The rate of return on these multibillion-dollar portfolios is nothing to write home about.

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Even the notoriously self-effacing Netherlanders admit that Dutch food is nothing to write home about.

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Rik may have defied the critics, but this opening effort is nothing to write home about.

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This week's fall, though the largest in 21 months, was nothing to write home about.

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Nothing to write home about or even make widows and trust fund junkies flush.

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The swift fall in the unemployment rate, down to 9.4% from 9.8% in November, is nothing to write home about either.

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Manufacturing production looked a little better, but nothing to write home about.

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In more normal use, with power-saving on, I suspect you could get 4 to 5 hours on the XPS 12, but that's still nothing to write home about.

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Productivity in Britain has been nothing to write home about.

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This means you're limited to the (fine, but nothing to write home about) quality of the internal mic for any recording if you don't want to spring for the dock.

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Sound quality was fine, nothing to write home about.

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If the mark of a successful annual meeting is to provide reporters with basically nothing to write about, then this one was obviously a home run.

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