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 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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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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In fact, if we were wise teachers, we would consciously make a more frequent use of them and, in order to render them more valuable, take special pains to review, correct, and arrange them.
From The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart by McMurry, Charles Alexander
