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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

  • I like some of the points he makes, and I too lament the falling-away of book reviews in major newspapers.

    2007 September 2007

  • By its falling-away — and to the extent of the fall — it is stripped of

    The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

  • Each stroke was a falling-away from the ideal, a blow to hope.

    Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899

  • 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

  • This piece is called the "falling-away" membrane (decidua).

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    EW.com: Today's Latest Headlines 2010

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