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- proper noun A male
given name .
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Examples
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Jack!” called Amyas, turning round: but the two good fellows had walked briskly off.
Westward Ho! 2007
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"Amyas," said Frank, "that was a Devon man's handiwork, nevertheless; it was Eustace's handwriting."
Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847
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Jack! "called Amyas, turning round: but the two good fellows had walked briskly off.
Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847
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"The short of it is that we will have a smaller military," said Amyas Godfrey, associate fellow that the London-based Royal United Services Institute and a former British intelligence officer.
Britain announces major military cutbacks Anthony Faiola 2010
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"This is yet another example of a department fundamentally underestimating the scale and complexity of a major IT-enabled change program," Amyas Morse , head of the NAO, said in a statement accompanying the report.
Auditor Blasts NHS E-Records Project Sten Stovall 2011
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Amyas Morse, head of the NAO, said: Although total spending on consultants has fallen in recent years, this is not the result of effective management and control.
Ministers spent £1bn on wasteful contracts, says audit office Polly Curtis 2010
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Amyas Morse, head of the National Audit Office, said: "Decisions were taken to balance the defence budget which had the effect of driving very significant additional cost and delay into the equipment programme; this represents poor value for money for the taxpayer."
MoD pays extra £2.7bn for unwanted Typhoons Richard Norton-Taylor 2010
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"The short of it is that we will have a smaller military," said Amyas Godfrey, associate fellow that the London-based Royal United Services Institute and a former British intelligence officer.
Britain announces major military cutbacks Anthony Faiola 2010
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Amyas Morse, NAO head, said: "While some of the lessons learned from the successful use of the urgent operational requirements process can be applied to core projects in the future, a long-term solution is likely to need significant further investment, realistic plans and stable budgets sustained over time."
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That would most likely leave the contracts concentrated in the hands of BT, but even its work is under question by the NAO.Amyas Morse, head of the NAO, said: "The original vision for the national programme for IT in the NHS will not be realised."
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