By its very nature this dictionary must be something of aluckydip, but it achieves a remarkable degree of diversity and coverage.
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An author search in most cases presents an interestingluckydip, rather than a comprehensive bibliography.
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But we are back to the fairgroundluckydip.
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It is aluckydipfor profiteering landlords.
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Therefore, hotels and restaurants around the country are unwittingly involved in a regulatoryluckydip as to which environmental health standards are applied.
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However, the grouping has made it into aluckydip.
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That is not tenants' choice; it is more like a landlords'luckydipat the expense of the local authority and the tenant.
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Sometimes it is aluckydip; but it came out to be a good dip this time—not only lucky but good.
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Increasingly, marriage would become a form of lottery; aluckydip.
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On the original proposal it was simply aluckydip.
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Indeed, it seems to he very much a question of engaging in a "luckydip" to see what you are going to get out of it.
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But it panders to one of the weaknesses in our society today; the desire for aluckydipand for gains which are unrelated to effort or work.
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We sometimes think of council tenants as being people who, as a result of some kind ofluckydip, get all the benefits of life at a very small rent.
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The further education provisions remind me of theluckydip, where one rummaged around in the sawdust and ended up with the suspicion that very little had been put in.
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By selecting seven numbers between 1 and 27, players could win anything from a freeluckydipto 30,000.
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