'No', the doctor replies, 'but you will get accustomed to living under the earth'.

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The last detail I tested was the most challenging to get accustomed to: voicemail.

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Still, as people get accustomed to innovation, the lead time between a new development and its acceptance shrinks.

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Yes, there is an irresistible urge to throw up, but somehow, quite quickly you get accustomed to the whiff.

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Investors in Chinese real estate will have to get accustomed to falling asset prices for a few years before values stabilize again.

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And yet they too, are starting to get accustomed to him: several investment banks have told clients not to sell shares in Cemig, since they reckon the governor will lose his battle against the American companies.

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It would make more sense to try her out with a top-tier client first, along with a leader, to get her accustomed to that level of intensity.

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The country got rich so quickly that now the uber-wealthy are sending kids to private high schools in the U.S. to get them accustomed to life in an American university shortly after.

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This means we must be ready to give up the various deductions that we've grown accustomed to in order to get the marginal tax rates on our income reduced.

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Before the new SEC-mandated rules, marketmakers would often let limit orders pile up unexecuted unless the market rose or dropped to a point where they could get their accustomed spread.

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But then, she admitted, she got bored and accustomed to going round shopping centres, and wanted to get a job.

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Wangari Maathai said many Africans had become so accustomed to their daily struggles that they assumed life could not get any worse.

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Further education colleges all over the country are accustomed to helping people with all sorts of special needs to get retrained for well-paid employment.

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While the Internet Messenger Watch is probably on the cutting edge for digital watch technology, more sophisticated consumers accustomed to more advanced messaging will find it lacking when they get a message and want to talk back.

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Fortunately, your parents, who had become so accustomed to guiding you through the myriad decisions you had to make to get into this place, have been able to stay in constant smartphone contact.

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