Wasted Sentence Examples

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  • She'd wasted her first day of light.

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  • I think you wasted your freedom.

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  • Sarah wasted no time beginning her third degree.

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  • Once back in Surry, I wasted no time in telephoning the number Brennan had given me to reach him.

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  • She couldn't help thinking her life had been wasted and hoped she still had a chance to make it up to the one person who mattered.

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  • Cynthia wasted no more time before getting down to business.

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  • It will all be wasted on trifles.

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  • I couldn't live with myself if I wasted this gift I've been given.

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  • The first signs of the rising ferment in Spain were wasted on him.

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  • He wasted no time finding himself a replacement when she refused his touch.

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  • I'd probably have wasted him myself.

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  • It should be added that the Greek War (1897) revealed to the sultan the decrepit state into which the Ottoman navy had fallen, and considerable " extraordinary " expenditure - much of which was wasted - has been incurred since (and including) 1902 to put the least out-of-date warships into a serviceable condition.

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  • But much time had been wasted and many precious opportunities lost.

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  • The country was wasted by the fury of this savage conqueror, but recovered something of its former prosperity under Ogdai Khan, his son, whose disposition was humane and benevolent.

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  • Now you seem angry for having wasted your time studying it and going in circles to no effect or ill effect.

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  • Their pleasure charmed away King Frost's anger, and he, too, began to admire the painted trees, and at last he said to himself, My treasures are not wasted if they make little children happy.

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  • She felt bad for Rhyn, though she suspected the emotion was wasted on someone who didn't have a drop of self-pity.

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  • It was mid-afternoon already, another day wasted with the Council rather than concentrating on preparing for battle.

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  • What a pity, all that beauty and hot sex wasted.

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  • Woman, in her wasted life, in her hurried death, here stands appealing to the society that degrades her, with a combination of eloquence and poetry, of forms of art at once instantaneous and permanent, and with great metrical energy and variety.

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  • Shortly afterwards Bruce appears again to have sided with his countrymen; Annandale was wasted, while he, as Walter of Hemingford says, "when he heard of the king's coming, fled from his face and burnt the castle of Ayr which he held."

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  • In March 1318 the town and soon afterwards the castle of Berwick capitulated, and Bruce wasted the English border as far as Ripon.

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  • Therefore the tears and the blood that were shed were not unavailing; the heroism and the chivalry were not wasted.

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  • Sawdust, slabs, stumps and large quantities of logs are wasted.

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  • This line of princes continued till 1760 without any remarkable event, when, in the reign of Rao Ghodji, the country was invaded four times by the Sinds, who wasted it with fire and sword.

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  • Invaluable time was wasted in negotiating with these intruders before the governor could safely devote himself to the task of expelling the Turk from the southern provinces.

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  • His frame was sickly and wasted with disease, yet when clad in his red cardinal's.

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  • We may form some idea of the extent and the severity of their incursions from the fact that at the beginning of the reign of Valdemar the whole of the Danish eastern coast lay wasted and depopulated.

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  • Then the sword bent towards the earth, the sky darkened, thunder pealed, lightning flashed, and the whole world was wasted by famine, bloodshed and pestilence.

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  • One may deplore his unfortunate history and wasted genius, but it is impossible to regret his exclusion from the government of England.

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  • With an army of 60,000 Piedmontese troops and 30,000 men from other parts of Italy the king took the field, and after defeating the Austrians at Pastrengo on the 30th of April, and at Goito on the 30th of May, where he was himself slightly wounded, more time was wasted in useless operations.

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  • Meanwhile two long hours had been wasted on the right whilst Grouchy and Vandamme deliberated over their plan of action in front of the Prussian brigade at Gilly; and it was not until the emperor himself again reached the front, about 5.30 P.M., that vigour replaced indecision.

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  • In 737 B.C. Tiglath-Pileser again marched into Media, and in 735 he invaded Ararat and wasted the country round the capital Van to a distance of 450 miles.

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  • The 4th century found Mutina in a state of decay; the ravages of Attila and the troubles of the Lombard period left it a ruined city in a wasted land.

