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  • So it is important to note that the support for the ISG recommendation gives a more precises picture of where people stand with respect to time periods between one year and two years.

    Gallup: 82% Want Troops Out Of Iraq Within Two Years 2009

  • Evangelique; ses instructions sont aussi sublimes qu'elles sont precises et pathetiques; il joint a ses grandes qualités un amour ardent pour les pauvres; il consomme annuellement les revenus d'un patrimoine majeur a de bonnes oeuvres dans les cours des Missions.

    Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes

  • Excellent precises (what's the plural of precis?).

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008

  • Pease Bay, The Breakers, Grand Cayman to be precises.

    Luxury Property Blog 2009

  • After taxonomizing the book as a “post†"September 11 novel, †Smith precises “a post-catastrophe novel but the catastrophe isn†™ t terror, it†™ s Realism. †This is a nice argumentative tack for the O†™ Neill, a book scrupulously aware of its effects, its engagement with what novels do and howâ€" but perhaps not, as Smith argues, as in command of that engagement as that awareness might first suggest. “Everything must be made literary, †Smith argues of O†™ Neill†™ s style, one she finds false.

    Harper's Magazine Wyatt Mason 2008

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