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It's a scheme in the U.K. that matches Mr. Jones, with some spare space in his back garden, with Mrs. Smith, a would-be grower.
So it felt that what we could try to do is make a power park and actually bring the whole area in, and using the spare soil that's there on the site, we could make a power station that was silent as well.
3D printing can be also used to download spare parts from the Web.
You need a spare part, but you realize that Hoover's been discontinued.
And in fact, because we can create spare parts with things the machines are quite literally making themselves.
So I said, "Sure, I could spare some time for that."
It's as though we're using them as spare parts to support our fragile sense of self.
But I'll spare you that.
We are designing and building an aquaponics unit in some land that was spare at the back of the high school, like you do, and now we're going to be growing fish and vegetables in an orchard with bees, and the kids are helping us build that, and the kids are on the board, and because the community was really keen on working with the high school, the high school is now teaching agriculture, and because it's teaching agriculture, we started to think, how could we then get those kids that never had a qualification before in their lives but are really excited about growing, how can we give them some more experience?
First, they're going to create an asset register of spare land that they've got, put it in a food bank so that communities can use that wherever they live, and they're going to underpin that with a license.
The problem is, without technicians, without spare parts, donations like this very quickly turn into junk.
And in closing, when you have a moment of peace or quiet in these very busy few days or perhaps afterwards, spare a thought for that person you thought about who has a mental illness, or persons that you thought about who have mental illness, and dare to care for them.
The places being rented out are things that you might expect, like spare rooms and holiday homes, but part of the magic is the unique places that you can now access: treehouses, teepees, airplane hangars, igloos.
At this level of the labor market, what you need is a marketplace for spare hours.
We don't want to be spare parts for a great human computer, do we?
John Herschel mapped the stars of the southern hemisphere, and, in his spare time, co-invented photography.
They've found in many developing countries that governments have gone in and given out free latrines and gone back a few years later and found that they've got lots of new goat sheds or temples or spare rooms with their owners happily walking past them and going over to the open defecating ground.
And the squabble went on and on, and Kollek listened and listened, and he finally said, "Gentlemen, spare me your sermons, and I will fix your sewers."
And when Iraq invaded Iran in 1980, Israel feared an Iraqi victory and actively helped Iran by selling it arms and providing it with spare parts for Iran's American weaponry at a moment when Iran was very vulnerable because of an American arms embargo that Israel was more than happy to violate.
While most other cities were growing an undifferentiated spare tire of sprawl, they instituted an urban growth boundary.
She already has all the spare parts, because the problems were diagnosed in advanced.
And it was devastating every single time, and every single time, I had to ask myself if I should just quit while I was behind and give up and spare myself this pain.
I was still trying to take in the notion that these titans, these masters of the universe, in their spare time watch Harry Potter movies, when Mr. Milliken thought he would win the argument by saying, "You just think it's so good because you didn't read the book."
And then if I were to ask how many folks had a parent who maybe drank too much, or who really believed that if you spare the rod, you spoil the child, I bet a few more hands would go up.
I'll spare you the details.
And then she got to Heathrow, and she had a little time to spare before her final leg, so she thought up another funny little acerbic joke: [Going to Africa.
As you can see, there is no room to spare.
And soldiers occupied their spare time by writing letters, drawing sketches, and drinking and smoking with local villagers.
An enduring myth says we use only 10% of our brain, the other 90% standing idly by for spare capacity.
In your case, you're done quick sorting with time to spare.
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