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Examples
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Many runners notice that they run with a faster leg turnover once they return to the roads after their tread-mill sessions.
Long May You Run Chris Cooper 2010
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The successful return to growth has, by and large, tended to reproduce the systemic socio-economic features of CST, making the well-intentioned delivery effort an unending tread-mill affair.
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I know you are skeptical, but let me ask you something: Have you, like millions of Americans, spent hours and hours per week on the tread-mill trying to lose weight?
Lange 2010 Jim Karas 2007
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If you have some walking buddies or friends you used to do the tread-mill with at the club, schedule a cup of coffee with them and explain that you are giving something else a try.
Lange 2010 Jim Karas 2007
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I know you are skeptical, but let me ask you something: Have you, like millions of Americans, spent hours and hours per week on the tread-mill trying to lose weight?
Lange 2010 Jim Karas 2007
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The successful return to growth has, by and large, tended to reproduce the systemic socio-economic features of CST, making the well-intentioned delivery effort an unending tread-mill affair.
CONTENTS 2007
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If you have some walking buddies or friends you used to do the tread-mill with at the club, schedule a cup of coffee with them and explain that you are giving something else a try.
Lange 2010 Jim Karas 2007
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To most men good success brings neither comfort, nor tranquillity, nor so much as a stool to sit upon, but comes as a tread-mill which must be trodden without any getting to the top of it.
Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004
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Pedestrianism may be all very well for those whose obesity requires much exercise, but for one who was becoming as thin as a lath, through the constant perspiration caused by marching day after day in the hot sun, the only good I saw in it was that it gave an honest sort of man a vivid idea of the tread-mill.
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And this would help him to understand why constructing artificial flowers or performing on a tread-mill is work, while rolling ten-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is only amusement.
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