To return to an earlier example, my neighbor who is careless with his roof shingles may just be lucky.
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Published data on the incidence of shingles ranges between 1.3 and 4.8 per 1000 cases annually [2-5].
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From this database we have previously described gender differences in the incidence of chicken pox (no difference), shingles (small female excess) and herpes simplex (large female excess) [28].
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Gender-specific age-standardized incidence rates of shingles were calculated for each year and showed a consistent female excess in each of the 8 years (average annual excess 28 %).
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The house was sided with brown shingles.
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The possibility of gender bias in diagnostic error specifically attributable to the diagnosis of shingles and occurring systematically in every age group and year is remote.
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The incidence of shingles and its implications for vaccination policy.
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Seventy per cent of them had tuberculosis of the lungs; many had widespread scabies, shingles and there were several cases of malaria.
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However, in practice, fines have varied from only £200—for lime spreading—to £1,500, for extraction of sand and shingles.
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Have your foundations of concrete and your wooden buildings, and use perhaps shingles for roofing.
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My wife is presently suffering from shingles.
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Here, the referred sensation occurred in the areas previously affected by the shingles.
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The roofs have red tiles and the spire is shingled.
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The small permanent population of approximately seventy people subsisted on fishing and lumbering and the making of wooden shingles.
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Sided in clapboard, it is topped with a cross-gabled roof shingled in asphalt.
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asphalt shingle
Of course, the presentasphaltshingleroof is not original.
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cedar shingle
Its hipped roof of cedar shingles is partially concealed by parapet walls.
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shingle beach
The same is true of pebbles washed by the tide on a shingle beach, which never look so interesting once they have dried out.
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