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These elections follow a four-yearly cycle, and when they last took place, in 2007, the Conservatives did notably well and the Liberal Democrats sustained their share of the vote.
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It does not properly fit reality (the natural world), hence the need for the four-yearly correction.
Miscellaneous Maxine 2009
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This latest four-yearly restyling of England's one-day international team has centred around a number of small but significant judgment calls made by the England coach.
Andy Flower calls it right for England ahead of Indian summer 2011
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As gold medal favourites in a discipline that is locked into the defining four-yearly Olympic cycle, the forces of expectation will be at their most crushing for Watkins and Grainger.
Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins ready to put chemistry to the test 2011
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It does not properly fit reality (the natural world), hence the need for the four-yearly correction.
April fools' day arrives early Maxine 2008
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It does not properly fit reality (the natural world), hence the need for the four-yearly correction.
April fools' day arrives early Maxine 2008
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Bloopers aside, nothing matches football's four-yearly beano for globally consumed but still finely etched and oddly personal moments.
Rolling World Cup nostalgia is the only sporting show in town 2010
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It does not properly fit reality (the natural world), hence the need for the four-yearly correction.
February 2008 Maxine 2008
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Mascherano has, the Fiver is led to believe, been flirting openly with the rouged and powdered lovelies of Barcelona for some time, all the while maintaining a pretence that his relationship with Liverpool and Uncle Roy is just a few key salary details away from a four-yearly renewal of vows, to be undertaken in matching white bikinis near a waterfall on a Polynesian beach island.
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Presto! the insane four-yearly rush of cities/countries to bankrupt themselves by building white elephants will have been avoided.
Operation Beachhead 2008
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