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1 The company is set to retain only 20 jobs in Cork.
2 He will reduce further his household, and retain only the most indispensable servants.
3 He would allow them to retain only the Old Testament, without their commentaries.
4 The company will retain only its transport division in the town from then on.
5 Of the chaotic last years of the war I retain only too few clear memories.
6 You become assimilated with the savages, and retain only one link between yourself and civilisation.'
7 Beijing said the existing dams retain only 4 percent of water flowing to the Mekong river.
8 It wasn't enough to retain only the first.
9 For in the Mass the adversaries retain only the ceremony, and publicly apply this to sacrilegious gain.
10 Far better that he should remain in ignorance and retain only sad memories of their brief happiness.
11 It is especially sensation, I think, which is considered by those realists who retain only the object.
12 They cool, indeed, in time, part, and retain only a rankling grudge of past errors and oversights.
13 When we filter it, we retain only its deposit, the result of the becoming drifted down to us.
14 The night which followed was so horrible that I retain only a confused and fragmented memory of it.
15 With the feverish egotism of youth he would retain only the memory of the interest she'd shown in him.
16 For the Cossacks would send the superfluous guardsmen away and retain only as many as one for every four prisoners.
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