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We have seen over the last handful of months, the shift where we are retailing a great deal of more occurrence than we're non-occurrence, which is also an indicator that it will probably get into where we need to be in terms of our inventory levels.
unknown title 2011
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We have seen over the last handful of months, the shift where we are retailing a great deal of more occurrence than we're non-occurrence, which is also an indicator that it will probably get into where we need to be in terms of our inventory levels.
unknown title 2011
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We expected the beach to lift up this way and that, and the rocky walls to swing back and forth like the sides of a ship; and when we braced ourselves, automatically, for these various expected movements, their non-occurrence quite overcame our equilibrium.
Chapter 28 2010
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Three hours later he chalked up the continued non-occurrence of the extraordinary events to the “Satanic flashbulbs” of the reporters who had shown up.
AT&T channels -- the devil? -- in explaining why net neutrality debate is over the top 2010
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It is that S pervades H iff H has “non-occurrence in the loci of absence of S”
Analytic Philosophy in Early Modern India Ganeri, Jonardon 2009
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| Reply | Permalink why did Matt Drudge continue to have a career post the non-occurrence of Y2K? has he been more correct about anything else since then? the guy is such an idiot.
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: ELIZABETH EDWARDS SLAMS MATT DRUDGE FOR PICKING ON NINE-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER!!! 2009
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If c and e are distinct actual events and X and Z are binary variables whose values represent the occurrence and non-occurrence of these events, then c is a cause of e if and only if there is an active causal route from X to Z in an appropriate causal model.
My Shasta Daisy 2009
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Hence one will attach far less importance to the attainment or the avoidance of any particular objects, or the occurrence or non-occurrence of any particular state of affairs, than one would if one thought that these things really did have some kind of positive or negative value; nothing will matter to one to anything like the same extent as it matters to most people.
Picnic 2009
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This would enable her to make much better use of non-occurrence as negative evidence.
Innateness and Language Cowie, Fiona 2008
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Nonetheless, the non-occurrence of a string, suitably interpreted in the light of other linguistic information, can constitute negative evidence and provide learners with reason to reject overgeneral grammars.
Innateness and Language Cowie, Fiona 2008
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