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When he said three o'clock, I thought he meant in the afternoon.
Charges are made on a sliding scale, which means that the amount you must pay increases with the level of your income.
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You should take it as a compliment when I fall asleep in your company - it means I'm relaxed.
A continuous white line in the middle of the road means no overtaking.
High acidity levels in the water mean that the fish are not so large.
Shortages mean that even staples like bread are difficult to find.
In a way I'd prefer it if they didn't come, because it would mean extra work.
Let's say that the journey takes three hours, that means you'll arrive at two o'clock.
The irregularity of English spelling means that it is easy to make mistakes.
I didn't mean to be rude - it just came out like that.
He doesn't really mean it - he's just being contrary.
He's always making flattering remarks, but he doesn't really mean them.
Gerald means nothing to me now.
Her career means everything to her.
Nothing means more to me than my children's happiness.
Her approval meant a lot to me.
She's really quite unpleasant about other people and she's as mean as hell.
"That was amazingly generous of you!" "Well, that was a two-edged comment - are you saying I'm usually mean?"
She only gave you 50p? That was a bit mean.
He's as mean as they come.
You shouldn't have been so mean to your mother - she deserves better.
It was mean of him to make her stay late.
Mean values should, where possible, be accompanied by standard errors or similar statistical indications of variance.
However, the publisher reserves the right to typeset material by conventional means if an author's disk proves unsatisfactory.
This symmetry means that any of the cells in the pair can star t firing before the other.
What the heroine most likely means here, is that she doesn't wish to become involved outside her chosen province of literature.
However, this asymmetrical distribution means that the only context that permits comparison among really, very, so and pretty as intensifiers is the predicative adjective context.
Particularly troubling to us is that no means is offered for determining at what time(s) a given parameter reflects either planning or control.
Order is maintained by two means: direct management of the relations of the players and indirect structuring of the terms of play.
The use of regression models, such as multilevel modeling, potentially provides a rigorous means of modeling variation in cost-effectiveness between centers or countries (13).
This means that at the outset, we will deal with the context of ordinary differential equations.
Their restriction to shallow marine environments suggests that photosynthesis was the primary means of organic matter production for these benthic communities.
Physically, this is because, on average, the mean shear causes larger separation between particle pairs so that larger eddies disperse them.
On the other hand, each form has its own unique onset and rime, which means that no form benefits from phonetic consistency.
This task could be carried out entirely by means of (purely) natural-scientific (naturwissenschaftlichen) methods.
In the 1920s, the school was eager to distinguish itself from the government schools as a means of attracting more pupils.
Observation and interviews with the children and the classroom teachers were used as a means to gather data on the potentially psychological impact of singing.
