not my bosom, my chest - measures 17 1/2 inches from scye to scye - the triangular notch in the front armhole.
So many dresses, they're coming out of the walls - A Dress A Day
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The flowers have five deeply notched pink petals, and only open in the daytime.
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The decor is tasteful and unobtrusive without being bland and it is spiced up by some great artworks and top-notch fixtures and fittings.
The Sun
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Known for his sweeping, orchestral presentation, the puppy-petting "popera" star dials it down a notch with an intimate show featuring only voice, guitar and piano.
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In announcing Key's visit, the White House said the leaders would discuss "the close friendship and partnership between our two countries" -- a sign of growing ties, but a notch below using the term alliance.
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You've now got two hard-earned notches on your belt, one for making it through the introductory phase, another for surviving three months of mass accumulation.
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The balance between treble and bass is just right and there's no doubting this is a top-notch system that any self-respecting audiophile would be happy to own.
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Notching flakes are produced when putting hafting notches in stone tools.
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Group/Parent Senior Unsecured rating: A2/Stable Timely Payment Indicator ( "TPI") (note 2): Probable Covered Bonds Rating: Aaa TPI Leeway (note 2): 1 notch (es) The reason for this is that LSnsf÷rsSkringar Bank AB provides an revolving credit facility to LSnsf÷rsSkringar
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As it hit, the six drums that comprised it burst, scattering notchy seeds all about.
HOTHOUSE
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Tone-induced by-products may involve quantizing noise, harmonic distortion and any amplitude or phase modulation sidebands falling outside the reject limits of the notch filter.
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But when he needed that little bit extra, when he needed to raise his game an extra notch to impose himself on the fifth set, he could not do it.
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Following such an impressive panel, I felt my athetoid-ism kick up another notch.
Do It Myself Blog – Glenda Watson Hyatt » 2009 » November
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Having won all their pool matches Yorkshire faced Cheshire in the semi-finals and notched a 3-0 victory.
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When you've aligned the notch on the gun with the target, fire!
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Perhaps only in a year filled with movies like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, Stagecoach, Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes, the larkier but somewhat similar Gunga Dun, Ninotchka, of course Gone With The Wind and so many others could The Four Feathers be relatively overshadowed.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: 1939 -- Still Hollywood's Greatest Year
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Even at the campiest moments of Spider-Man 3, the franchise was absolutely a series rooted in character development above admittedly top-notch spectacle.
Scott Mendelson: Corporate Filmmaking at Its Worst? Sony Boots Raimi/Maguire, Reboots Spider-Man for 2012
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Now, the anticipation cranked up another notch.
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We will consistently observe standard work processes, and guarantee topnotch translation quality through rigorous process control.
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This notch on a stick was the Indian mode of gazetting a warrior; and a certain number of these notches was pretty certain to procure for him a sort of savage brevet, which answered his purpose quite as well as the modern mode of brevetting at Washington answers our purpose.
Oak Openings
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He had since notched a few notable victories and heralded his arrival back at the top flight by winning the national half marathon title in Castlebar.
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Remove all dust from crevices and notches and then lightly rub the entire surface with a soft flannel cloth.
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It has certainly notched up successes.
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However, the movie is still worth seeing, if only for a top-notch swansong from Coburn.
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America's most expensive hotel has no strict theme, but it does have top-notch rooms, lovely pools and glamour to spare.
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The gnomes of Zurich chugged in at seventh while Milan notched up a distant 11 th place on the Jones Lang LaSalle index.
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Second single ‘No Good Advice’ is a response to critics and meddling do-gooders, and is guaranteed to turn the Girls' story several notches louder.
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Most of the basic functions are a generation ahead and the multimedia messaging is top-notch.
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Her new book is several notches above anything else she has written.
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After unbuckling my belt by a notch or two I was ready for my dessert - vanilla ice-cream covered with Bailey's Irish Cream.
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That said, antiphone - go watch some Emeril and kick it up a notch, eh?
"He is a transformational figure, he is a new generation coming onto the world stage, onto the American stage" -- Colin Powell endorses Obama.
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Next year's forecast slowdown comes after a barnstorming performance last year when it notched up a 25 per cent rise in sales.
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He is certain he can notch a similar tally next time around.
The Sun
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But she wasn't looking up high enough to see something that shifted my pulse rate along a notch or two.
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The surgeon completes the notchplasty with a spherical motorized arthroscopic burr until the posterior edge of the femur is identified and probed.
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This notch articulates with the trochlea of the humerus to form the elbow joint.
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He cut a notch in the stick with a sharp knife.
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Man has notched up three quarters of sales growth so is not simply buying in assets.
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You can go with a standard, french or covered placket and contrast with some color or add in some shoulder elements (military/epaulet, double strip, fabric contrast) and play with some pocket options (single notch, double flap, fabric contrast).
Wednesday Giveaway – Blank Label Custom Dress Shirt | Manolith
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A climber is not top notch until s/he is in control of the tree and in control of themselves at all times. Until then, they're jacklegs, and poison to any but the most desperate.
