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how
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There is a sense of anticipatory disillusion among those who recall how the high hopes of 1986 were dashed.
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Schiff said he could not recall how the panel settled on the $ 300, 000 figure.
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Mr Cunningham was supporting Arsenal on that day, and vividly recalled how excited he became during the match.
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Colton recalled how the proponents took their idea to the state historical commission in 1987 and received approval for the marker.
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I can't even recall how I ended up with Derek - if that was his real name.
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With a sigh of relief he recalled how lucky he was on the night he disposed of the clothes in the skip.
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He stayed immobile, trying desperately to identify where he was and to recall how he had got there.
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I can look back with pride on recalling how well I had adapted myself to this trade, and all aspects involved.
still
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She sang Schubert's song Erlkonig in a way I can still recall .
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A quarter of a century later he still recalled the incident.
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Many Conservatives still recalled the disarray into which the Macmillan administration had plunged after its striking election victory in 1959.
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Williams said, still recalling his awe at being in the presence of star dancers like Truitte.
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I still recall the day John Kennedy died.
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This made a strong impression on Carter, who still recalled the results in his letter to me two decades later.
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Becky could still recall that first meeting clearly.
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See, I still recall your habits.
vividly
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I vividly recall attending a rehearsal in Salzburg at Whitsuntide 1977.
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She vividly recalled the flinch Philippe registered when she asked him what a severance package for Manion might cost.
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I have attended more debates on these matters than any other hon. Member and I vividly recall many of them.
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We've done this once or twice before, as I vividly recall .
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One moment which I recall vividly illuminates the problematic position in which I had placed myself.
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I vividly recall meeting the young man in 1979 for the first time.
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Mr Cunningham was supporting Arsenal on that day, and vividly recalled how excited he became during the match.
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The danger, the boredom, the ever-present discipline along with the exhilaration of aviation training are all vividly recalled .
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"I didn't like him very much," Kev recalled. "He was arrogant."
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a style of film-making that recalls Alfred Hitchcock
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As a child, she recalled, her parents had seemed very happy together.
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David recalled an incident that took place in the family home some 12 years previously.
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He didn't like to recall what a disaster his business venture had been.
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Howard sighed. He could not recall ever being this tired before.
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I recall that on at least one occasion I saw him taking money from the office.
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Over 10,000 of the faulty irons had to be recalled from store shelves.
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The company voluntarily recalled about 11,000 of the devices to check them for defects.
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The meeting went very well, as I recall .
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Thousands of car baby-seats have had to be recalled after a fault was discovered in the safety harness.
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About 30 ambassadors were recalled to Moscow to explain their conduct in the coup.
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All the same, it was difficult to recall the legend exactly.
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As he later recalled, it was a damp, cold day.
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For example, recall that in Euclidean geometry the sum of the angles of any triangle is always 1800.
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Opposition is seen as traumatic, a frightening situation because it recalls the violence of Mecca before the triumph of the One.
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She recalls few low points in the four years since going public and has never regretted that decision.
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The visitors recall medium pacer Martin Howie after completing a college course and Paul Johnson also returns.
II. noun
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■ ADJECTIVE
total
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Neville's total recall could not totally recall any.
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From the age of six onward, Vologsky had been able to apply almost total recall to figures of any sort.
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But I possessed that night an almost total recall of physical sensations.
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You could wake up tomorrow with total recall .
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Dinali has a brilliant mind, with almost total recall of what she has read.
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Even in old age, his powers of recall were astonishing.
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Families were overjoyed to hear about the recall of Allied seamen to their own countries.
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In advanced cases of the disease, there is a very rapid loss of recall and a decay of memory.
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They put a notice in the press ordering the recall of all the baby food that might have been contaminated.
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As Kennedy said throughout the recall campaign, water rates had to be increased to finance needed improvements in the system.
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Exhaustivity of indexing has some impact on recall and precision.
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In addition to simple rage over the hike in water bills, other issues fueled the recall movement.
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In the second section the recall results are reported and relationships between risk and recall are analysed.
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Our results pertain to a sample of 101 subjects, in many of whom the birth weight was obtained by maternal recall .
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That would be the fourth recall in five years.
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Thousands of dangerous Candy machines are still in use despite a recall by the manufacturers.