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However, the tower’s architects believed a three-meter foundation would suffice for their relatively short structure.
The government says we are falling short of at least 20 million homes.
I was lucky to be brought up in Southern Africa by two teacher parents who had long holidays but very short budgets.
And, by God, the neurologist did erase it, and that's the middle picture: half of the aura erased by a short magnetic pulse.
I had fun again, I worked harder and, to cut a long story short, did all the things that took me back up to success.
That means if the fiber remodels its walls too early, it will be short, and ultimately make rough, weak fabrics.
I want to share with you some ideas about the secret power of time, in a very short time.
And then the second step is to say, "The situation is admittedly dangerous, but only for a short time."
The typical post-conflict government is so short of money that it needs our money just to be on a life-support system.
Too many buildings that you see outside that are so banal tell you a story, but the story is very short, which says, "We have no story to tell you."
A short distance away, he spots an unguarded ostrich nest, full of immense, but impenetrable eggs.
Runes are short, straight, and diagonal lines that make up an alphabet called the “futhark.”
Then I decided to follow some inspiring folks and do a short tour at the US Digital Service.
Well to explain that, I've got a short video clip to explain the Khmer Rouge regime during 1975 and 1979.
Within a short while, I think there's going to be a new field called "Combinatorial Genomics," because with these new synthesis capabilities, these vast gene array repertoires and the homologous recombination, we think we can design a robot to make maybe a million different chromosomes a day.
But you can say this: all the apes and all the monkeys are capable of walking on two legs, if they want to, for a short time.
And I think we need to think about these second-degree steps, that you might think you have low risk and you're in a younger group, but you're often going to be a very short step away from someone who is going to get hit very hard by this.
And those two coils of wire are really, really close to each other, and actually do transfer power magnetically and wirelessly, only over a very short distance.
Developing world is a short life in a large family."
In short, the answer is that in the future, in many countries, the coldest growing seasons are going to be hotter than anything those crops have seen in the past.
I'm short sighted.
And they were people who were not short of wit, or grace or energy, but they had no hope, no jobs, no prospects.
When it's really short, like six days, it moves like lightning.
LB: Well, it is exactly the combination of the short incubation period and the high transmissibility.
But I have seen that place change beyond all description, just in that short period of time.
And so I now want to show you a short video of what happened there on the ice.
The second thing we need to do is we need to just look back at how far we have come in such a short period of time.
Offering Teteoinnan a short prayer, she urges her patient to act like a warrior.
I like to call it the Global Shadow Economy, or McMafia, for short.
So the pandemic fizzles out a short time after it began.
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