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  • The Lévy-walk signatures and common waiting-time exponent μ ~2.1 found for the two signals are essentially a result of failure to eliminate the e ffects of trends found for the two signals are essentially a result of failure to eliminate the e ffects of trends.

    Never mind EliRabett 2009

  • The Lévy-walk signatures and common waiting-time exponent μ ~2.1 found for the two signals are essentially a result of failure to eliminate the e ffects of trends found for the two signals are essentially a result of failure to eliminate the e ffects of trends.

    Archive 2009-12-01 EliRabett 2009

  • A damning report to be released tomorrow by the Healthcare Commission will outline a catalogue of failings at a hospital trust blinded by a drive to save money and abide by Government waiting-time targets.

    Only in Gordon's Britain: Yet more socialist fuckwittery. FIDO The Dog 2009

  • Whenever anyone is on the move using mass transitlately there are almost always hours of waiting-time to check in.

    Childhood Unbound Ron Taffel 2009

  • Whenever anyone is on the move using mass transitlately there are almost always hours of waiting-time to check in.

    Childhood Unbound Ron Taffel 2009

  • To take one example, Sweden's national maximum waiting-time guarantee is called zero seven ninety and ninety, and it was introduced in 2005.

    Wait-Time Guarantees in Canada's Health System 2006

  • Tories: We will not scrap 26-week waiting-time target.

    Archive 2007-04-01 2007

  • According to the table the waiting-time for collision with such a monster was of the order of ten to the ninth days-say three million years.

    Breaking Strain Clarke, Arthur C. 1990

  • According to the table the waiting-time for collision with such a monster was of the order of ten to the ninth days'say three million years.

    Expedition to Earth Clarke, Arthur C. 1953

  • At last the weary waiting-time was over; the young subaltern stepped before the _guichet_ and, pointing to a handbill, demanded in a loud and dignified voice a ticket for next Monday's performance of "_KEINE VORSTELLUNG_!"

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 12, 1919 Various

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