He was employed to make a fair copy of the lecturer's rough manuscript for the reading to the public.
I spent the following day in making a fair copy of my report and in having the plans done on a larger scale.
Intending that she should read his letter, he omitted it till he made the fair copy.
They look more like the rough draft than the fair copy.
This fair copy also shows signs of haste: slips of the pen, repetition of words, a number of unimportant revisions.
Examplesoffair copy
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Many canon autographs are in sketch or draft notation rather thanfaircopy.
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In thefaircopyeach of the six instruments has its own staff, with the staves arranged in the usual score order.
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The crucial question, therefore, is whether thefaircopyaccurately represents the contents of the record kept during sittings.
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We have, however, shown that it is afaircopyof a finished work.
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Formatting can simply involve saving files onto a disk, or could mean laboriously writing by hand afaircopyof a drafted score (and possibly score parts).
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In the lack of evidence to the contrary, it must be presumed that afaircopyof at least parts of the original score have been lost.
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However, is it not possible for those concerned to be provided with a "faircopy" to help them with their labours?
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The family still cannot see exactly what happened because we have not had afaircopyof some pages of the records.
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By devious methods he got a blank report which he filled in, and which he signed with afaircopyof his headmaster's signature.
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I have studied the two field slips produced from the area, one clearly prepared in the field and one afaircopytransposed subsequently.
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He made one or two corrections and then thought it necessary to make afaircopy.
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In each case several pages of thefaircopywere replaced with newly written ones.
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The fate of thefaircopyis unknown.
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They held an official chop, and stamped it on legal documents as proof that they had reviewed them and made fair copies of them.
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The book was folded from 12 sheets of paper which he bought at the end of the war in 1648 to write afaircopyof his notes.
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