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Emails informed them that, in a marked falling-away from previous comforts, they will be staying at the local Premier Inn: you're only five minutes away from a bracing walk on the beach and there's an in-house Brewers Fayre restaurant, yet still the pampered NEC nabobs' resulting grumpiness won't go away.
Media Monkey's Diary 2011
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I like some of the points he makes, and I too lament the falling-away of book reviews in major newspapers.
2007 September 2007
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By its falling-away — and to the extent of the fall — it is stripped of
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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Each stroke was a falling-away from the ideal, a blow to hope.
Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899
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This comes away as the "afterbirth" at parturition; at the same time, the part of the mucous lining of the womb that has united inseparably with the chorion is torn away; hence it is called the decidua ( "falling-away membrane"), and also the
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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This piece is called the "falling-away" membrane (decidua).
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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As for a historic falling-away, the RCC in America and especially Europe have already seen a great dealing of people fall away.
Wired Campus 2010
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As for a historic falling-away, the RCC in America and especially Europe have already seen a great dealing of people fall away.
Wired Campus 2010
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Second, Mr Brown must fear that his blunder, and the view that it will provoke a final, unstoppable falling-away of Labour support, will open the way for speculation about his position even before the voting starts next Thursday.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Easy Rider when I was 11 (it was the first adult movie I ever snuck into), and the end of the movie - that falling-away roadside-crash helicopter's-eye death shot that you realize has already been glimpsed in an acid hallucination - spooked and possessed me like nothing I had ever seen.
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