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• He is always talking about how clever his children are.

• I wish you'd stop making jokes about my friends.

• Lots of people have complained about the noise.

• The film was about creatures from outer space.

• I was very nervous about driving again after the accident.

• Stop jumping about, Billy, and just stand still for a moment!

• The town is about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.

• Fry the onion and garlic for about two minutes.

• The average temperature worldwide has risen by about one degree Fahrenheit in the past 100 years.

• "We'll be at your house at about nine o'clock, okay?"

• We sent out the wedding invitations about three weeks ago.

• He sensed that something was about to happen.

• I was just about to borrow some money from Dad when finally the cheque arrived.

• She looked as though she was about to cry.

• I was about to phone Joe at work when he walked into the house

• The train's about to leave. Hurry up!

• If one concentrates on any particular point in a man's career one has to look at the swings as well as the round-abouts.

• In these days the word "maintenance" covers quite a lot: apparently you can double the size of your roads, have dual-carriageways, round abouts and so forth.

• However, the key thing to note about pre-electoral coalitions is that they can affect the probability that a party gets to enter government.

• We'll lose about a fifth of our farmers.

• The size of this effect is about the same as that of decentralization.

• Do you expect the national economy to get better, get worse, or stay about the same?

• We summarize our main findings in conclusion and discuss their contribution to the debate about the influence of issue preferences on the voter's decision.

• Nonetheless, a few words about our methods are in order.

• On one hand, partisanship is an enduring attribute, among the most central and most stable beliefs people hold about politics.

• Uncertainty about campaign finance is added to all the other uncertainties in his or her world.

• The changes made in conference were, however, more about style than substance.

• Retailers also had to confront changing beliefs about the purpose of bankruptcy law.

• The main result about model families is the following.

• The findings have implications for normative questions about 'dialogue' in campaigns and for theories of candidate strategy.

• The negotiation process about the distribution of ministerial portfolios started next.