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... fact that ( = because ) and despite the fact that ( = although ) . The simple the fact that often is equally superfluous ( the fact that he was ill his illness ) . Here are some other chunks of dead wood , together with their simple ...
... fact that ( = because ) and despite the fact that ( = although ) . The simple the fact that often is equally superfluous ( the fact that he was ill his illness ) . Here are some other chunks of dead wood , together with their simple ...
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... facts about the day's happenings ; if we are reading a textbook on economics , we want facts , or at least well worked ... fact and the interpretive comment . Both may be valuable , but for different reasons . When we read imaginative ...
... facts about the day's happenings ; if we are reading a textbook on economics , we want facts , or at least well worked ... fact and the interpretive comment . Both may be valuable , but for different reasons . When we read imaginative ...
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... facts of life is beyond my compre- hension . Perhaps you need to be made aware of the fact that in the last few months the Gross National Product is running at a record annual rate of about $ 540 million , steel output itself is about ...
... facts of life is beyond my compre- hension . Perhaps you need to be made aware of the fact that in the last few months the Gross National Product is running at a record annual rate of about $ 540 million , steel output itself is about ...
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