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  • "The Germans and Dutch have already cottoned-on to the Czech Republic as a great year-round mountain location," he says.

    The East's Frozen Assets Angela Henshall 2011

  • Like the insurgents in Iraq, the Taliban has cottoned-on to the notion that directly confronting NATO forces- well-equipped and with overwhelming air support- is useless.

    Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » Afghanistan sees most violent year since 2001 2007

  • It took her a couple of months, but Hilary Swank has finally cottoned-on to what the rest of the world was thinking about her decision to accept a six-figure sum to appear at the 35th birthday celebrations of Chechnya's autocratic dictator, Ramzan Kadyrov.

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2011

  • The idea here is that, 10 or 15 years from now, when the great majority of people have cottoned-on to the fact that the government lied - just as the great majority now realize that about the Kennedy assassination - we'll be able to look back and see which of them maintained the best traditions of journalism, and which were compliant or complicit.

    911Blogger.com vidalizer 2010

  • The idea here is that, 10 or 15 years from now, when the great majority of people have cottoned-on to the fact that the government lied - just as the great majority now realize that about the Kennedy assassination - we'll be able to look back and see which of them maintained the best traditions of journalism, and which were compliant or complicit.

    911Blogger.com vidalizer 2010

  • Orange, though, has cottoned-on to the fact that it probably needs to do more to keep present customers in today's rapidly-deteriorating economic climate, so it's announced that the Orange Wednesday promotion will now extend to a two-for-one meal at Pizza Express, too.

    HEXUS.lifestyle : News 2009

  • XFX has already cottoned-on to this fact and released the

    HEXUS.net : News 2009

  • It was the only time Brown performed such magic, as he spent the rest of his time as Chancellor devising ever more-stealthy taxes, bleeding us with fuel duty under the guise of "green policy" until the Public realised their pockets were empty - and cottoned-on to him.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009

  • XFX has already cottoned-on to this fact and released the

    HEXUS.net : News 2009

  • Orange, though, has cottoned-on to the fact that it probably needs to do more to keep present customers in today's rapidly-deteriorating economic climate, so it's announced that the Orange Wednesday promotion will now extend to a two-for-one meal at Pizza Express, too.

    HEXUS.lifestyle : News 2009

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