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But rivals could always rely on the Bavarians wasting a lot of their money on a fair number of South American duds (Bernardo!), one-hit league wonders with no genuine class (Hashemian!) and their not too infrequent hiring of managers who were either unsuitable, highly combustible or out of their depth.

Any decision to use one as a proxy for another would be based on a fair number of assumptions that are not yet well understood.

"The parties are still far apart on a fair number of issues," he said.

But when the number of customers takes on a fair number of zeroes, the technology must often be robust enough to take care of itself.

Before I turned out the light, I said to my wife, "You know, I've been on a fair number of hunting and fishing trips, but this has to be, hands down, the most unusual of all".

Based on a fair number of highly negative and unpopular, but on-the-money forecasts, Larson has demonstrated he's lightening fast on the economic trigger, not the kind of guy with whom an economic bull would want to tangle.

Over the last four decades, Harrison has carved out a stellar career on the margins of a fair number of literary forms.

As Charles L. Dodgson, he was the author of a fair number of books on mathematics, none of enduring importance, although Euclid and His Modern Rivals (1879) is of some historical interest.

That, in turn, might encourage them to stay in this eastern part of Croatia, rather than become refugees in Serbia proper.The hope, on both sides, was thus for a fair number of Serbs to be elected in polls in Eastern Slavonia on April 13th.

Arguably it is, inasmuch as Britain already has a long-established principle of taxing unearned capital gains, and inasmuch as Britain is home to a fair number of people sitting on a million quid's worth of wealth simply because they were adults in, say, 1965, and bought a house for, say, £15,000.

His first film as director, The Believer, takes Bean into murkier territory - the making of a fascist, a theme touched on in a fair number of movies and affording opportunities for virtuoso performances, Daniel Day Lewis, for instance, in My Beautiful Laundrette, Russell Crowe in Romper Stomper, Edward Norton in American History X.