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  • Henceforth Absalon was the chief counsellor of Valdemar, and the promoter of that imperial policy which, for three generations, was to give Denmark the dominion of the Baltic. Briefly, it was Absalon's intention to clear the northern sea of the Wendish pirates, who inhabited that portion of the Baltic littoral which we now call Pomerania, and ravaged the Danish coasts so unmercifully that at the accession of Valdemar one-third of the realm of Denmark lay wasted and depopulated.

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  • The time of respite had been wasted, all attempts at national reformation had failed; how should Yahweh spare a nation which had shown no tokens of fitness to discharge the vocation of Yahweh's people ?

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  • In 1197, however, German jealousy of Denmark's ambitions, especially when Canute led a fleet against the pirates of Esthonia, induced Otto, margrave of Brandenburg, to invade Pomerania, while in the following year Otto, in conjunction with Duke Adolf of Holstein, wasted the dominions of the Danophil Abodrites.

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  • More than $250,000,000 has been spent by the national government for the improvement of waterways, yet no general system exists, and a large part of this enormous sum has been wasted on unimportant or impossible projects, especially in recent decades, since the river navigation has been a declining interest.

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  • If any of these is absent, the work is apt to be wasted.

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  • The physical and intellectual forces of the people, labour and capital, are diverted for the greater part from their natural application and wasted unproductively.

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  • He died, worn out and wasted with labour and absorbing care, while still in the prime of life, on the 7th of December 1834.

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  • The petty rulers of these sections wasted their strength with internecine quarrels and proved quite incompetent to check the lawlessness of their feudal vassals.

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  • In short, he deemed all time wasted that was not employed in study."

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  • In 192 they wasted themselves in an unsuccessful attempt to secure Sparta.

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  • The pathways should be paved with tiles, brick or stone, or made of concrete and cement, and the surface should be gently rounded so that the water required for evaporation may drain to the sides while the centre is sufficiently dry to walk upon; they should also have brick or stone edgings to prevent the water so applied soaking away at the sides and thus being wasted.

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  • In other parts of the coast the dunes, though not pierced through, have become so wasted by erosion as to require artificial strengthening.

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  • But the two stadholders had not wasted the time.

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  • Here each mould and each ingot was handled as a separate unit twice, instead of only once as in the car casting system; the ingots radiated away great quantities of heat in passing naked from the converting mill to the soaking furnaces, and the heat which they and the moulds radiated while in the converting mill was not only wasted, but made this mill, open-doored as it was, so intolerably hot, that the cost of labour there was materially increased.

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  • Conditionally the Union promised assistance to Frederick, but he wasted several months and vaguely hoped that the English king would help him out of his embarrassments.

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  • Many nobles, whose lands had been wasted during the war, flocked to the little capitals to make their way by contemptible court services.

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  • Archidamus, having wasted much territory, including Acharnae, retired at the end of July.

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  • His astonishing talents were wasted on trifling themes and in a, fruitless resistance to the modern spirit in literature.

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  • Many nobles whose lands had been wasted received corn for seed; his war horses were within a few months to be found on farms all over Prussia; and money was freely spent in the re-erection of houses which had been destroyed.

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  • Rome thus lay at his mercy, but he wasted time, and the Romans were able to occupy and provision the Capitol (though they had not sufficient forces to defend their walls) and to send their women and children to Veii.

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  • That these high plateaus are planes of erosion is shown by their independence of geological structure, the upturned edges of the vertical and contorted schists having been abruptly shorn off and the granite having been wasted and levelled along its exposed surface.

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  • Thousands of feet of basalt have been worn away from many parts of its surface; deep and wide valleys have been carved out of it; and so enormously has it been wasted, that it has been almost entirely stripped from wide tracts which it formerly covered and where only scattered outliers remain to prove that it once existed.

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  • In the same year Edward Baliol, after handing over his crown and the royalty of Scotland to Edward III., retired from active life, and Edward wasted the south in the raid of " The Burned Candlemas."

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  • Both the veterans, who soon wasted what they had acquired, and the dispossessed cultivators joined the partisans of Catiline, and Manlius, one of his supporters, made his headquarters at Faesulae.

