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This little creature spends its days splashing in Late Triassic swamps with a host of other reptiles.
While he spends his days poring over old books and contemplating a strange painting and the library’s mysterious owner, he also befriends the librarian– who introduces him to classical music like Schubert.
He's good for the environment, he spends his days doing this incredible service, and he smells like hell, but God bless him.
We named this object Sedna after the Inuit goddess of the sea, in honor of the cold, icy places where it spends all of its time.
I mean, the point is, the NIH spends about 5.5 billion dollars a year on neuroscience research.
To put that into context, The U.K. government spends about 12 billion pounds a year on foreign aid.
Quexo spends much less time in the ocean than the other villagers.
Well, Steven spends an awful lot of time in his bedroom, on his own.
He spends a lot of time on Facebook.
He spends an awful lot of time in front of the bathroom mirror.
This is nearly two times what the Australian government spends on mental health services annually.
And he spends two weeks nagged by the idea that he is missing the opportunity, day after day, to have a great parking space.
"What adult spends almost a year getting over a one-year relationship?"
1st watched 6/21/2001 - 2 out of 10(Dir-Emmanuel Itier): Pretty much worthless supposed thriller that spends more time drawing us into sexual encounters with and without the star 'Amber Smith.'
On its surface, the movie tells the story of a tough drifter named Bix (Brett Halsey) who spends his time looking out for a young kid named Danny (Lowell Brown) and the girl, Carrie (Joyce Meadows), that Bix meets who would like to look out for him.
This movie spends most of its time preaching that it is the script that makes the movie, but apparently there was no script when they shot this waste of time!
For a woman trying to complete so many crossword puzzles in a day, she spends an awful lot of time standing around, sulking, and not doing puzzles.
There's one scene where he spends five minutes recording a conversation, only to drop the microcassette in the Potomac River by accident.
If it takes a character ten minutes to walk from Point A to Point B, the film spends ten minutes showing this walk, and these are the "action" scenes.
Still, it's better than the abysmal screenplay, which spends about a third of its length on superfluous extras like Belle's present day problems, stuff about Scrooge's dad, and plenty of charmless fannying around with - choke - TWO ANTHROPOMORPHIC MICE.
The man spends most of his screen time trying to appear nonchalant, charming and sexy, forgetting totally what the film is about and that he is a murder suspect because of some dame who played him for a goose to start with.
Yet she does and spends the next couple years in prison!! And, soon after her conviction, this boyfriend disappears--showing that he's a total heel.
At the command of his father, Odin, he spends the rest of the movie looking for the mask so that it can cause no further grief to mankind.
Rick Mercer reads wacky fake headlines, shows pictures of bad sheds that people mail in and then spends about 20 minutes of the 30 minute show going somewhere and just talking to people hoping to say something witty or clever enough to get on TV and maybe even make somebody somewhere laugh.
This film spends a lot of time preaching against marijuana.
You've got the most irritating heroine in gore history who spends most of her time sobbing and wailing and shrieking--all the time in the most horrendous rest stop toilet ever put on film.
Why she spends so much time in this ghastly bathroom from hell is never explained.
The woman seems so anxious and in a hurry to do the crosswords, but for some reason she spends the time distractedly walking all around the city when she could be focused at home.
If some studio spends any money to produce this awful picture, then is not a surprise that this kind of histories are more common on these days.
The script spends so much time on the killings and the girls but it spends almost no time at all on the killer.
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