take special pains
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Census officials have promised to take special pains to get a more accurate count during the 1980 census, in effect acknowledging that their methods have been inadequate.
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But the scientists who interpret the cloud pictures will have to take special pains to identify the places around the earth that are covered by its Rhode Island-size snapshots.
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But since she has no husband or children--and thus no immediate heirs--she has had to take special pains to plan her estate.
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Some of them, like Du Pont at Wilmington, Del., take special pains to guard their employes from poisonous C52 fumes.
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It is necessary to take special pains in this.
From The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart by McMurry, Charles Alexander