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  • The latter was formerly often constructed as a reverberatory furnace, which is easy to build and to work, but the hydrochloric acid given off here, being mixed with the products of the combustion of the fuel, cannot be condensed to strong acid and is partly, if not entirely, wasted.

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  • Nor must it be overlooked that salt-cake must be made as long primary duty of preventing nuisance, but quite as much to showing manufacturers how to make the most of the acid formerly wasted in one shape or another.

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  • This process is very costly, as much of the acid and all of the manganese is wasted.

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  • He wasted the treasure accumulated by Ala-ud-din in purchasing the retirement of the Mogul hordes, who had already made their appearance in the Punjab.

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  • The five years (36-31 B.C.) which preceded the decisive encounter between the two rivals were wasted by Antony in fruitless campaigns, and in a dalliance with Cleopatra which shocked Roman sentiment.

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  • Pestilence broke out in his army, which was so wasted as to be incapable of further operations in Italy.

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  • His position as a Mexican official, and the location of his fortified post on the border, commanding the interior country and lying on the route of the overland immigrants, made him of great importance in the years preceding and immediately following American occupation; although he was a man of slight abilities and wasted his great opportunities.

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  • For of good habit and lusty are athletes, since they have fortified against the soul the body which should be its servant; but the disciples of wisdom are pale and wasted, and in a manner reduced to skeletons, because they have sacrificed the whole of their bodily strength to the faculties of the soul."

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  • He complained that exhortation was wasted even on the bishops, "because they despair of attaining to the pinnacle of chastity, and have no fear of condemnation in open synod for the vice of lechery....

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  • Thus, except for some attention to physiology, the first two years at Berlin were wasted.

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  • The experience gained has doubtless not been wasted, but the direction to be taken by future work is plain.

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  • The land of the Manna (Minni), south-east of Ararat, had been wasted, its capital captured by the Assyrians, and its king reduced to vassalage.

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  • The king's own life was passed amid court festivities, on which enormous sums of money were wasted, or in the practice of childish piety.

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  • But notwithstanding these precautions quantities of the drug are wasted when the crop is a full one, owing to the difficulty of gathering the whole in the short time during which collection is possible.

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  • All Poland now lay at his feet, and the road to the defenceless capital was open before him; but he wasted the precious months in vain before the fortress of Zamosc, and was then persuaded by the new king of Poland, John Casimir, to consent to a suspension of hostilities.

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  • Galileo would not have wasted his time in corresponding with a man from whom he could learn nothing; and, though Sarpi did not, as has been asserted, invent the telescope, he immediately turned it to practical account by constructing a map of the moon.

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  • The exigencies, moreover, of their perilous career readily wasted their suddenly acquired gains.

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  • There is therefore, even in the best cases, a wide field for the conservation and utilization of water hitherto entirely wasted.

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  • By the adoption of this method great reductions in the quantity of water used and wasted are in some cases effected, and the water tenant pays for the leakage or waste he permits to take place, as well as for the water he uses.

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  • During the early years an enormous amount was wasted; this was soon prohibited by law, and a realization that the supply was not unlimited resulted in a better appreciation of its great value.

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  • The earliest form of the Grail story, the Gawain- Bleheris version, exhibits a marked affinity with the characteristic features of the Adonis or Tammuz worship; we have a castle on the sea-shore, a dead body on a bier, the identity of which is never revealed, mourned over with solemn rites; a wasted country, whose desolation is mysteriously connected with the dead man, and which is restored to fruitfulness when the quester asks the meaning of the marvels he beholds (the two features of the weeping women and the wasted land being retained in versions where they have no significance); finally the mysterious food-providing, self-acting talisman of a common feast - one and all of these features may be explained as survivals of the Adonis ritual.

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  • He wasted his considerable military talents in a series of skirmishes and sieges which had no great results, and after spending countless treasures and harrying many regions, perished obscurely by a wound from a cross-bow-bolt, received while beleaguering Chlus, a castle of a rebellious lord of Aquitaine, the viscount of Limoges (April 6, 1199).

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  • The rebellion would probably have died out but for the measures of the new Republican general Turreau, who wasted La Vendee so horribly with his "infernal columns" that he drove the peasants to take up arms once more.

