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It may be our lot to experience, and in large measure to bring about, a major turning point in the long history of the human race.
They're in a setting of an oriental harem, in a large oval room with divans and a lot of cushions around the walls.
Lot coverage is that portion of a zoning lot which, when viewed from above, is covered by a building.
It provides a whole lot less information than you might originally think.
But businesspeople nevertheless have a lot to learn by taking the arts more seriously.
Still, his axiom covers a lot of territory on the human condition, including our somewhat smelly natures.
Tiny beachfront lot accommodates plenty of outdoor living.
We've all had that feeling of coming out the parking lot to discover someone's bashed your bumper or dinged your door.
They aren't worth a whole lot of points, but the points add up over the term.
Most other countries have a lot of catching up to do.
In the beginning there was a lot of speculation about what happened.
And lo and behold they are finding a lot more infections than anybody realized were there, and that is likely to continue.
Turns out it's a lot more fun to go to the beach in an area where it really is summer.
Naturalists know a lot about local wildlife, plants, and ecosystems.
Energy efficient light bulbs are cool already, but they are getting a whole lot cooler.
The veterinarians that do the clinical care get a lot of interaction with the keepers, who are really our eyes and ears.
Lumps may need a lot of elbow grease and a good whisk, but they can be banished.
If you're looking for something that requires building databases, though, it's a lot more complex--goon.
The other thing is that there's a lot of illegal downloading.
Roofs collect a lot of nitrogen from contaminants in the air.
The capacitive stylus has turned out to be surprisingly useful for a lot of things, but up until now it was never a flirting tool.
There are a lot of grad student-centered conferences out there that focus on professional development for grad.
Cities attract the poor with the promise of a better lot than the countryside offers.
The tiny primitive plants can produce a lot of oil in a little space.
No, a gentle giant, a placid consumer of tiny prey that spends a lot of time basking at the surface.
People have a lot of information about themselves but staying objective is difficult.
Things will get a whole lot worse between now and the end of this decade.
Bodies found in bogs can teach us a lot about ancient civilizations-including grooming habits from long ago.
The easy swirl of ginger butter at the end adds a bit of flavor and a lot of style.
If they have to spend a lot of time looking for it, you know you need to change something.
One factor that does not seem to be a prerequisite to success for a national oil company is having a lot of oil.
Scientists can learn a lot by studying the remains of sunken ships.
As a science reporter, you've covered a lot of violent weather phenomena.
Accept that if you want to be really good at something, you will need to do a lot of work.
These herbs are food-stuff, and with the proper foods, you can prevent a lot of pain and illnesses.
Outside in the parking lot the tender, removed earlier today, waits on a truck.
They all ended up having a lot of fun with it even though she was upset at first.
If you buy at the right time, you could pay a lot less than other people on the same flight.
Not all whales get a lot of herring, but scientists aren't sure why some get more than others.
The marble-in-a-cage valve took up a lot of space, pressing on other body parts, so valve-makers sought a flatter design.
Then it got debunked, and there was a lot of discussion about mangroves not building land.
The memories will make you a heck of a lot happier than, say, a new wing chair.
The problem with oscilloscopes is that they cost a lot of money.
The rebels are a shoddy lot who are likely, if they get into power, to be no nicer than what went before.
Roasted garlic, tangy buttermilk, and chicken stock pack a lot of flavor into these low-fat mashed potatoes.
Electric vehicles are getting a lot of attention lately, but internal combustion isn't going away anytime soon.
When the line is near the peak, a lot of currencies are outperforming the yen, indicating that investors are feeling confident.
That's a lot of mutations in a lot of generations of a lot of species in a lot of differing environments.
One culprit is overfishing, which wipes out a lot of herbivores.
House prices may be sticky but they have fallen a lot--maybe not enough--but they have fallen a lot more than have wages.
The idea was to point out that a lot of people were finding spurious correlations in meaningless data.
We hear kids aren't cheap, and they stay that way, so she didn't want to spend a lot.
In our area, cost is about the same as the price of a parking-lot tree.
There's a whole lot of fresh honeysuckle and juicy apricot nectar for your money in this well-balanced wine.
Not to mention that you have to weed around those things and end up getting poked a lot, too.
The darker side of his picture of the human lot may be read in his criticism of the poor law.
So even if it has twice that many in distribution, that is a lot of e-book buying by a small number of people.
