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‘A bout can be serious.’

[⟨det bout.n⟩ serious.a]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Details of the response by Ocean’s castmates to Bernie Mac’s illness at the Chicago Sun Times: BERNIE’S BUDDIES: It’s looking like one of our favorite comics, Bernie Mac, is slowly on the road to recovery from his very serious bout with pneumonia – cheered on by virtually all of his co – stars from the “Ocean’s’ ’ flicks.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Well, it’s not a conspiracy that we don’t know where Gov. Palin stands, but it’s definitely a serious bout of opportunistic pessimism on the part of political campaign operatives.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

And while getting paid to beat on drums for a comedic movie is one reason (of many) that we’re courting a serious bout of Rainn Envy, it doesn’t compare to Wilson’s latest project, the video podcast “Book Chat.”
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

This last week a serious bout of sexual and racial harassment has been directed at her.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

My point being: Some moms are great and wise and some not, while some bathed their children in love and kindness others would believe that kids just came about from nothing more than a serious bout of bloating.
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In Wikipedia:

Recovering from a serious bout with polio in 1949, Teague and his second wife (1950), Virginia Vanderbilt, moved to Vermont from New York in 1954 where they raised four children, Allison, Cecelia, John and Joshua.
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In Wikipedia:

He also survived a serious bout with prostate cancer in 1998.
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In Wikipedia:

By the second day he had largely become silent again, as he recovered from lung surgery and a serious bout with pneumonia.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

She had a serious bout of skin allergy and asthma late this August, and she was hospitalized for five days because of it.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Adolescent girls who had a serious school failure-like dropping out – are significantly more likely to suffer a serious bout of depression.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

However, other than lack of research support, it also suffer a serious bout in face of phenomena like False arm and Somatization disorder.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

There’s nothing like strapping on the earphones and cranking up your favorite tunes to help you through a serious bout of exercise, but in many outdoor scenarios, especially cycling, this can become a major safety risk by preventing you from hearing traffic noise and other potential hazards that might not be visible.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Well… due to a serious bout of procrastination and lack of motivation Day Five is 4 days late…
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

And later after band rehersal I got the guts to talk to him and when I talked to him he was smiling… eek… I can *n’t wait to see him again tomorrow at 3:15 – 5:30pm.. makes me want to kiss him once again! btw I am serious bout my marching band music memorization and school studies, I just have to tell you.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Yes of course some get million dollar contracts following their gold medal feats, but the fact of the matter is, if youcan *n’t see entertainment value by 10 000 athletes coming together for nothing other than to win a piece of metal to hang around their necks for the time to belch out their national anthem, then you seem to be suffering from a serious bout of North American I – don’t – care – about – sport – if – it’s – not – hockey – baseball – football – basketball syndrome, where we need posers like Bob Costas to overdramatize ad nauseam the story of every player on the field, schmucks like Don Cherry to keep us in front of the TV as we fatten ourselves up with more pizza and beer while our girlfriends in the background wait for those thrilling 200 minutes to end, or illiterate yutzes on RDS to tell us what’s happening on the ice – though we can actually see what’s happening on the ice! (Wow that was in bad taste, Jacques Demers was actually illiterate!
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Thou shalt make content king After a serious bout of conferring, the Cybercom studio would like to add the following: 11.
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In Wikipedia:

The delay in the development of the bazooka was as a result of Goddard’s serious bout with tuberculosis.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

“Here. If yer serious’ bout a real job, get in touch.”
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Put AG, who I homeschooled for kindergarten to give her lungs a break from a very serious bout with pneumonia, in public school for first grade. 2.
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Queried on 2013-06-19.