How To Use At the best In A Sentence
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NEWPORT, Wales — Phil Mickelson came to the defense of Rory McIlroy on Wednesday, calling him one of the classiest players in golf and his desire to play Tiger Woods is the goal of every player who wants to beat the best.
Phil Mickelson Addresses Tiger Woods Feud
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However this game can be tricky at the best of times and lo an behold the favourite was crowded out at this stage being put back to near last.
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he could beat the best of them
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At the best of times, science leaves me with a quizzical expression on my face and a less than articulate ‘eh?’
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Adrian is not what one would call a garrulous person at the best of times.
The Light of Scarthey
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But I've decided that there are some parts of the web community that I don't want to give up on, and that the best way I can contribute is to make the things that I'd want to see.
Kick Me - Anil Dash
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When someone seems, by any reasonable standard, so intent on braiding the rope, tying the knot, and hanging himself with it, it's easy to suppose that the best thing to do is to stand back so everyone can have an unimpaired view.
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Perhaps some feline bureaucrat has concluded that the best answer is to let the proposal stagger on and collapse, hoping to kill it with kindness?
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I have always thought that the best way to begin to accommodate to new circumstances is to learn to laugh in them.
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The Romans had the biggest and the grandest gladiator fights in the colosseums where one always beat the best.
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Web based tender system to source, award and manage the total procurement process. Leverages supply and demand, through reverse auction, ensuring that goods are bought at the best possible price.
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My old claim that it feels like I'm intruding on the lives of people - by asking them what the best and worst things about mobiles phones are, in this case - still holds true.
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It is high time that this fault be reformed for the future, that God's word, which is all gold, be not justled out to make room for men's sermons, which are but parcel-gilt at the best.
Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers.
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For them, a treetop is a seat at the best restaurant in town.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States
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But clear strategic guidance, Miss Marcel argues , goes hand - in - hand with operational autonomy at the best NOCs.
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He felt that the best way to go back to basics was to start teaching.
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We also hope to instill the idea that the best approach for bettering our news media are partnerships among practitioners, news scholars and the news media centers across the country.
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He flashed them a smile and I decided that the best way to handle the situation was a dramatic exit.
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It is happening at the best of restaurants in town, a fusion of the cuisine of the West and East to delight the adventurous gourmets.
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There is another group who think that the best solution is to do away with all these pensions and let those people fend for themselves.
The Good Fight
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The main advantage is that the best stallion for your mare can be used irrespective of location.
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Someone has cannily spotted this unquenched desire, and decided that the best solution would be to create Girl Heaven, a fairytale palace stacked to the rafters with pink and shiny trinkets.
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People guess that the best bet for antedatings is probably old magazines.
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However, you get a real sense that the best days are now dawning for the Institute and - as a result - for the region that it is such a key part of.
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That said, other scenes have the vigour and messy vitality that the best Russian cinema seems to be able to capture so well at the moment.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gruesome and downright unhygienic as the use of such objects now seems, it may be surmised that in the twenty-first century it will be thought equally unpleasant that the best wigs and toupees of the 1960s were made of human hair.
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We are told that the best way of doing this is to wring its neck.
The Sun
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I'm a slow reader at the best of times but I managed to read this in a oner.
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When you demo a game over and over again, you start to get a strong sense for what the best parts of your game are, what's really exciting people, and what's not working yet.
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With its directives on the correct shape of fruit, production quotas, wine lakes and butter mountains the EU is baffling at the best of times.
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The problem is that the best economic outcome is likely to be undeliverable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Seriously, folks, I was beside myself with nerves, and I ain't a stranger to a cuss at the best of times.
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There is so much waste and mismanagement in government that the best way to balance the books is by economizing, streamlining, and cutting out the waste and spending the money you have more wisely.
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But he emphasised: 'I would like that the best people in the world would behave beautifully because what about the other millions of coaches?
Times, Sunday Times
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I decided that the best remedy for this sensory overload was getting out there to explore this amazing city.
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The company also uses their extensive R&D capabilities, as well as their national presence, to bring you the best, proprietary products and equipment at the best prices.
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I think I see you -- for I try to see you in the flesh as I write these sentences -- I think I see you leap at the word pigsty, a hyperbolical expression at the best.
Father Damien, an Open Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hyde of Honolulu
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I just kept the glider at less than 40 mph for the first six miles just to keep the needle at the best glide over the ground speed as I knew I was close to not making it.