It takes a lot of them, armed with sticks and comically inept, to catch and subdue one possibly sick dog.
And then there are those who maintain that, possibly, things are about to get a whole lot worse.
Populations can rise while fertility declines because of inertia, which matters a lot in demography.
The government both raises a lot of tax revenue from housing and spends a lot on tax exemptions, reliefs and subsidies.
The presidential debates, which will start next month, usually sway a lot of voters.
There are a lot more affluent persons than in the top one percent.
To a lot of environmentalists, the priority is to get nuclear power out of those discussions once and for all.
It takes two much know-how that is not easy to find and it takes a lot of work.
Every day hundreds of individual companies may rise or fall by a little or a lot.
The government's reaction showed a lot of nervousness about how much opposition it can tolerate.
So a lot rides on what is driving the divergence, and whether it lasts.
There's a good reason for that: the mobile web has been getting a lot easier to use.
Unfortunately, though the task is smaller, there are several reasons why it could be a lot harder.
Perhaps the biggest of the lot is whether the industry has become too big for the good of the economy.
Alas, history suggests they have been a lot cheaper.
The real problem for the leadership is that, in some ways, the lot of the rural poor has got worse.
People think of you predominantly as an actor, but you've done a lot of other things.
It's still a lot of fun for me to be an entertainer.
As you say, she was so prolific and her works garnered a lot of attention.
Brains are expensive-it takes a lot of energy to build brains during fetal and childhood development and maintain them in adults.
And she wants to make his future secure, so she is trying to make a lot of money.
One has to figure out a clever way to do this without using a lot of energy.
Turns out there's a lot of chemistry to consider when making meringue.
Actually, a lot of innovative things are happening with sound these days.
With so much personal information now in play, a lot of people are nervous about who owns it and what they'll do with it.
For a lot of family members without access to working projectors, this is a great opportunity to see what's in their collection.
It's easy but fun and doesn't require a lot of work.
The researchers admit that their humor program still needs a lot of work.
Predictably, there will be a lot of palaver about whether this is the right way to do science or medicine, but it won't matter.
And these organisms are a lot easier to study than people: they breed faster, and their genes are easy to manipulate.
Such devices can produce a lot of electricity on a bright sunny day.
Using purely chemical systems would also take a lot of energy, which early extraterrestrial outposts will likely lack.
Whether or not a car is faster really depends a lot on where you live.
Today expectant parents concerned about the diseases that could afflict their unborn children don't have a lot of options.
If so for either, it would seem to make learning to fly a lot easier.
Scientists can learn a lot by using imaging equipment and by making other observations.
With good circulation in the brain, you can eliminate a lot of pain throughout the body.
Geothermal is the answer, although there is a lot of work still to be done.
Ice ages do not occur regularly as clockwork, there is a lot of variety in the occurrence of ice ages.
Quite a lot is semi-arid, and only suitable for extensive livestock grazing.
In doing so, they can reveal a lot about our sense of self.
There was a lot of support from all the people at the laboratory.
Once you've lived without the stuff for a few months and enjoyed living with less clutter, it's a lot easier to get rid of it.
May is not all that far away, and a lot of us want to get a lot of things done in these next few weeks.
Their life is complete without a lot of busy-ness and activity.
They might need a lot of remedial courses en route to a job, but they may have relatively few scheduling concerns.
They probably have a lot of objectives mixed in with the vision.
So, you do a lot for short bursts, then get lots of time completely off where you can go away.
Your comments on others' questions have already given me a lot of insight.
But scientists are losing a lot of the data, say researchers in a wide range of disciplines.
The world has sped up, become more connected and a whole lot busier.
The labor isn't always free, but it costs a lot less than paying traditional employees.
Questions that do not require a lot to ask and do not require a lot to answer.
The paint-jobs are also rather sweet, and you'll turn a lot of heads.
And a lot of people will read the book, and you can read fan comments and reader comments online.
We spend a lot of time to think of ways to do things differently.
My ears have seen a lot of earbuds to carry music into my head.
But his experience is a broad-based one that includes a lot of other areas in his life.
The human body is a complicated contraption of organs, systems, and a whole lot of blood.
The local farmers and producers certainly made a lot of money, but not the organizers.
He says a lot of people get it backwards because they don't realize what dogs really need.
