• "What an eye-opener Wales were in the Six Nation, " Botha told BBC Wales' Scrum V programme.

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  • For Dodge, who had believed his original target was particularly ambitious, it was an eye-opener.

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  • On the face of it perhaps not much, as it may seem to be little more than an eye-opener.

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  • That was quite an eye-opener in itself, and will be the subject of a couple of posts in the near future.

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  • England were thrashed 6-1 by Australia in last year's one-day series between the countries, an experience Strauss admitted was "an eye-opener".

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  • In particular, the blowout loss at Philadelphia on Saturday was an eye-opener.

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  • The introduction of the possibilities of digital archiving and the need to increase access was an eye-opener to some of the participants as well.

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  • But he says using literally as an intensifier can often result in "absurdity" in phrases such as "the news was literally an eye-opener to me".

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  • The drive from Mr Pistorius' home to Johannesburg is an eye-opener.

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  • This was an eye-opener because when Scotland released Megrahi from prison and sent him home to Libya in August 2009, the Obama Administration publicly and appropriately complained.

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  • It will be an eye-opener for him to go back to playing in qualifying but his quality is undoubted - he'll definitely be back in the top 16.

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  • For those not lucky enough to stay in the world's grandest hotels, this book will be an eye-opener that may make them wonder who, in fact, are the lucky ones.

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  • This morning LinkedIn released its annual list of the most overused words and phrases in its 135 million member profiles, and the results while not shocking are an eye-opener, even for me.

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  • For those contrarian drinkers, who nowadays comprise a sub-cult of foodies and artisan spirits lovers, the rise of premium white whiskies, cut and bottled with minimal aging essentially upgraded moonshine has been an eye-opener.

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  • Curtis said it was an eye-opener for him.

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  • The whole course was quite an eye-opener.

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  • The trip was an eye-opener.

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  • "The debate about the plight of the lemurs and what should be done about them, and whether or not my idea was a good idea or bad idea was certainly an eye-opener to me and I suspect to all of us, " he said in a recent e-mail.

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  • Just a few days before Geithner's embarrassing revelation, the Taxpayer Advocate Service issued its annual report to U.S. Congress. (The service, part of the IRS, was designed to help taxpayers resolve complaints with the agency that can't be resolved through normal channels.) The report was an eye-opener as to just how horrifically complicated the code has become.

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  • Just a few days before Geithner's embarrassing revelation, the Taxpayer Advocate Service issued its annual report to Congress. (The service is part of the IRS and was designed to help taxpayers resolve complaints with the agency that can't be resolved through normal channels.) The report was an eye-opener as to just how horrifically complicated the code has become.

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