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  • A very large proportion of the surplus must have been wasted on the palace-town of Zahra, built three miles to the north of Cordova, and named after a favourite concubine.

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  • Charles thought to repair the rebuff of Trier at Cologne, and wasted his resources in an attempt to win over its elector by besieging the insignificant town of Neuss.

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  • Vast stores of hard vegetable fats are still practically wasted in tropical countries, such as India, Indo-China and the Sunda Islands, tropical South America, Africa and China.

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  • In Yorkshire, the centre of the woollen industry, the largest amounts of woolfat are produced, all attempts to recover the hitherto wasted material in Argentine and Australia having so far not been attended with any marked success.

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  • Apart from the economical working of the machine itself, whatever system may be adopted, it is of importance that cold once produced should not be wasted, and it is therefore necessary to use some form of insulation to protect the vessels in which liquids are being cooled, or the rooms of ships' holds in which the freezing or storage processes are being carried on.

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  • He wasted the country, but could not take the capital.

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  • A great screwing wasted.

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  • He wasted no time in turning you and blood-binding you.

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  • He filled a thermos of coffee—no one could drink Weller's brew—and wasted no time in arriving at the sheriff's office.

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  • It was egregious that stores of immense power were wasted on such a creature at a time when Damian needed all the help he could get.

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  • The problems were immense in terms of wasted opportunities for economic growth and social justice.

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  • No time is wasted with between song banter yet this only adds to the dark guitar fuzz and throbbing bass.

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  • Every year billions of hard working tax payers ' money is wasted on the poor.

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  • A little of what is lawful will be abundantly blessed, and abundance of what is unlawful will be wasted.

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  • Deficiencies could have been masked with clever characterisation, or visual humor, but chances were wasted and occasional attempts botched.

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  • Musically, together and sound check not wasted, these guys have been rocking the leighton buzzard game hands down!

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  • The pure caffeine that is extracted is not wasted.

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  • At stake here is not just the billions of dollars NASA has wasted chasing chimeras, but the very integrity of scientific exploration.

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  • Well, take the Students Union pub crawl, advertised with the flyer, 'The way to get wasted ' .

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  • Speedier notification of proposed discontinuance, for example, has reduced the wasted effort on upgrading files unnecessarily.

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  • They didn't do dope to get wasted, or didn't admit to it.

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  • I wasted hours yesterday trying to burn a DVD for the second time.

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  • He stepped onto the stage and light a joint which would have wasted a bull elephant.

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  • He wasn't even fazed by a wasted weekend in England watching Clermont Auvergne at Leicester and Biarritz at Saracens.

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  • Jennie and Spiral wasted no time in having a good gander, peaking into cupboards and doors, presumably looking for more secret passages.

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  • The heat which is generated is used to heat the glasshouses, rather than being wasted through cooling towers.

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  • If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate.

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  • Learner time can often be wasted on less important points.

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  • Ultimately he is looking back on the broken promises of a wasted life.

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  • Some spiders may consume it, for the protein in spider silk is not to be wasted.

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  • The amazingly simple idea utilizes wasted space within a door to create a stylish storage solution.

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  • Time spent deleting spam is time wasted, which costs your business money.

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  • Our 1998 report on education for disaffected teenagers, Wasted Youth was a significant influence on government policy.

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  • They certainly had chances to get level as they wasted two good chances, both again created by hopeful punts upfield.

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  • The amount of public money wasted by the crown prosecution service in pursuing their petty vendetta was not revealed.

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  • Seconds after the restart Holmes wasted a glorious opportunity to put the game beyond doubt when he blazed wide.

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  • As soon as I saw the red-headed French zoologist and the octopus, I knew the day wasn't wasted.

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  • The prosecution of such inquiries is beginning to make unnecessary much ingenious speculation of a kind that was prominent from r880 to 'goo; much futile effort has been wasted in the endeavour to find on Darwinian principles special " selection-values " for phenomena the universality of which places them outside the possibility of having relations with the particular conditions of particular organisms. On the other hand, many of those who have been specially successful in grouping diverse phenomena under empirical generalizations have erred logically in posing their generalizations against such a vera causa as the preservation of favoured individuals and races.

