Dessert…and beyond: Despite the obvious weightiness of a Christmas blow out, it seems customary to follow up with more of the same and the indulgent siren call of a rich, moist fruity Christmas pudding is agonisingly tempting for a full stomach.
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Some increases seem almost customary, like ever-rising gas prices, while others, like a potential 25% hike on tap water, are more surprising.
While excitation wavelengths around 350 nm seem to be customary [ 3], the most important naturally occurring fluorophores, tryptophan, phenylalanine and tyrosine, absorb most efficiently at wavelengths considerably shorter than 355 nm [ 6, p. 3-17], [ 7, p. 65].
News journalists seem to suspend their customary skepticism when reporting football occasions.
They specified exactly what uniform was to be worn and even added, as seems to be customary on such occasions, "No garters.' Filtering through the usual channels, these orders reached not only the men at Harvard but the Waves at Radcliffe.
"Ross Allen got what seemed like his customary hat-trick, but people worked hard, I thought Angus Mackay worked very hard in central midfield.
But State of the State speeches, with their customary pomp and ceremony, seem somehow ill-suited for the software.
The few dance movements occur mostly on the peripheries of the main action and seem more coarsely shaped than is customary in Mr. Morris's work.
Oftentimes, these phrases, born out of years of customary exchange and tradition, seem to automatically slip off of our tongues without much thought.
