Of the six tasks, ironing is most disliked: three-quarters of the sample report a negative attitude.
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The value of iron's output relative to national income 1780 - 1860 was only 2 per cent.
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I guess proper ironing techniques weren't included in the rent-a-cop's how-to manual.
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He permitted himself also to regularize the site boundaries, and despite having measured the uneven arcading of the gradually-built cloisters, ironed out all discrepancies.
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There is a penchant, almost, for resolving disputes by discussion, by sitting around a table and ironing out one's differences.
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One of the wrinkles still to be ironed out is the problem of names.
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In a work evidently aiming to be definitive such blemishes should be ironed out in subsequent editions.
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Once these have been ironed out this book will surely set the standard for some time into the future.
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Crinkles in clothes taken from bales are preserved, for example, because carefully washed and ironed clothes could equally well have come from a local grave.
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I prepared the dinner, got to do the washing in the washing machine and hang it up, and ironing and things.
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The two irons are tetrahedrally coordinated by inorganic sulfide ions and cysteine residues.
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Their once clear and sometimes angular outlines were more and more ironed out and obscured by roulades and other decorative patterns.
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In this way diaspora communities are able to subsume all their disparate histories within a single meta-narrative which irons out all the" wrinkles".
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One suspects, however, that the contributors would argue that 'connections' are entirely different, in which case the definitional ambiguities need ironing out.
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The emissary who alerted his brothers to a threat to their custom deserved two to six years in irons.
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Collocationswithiron
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amount of iron
Two-thirds of the totalamountofiron(4 g) is located within haemoglobin.
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banded iron
Microstructures in a banded iron formation the variations that took place in the conditions of deformation and hence the deformation processes.
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decorative iron
It has a hipped roof with dormers and features a piazza on three sides, with decorative iron supports.
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