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You didn't lie about it in sworn testimony, which still puts you a notch above Clinton, but you need to go.
More GOP leaders demand Sanford's resignation
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The nearly 600 stone-and-mortar cliff houses notched by the ancient Anasazi into precipitous canyon walls are the most compelling feature of Colorado's Mesa Verde National Park.
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The 24-year-old winger had scored just once all season - but then notched three in the space of half an hour.
The Sun
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Spend the night in something soft and cozy. Grosgrain trim. Top has notch collar and covered buttons. Full-length pant has drawstring elastic waist. Imported cotton.
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The pressure on him was ratcheted up another notch.
Sir Alf: A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England's Greatest Football Manager
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My stress levels kicked up a notch, however, when I discovered I couldn't transfer my music library to the device.
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Dixville Notch takes advantage of a state election law that allows communities to close the polls after all registered voters have cast their ballots.
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The advantage of having top-notch contributors is that they are able to explain complex theology in simple, direct and relevant way.
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A rotary cutter can be used on straight edges, but use scissors for small curves and notches.
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Seemingly every weekend SFU is forced to square off against a top-notch team.
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This griseous pilosity fills all the tips of the elytra, leaving bare only the sutures, an angular notch behind the middle (which forms with that apical part of the suture a kind of hook on each elytron), and two round spots, one submarginal fronting the tip of the notch, the other larger, discoidal, behind the foot of the notch, much above the tip.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Our honesty is more brutal that a notched cinquedea.
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The food is top-notch, and the decor—billowing silk in shades of burned yellow and red—is circusy and elegant.
TAKE ME TO THE RIVER
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The inner race is keyed to the shaft. The outer race has h7 tolerance and should be fitted in housing with a k7 tolerance. Additional side notches provide for positive torque transmission.
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Ronald de Boer notched one in the seventh minute.
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They are going to have to step up this latest performance however by several notches, and in truth one has to seriously question their ability to do so.
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He should have notched up another three points shortly afterwards when Gareth Thomas, recalled to the team in the centre, was penalised for playing the ball on the floor.
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The second half was more of the same for the Warriors as Laurier followed the second kick-off with good intensity, notching a second tally early in the half.
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The major difference between icemen and mountaineer axes is that the blades are at right angles to each other and that generally the hook end on a mountaineer's axe is notched for better handling power.
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It slides smoothly and effortlessly into lower gears but fifth gear is a bit notchy and I have a bit of a tussle to engage it.
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The effects are top notch, especially the early scenes before the opening credits; and the film is shot with techniques more commonly employed in war films, giving a real battle struggle quality.
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If pelvises are present, compare: the male pelvic girdle will have wider ischio-pubic ramus, while the female will have a defined ventral crest, a curved subpubic concavity, & a wide sciatic notch.
Mordicai: crown me king!
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Even if you're one of the cranky coots who loathe every nanosecond of the prequel trilogy, Clone Wars still qualifies as top-notch.
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It was a move which is already paying dividends as they notched up a fourth victory in a row and their fifth without defeat.
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The quality of the food here has dropped a notch recently.
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Dislocation upwards and backwards into the great ischiatic notch.
An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital.
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Waterloo won by a score of 78-67, notching their fifth win of the season.
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You must notch up a fine victory in the competition.
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Doula is a Greek word meaning slave or servant and stems from ancient Greece where the doula was the top-notch home help privileged to help the lady of the house give birth.
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Then check out the coarse, notchy, unergonomic joystick that controls the vents in the Caddy.
Test Drive: Cadillac SRX Cadillac SRX
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The quality of main news reporting moved up a notch.
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played top-notch tennis
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This species is at once known from Chelodina longicollis by the form of its high, flat sternum, which is strongly keeled on the sides, and by this part being of a uniform reddish colour, without any dark margin to the plates; the hinder part of the sternum is only slightly concavely truncated, and not deeply notched.
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2
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Now the Republican senator may be about to carve the biggest notch of all into his belt.
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Here I am, just over sixty, and I feel like the Grim Reaper already has me notched on his stick.
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Both spiney lobsters and hermit crabs have been observed attacking gastropods in this fashion and both produce the distinctive notched gastropod remains.
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Second, you can always try to wear your belt a notch tighter - that is, assuming it's comfortable.
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On a bumpy water-based pitch, the aerial pass from the back proved a useful weapon and it was from this route that Nick Bluett was able to notch his 14th goal of the season.
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Patients should be prepared from the sternal notch to the pubis so that the incision can be extended into the chest if more proximal control of the vena cava or aorta is needed.
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Body style/layout: The Nissan Altima is a compact front-engine, front-wheel-drive gasoline-fueled car with four side doors and a traditional notchback trunk.
Details on the 2011 Nissan Altima 2.5S sedan
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The last part was purposely left blank because we do not share the top notch naval engineering firms and talent know how as trade confidentiality.
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She paused and crouched, running her fingers along the edge of one of the circular prints with an angled notch in the front.
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The final stage of circuit board construction is to insert the integrated circuit IC1 with the identification notch next to the mercury switch.
