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2. We need to take steps to counter the _____ decline in our export market. `2Z4#$.
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4. We are going to____ what were learned so for by doing some revision exercise today. `W.vW8!#
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9. The idea that a good night sleep will cure everything is a complete _____ "\R@lUx.Y
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10 Before a bill can become law it has to have the full ____ of both Houses of Parliament. 2+r )VF:
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11 The image is ____ by a series of lenses within the telescope PL$(/Z
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12 Strangely enough the most obvious explanation did not ___ Juckie until the next day LYxlo<f
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13 The government wants a 3% inflation rate,but is this a ___ objective? A
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14 She has still ___ by what happened in Bancelona,although she had left 20years earlier <EM LiiNY
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15 The hands on my alarm clock are____.So I can tell time in the dark q[,R%6&'
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