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 Whenever the title lags a bit as it did last issue with the less-than-excellent Bizarro story, Morrison gets it right back on track with a story like this.

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One big reason our life expectancy lags is that Americans have an unusual tendency to perish in homicides or accidents.

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Florida once again lags behind the rest of the states in giving consideration to the restoration of basic civil rights to felons who have served their sentences.

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This important matter of long lags is still not as widely understood or appreciated in Canada as it should be.

Crossing The 100 Billion Dollar Mark 1972

Another thing, I think, in which industry lags is longrange planning.

A Soldier Looks At Business 1963

The law, in short, lags leagues and ages behind the moral sense of the community, so encumbered with its baggage train that it can never fetch up lost ground.

The Subterranean Brotherhood Julian Hawthorne 1890

Leniency in judging definitions is necessary because the child's power of expression lags farther behind his understanding than is true of adults, and also because for the young subject the word has a relatively less unitary existence.

The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale Lewis Madison Terman 1916

Slide 12: "Brand name lags well behind factors such as quality, price, health benefits, value, convenience of preparation and taste."

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And the true story is he follows them, and one of the guys kind of lags behind and says, you know, why don't you hang out in this blind here, and, you know, we'll let you know when it gets interesting up ahead.

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However, in the EPO, and more specifically Germany, deferred examination creates two "lags" between filing and grant (or refusal): (1) the examination lag - i.e., between filing and examination, and (2) grant/refusal lag - i.e., between examination and grant or refusal.

Defensive Patenting and Deferred Examinaton: Lessons From the German Patent Office Peter Zura 2009