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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But there are seven male to every one female tenured academic psychologist, and women heads of department are in single figures .
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By this, presumably, was meant the isolation of single figures in sequential positions like a Muybridge series in three dimensions.
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In the west of the province, there are no centrally placed and dominant single figures , or figured scenes.
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In two years it could well be down to single figures .
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Labour's opinion poll lead slipped into single figures as the worst effects of the poll tax wore off.
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Most commuters managed to get through but line speeds were reduced to single figures .
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She has pledged to reduce pay differentials to single figures within five years by making pay more transparent through annual surveys.
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The kilometre posts, which had indicated the distance from Moscow for the journey, now read single figures .