The process of growing the crops, making fertilizers and pesticides, and processing the plants into fuel consumes a lot of energy.
You're thinking a little about the report on your desk and a lot about lunch.
Producing that enormous, frilly inflorescence takes a lot of effort.
She enjoys learning, she said, and she's learned how to run a lot of the different machines.
In the forties and fifties a lot of the impetus behind the organizing on behalf of social equality was catalyzed by unions.
Many ice sheets had already half melted, dumping a lot of fresh water into the ocean.
It takes a lot longer than that for us to get to the actual core narrative of the movie.
Both had put rather a lot of money where their mouths were, and that money was talking, loudly.
It's open to the notion that a lot of things are kind of interesting.
Okay, it's not a point of view that leaves a lot of room for canned tuna.
We've heard a lot about the dissatisfaction of progressives.
The play- ground is a fenced and paved lot be- tween a slum and the river.
There are a lot of regulars, and they seem more at home than they might at a conventional restaurant.
Russians, the producers said, put a lot of stickers on their cars.
The fight was probably about a lot of different things at once.
It took him nearly the duration of the flight to consume half his bagel: he had a lot to say.
They wander outside and try unsuccessfully to find a place to kiss in the parking lot.
In a way, people don't know a lot about it, but they're intrigued by it.
Everyone laughs a lot, but later no one can say what exactly was so witty.
If heat were visible, we'd see a lot of frenzied motion.
Your reactor will use a lot more energy than it produces.
As the price of emission permits increases, kangaroo harvesting would become a lot cheaper than livestock farming.
There is a lot of evidence that suggests his treatment might be effective.
Nowadays there are a lot of wellness programs in which people are incentivized to engage in exercise and other healthy behaviors.
There are a lot of planets out there, and one thing we've learned is that variety is the spice of nature.
The show now features a lot of poppy songs about phonics.
Yes, maybe some of it is behavioral, but a lot of it is likely genetic.
Feeding it maltose caused it to make a lot of proteins for digesting maltose.
In that short time it has a whole sky to observe, and that's a lot of space.
Clearly, a lot of gamers would rather cure cancer while they're gaming than do nothing while they're gaming.
Installing one of those prefab, snap-together wood-flooring kits is a lot easier than shaping and sanding rough planks.
The new social network is proving popular, but it still has a lot to prove.
Some people are saying that there's a lot of noise and a lot of them are going to fail.
Painting roofs white or in pastel colors helps a lot though.
They are the experts who care a lot about this product and combine this care with deep knowledge.
Within an organization, he says, there's usually a lot of available data.
Most of us spend a lot of time talking online, but those conversations are scattered all over the place.
Novel displays and myriad coordinated radios could make your cell phone a lot more entertaining and useful.
Your breath can tell a lot more about you than whether you brushed your teeth this morning or have been drinking alcohol.
It's good for kids to go outside and get exercise and sunlight, but there's a lot going on inside these days.
We arrived by rental car and parked next to a delivery van in the lot closest to the freeway on-ramp.
Most everyone has had the displeasure of stepping on chewing gum in a parking lot.
There are a lot of political metaphors in this movie.
He had a lot of time to think about these things because he was an insomniac.
Lots of other traders were owed a lot of money, too, he noted.
Also, the earthquake came first and attracted quite a lot of attention, as well.
There is always something if not a lot to learn by watching a circus-one is both amazed by and sorry for the animals.
We used to find a lot of this in program-notes, and unhappily it still hangs on in some music departments and conservatories.
They shoot with cannons at sparrows, a lot of brawn and little brain, and lots of unnecessary cruelty.
One suspects she's received a lot of extremely odd fan mail.
Forte is an upper-echelon running back, but you can find a decent running back in a lot of places.
We do a lot of vocabulary, a lot of reading, a lot of math.
He or she needs to order a lot of things and write about all of them.
There are a lot of reasons hospital-based doctors disagree with midwifery.
It turns out there are a lot of ways to eat a salad.
There are a lot of ways to study a painting, and one of the best is to get to know the painter.
The splash or splatter of color makes a lot more sense when you understand the rage or whimsy or heart behind it.
Musicians for kids and their parents are a lot cooler than they used to be.
There are, and will be for the foreseeable future, a lot more bean counters than engineers in this country.
Permitted obstructions are not counted towards lot coverage calculations.