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  • He set out for Narva on the 13th of November, against the advice of all his generals, who feared the effect on untried troops of a week's march through a wasted land, along boggy roads guarded by no fewer than three formidable passes which a little engineering skill could easily have made impregnable.

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  • Gallatin never wasted time in futile complaints.

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  • He found an ignorant and corrupt society ruled by an immoral yet fanatical monarch, who wasted millions on unprofitable buildings though the country was almost without roads and the people had become the most backward in Europe.

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  • At Bull Run his brigade was wasted in isolated and disconnected regimental attacks, at Shiloh his division was completely surprised owing to want of precaution; but his bravery and energy were beyond question, and these qualities carried him gradually to the front at the same time as he acquired skill and experience.

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  • If, therefore, with such materials the work is well done, and is not subsequently liableto be wasted or disintegrated by expansion or contraction or other actions which in the process of time affect all exposed surfaces, it is clear that 15 to 20 tons per sq.

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  • He said to himself, My treasures are not wasted if they make little children happy.

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  • There are those who, like cormorants and ostriches, can digest all sorts of this, even after the fullest dinner of meats and vegetables, for they suffer nothing to be wasted.

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  • It now seemed clear to him that all his experience of life must be senselessly wasted unless he applied it to some kind of work and again played an active part in life.

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  • Why should I be wasted like this, Mamma?

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  • The thought that her best days, which she would have employed in loving him, were being vainly wasted, with no advantage to anyone, tormented her incessantly.

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  • Boris began, wishing to sting her; but at that instant the galling thought occurred to him that he might have to leave Moscow without having accomplished his aim, and have vainly wasted his efforts--which was a thing he never allowed to happen.

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  • Miloradovich, who said he did not want to know anything about the commissariat affairs of his detachment, and could never be found when he was wanted--that chevalier sans peur et sans reproche * as he styled himself--who was fond of parleys with the French, sent envoys demanding their surrender, wasted time, and did not do what he was ordered to do.

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  • I would like to reassure local residents that none of their council tax was wasted on the works being done twice.

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  • Make redundant the things, the things you have wasted.

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  • As a result, Honduras wasted little time in formally seceding from the federation once it was free to do so.

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  • Most people drink these beverages after a meal when their appetite suppressant effect is wasted.

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  • Those who could not work just wasted away, they had to be treated as tuberculosis bacilli which could infect a healthy organism.

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  • I watched her set at the Wasted festival at the weekend.

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  • Wasted energy at the heart of government Friday, August 26, 2005 Improving energy efficiency could be the best hope we have.

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  • Our time should not be wasted on wrangling over matters which are of no consequence.

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  • As soon as I saw the red-headed French zoologist and the octopus, I knew the day was n't wasted.

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  • The more entrepreneurs fuss and fret over additional features, the more time is wasted with the product sitting on the shelf.

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  • As we moved forward, we wasted an enormous amount of time trying to chase down all the discounts in all the categories.

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  • If we had narrowed our market definition at the start, however, we would have avoided all the wasted time and increased our chances of making the startup a success.

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  • Investors received nothing, and six years and $20 million were wasted.

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  • One advantage to the basic telescope is that if the person using telescope gets bored with it, then you haven't wasted a lot of money.

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  • This means that your pet receives no wasted calories.

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  • Once you install a rain barrel, you'll be amazed how much water you collect for use and how much was being wasted as gutter runoff.

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  • The use of a thermostat has the dual benefits of ensuring that the room will stay at a constant heat and also ensure that electricity is not wasted.

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  • No energy has been wasted nor has any pollutant been released into the air.

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  • Very little of the actual product is wasted, making soybeans an economical crop to grow and, as a product, to produce.

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  • Less energy is wasted, less land needed to house this particular design, and maintenance costs are low.

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  • Lower showerheads - when a showerhead is fitted high above a shower, a lot of water is wasted as the water is sprayed a greater distance.

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  • Lowering the showerhead will give a more targeted water jet and reduce the amount of hot water that is wasted.