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It is best to shop around to obtain tickets at the best possible price.
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This shows, for example, that the best plants can be up to six times more productive than the worst.
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When I arrive, I pitch my tent at the best of the 30 secluded spots: a little clearing by a bend in bubbling Long Creek hidden behind a grove of hemlocks and poplars - and a five-minute walk through the woods to the restaurant and lodge.
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The fact of the matter is that the best batters and outfielders will come from India, even from the non-Test playing First Class cricket pool.
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This is about units in the normal market, which are regarded by many as a crook investment at the best of times.
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Even at the best of times, Nicholls is hardly a model of laid-back insouciance.
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Liu believes that the best way to win the battle is to devise fool-proof detection systems to catch all employees with counterfeit certificates so that the forgers would be forced to stop their operations.
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Rising living standards and well-being are ambiguously related at the best of times, and not simply for ecological reasons.
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The heat this year won't have helped, not least because this is a hot and very crowded run at the best of times, with no escaping the sun or the other runners, who bunch up around you.
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At the end of the set the man playing the saxophone took up the microphone and, in an Irish accent, explained that the best part of the evening was ahead, in fact was about to start now, since they were going to play some cil tunes as they had the previous weeks.
Brooklyn
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Mike also wrote that the best way to describe what the Kidd did is that he "tattled" on Mike Woodson - Kidd pointed out to the refs that Woodson was doing something illegal.
SLAM Online
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Antennas with high gain, selective patterns and high efficiency can assure that networks are reliable and perform at the best.
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I would have to say that the best moment of any cricket match for me is the very first; the stately procession to the middle of the two umpires.
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It takes a lot of work and dedication to make this kind of thing happen, and so in some senses that 85% that they retain is a bet that the best ideas that come in will actually be lucrative enough to offset their efforts in organizing the contest.
American Idol for apps launches | FactoryCity
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Contracts would be awarded to those who offer efficient services at the best price.
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Ankit Fadia, the teenaged computer security expert, says that the best passwords are the ones that use both upper case and lower case letters, besides numerals and symbols.
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Keep the movie's file size down - Waiting for long downloads is painful at the best of times.
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Living off the land was hard enough at the best of times.
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One is at times reminded of Belloc's remark to the effect that the best proof of the divine foundation and support of the Church is that no institution run with such knavish imbecility could otherwise survive.
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He's got a dodgy immune system at the best of times.
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Being a good banking supervisor is not easy at the best of times.
The Times Literary Supplement
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He realises that the best pictures need subtlety and depth as well as all that furious foreground action.
Times, Sunday Times
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I have little enthusiasm for soft drinks at the best of times; much less when they're shamelessly overpriced.
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Deledda thought that the best Christmas gift she ever got was a moufflon, the shorthaired grayish-brown or russet wild sheep native to Sardinia and Corsica.
Grazia Deledda: Voice of Sardinia
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This game was played in horrid conditions and the stiff breeze that blew from one corner flag to the other made point taking arduous even at the best of times.
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I have found that the best way to put together completely surreal, futurist combinations of clothes is to go shopping at a Salvation Army or other thrift store in your local gay district, where they will have the best clothes, natch.
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It is true that I judge those Princes unfelicitous who, to assure their state when the multitude is hostile, have to take extraordinary means; for he who has only a few enemies can easily and without great scandals make sure of them, but he who has the general public hostile to him can never make sure of them, and the more cruelty he uses, so much more weak becomes his Principate; so that the best remedy he has is to seek to make the People friendly.
Discourses
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Your love gives me the feeling that the best is still ahead.
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By the time I had added an ordinary typewriter table to its scanty furnishing, I was hard put to turn around; at the best, I managed to navigate it by a sort of vermicular progression requiring great dexterity and presence of mind.
MY LODGING AND SOME OTHERS
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I didn't honestly think this was going to happen in my first term at the best university in Canada.
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The philosophy behind this is that the best way to find fun is by stumbling ass-backwards into it, and what better way is there to stumble than drunkenly?
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Never mind that the best conservative authorities have shown that their data is all fudged from the same broken thermometer stuck in some prof's window at Berkeley; if you show them the real data which shows that we're actually going into an ice age, they just change terminology and start babbling about "climate change"!
Global warming news
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The really dispiriting part of this whole show is that the best work, Third Eye, was unsold when we visited.
