It is also not unusual for brokers to only discount when they are in a competitive bidding situation.

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Weinstein also said it was not unusual for prosecutors to go ahead with the lesser charge while still gathering evidence and then later upgrade.

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This came as a blow, not only to the satellite owners, but also to families who had paid for an unusual payload: a burial canister with the cremated remains of 43 people.

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It is not unusual to find a Tata lifer whose spouse works for the firm and whose father also did.

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Its properties are so useful and unusual that it is used not only to create the base layer of skis, but also to make bulletproof jackets and artificial hip and knee joints.

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