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  • A surprising amount of energy is wasted through electrical equipment being left on, lights being left burning in empty rooms and other energy wasting situations.

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  • If too much is added, your dish will be ruined and what's more, you will have wasted your precious spice.

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  • A lot of the money spent on decorating a small space on a budget is wasted if a plan is not developed in the beginning of the project.

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  • Having eyes prepared for any of life's emotions will save you embarrassment and wasted money on products that just don't work.

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  • This means foolproof application and absolutely no product wasted in the long run.

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  • Choosing the right concealer for your skin can be a very tricky process, but if you don't know how to put it on so that it looks natural, you will have wasted your effort.

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  • Second, if everybody had the opportunity to log on to Facebook or check their personal e-mail throughout the day, the time wasted doing so would lower productivity in the workforce or keep students from paying attention at school.

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  • It's a recipe for both wasted time and wasted money.

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  • This feature significantly reduces the amount of wasted paper because you can see the finished product on the computer screen before the design is actually cut.

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  • This helps to reduce wasted time and eliminate procrastination.

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  • You can try them on first and save yourself the hassle of a return or the heartbreak of wasted money.

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  • I can't pick out outfits for you but I can tell you that trying to look "fashionable" is a wasted pursuit.

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  • By the way, jealousy is most often a wasted emotion anyway.

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  • I mean, he liked her, but that was it, and she wasted years pining after him.

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  • If you do not have a valid reason to be emancipated, you most likely will not be, and you will have wasted a lot of time, money, or both.

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  • Feed invitations slowly and carefully into the printer to prevent a paper jam and wasted invitations.

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  • Dog houses featuring vaulted roofs and attractive but unnecessary architectural features such as turrets usually contain a lot of wasted space above the dog's head.

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  • Since heat rises, a good deal of warmth is wasted in the upper area your dog does not occupy.

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  • Gather all of your supplies together before beginning the project to reduce the amount of time wasted between steps.

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  • More expensive than lumber, composite railings often come in kits for easy installation and to avoid wasted materials.

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  • Prepare only enough mortar to be used within 30 minutes (otherwise it will dry out and be wasted).

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  • Previous to this time frame, more than 30% of the gas used to fire the furnace was being wasted.

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  • The DOE set about changing this by introducing stricter standards that would ensure that at least 78% of the gas going into the furnace was converted to heat, rather than wasted.

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  • An old story goes that in the 1950s a small university wanted to discourage female student enrollment believing that good educational opportunities would be wasted on women who would never make good use of them.

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  • Furthermore, many portions at Sea World eateries are large and can be split between multiple guests to ensure there is no wasted food or money.

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  • Like most addictions, money is wasted to further the addiction.

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  • This is a game you can really invest time into and have it not feel like time wasted.

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  • Because it comes packaged in with virtually every version of Windows, any PC user is bound to have encountered this game and wasted away a few moments at school or at work trying to unearth all the hidden mines in this grid-based game.

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  • I did love the fact you had lots to do during the mission, but at times there were gaps of inaction between checkpoints that wasted my time.

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  • Even though Lynmar is fairly new to the scene, Lynn wasted no time in getting top-notch people on board.

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  • It's important to keep the dance your own, however - while collaborative dance creation can work, it can also lead to intense frustration, wasted time, and the dilution of a certain person's vision of a dance through compromise.

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  • In other words, fire helps earth grow, where water is wasted, as it does nothing to improve earth.

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  • This will save time and prevent wasted paper.

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  • Understand how to quickly restyle the look if it does need fixing so little time is wasted away from the wedding festivities.

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  • You can make it what you want from day to day without feeling like you've wasted your hard-earned cash.

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  • Time spent in the car is not wasted, but becomes a learning experience, when you sing as you travel.

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  • Before heading out to the sale, be sure you know the details so your time is not wasted.

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  • All in all, you've wasted twenty minutes of your time, not to mention the psychological despair brought about by looking unattractive in the wrong swimsuit.

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  • Instead of saving money, it will be wasted.

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  • In this case, much of the energy associated with operating the oven will be wasted.

