On the face of it, Mr Crandall is the last of a dying breed.

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He was a lifelong Democrat, a representative of that dying breed, the hard-headed cold war liberal.

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The nonconformists of Liebig 14 may be a dying breed but they are creating a backlash against gentrification.

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He is one of the last of India's dying breed of engaging editors.

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Yet Sir Richard, who is 75, is the last of a dying breed.

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"English goalscorers are a dying breed, " said Tony Cottee, a former West Ham United forward who scored 306 times in a 19-year career.

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Wingers were thought to be a dying breed in European soccer.

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The law will let the flagging hospital "recoup at least some of those costs, " he said, a potential catalyst for Spring Branch, a dying breed of small, for-profit facilities.

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Payne believes that far from being a dying breed, bosses who work their way up from the shop floor will become increasingly common as fewer people opt to go into higher education.

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The last of a dying breed.

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