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Although Holmes rebuffs praise, declaring his abilities to be "elementary," the oft-quoted phrase "Elementary, my dear Watson," never actually appears in Conan Doyle's writings.

The facts created by this import step can be understood as verb phrases which describe elementary actions of vehicles in image sequences of road traffic scenes.

I went through a brief phrase in late elementary school where I stopped watching television.

It strikes me as "elementary" (to steal the catch-phrase of a fellow London native — Sherlock Holmes — albeit a fictional one) that the renovation of existing windows is environmentally more sound than installing replacement windows, be they wood, aluminum or PVC.

But…are…you ready?" Next came a deluge of phrases better suited to an elementary school sex talk than a book (presumably) meant to get you off.

In a 1994 national survey, 1,500 adults were asked to "pick one word or phrase to describe your experience with history classes in elementary or high school". "Boring" was the most frequent answer.

At elementary school, the pupils, by using some aspects of the scientific approach, learn to phrase questions and suggest answers that are reasoned from observations, measurements, the processing of data, and the use of documents.

Nominally aimed at the elementary school crowd, it is also the work of animators pleasing themselves, pulling a phrase from Yeats here, nodding to "Peanuts" music there.

An elementary mistake, of course, because - as all Conan Doyle addicts will know - the phrase "elementary, my dear Watson" does not occur in the Sherlock Holmes canon.

Johnson responded by saying: "It is elementary my dear Watson, I deduce a simple case of BBC bias". An elementary mistake, of course, because - as all Conan Doyle addicts will know - the phrase "elementary, my dear Watson" does not occur in the Sherlock Holmes canon.

Elementary really.

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