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One big factor is not working full time, year round.
In this model, each round of existence-each cycle from one collision to the next-stretches about a trillion years.
Finalists sit on stage during the first championship elimination round.
They need a neck to be able to turn their head and look round without moving all four limbs.
Round clusters of small white flowers appear all along bare branches in early spring.
During every round, players are given the opportunity to donate points to their neighbours.
Please define what round trip efficiency the thermal storage can achieve.
Butter cake pans, then line bottom of each with a round of parchment paper and butter parchment.
And then there was the round, solid, obviousness of the moon.
They are generally round but stretch longer along one axis than along the other.
Last night's airing was the first of three, and it covered only the first round of the first game.
Another round of tax cuts for the wealthy should prevent that.
Tropical primates on the perimeter of their range no longer had plentiful fruits and year-round streams and lakes.
With the latest round of price wars, the distinction between e-readers and tablets is also becoming clear.
The video shows them then driving off, in the wrong direction down the street and round the corner, towards the protesters.
In exclusive interviews, they recount the play-by-play of the shot seen round the world.
The property has a round pool made out of a steel stock tank, and the beach is a five-minute walk away.
He then let off a final round to knock the enemy weapon out of action.
People prefer big objects to small ones, round forms to sharp ones and complex designs to simpler renditions.
The paper boat danced up and down, and now and then whirled round and round.
Some even work in a round-about way by causing pain, which makes the brain release pain-killing endorphins.
Of course, there are a couple of simple ways round this new problem.
The autism wars go on and on, and the debates go round and round.
Sails raised, colors gleaming, they round up prey.
Click on the head next to the best argument in each round.
Pebbles are too smooth and round to make a suitable paving if left free to roll around.
These noises resemble the sounds made by hitting two round pebbles together.
After each meeting, an aide would round up whatever notes were left, even if they had been crumpled or ripped up.
Now she examined herself in the small round mirror she'd pulled from her purse, grimacing.
Once the polls close, the top three vote-getters will move to round two, where things get interesting.
Redundancy and decentralization are our friends, and the enemies of tyrants and monopolies the world round.
He has a round choirboy face, blue eyes with a glint of irreverence, and a boyish tousle of graying hair.
She will find a new interest in the old common round of domestic duties.
Now it comes round again, the time to rise and cook up a day.
Getting stuck in questions of race, you could go round and round and round in that.
The round ones are in hydrostatic equilibrium, meaning they have enough self-gravity to have pulled themselves into a round shape.
One could see round objects which were obviously plant cells.
Small, steady price cuts might actually be preferable all round.
Once the world became round, there was no going back.
There, references are called before the final round of interviews.
We are entering a round orbit phase, but extinctions implied by this study may not begin for tens of thousands of years.
Unless something is coming round, cars need not stop, so congestion is reduced and fuel is saved.
And handicaps improved by an average of a stroke and a half per round.
Interns work year-round on a variety of editorial and promotional projects and are essential to the magazine's operation.
But after one round of questions, its novelty was beginning to wear off.
The mobile-telephone business is being transformed by a fresh round of mergers.
Round out your party table with a tomato and garbanzo bean salad flavored with onion, ginger, and cilantro.
There were several ancient scrolls that were round cylinders.
And even after the world was proven to be round there were those who refused to believe.
The way a theological argument goes is the other way round.
It's a tie between the gap-toothed grin framed with big ears and the round-shouldered, bowlegged slouch.
It was, quite literally, the beep heard round the world.
Instead of launching drift nets or putting out a rod and line, fishermen round up the tuna in a shallow pool.
Oh, that's included in the next round of project development funding.
There's no dispute over the constancy of the speed of light when measured over a round trip.
Instead, the mutual goal in the latest round of talks is to avoid being blamed for their failure.
Conservation of angular momentum with a bullet hitting a merry go round.
Nowadays even moderately well-off students often take a break between school and university to go round the world.
Round out the menu with edamame and spinach and noodle salads.
The tables below show a miscellaneous set of metrics intended to round out a notion of national greatness.
He's come to see their lives as a daily round of petty quarrels.
Round headed but with horizontally tiered branches in age.
So people have long been looking for other ways round the problem.
He suffered her to feed through the day, and at night tied her up with a vile rope round her neck.
Bulls won three of four regular-season games last season and first-round playoff matchup.
In other words, it would be the ultimate sniper round.
After the game was over, the participants were asked which of the other players they would be willing to have another round with.
It seems likely that executives are being influenced by the market rather than the other way round.
That's why vertebrate eyes are round-to capture more of a scene without losing clarity.
Cover with parchment round and second skillet, then top with weights.
We have learned that our planet is in fact round and revolves around the sun, and that humans are slightly modified chimpanzees.
Surface tension pulls the beads into their distinctive round shape.
But, the scores shift from round to round, so focus on the percentile.
All kinds have attractive year round foliage and clusters of small white, pink, or rose purple flowers in spring.
Only monarchs born in late summer or early fall make the migration, and they make only one round trip.
At the sculpture's base is a round pool with fountain pump that sends water in a circular motion around the pool.
Still, to reach the heights in practically any field today calls for a round-the-clock commitment.
We're working on round two of our graduate student ethnography project.
Astronomers will need more detailed observations to determine if any of the newfound objects are truly round.
Agencies typically look for people with expertise in the field of activity that a given round of proposals will support.
Draw the symbol or symbols inherited from the corresponding round two cards.
Commercial apiaries are located in mild-winter areas, where they can raise bees almost year-round.
Elaborate, almost life-sized puppets lampooned a choral round dance in the first scene.
It makes you feel round and supple, and to have a little life inside you is amazing.
The energy round trip wastes a lot of the efficiency, too.
No, there is no excuse for a demand for official records on the first round of application.
Creamy and round, with sensational vanilla and apple spice cake flavors.
New methods are transforming past failures, and the results seem far more promising this go-round.
Oh, and all those brackets invariably end up a pile of nonsense after the first round or two.
He has a round face, with a beautiful smile that he mostly keeps hidden, and a strong but unglamorous body.
Chartreuse or lime green flowers in dense, round to cylindrical clusters appear in late winter, early spring.
However, the journal didn't send out the article for a round of reviews.
We found one in archery, which takes the form of a small watermelon sitting on a cliff in the round pictured above.
When the buzzer sounds, half of the singles move to another chair and a different partner, in a kind of round robin.
The bullet marks that appear so ominously in the wall seconds before the fatal volley are round.
There were big round rust spots on the fender and the door.
Reaching a wall, she lies down on her belly and crawls on her elbows to get round it.
But it's unclear if anything will result from this latest round of regulatory review.
He told him to wear it as an amulet round his neck, to ensure that all was well.
Eyes close and squint, nose bulges, cheeks bulge and mice also pull back their little round ears and move their whiskers.
But this requires a new and purposive round of brainstorming.
It occurs to me that this planet might not be round.

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