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  • Induction cooktop technology heats only the pan and its contents and offers energy efficiency by reducing wasted heat when compared to radiant and gas cooktops.

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  • Deciding on the budget before embarking on a shopping trip looking for candle holders for tea lights can help to focus the mind and ensure that a lot of time is not wasted looking at completely the wrong type of candle holder.

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  • This adds value to the candle, as no wax is wasted.

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  • Global climate change, conservation and reducing wasted resources is a definite concern on the horizon.

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  • While this may make you feel like you wasted your time, try not to let it interfere with your search.

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  • Many online games are also easy to learn and quick to play, so no time is wasted on becoming familiar with the game.

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  • I now feel annoyed that I have wasted five years committing to someone that has no reason nor ever will to ask me to marry him.

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  • If you hit it off with someone right away, you haven't wasted hours on a blind date with one person or a number of hours chatting online trying to decide if someone's worth meeting in real life.

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  • Don't get in a hurry and make a mistake you that will cost you wasted time and hurt feelings.

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  • People don't find out about these hidden charges until after they've taken the time to fill out their profiles, and at that point either have to accept the charges or accept that they wasted time.

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  • To avoid a time crunch, arrange to play hookie after the event or plan the proposal very carefully so no time is wasted by traffic, waiting for a food order, or other delays.

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  • If a size is chosen arbitrarily and is incorrect, the money and effort used finding the perfect ring could be wasted.

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  • You can find the best deals in the world, but if you find out that the clothes you purchased aren't acceptable by your local school board, you've just wasted a lot of money.

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  • Equipping your sinks with faucet aerators can significantly reduce the amount of water and energy that gets wasted while rinsing dishes, washing your hands, or brushing your teeth.

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  • Plugging these items into a power strip make it easy to unplug or disconnect the power strip and avoid that wasted energy.

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  • Clothing and footwear are second and third on the most wasted list.

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  • This insures you are serious about getting the tattoo and the artist's time isn't wasted working on your design.

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  • Skybus flies non-stop to 16 U.S. destinations, eliminating the time wasted by connecting flights.

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  • With such a wide range of alarm clocks to choose from, this can help narrow the choice and ultimately will save time that might otherwise be wasted on looking at unsuitable models with novelty features.

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  • By breaking tasks down into manageable increments, less time is wasted and people feel less overwhelmed, enabling them to make use of their time more effectively.

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  • If you don't generate interaction with your audience, your time and money are wasted.

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  • Using CRM tools can put a stop to this type of wasted time.

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  • Remember the frustration of not finding what you're looking for and all the wasted time?

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  • Most closets have a lot of wasted space and can certainly benefit from a few organizing techniques.

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  • Many kitchen cupboards are filled with dish ware that you never use and space that is wasted.

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  • That way you haven't wasted a lot of time on a look you don't like, and if you love it you've got another faux painted thing that you can enjoy.

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  • There are no wasted bits of soap leftover from washing your hands and the dispenser makes it easy for children to wash their hands regularly.

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  • Some dieters report this is useful, but some say it's wasted space since the Atkins plan is mainly concerned with carbohydrate intake.

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  • Customize playlists prior to beginning your workout so no exercise time is wasted finding the right songs.

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  • You can always do a little extra cardio so it's not time wasted.

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  • While many feel that warm up and stretching are just wasted time in a workout, nothing could be further from the truth.

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  • Def Jam wasted no time in building up the success of Rihanna's first album.

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  • After a successful tour with Reba McEntire and Terri Clark, Paisley released the album "Time Well Wasted" and contributed two songs to the Disney film Cars.

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  • He also received several Grammy nominations for "Time Well Wasted."

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  • She displayed a talent for singing at an early age, and her father, a sometime musician manager who was working as a medical supply salesperson, wasted no time in getting her on stage.

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  • If the food is not good, people will leave early and the money spent will be wasted.

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  • If you've ever thought that your talents are wasted in your current job and what you really should be doing is running a fashion line, then Launch My Line is the reality show for you.

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  • Neither the public nor the police, whose time and resources were wasted while trying to find a way to bring the balloon down safely, were amused.

