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Globally, sugar intake has quadrupled over the last 60 years, and it now makes up around 8% of all our calories.

From Salon

But he makes up for in vehemence what he lacks in girth.

They are two-year vocational courses taken after GCSEs, which focus on subjects like education, construction and IT, and include a work placement that makes up roughly 20% of the course.

From BBC

“No ego at all. I’m very outgoing and disorganized. Pat is very controlled and organized and that really helps me. His strength in tying things together makes up for my weaknesses.”

The party that will control the US House of Representatives - one of two chambers that makes up the United States Congress - remains up in the air.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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