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A reduction in the delivery rate specified for a program without a reduction in the total quantity to be delivered.
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Translations ? stretch out vt sep arms, wings, blanket → ausbreiten; leg, hand → ausstrecken; foot → vorstrecken; rope → spannen; meeting, discussion, essay, story → ausdehnen; to stretch oneself out (on the ground) → sich auf den Boden legen vi → sich strecken; (inf: = lie down) → sich hinlegen; (countryside) → sich ausbreiten; (in time) → sich erstrecken, sich hinziehen (→ over über +acc); her arm stretched out → sie streckte den Arm aus; he stretched out on the bed → er legte sich (ausgestreckt) aufs Bett How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Sprague turned himself into a bulletin-board, and read off "notices" of meetings and societies and things till it seemed that the list would stretch out to the crack of doom -- a queer custom which is still kept up in America, even in cities, away here in this age of abundant news- papers. Then she spoke to him and said, 'The Great Spirit felt sorry for you, because you would not be comforted, so he let me come back to you, but you must not stretch out your hand to touch me till we have seen the rest of our people. But the sparrow began to flutter about, and stretch out her neck and cried, 'Carter |
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