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Now that fish is the new meat at the best barbecues in town, the curly question is what to serve with it.
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So much is this the case that the best emeralds exceed diamonds of comparable size in value.
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I'd argue that the best leaders are capable of moving frictionlessly from one mode of operation to the other.
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Airports are hellish enough places at the best of times.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even at the best of times fighting in the ranks can cause disarray and confusion in the army.
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My hair is slightly curly and looks a mess at the best of times, so no-one has noticed the difference.
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But perhaps the most bitter and disturbing irony is that the best surf tends to arrive during the winter.
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As often as not I went along, for after thirty years of travelling rough I didn't mind being wafted about in style, from steamer stateroom to hotel Pullman, and stopping at the best pubs on the way; another reason was that I didn't trust the little trollop an inch, for Elspeth at fifty was every bit as beddable as she'd been at sixteen, and had lost none of her ardour.
Isabelle
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Apparently some basic rule of physics about hot air rising has the consequence that the best time to go ballooning is a winter morning, when it's really cold.
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That is the direction in which things seem headed once more, as with just a few weeks to go before selection of the team for Down Under, no one could say with certainty that the best squad will be selected.
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Pharmacy programs are also encouraged to evaluate these practices to assure that the best candidates are entering the pharmacy profession.
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Mutlu Kilim knows that the best kilim rugs are crafted in the weavers 'comforting home environment.
Claudiopolis: Legendary History Weaved Into Nature of Mut
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Mr. Nair recommends that the best possible remedy to check sand mining is to regulate construction activities.
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Our relationship was stormy at the best of times.
The Sun
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In a knowledge economy, many leaders believe the best way to succeed is to have the best people -- and that the best way to get them is to hire them away from competitors.
Paying top dollar to snag a star performer? Big mistake
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There is shore fishing all year round, but if you want a chance at the best fish, think of going in late Autumn and right into the depths of winter.
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Learning that my trade was that of a calker, he promptly decided that the best place for me was in New Bedford, Mass.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue
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It proved that the best successive generation of callus culture of the Chinese Date was 30 - 35 days.
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He weaves his way in and out of my legs before deciding that the best place to settle down is underneath me.
The Sun
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Everybody is going away to think about what the best way is to manoeuvre the cross into position.
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It is simply not true that the best thing to do is always to act first and think later.
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They were carefully overseen by skilled stockmen who knew that the best management for these magnificent creatures was to ensure that they had the space and freedom to utilize the land to their own advantage.
Andrew Gunther: Putting Bison on Feedlots: Unnatural, Unnecessary, Unsafe
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Some say its because the White House message machine drones on 24/7 that the best way to fight the war on terror is to be in Iraq, fight them there, rather than here.
Printing: Rethinking the Democratic Agenda
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The algorithm can not only build probabilistic model to guide the individuals to evolve, but also carry out parameter optimization, aiming at the best individuals.
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He argues that the best way to deal the immigration problem is a guest worker program.
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In it she plays Kat, a woman who discovers that the best man at her sister's wedding is an old boyfriend and, rather than arrive without a man, hires a male escort to be her date.
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Villeneuve is a fine driver when he is in the mood, perhaps as good as anyone in Formula One bar the sainted Schumacher, but he is a difficult man to motivate at the best of times and his mood is foul for the moment.
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I fear I ply my battledore so fiercely that the best of shuttlecocks has not time to right itself between the blows; but I will be steadier.
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Today it's a given that the best wines in Burgundy and elsewhere are estate-bottled, that is, produced by the people who grow the grapes, but through the 1920s most of the grapes grown in Burgundy were sold to négotiants who vinified and bottled the finished wine, frequently blending them with heartier wines from the sunny Rhône valley and elsewhere.
The Childhood Chums Keeping Volnay a Delight
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The corporate-governance lobby reckons that the best way to bring this about is to boost the powers of non-executive directors.
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It is now clear that the best soldiers are the best warriors but not necessarily the best peacekeepers.
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It depresses me that the best way to show that you're edgy in comics is to kill a loved secondary character, rape a main female character, or stuff a female girlfriend's dead body into a refrigerator.
Randomage Agayne: Dead Celebrities, Dead Celebrities II, Dead Superheroes
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It says that the best way to remove a cinder from your eye is to place under your eyelid the eyeball of a lobster.
