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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
HOWEVER, on the way home I decided I wanted to waste some money, so I went and got my vertical labret re – pierced for the fourth time! yet again, it is CROOKED and FULL OF FAIL, so I am pretty fucking upset about that! so that was a waste of money, AND it hurt like eight bitches in a bitch boat!
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(. !)))
In Wikipedia:
IBEC have been critical of FS at times claiming, at various intervals, that some FS courses and schemes are a waste of money, taking potential employees off the live register who could otherwise be employed in mainstream positions.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
How often do you clean your room? so rarely Do you think those colored lap tops are a waste of money? are they more money?
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
I knew that any advertising at all would be the dumbest waste of money.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
I’ve been there done that and it’s honestly a waste of money for someone who doesn’t play games on the computer, and view movies.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Otherwise, they’re often a waste of money.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Reuters – Paris Hilton’s mother – a John McCain donor – on Sunday dismissed as a’ ’ waste of money’ ’ a television ad that used her daughter and Britney Spears to portray Democrat Barack Obama as more celebrity icon than chief executive.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
When I get ready to buy something that I know I don’t need and would be a waste of money I get sick to my stomach.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Waste of money. – nik
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
There’s not enough time to well – train the help I have which is a goddamn waste of money which is a goddamn problem all on its own.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Or how about in Britain, where the National Health Service recently ruled that if someone was sick enough, or injured enough, and it would be expensive to treat them, because they are so bad off that they might just die anyway, and it would be a waste of money on an already cash – strapped system, that the medical technicians shouldnt even bother.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
These images are important because using color in a novel is expensive so the images must be very important to Jonathan Safran Foer and to the story or else they are a very big waste of money and effort.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
There’s barely any left on her stomach… and My dad won *n’t take her to a vet because it’s’ ’ a waste of money’ ’…
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Richard Barnes, the Conservative representative in the Greater London Assembly, slammed the Mayor saying: “The whole sorry tale of the West London Tram has been one of arrogance and a waste of money from the start.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
What a waste of money.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
So a waste of money on pickles.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
I now reduce my chances of ordering an unsavory waste of money.
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In Wikipedia:
I think it’s an incredible waste of money.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
It is time that we expose the Iraq War for what it is – A WASTE OF MONEY.
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(. .)))
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