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  • 41time limit — UK US noun [C] ► a date or time by which something must be done or completed: within a time limit »If a deal is not reached within the time limit, the firms involved will set up an auction. a time limit for doing sth »You should pay close… …

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  • 42set foot on — set foot on/in/ phrase to go to a place, especially when there is something special or unusual about you doing this set foot on/in/in: It was the first time she had set foot in the desert. set foot o …

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  • 43Time and the Conways — is a British play written by J. B. Priestley in 1937 illustrating J. W. Dunne s Theory Of Time through the experience of a moneyed Yorkshire family, the Conways, over a period of roughly twenty years from 1919 to 1937. Widely regarded as one of… …

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  • 44time is of the essence — When a clause in a contract (normally related to a time deadline) is made of the essence , it means that the innocent party can claim immediately if the relevant provision is broken without having to give any notice or allow a period for… …

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  • 45Set — (s[e^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Set}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Setting}.] [OE. setten, AS. setton; akin to OS. settian, OFries. setta, D. zetten, OHG. sezzen, G. setzen, Icel. setja, Sw. s[ a]tta, Dan. s?tte, Goth. satjan; causative from the root of E.… …

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  • 46Set — (s[e^]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Set}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Setting}.] [OE. setten, AS. setton; akin to OS. settian, OFries. setta, D. zetten, OHG. sezzen, G. setzen, Icel. setja, Sw. s[ a]tta, Dan. s?tte, Goth. satjan; causative from the root of E.… …

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  • 47Time and Tide Museum — Time and Tide: The Museum of Great Yarmouth Life, located in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, United Kingdom, is set in one of the UK s best preserved Victorian herring curing works and is Norfolk s third largest museum. The museum is centred around… …

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  • 48set — Ⅰ. set [1] ► VERB (setting; past and past part. set) 1) put, lay, or stand in a specified place or position. 2) put, bring, or place into a specified state. 3) cause or instruct (someone) to do something. 4) give someone (a task) …

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  • 49Set — (s[e^]t), v. i. 1. To pass below the horizon; to go down; to decline; to sink out of sight; to come to an end. [1913 Webster] Ere the weary sun set in the west. Shak. [1913 Webster] Thus this century sets with little mirth, and the next is likely …

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  • 50Set packing — is a classical NP complete problem in computational complexity theory and combinatorics, and was one of Karp s 21 NP complete problems. Suppose we have a finite set S and a list of subsets of S. Then, the set packing problem asks if some k… …

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