Gene's true calling ... is calling
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It is not always that the best laid plans succeed without a hitch, but the fortune of war was on this occasion entirely kind to the British cause, and the bold game played by subadar
The Story of the Guides
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Not only that, but her voice - a bit raspy at the best of times - sounds downright ragged and weary here.
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I suffer from acute vertigo and my balance at the best of times is like everybody else's after three pints.
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However it is on the byroads of lateral thinking that the best revelations are made, where practical knowledge meets the vivid imagination.
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Ice and snow coated everything, in the month of December in Eclaver, and wind gusts reached up to forty miles an hour, at the best of times.
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This inevitably led to discussions of the major arcana, and the realization that the best implementation would likely be an existing kid's alphabet set.
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Upon legal matters, public ceremonies, fetes of different times, there was also silence at the best, the same laconism; and when we come to the affairs of Rome and of the League, it is a pleasure to see the author glide over that dangerous ice on his Jesuit skates!
Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
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Flying is nerve-wracking at the best of times, and it only takes one stupid and irresponsible person to turn a holiday flight into an airborne nightmare.
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An effective way to do this is to make them think about the future and to remind them that the best way to redirect the future is to take some type of action.
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A turgid style of rugby will beat lesser teams, but it won't beat the best four or five.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whenever he's out of nick he fidgets and loses balance, and his feet, minimal movers at the best of times, become rooted to the crease.
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It’s pretty universally accepted wisdom that the best way to find a builder, plumber or other tradesperson is to get a personal recommendation, but that’s not much help if no-one you know has employed a tiler recently.
WhoCanDo Lets Tradies Bid To Work On Your Renovations | Lifehacker Australia
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A turgid style of rugby will beat lesser teams, but it won't beat the best four or five.
Times, Sunday Times
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Never mind that the Best and the Brightest are chiefly remembered for their contribution to Vietnam (damn liberal pacifists!), this sort of stuff is just hatstand bananas.
Does Obama Like Tyrants More Than He Hates America?
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Many of them are mothers who decide that the best way to juggle motherhood with a rewarding career is to be their own boss.
Times, Sunday Times
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Surely it wouldn't have taken much savvy to have realised that the best way to experience the essence of her work was to show a recording of perhaps four performances in a darkened room?
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At the best inn, called ambitiously Hughes's Hotel, I found that I was considered fortunate in getting any sort of bedroom to myself.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
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I've read many times since that the best way to cook live prawns is to boil them in heavily salted water or, better still, seawater.
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Experience has shown us that the best way to sustain partnership is to contribute small amounts of money on a regular basis.
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If I'm looking at the best time to plow my field, I want an earth sign rising.
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When the team's firing on all cylinders, they can beat the best in the league.
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A once multilingual population is on the way to becoming monolingual or at the best bilingual.
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But he never found out about what the best option to call during a toss is.
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As always my Zeroth law is that the best policy is no policy.
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I do not know any man whose future character could so well be prophesied from the past as GS. whatever virtues, whatever abilities he possessed, would dilate & his foibles which instead of darkening the brighter parts of the picture served only to make the pleasant xxxx them more visible by a little shade. a thousand little incidents were recalled to remembrance by his name, & if at first melancholy — as reminding me of many friends now scattered wide “By many fates” [3] — I delighted in the thought that the best part of the flock will soon be gathered together again.
Letter 162
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The enthusiasts for revolutionary methods overlook the truth of the adage that the best is often the enemy of the good.
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It soon became clear that the best mineral from which to measure this ratio was zircon, because zircon excludes almost all initial lead when it crystallises.
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Supply chain management is a demanding role at the best of times, let alone when there is an ash cloud to contend with.
Computing
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An unreliable boyfriend at the best of times, Shaun persistently exasperates Liz by insisting they spend all their waking hours in the Winchester Arms, their local boozer.
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Let me explain!" said Donal: "what could necromancy, which is one of the branches of magic, do for one at the best?
Donal Grant, by George MacDonald
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The spaetzle - Austrian pasta - always reminds you that the best things about Austrian food they nicked from the Italians.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is a city prone to paranoia at the best of times, as personified by that quintessential New Yorker, Woody Allen.
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It now occurs to me that the best analogy for Google hits as a measurement term is not hertz or joules or pascals, but degrees Celsius.
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As a consequentialist, how does he feel about the argument that the best way to bring about a better society from a utilitarian point of view is not to advance complex utilitarian arguments but to appeal to more simple concepts?
