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The questions can sometimes be lamentably ill-informed.
The government, says the report, have carried out lamentably few of their promises.
The direct result of that and other factors was that the summit failed lamentably.
Lamentably, this has been a long and inevitably controversial operation.
The figures on which preference has been given seem to me to be lamentably inadequate.
There is a broader picture which, lamentably, in my experience, is not often seen by experts.
Is there not a lamentably small number of men employed?
We have seen them in power for 2½ years, and they have failed lamentably to carry out a tithe of what they promised.
The modifications are illogical and fail lamentably to meet local or national needs.
Up to now it has lamentably failed to deal with the main aspect of it.
