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1 I haven't the time nor the desire to put a gloss on it.
2 Two late Bedford tries put a gloss on the score.
3 Exploration companies tend to put a gloss on results and always appear to be effervescent about the future.
4 This echo of politeness was to put a gloss on his casual dumping of a cardboard package on the drop table.
5 Quite how badly, is another matter, and no amount of advance discounting was going to put a gloss on the bleakest of results.
6 However, it's no use trying to put a gloss on what even at the time I myself half suspected to be a caprice.
7 He also said there was "no way to put a gloss on the election result and it helps no one to try".
8 Government spin-doctors have done their best to put a gloss on the lack of Irish representation among the management of the European Central Bank.
9 Gylfi Sigurdsson put a gloss on a match that for a long time unfolded like a summary of the past four months for Tottenham.
10 A margin of seven points might indicate a pretty comfortable cushion, but a rather freakish goal tends to put a gloss on the scoreline.
11 Forrest's injury-time strike - set up by Edouard - put a gloss on the scoreline that was harsh on Accies and flattering to Celtic.
12 Is crime so bad and the problems of the Garda Siochana so great that no one feels they can put a gloss on the situation?
13 Now his appearance of putting a gloss on Hungary's wartime role has him in hot water with the Jewish community.
14 Accused by the opposition of lying and putting a gloss on Chavez's state, officials are urging Venezuelans to be patient.
15 It finished 30-20 with a late try from winger Peter Woods putting a gloss on the final scoreline.
16 There is a long history in China of local government officials putting a gloss on data so as not to anger the central leadership.
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