Interest will possibly pick up during the knockouts and the final at the fag end of the league.

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Some of them were surprisingly frank when they spoke to my colleagues about fighting at the fag end of a war and handing over control to others.

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Tom captured the epic moment when a man leapt over the bar in the high jump and who stands up after his tumble with a fag end still pursed between his lips.

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Shadow housing minister Grant Shapps said no previous government had a worse record of affordable house building than "this fag-end Labour administration".

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Tim Henman's great chance had come, I suggested, when he reached the semi-final in 2001 and took on Goran Ivanisevic, who was at the fag-end of his career.

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With a grand tobacco settlement now a burnt-out fag-end in Washington, the struggle has returned to the courts and the first big class-action lawsuit by smokers has come to trial.

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