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  • On this afternoon, two portly bald men in suits stood facing the speaker from a few feet away, tapping at the transcription machines, which resembled nineteenth-century cash registers, slung around their necks.

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  • The three resembled a former alternative-rock band the Cinemaniacs overdue for a reunion tour.

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  • US-based researchers were the first to propose that the wrinkles might act like the tread on tyres, and even demonstrated how the patterns in the skin resembled those of run-off channels seen on the sides of hills.

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  • The opening half was largely devoid of inspiration and often resembled a meaningless end-of-season encounter until Richard Chaplow's outswinging corner fell to Jones, who took one touch to control the ball and another to fire high into the net from six yards.

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  • The high-adrenaline life of crime he described resembled that of another famous French gangster, Jacques Mesrine.

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  • In 1968, Russia's TU-144 supersonic airliner made its first flight, several months ahead of the Anglo-French Concorde, which it closely resembled.

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