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They were certainly less well paid.

Subsequent jolts over the next decade may have been less judiciously measured and were certainly less appreciated by many players.

"There were certainly less than a dozen deaths in the whole five years [from 2010 to 2015] when violence was the most intense," he added.

Those proper Victorian Philadelphians who stayed at the Engleside Hotel a century ago were certainly less boisterous and brusque than their summer New York neighbors -- a distinction that Mr. Panzone finds equally true today.

The Khitan, a seminomadic people devoted to horses, hunting, archery and falconry, whose peripatetic emperors ruled from portable tent-houses called yurts, were certainly less cultivated than the established Han.

They weren't completely comfortable, but they were certainly less panicked," he says.

But it is certainly less likely.

Colleges today are certainly less demanding.

They are certainly less fantastical.

(True, though falling off a cliff is certainly less likely).

They are certainly less painful than any reparations would be.