Moreover, the curve was skewed to the right, with a long tail, however slender, of patients who lived many years longer than the eight-month median.

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The yellow-footed wallaby of the Yellow Tail label inspired so many imitations (from Little Penguin to Black Swan) that a 2008 Nielsen study showed 18% of all new wine launches in the previous three years were "critter" brands.

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Beneath these is a long tail of smaller operators, many of them online, from the legitimate to the thoroughly dodgy.

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Pietersen defended skipper Cook after Bangladesh's tail managed to add 89 to their total during the morning session, many of the runs coming through a vacant third man region.

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Caroline pulls on the loose straps of her backpack, a filched Pinkie Pie, its tail braided, its eyes pocked by a pen point, now zipped into one of the many compartments.

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