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  • Fayyaz Hussain/Reuters A man sorted off-cuts of fabric that will be sold to textile factories before being recycled on Tuesday in the outskirts of Faisalabad, Pakistan.

    Asia in Pictures 2011

  • The upholstery of Nuance incorporates a subtle range of colours thanks to the careful workmanship involved in utilising fabric off-cuts.

    Casamania’s 2009 Salone del Mobile Preview 2009

  • These are off-cuts from the electronics industry - they make the printed circuit boards - these are the off-cuts, like a plastic kind of material, "he says," And there is the oil sludge materials, and municipal solid waste that has been composted.

    Indonesian Businesses Find Savings Through Emission Reduction Plans 2010

  • Hot from its premiere in Portugal, this collaboration between the British women's-led company Foursight and the Portuguese all-male Teatro Do Montemuro tells the story of Pertencia, who was abandoned outside a butcher's shop and learns to make do with off-cuts of dreams and discarded scraps of hope.

    This week's new theatre 2011

  • Using off-cuts of wood, Amy makes the most of what others might ignore or throw out, demonstrating an eco-conscience without losing her savvy.

    Patchwork Furniture from Recycled Wood Waste 2010

  • These are off-cuts from the electronics industry - they make the printed circuit boards - these are the off-cuts, like a plastic kind of material, "he says," And there is the oil sludge materials, and municipal solid waste that has been composted.

    Indonesian Businesses Find Savings Through Emission Reduction Plans 2010

  • Outside the church hall, a newly built rectangular construction of no architectural merit whatsoever, men and boys, like a stream of worker ants, were adding branches, off-cuts of wood, anything that could burn, to a dark tepee shape.

    A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010

  • Sitting around the fire, Joanne was deep in her worn womb of an armchair, the threadbare arms covered up with off-cuts of tartan, knitting.

    A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010

  • You sometimes see off-cuts being sold at a discount, giving bean soup a meaty depth while keeping its quality as a low-rent supper.

    Nigel Slater's bacon chops, cabbage and apple, and quinces with orange recipes Nigel Slater 2010

  • And Roy Hodgson has made what might be called an early statement signing: an Englishman; a creative, passing midfielder; and a player of proven quality rather than a rag-bag of promising off-cuts.

    Joe Cole has the talent and stage for a late-career flourish at Liverpool 2010

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