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It was a lighthearted, insignificant jest, Lumpe thought, hardly a test or a ruse.
His placebo study, with Dr. Asbjorn Hrobjartsson, was done by hunting down trials that experts thought hardly existed: those with three patient groups, the treatment, a placebo and no treatment.
What a coward I am, I thought, hardly for the first or the last time in my life; but I took a few moments, hyperventilating, trying to regain control of myself, before I uncovered my ears and retraced my steps.
That thought hardly ever crosses my mind, but last night I wondered".
It was around this time that he expressed the thought, hardly exclusive to him, that in America "the newspapers make the country unfit for a gentleman to live in".
The analogy with thought hardly emphasizes the independence of substance!
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What foreign visitors think hardly matters.
"I don't think hardly anything good's happened this year, yet," Valentine said.
I mean he was completely, everything was crushed, I think, hardly recognisable.
For example, the following "Second, once cellular life is established, these gradients work on the cell cycle, bringing about cell cycle errors" is I think hardly a meaningful statement.
By real standards, I thought, we hardly existed.
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