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Cynics say the sudden revival in private investors' interest in equities is also a sign that the best is over.
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There may be implicit confirmation here that the best lawyers rarely have tidy rooms (a claim made mainly by lawyers with untidy rooms ).
Times, Sunday Times
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Psychologists say that the best thing for a rager to do is to calm down.
Get Out of My Way, You Jerk!
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Additionally, it is well known that the best cosmetic result after breast conservation therapy occurs after only a single excisional biopsy is performed.
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Bears that exit with a profit cause a flat open interest in a downtrend, meaning that the best gains from the downtrend have probably already been had.
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Picture quality assessment on the resulting broadcast images is an essential task, to ensure that the best use is being made of the available channel bandwidth.
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The directors have decided that the best way to describe Craig's psychological malaise is through a series of "daydream" sequences, and each one is more painful than the last.
Cinematical
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We Scots are not, at the best of times, over-endowed with a sunny disposition and a happy-go-lucky attitude to life.
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I would have to say that the best moment of any cricket match for me is the very first; the stately procession to the middle of the two umpires.
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We indeed willingly concede, if any discussion arises over doctrine, that the best and surest remedy is for a synod of true bishops to be convened, where the doctrine at issue may be examined.
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And it turned out that the best way to counteract the effects of not eating by day was to go on a diet by night.
Times, Sunday Times
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He reestablished the Polish language in the schools and churches of Posen, that is of Prussian-Poland, nominated a Polish ecclesiastic to the archbishopric of that province, and conferred so many court dignities, government offices, and decorations upon the compatriots of the fair Jenny, as to give rise to the remark that the best road to imperial preferment at Berlin was to add the Polish and feminine termination of “ska” to one's name.
The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe
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I have found that the best poses for sacroiliac pain are twists and asymmetrical forward bends, both of which help to diminish the torque through the joint.
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Researcher Paul Ekman, author of Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics and Marriage, contends that the best lie detectors are trained eyes and ears.
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Those companies will know that the best way to relate to customers is as human beings, not as abstract populations to attack, control, capture and herd like dumb beasts.
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Some one might want to pull him aside and point out that the best antidote would be a 75 percent free-throw percentage.
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The cockies are a curmudgeonly lot at the best of times.
Milk Scandal Spoils
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Buying fine single domaine-bottled burgundy is a minefield at the best of times.
Times, Sunday Times
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Obviously, the purpose is to ensure that the best possible pensions arrangements are reached.
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Or is the evidence and environment so befogged with uncertainty that the best analysts can offer the National Security Council is a 0.3 level of confidence?
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The graphics are dull and muddy at the best of times.
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A student whom I tutor is reading Fahrenheit 451, and reading it with him has made me wonder what the best dystopian literature for young adult and youth readers is.
New Notes, Back to School edition
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Getting hit by somebody wearing a knuckle duster is going to hurt at the best of times, so I dread to think what one that packs a 950,000 volt punch will feel like.
Knuckle Blaster Stun Gun | Impact Lab
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Finding a bird and Making a difficult retrieve is what the best dogs do as a matter of course, and it occurs as a matter of course and is unworthy of comment.
Five Good Small-Breed Bird Hunting Dogs
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That is partly true, but I think that the best-seller list tends to be larded with ideological hackery, which is a less uplifting market.
Economic Elitism Thought Experiment, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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A turgid style of rugby will beat lesser teams, but it won't beat the best four or five.
Times, Sunday Times
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So it's a good time to take a fresh look at the best-selling business magazine in the world.
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(note: I have no idea if I'm using the term appropriately) and and realize that the best I can do, all I can do, is to give each day my best effort, to give all of myself, and that all other factors are out of my control.?
Baltiblogs
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And therefore wee are to understande that Phillippe rather governeth in the West Indies by opinion, then by mighte; ffor the small manred of Spaine, of itself being alwayes at the best slenderly peopled, was never able to rule so many regions, or to kepe in subjection such worldes of people as be there, were it not for the error of the Indian people, that thincke he is that he is not, and that doe ymagine that Phillippe hath a thousande Spaniardes for every single naturall subjecte that he hath there.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II.
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And Suzy wasn't the tidiest of persons at the best of times.
TOY SHOP
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It was decided that the best way forward was through the separation of religious belief from political power, dispensing with the age old over-reliance on tradition, the past and religious orthodoxy.
