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Delivering integration will, however, require a fairly abrupt gear-change on the part of a social care system that for the past three years has been concentrating on the task of giving personal budgets to those entitled to state funding.
How to personalise social and health care by integrating services 2011
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With their playhouse decisively torn down I imagined some hidden realm of forensic footballing insight might finally be accessible, a gear-change into deep thought, the opening of the footballing third eye.
Sky generation is beginning to miss Richard Keys and Andy Gray | Barney Ronay 2011
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"Once you do take the powerplay, if you are in and you're set, then it is a lot easier to make that gear-change and that's why we try to give the guys a bit of a chance to get in before they do take it."
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The automatic transmission shifts all by itself, obviating the need to manipulate a gear-change lever and clutch pedal.
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The automatic transmission shifts all by itself, obviating the need to manipulate a gear-change lever and clutch pedal.
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James Lovelock has simplified GCM sufficiently to argue cogently that there is strong evidence of positive feedbacks at work in the Earth system, and that a gear-change similar to that of the Eocene is in progress.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Once he's past there, he's within a gear-change of the Al - and he'll definitely outrun us there, all the way to Newcastle if need be.
Fleshmarket Close Rankin, Ian 2004
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And then how it felt like a real gear-change to be getting engaged and planning a wedding.
sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2003
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She shook herself free of the moment and made a visible gear-change back to a lighter approach.
Shattered Francis, Dick 2000
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Somewhere near at hand an engine coughed, and a car moved away with a roar and a shocking gear-change.
Madam Will You Talk Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1967
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