Branagh's challengers are Jonah Hill (Moneyball), Nick Nolte (Warrior), Max von Sydow (Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close).

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Lyndsey Downes, who lives nearby, said she dialled 999 after she and her husband heard "an extremely loud bang".

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Now featuring both Automatic and Manual gain settings, users can enable Mikey Digital to intelligently adjust to fluctuating volume levels or manually set low sensitivity for extremely loud sources and high sensitivity for quieter sources.

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In short, the vast majority of Americans exist between the lines occupied by two very loud ultra conservative and extremely liberal minorities.

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Witnesses described seeing the Fiesta being driven extremely fast, with noises of a loud exhaust and changing up through the gears.

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