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He's a generous, unselfish actor at the best of times and here, at the worst of times, he does not appear to mind having his scenes stolen by a rabbit and a bird.
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We decided that the best way to see if any editing wizardry was taking place on these shows was to record segments of the live taping and compare those to the edited versions America saw on the air.
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Everybody knows that the best universities, law firms, hospitals, investment banks, and the State Department used to be run by preppies whose main virtue was fortunate birth, and are now open to one and all on the basis of merit.
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For many operations, especially full-tree systems with gang slashers, this can be tricky at the best of times.
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But then our Johann isn't so hot on the maths, even at the best of times.
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It loses sight of the fact that the best books – the books that last – are born of necessity, not just of the need to fill a gap in the market and give us an easeful few hours.
Great literature will live on with or without a prize | Observer editorial
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Rising living standards and well-being are ambiguously related at the best of times, and not simply for ecological reasons.
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They will soon realize that the best way to regain dignity is to call us what we are — an army of occupation — and force our withdrawal.
The Progressives’ Static World
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Association board members disagree on what the best course is.
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Teach people that the best way to prosper is to help themselves not by hand outs.
New RNC radio spots hit Blue Dog Dems
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We make it easy to choose the best demilune table at the best price.
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Around the world a new generation of innovators and entrepreneurs is transforming healthcare for patients and defining global standards of what the best care looks like.
Times, Sunday Times
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You have to go out and recruit at the best universities.
Times, Sunday Times
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Leaders and media observers repeated the nostrum that the best way for the country to respond to such a foul crime is to return to normal and signal that the nation's spirit and resolve cannot be undermined.
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A trade war would be bad at the best of times, but in the current economic climate, it would be a disaster.
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That said, other scenes have the vigour and messy vitality that the best Russian cinema seems to be able to capture so well at the moment.
Times, Sunday Times
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Getting married can be stressful at the best of times, but the couple in this light-hearted comedy have more problems than most.
The Sun
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We carry a vast collection of tassels, curtain tie-back tassel, beaded fringe, bullion fringe, chainette fringe, tassel fringe, chair tie tassels, jacquard ribbon, lace, beaded appliqués and many more at the best possible prices.
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To eat the best food obtainable, and a great deal of it; to wear the heaviest silks, and the softest cashmeres; and to sleep in the downiest of beds; these were to her the necessities of life.
The Diamond Coterie
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Literal-minded fundamentalists love to call terroir the soil and climate of a specific vineyard, but in truth it's about husbandry, about sensitivity to place and its careful management so that the best of things can be delivered of it.
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It's crowded at the best of times but today it was unbearable.
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If not, are you folks really not aware that most of the space-related parts of Blogistan are inhabited by people totally convinced that the best cure for the nation's aerospace ills is to complete the task so well begun by immediately laying off 90% of the NASA employees who have so far evaded firing, layoffs, and RIFFs?
NASA Workforce Issues - The Crisis is Here - NASA Watch
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Actors were high-strung at the best of times, but with the pressure of performance couples frequently fought, tearing the cast apart.
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Many dislike its dry style and assertive acidity, others the cabbagey, cheesy flavours that the best examples develop with age.
Times, Sunday Times
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He weaves his way in and out of my legs before deciding that the best place to settle down is underneath me.
The Sun
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For his heroism consists largely in this, that his efforts to outjest his master's injuries are the efforts of a being to whom a responsible and consistent course of action, nay even a responsible use of language, is at the best of times difficult, and from whom it is never at the best of times expected.
Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
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It seems to me that the best approach is to see that all of the approaches are reflections/manifestations of an underlying fundamental, and to use a more “constellatory” way of thinking that tries to survey the whole scene and to discern in a more profound way what is going on.
Ferson et al. on Interactions between Data Mining and Spurious Regression « Climate Audit
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Antennas with high gain, selective patterns and high efficiency can assure that networks are reliable and perform at the best.
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Do the powers at be at the Pentagon truly believe that the best way to get your message out to the world is to dress it up in localized faux news portals?
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A slow starter at the best of times, he kept missing good-length balls from the mighty Murtagh and Sampson.
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Moreover, by analyzing statements of some leading contemporary scholars who support social constructivism about race, I hope to demonstrate that their eliminativist views are actually in conflict with what the best contemporary science tells us about human genetic variation.
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