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The hard work really starts now though and I want to wrap him up in cotton wool.
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Her former coach Van Commenee should be ordering that cotton wool suit now.
BBC: Banishing the Beijing demons
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Gatland wants wants to wrap Wales' magnificent number seven up in cotton wool so he can play in the 2011 World Cup at the age of 37.
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Low in the sky there's the classic cotton wool Cumulus, the Stratus, a layer of "rather dull" cloud, and higher up Cirrus - "a translucent delicate streak as if a watercolour brush has been stroked across the blue".
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Now, 3, 000-year-old ivory artifacts recovered by Mallowan between 1949 and 1963 from the ancient city of Nimrud, in what is now Iraq, and likely cleaned by his famous wife using cotton wool buds and face cream, go on display Monday at the British Museum in London.
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It felt as if the country had been wrapped up in the cotton-wool of establishment etiquette.
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Socks haven't always just been strips of white cotton or wool.
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In addition to natural fibers like cotton, silk and wool, there are now a wide variety of synthetics on the shelves.
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Outlier recently updated the OGs with some subtle improvements but, just like the old ones, they are an entirely synthetic superversion of office-ready wool or cotton twill trousers.
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Nearly all his pieces fall into the Beluch category of tribal rugs, meaning they have short wool pile secured by a wool-and-cotton foundation and average 60 to 100 knots per square inch.
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And understand that even a single wearing (or probably a lot of try-ons with your new sweater) means your natural-fiber clothes (wool, silk, cotton, cashmere, fur including blends) are no longer sterile when it comes to insects.
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The Australian "15 Milmil 15" wool feels like silk, breathes like Egyptian cotton and wears like iron.
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