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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And Lord Hodson was concerned primarily with the substantive merits and demerits of the Bill, not with its legal technicalities.
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We sort of kept this demerit scoreboard for the last eight years, until we ran out of space.
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With the particular merits and demerits of these proposals I am not here directly concerned.
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You get demerits if you miss a meeting or come late to dinner without calling beforehand.