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  • Things may not be fair in the Big Brother house, but if you quit you've wasted a slot thousands and thousands of people wanted.

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  • They were said to keep the patient up night after night dancing and that as a result they wasted away because they didn't have adequate rest.

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  • She makes the case that many people don't understand their own skin, and that the questionnaire will save time, energy, and money wasted on the wrong products.

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  • If this happens, the food will end up spoiled and your coins will have been wasted.

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  • If employees are not well trained and informed regarding the "who, what, where, why and how", the money spent on uniforms is just wasted.

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  • It reduces frustration, cuts wasted time and still gets the job done.

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  • I guess he's always been a part of me... one I've wasted most of my life trying to remove.

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  • There was only one way to find out... well, maybe two, but asking Sarah or Giddon was probably wasted effort.

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  • They wasted no time getting on the road and Brandon was driving fast.

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  • Apparently he spent a lot of time on the back of a horse, riding his range in all kinds of weather - a fact that prompted more than one comment by townsfolk that he had wasted a good college education.

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  • Considering his comment about ambition, he probably didn't consider the education wasted.

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  • Wasted years caused by one silly mistake.

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  • We had wasted nearly the entire day with no results.

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  • No sound disturbed Howie and with Martha able to use her special hypnotic-like tone, little time was wasted inducing Howie's sleep state.

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  • He interrupted my schedule and wasted my time with his lies but he paid dearly for inconveniencing me.

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  • There was a fender bender in the town square that delayed me but I wasted little time racing up the Surry road.

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  • With a frown, she wondered why she'd never seen it before, why she wasted seven years trying to make things work with someone who couldn't hold a candle to the man she was meant to be with.

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  • There, good citizens, is the result of a wasted day in the mountains.

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  • He filled a thermos of coffee—no one could drink Weller's brew—and wasted no time in arriving at the sheriff's office.

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  • Ryland grumbled as he wasted no time leaving the room.

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  • Brady tapped his foot, frustrated they'd wasted half a day without finding any trace of her.

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  • Aside from a wasted 20 minutes searching for gas in New Brunswick and a missed exit on the Garden State Parkway, the trip was uneventful.

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  • Two young lives wasted because they fell in love with the wrong person.

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  • With closed stoves much less heat is wasted, and consequ;ntly less fuel is burned, than with open grates, but they often cause an unpleasant sensation of dryness in the air, and the products of combustion also escape to some extent, rendering this method of heating not only unpleasant but sometimes even dangerous.

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  • They wasted the next few years in the attempt to win Normandy; but Earl Robert of Gloucester, the half-brother of the empress, at length induced her to visit England and raise her standard in the western shires, where his influence was supreme.

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  • Once more the road to Vienna lay open, but the grand vizier wasted the remainder of the year in fortifying Belgrade, and on August 18th, 1691, he was defeated and slain at Slankamen by the margrave of Baden.

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  • For the moment the earl of Surrey (who in King Henry VIII.'s absence was charged with the defence of the realm) had no organized force in the north of England, but James wasted much precious time among the border castles, and when Surrey appeared at Wooler, with an army equal in strength to his own, which was now greatly weakened by privations and desertion, he had not advanced beyond Ford Castle.

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  • Similarly Karl Hoffmann of Wiirzburg wasted his appreciations of the newer schools of developmental biology in fanciful notions of human diseases as reversions to normal stages of lower animals; scrofula being for him a reversion to the insect, rickets to the mollusc, epilepsy to the oscillaria, and so forth.

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  • Assyria, however, was aided by civil war in Elam itself; the country was wasted with fire and sword,, and its capital Susa or Shushan levelled with the ground.

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  • The first made some efforts to heal the wounds of his country; the second wasted the lives of his people in foreign wars against the Turks; and the third was the last Protestant elector of Saxony.

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  • I was sorely perplexed, and felt quite discouraged, and wasted much precious time, especially in Algebra.

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  • They'd make it a game night or sit around getting wasted on twenty-year old scotch recounting countless, crazy times they had through the years.

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  • I wasted no time telephoning the Leblanc's number to encourage my wife to return home.

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  • When the reverend announced that Alex could kiss the bride, he wasted no time.

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