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• Once adults cotton on to them they stop using them.
• Four-poster and canopied beds should be avoided, or at least their heavy drapes should be replaced with lightweight muslin or cotton ones which can be washed at high temperatures to kill the mites.
• Vienna may now be second only to Paris as art-history capital of Europe, but city-breakers have yet to cotton on to the fact, and many of its stupendous exhibits are mercifully uncrowded.
• I figure I can raise twice as much cotton on that kind of land with a gangplow, because it's the best I ever saw.
• English divers are beginning to cotton on to the underwater delights of Ireland's Atlantic coast.
• And then you cotton on to the fact it's probably the weakest track on the new album, but still almost close to perfection.
• The only thing that surprises me is that it has taken advertisers so long to cotton on to the possibilities.
• These ‘young’ students cotton on straight away.
• Evvybody holped and, fast as dey picked all de cotton on one farm and et a big supper, dey hustled on to de next place whar plenty of cotton, white in de fields and liquor, and good barbecue, and sich lak kept 'em happy and hustlin '' most all night. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2
• Debt relief would barely make up for the fall in commodity prices such as coffee and cotton on which many developing nations' economies are reliant.