It is all painful but it also could be a lot worse.

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But it could be far, far worse.

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But could it be that this story is even worse than many in the national press will say?

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But you hadn't moved to Florida so it could be much worse up north.

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This is not necessarily a case of being better or worse, says Dr Linnell, but it could be a reflection of what is needed to survive in an overcrowded urban setting.

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But given what has happened to the other economic statistics, it could be a lot worse.

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But its impact on markets could be even worse than a default, it could be a default on steroids: if it became accepted that membership of the eurozone isn't forever, huge doubts would arise about the true value of hundreds of billions of euros of contracts.

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"Obviously, it could be worse if she was given the death penalty, but it wouldn't have been that much worse, " her husband, Russell Yates, told reporters after the decision.

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It was shocking for the general public but for people with families of learning disabilities it was worse, as they would have thought 'that could be my son or my daughter'.

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Forcibly pushing out new Windows updates to a desktop or even Wi-Fi-only laptop PC might be ok, but it could cause an iPad connected via 3G to become unusably slow or, worse, result in unexpectedly-large service charges.

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