Sentence examples for felt surplus from inspiring English sources

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She felt "surplus to requirements" throughout.

During the siege she felt "surplus to requirements" and "did not know what was going on".

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They now feel surplus to requirements, an unwanted legacy of empire.

Ofelia, not surprisingly, feels surplus to requirements, and she duly drifts off into the surrounding grounds, as though into sleep.

The player has come to feel surplus at Madrid and the club have already circulated his name to potential buyers.

So impressive are the first 14 pages of the story - all brooding build-up - that the hasty climax, with Madeleine Usher bursting out of her sepulchre, feels surplus to requirements.

Staff such as Atheef – in his roving role of villa butler – and Shamin (snorkeller, babysitter, football expert and purveyor of popcorn) are proud of their country, eager to help you to experience more of it and so good with the kids that I feel surplus to requirements.

It just also has a lot that feels surplus, leaving a feeling that it could've been better with less attention paid to some of those additional features, and more paid to graphics and story pacing.

Additionally, Somerset released Wes Durston and Omari Banks, both of whom they felt were surplus to requirements.

(4) Similarly, my eyes overflow when, because of the experience of beauty, I feel a surplus, larger than the body I inhabit.

The advert's creators clearly felt a head was surplus to requirements.

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