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But each year hundreds of thousands of tonnes are lost or wasted.
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Time is wasted when both sides in debate employ the same tactics.
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Every second that passed, every second they wasted, he thought of Lizzie.
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He speaks the way he designs product: not a single wasted word.
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That small debacle alone wasted almost three million pounds of taxpayers' money.
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Rebecca pinched his knee, hard: he had gone too far, too fast.
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Vera pinched a lemon free and held it under a neon light.
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I pinched him first in my anxiety and then in my joy.
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But the solar market has also been pinched by the economic downturn.
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I was a dog to have pinched it in the first place.
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You are in trouble; I can see it in your haggard eyes.
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Tears blinded her eyes; her face was wan; her mien terribly haggard.
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The place was a ruin, haggard and falling apart, leaking water everywhere.
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First light found the small group of Christians haggard and mentally worn.
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The haggard face under the gray hair turned slowly toward the messenger.
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They account for almost 60 per cent of all bony foot problems.
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Objective: To determine whether knee flexion influenced bony contact movements during flexion.
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Thus, localization did not rely on bony landmarks alone in these cases.
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He could still feel his young charge's bony shoulder in his grip.
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The dark coat-sleeve flapped on the bony skeleton of the unknown arm.
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Unfortunately, these elements are not present in all cases involving skeletal remains.
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Background: Inadequate dietary protein intake results in loss of skeletal muscle mass.
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The skeletal soldiers all took one step forward, making their weapons ready.
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However, mechanisms underlying skeletal complications in diabetes are still not well understood.
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We also present evidence for mild skeletal muscle disease in affected persons.
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In the most severe cases, people would become emaciated, delirious, and incapacitated.
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Sea lion pups, emaciated and starving, have washed up on California beaches.
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We could not keep life in some of the poor emaciated frames.
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He could have easily disengaged it; it was small, weak and emaciated.
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In Jamila's case, a Reuters photo of the emaciated child went viral.
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Heart, cornea, double-lung, or pancreas transplants have to come from cadaverous donors.
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There was no mistaking the metallic glistening eyes and the cadaverous skin.
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By degrees the freshest among them began to grow cadaverous and saucer-eyed.
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At his heels strode a tall, cadaverous person in a checked suit.
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I dressed, looking like the cadaverous ghost I felt myself to be.
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Not a creature abroad; the tall gaunt houses staring in the moonlight.
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He's all purpose and business, lean and gaunt beneath a new haircut.
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He had gained weight, yet still gave the impression of being gaunt.
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Even in the firelight how gaunt and strained it looked to her.
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A tail, gaunt figure loomed up in the bow of the lifeboat.
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Surely that gaunt preacher had the true fire in his gray soul.
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A gaunt man, armed with a bamboo cane, stood behind the animal.
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The fog was puffing through the gaunt arms, festooning the rigid hands.
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The gaunt man with the scarred lip was the first to speak.
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Though the word 'boy' hardly seemed to do this gaunt individual justice.
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The faint mockery of a smile wavered across the painfully gaunt face.
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His wife, Rachel, looking frail and gaunt, issued a similar impassioned plea.
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He was the gaunt, taciturn individual we had seen at the wheel.
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The great gaunt figure sitting by her side quivered at the sound.
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Nothing but abject poverty, cruel, gaunt want stares me in the face.
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Pavek grew gaunt from fever and denial; Sassel's purse grew even thinner.