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The round ligament (ligamentum teres) is the principal binding structure of the hip joint and it arises in a notch in the head of the femur and is attached in the subpubic groove close to the acetabular notch.
Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1
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On tour, performers say, they receive top-notch medical care and physical conditioning support.
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Despite its slightly complicated appearance changing gear on this short shift box is just the same as on a conventional system although it is far more notchy.
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Armies of gilded statuettes of saintly figures adorned little notches in the chiselled stone walls and framed iconographic pictures hung from any spaces which weren't already occupied.
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His rehabilitation has advanced another notch.
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The slabs of standing stone point roughly toward the invisible notch.
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Nonetheless the threat level has gone up an extra notch.
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The full buckhorn fixed rear sight on this rifle with fine notch provides as clean a sight picture as irons are capable of.
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Accessorised with a topnotch pedicure this is sandal-wearing at its most state-of-the-art (from 58, schuhhaus-rempp.de).
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The ladies' cut has a 3-inch inseam, a drawstring and elastic waistband and for style it has a noticeable V-notch leg for ease of movement for cheering.
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A notch or hole cut out specifically to fit a full mortise lock; it cannot be removed from the door by force.
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So yesterday notched up something of an unwanted hat-trick.
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His victories are depicted in iron crosses notched inside the brim of the hat.
Smithsonian Mag
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The front sight sat up out of its dovetail notch with light visible between it and the slide.
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It's a challenge for parents to maintain bilingualism -- what's called heritage language proficiency -- and also assure that kids get top notch English skills.
As Betty and Wilma say, "CHARGE!"
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The nine bedrooms are of a country house hotel standard and a chef can be arranged to make the most of the top-notch kitchen.
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However, their Manchester opponents soon led again, Chris Hay and Danny Hughes notching Didsbury's goals.
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As with the arterial pressure wave, a normal pulse volume tracing has a brisk upstroke and a dicrotic notch.
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His actions ratcheted the thing up another notch again.
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Proctor is also top-notch, and uncannily reminiscent of Will Ferrell.
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There were throaty, gloating roars from more than 30,000 fans as their side notched up another league win in midweek.
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Now they have moved up a notch.
The Sun
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Using your chalk line as a guide, spread the mortar with a notched trowel over a 2x5-foot section of the floor.
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The manual gearbox has a tendency to be notchy and the auto gearbox doesn't change particularly smoothly.
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His car was only one notch above being held together with string.
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Notched, rounded, cut into fan or lozenge shapes, and sometimes folded over a dowel, these paintings presented richly textured planes of color - blood, rust, lipstick and fog.
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The large flowers have five notched pink petals with dark purple streaks on them.
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The dangerously hot camgirl has managed to turn things up a notch.
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The nicks and notches in the fluke and dorsal fin help with identification, and the photos go into a photo ID catalogue which helps determine population size and migration patterns.
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So City notch up their third successive scoring draw.
The Sun
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The food is top-notch, too.
Times, Sunday Times
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That is, truly elegant design incorporates top-notch functionality into a simple, uncluttered form.
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A notch in the rear dovetail provides additional security against ring movement.
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Extending lateralward from the posterior half of the condyle is a quadrilateral plate of bone, the jugular process, excavated in front by the jugular notch, which, in the articulated skull, forms the posterior part of the jugular foramen.
II. Osteology. 5a. The Cranial Bones. 1. The Occipital Bone
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Opposite the tragus, and separated from it by the intertragic notch, is a small tubercle, the antitragus.
X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 1d. 1. The External Ear
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Water spills in glassy sheets over the copper-topped wall, as well as from three keyhole notches along its facade.
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Lots of top-notch breweries are set to be represented (although the beer list is provisional and subject to change).
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It used to be described as the bread basket of southern Africa, with neat fields of maize and soya growing in rich red soil and farmers notching up world records for yields.
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I wuz moastly wurried abowt yer safety, notcher dignity!
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Lay the bridge on the table with the notch of desired height behind the cue ball.
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Activities have continued apace both on and off the field over the past few months, marking another series of positive notches in the development of the club.
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Yet right from the start, there are moments when his mask of deference slips a notch - when his grin stretches a little too wide, or his laughter vibrates for a moment longer than expected.
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His actions ratcheted the thing up another notch again.
Times, Sunday Times
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A full bed of adhesive should be fully troweled to within 1 inch of each edge on clean and dry boards using a 1/4-inch deep, notched trowel.
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They have notched three since the turn of the year - all of them belters.
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But Royer was a bit restless and was itching to ratchet things up a notch.
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All her wins have come at this track and she was unlucky not to notch a fourth course success in January.
The Sun
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The slabs of standing stone point roughly toward the invisible notch.
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Moving on to the ulna, which is the medial bone of the forearm, the radial notch may be seen clearly, articulating with the head of the radius at the superior radio-ulnar joint.
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For more capacity, you can move up a notch or two to loader backhoes and midsize excavators when space for the big excavators, dozers, and other dedicated machines is short.
