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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And history teachers could set their pupils researching the influenza pandemic of 1918, a grim but fascinating topic.
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Clearly it was just an accident of history, a fluke, a momentary incursion of an otherwise universal pandemic .
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It has backfired because those worst hit by the pandemic , black people, are paying the price.
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Jasper and I stopped playing in 1982, before the pandemic was well along, before the virus had been isolated.
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Nobody guessed that such a rare disease would become a pandemic .
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Not the real thing, of course, but rather a pandemic of stories about anarchists and conspiracies and such.
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One final, explosive question remains: Why did a virus that was once so rare suddenly burst into a global pandemic ?
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The intelligence estimate portrays the pandemic as the bad side of globalisation.