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I can't confirm that that's the actual number of deaths.
Tom did the actual work.
That is an actual fact.
This story is based on actual events.
Those were his actual words.
The actual cost was higher than the estimate.
They shot the film in an actual desert.
Preventive measures are much more effective than the actual treatment.
The relative humidity is the difference between the maximum humidity and the actual humidity expressed in percentages.
Anyone who has never strung a spinet, clavichord, or harpsichord cannot imagine what kinds of problems can arise, from the choice of strings, to the actual stretching of the strings until they are tuned.
In actual fact, many of my earliest memories are theories I had about the world around me.
They say she's the owner of the largest collection of penguins in the land. Cuddly toys, porcelain figurines, pictures, books, postcards - it's all there. Only, she doesn't have an actual penguin yet.
Actual life imprisonment can only be imposed because of a malicious violent crime.
Mathematics would certainly not have come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.
The actual price was lower than I had thought.
What's the actual cost?
Time has come to admit that hard work and hope are no substitute for actual knowledge.
The bitter wind made it seem a lot colder than the actual temperature.
Movie subtitles
Sal Tlay Ka Siti isn't an actual place.
Most interstellar visiting is gonna be via signalling, not by actual visiting.
Not an actual cleanup, Rick.
Let's maybe see some actual punching.
I'm the only actual bro here.
And a hair from Miss Newsome's dog was found in the wound, making her actual scissors almost certainly the murder weapon.
They're actual cobwebs.
They do not deviate in any important factual way from the actual medical case history.
The screenplay to this motion picture was inspired by actual events that occurred during a twenty year period in the life of the great mountains.
Here's a cutting of the actual case.
Actual letters scratched into the glass with a ring.
The actual and immediate responsibilty, however, I place on you, my fellow officers, who met this crisis with lethargy, impudence and flagrant defiance publicly uttered.
She'd quickly revert in appearance to her actual age.
Well, it can't do any actual harm.
HOWEVER, ANY RESEMBLANCE TO AN ACTUAL WAR VETERAN IS PURELY ACCIDENTAL.
But we're helpless unless we get actual evidence to convict them.
If the slipway goes up before the actual launching, then all our efforts have been wasted.
I switch you over to our microphone near the bow of the ship. so that you may hear the actual launching.
I have charted here the total differences between actual and transcribed broadcasts.
Just as in an actual wartime emergency.
Now, men, you're going to have an unusual opportunity for target practice under circumstances equivalent to actual warfare.
Well, eight by actual count.
Ladies and gentlemen, the actual skeleton of Count Dracula, the vampire!
However, if the facts are there even the most harden skeptic, provided he has an open mind, must finally acknowledge the actual existence of the supernatural.
These are the actual films taken by the FBI.
Well, Patrick, you are about to try out your Jamieson superduper oxygen mask under actual flying conditions.
Well, who do you think the actual murderer is?
We had the returns from the news agencies throughout the country, and then we went through the advertising of the last two years, in order to find out their revenue as best we could, not knowing their actual contract rates.
Why? We have no actual clue to follow.
Did you model Mark Winston after an actual person?
The actual turning point of the war was El Alamein.
They hired other men to do the actual robberies.
She may not be guilty of the actual murder.
You mean by that that the take will be worth half a million to us in actual cash?
Suppose the actual murderer goes free.
In actual fact. at the time of marrying you, I took a firm resolution.
I accused him because I knew you had nothing actual against him.
News and current affairs
A consensus is emerging that the gap between the US economy's growth potential and its actual performance will remain large for some time to come.
Situated figuratively between modernity and tradition, secularism and Islam, and democracy and tyranny, Turkey also is an actual physical bridge between East and West.
Much of that increase has more to do with public perceptions about supposed crime waves and ham-handed public and political responses to occasional headline-capturing murders, than any actual underlying crime rate.
As the actual number of truly heinous crimes has in fact fallen, increasingly it is small-time hoodlums, drug users, and mentally ill people who have been drawing long spells behind bars.
Yet when the actual budget proposals are made, there will be a growing backlash.
Nevertheless, the US will remain the most influential external actor in the Middle East, for its failure is one of leadership, not of actual power.
But in reality a member's actual power is what affects common decisions.
But they cannot fail to notice that the processes they support undercut their own position by rendering the wealth gap more obvious and the fairness of the actual global distribution more questionable.
They are also often more focused on the plight of actual people than on the promotion of grand principles, preferring concrete progress to abstract victory.
As a result, Clinton has launched an actual strategic dialogue with civil society.
The eurozone's difficulties, I have long argued, stem from European financial and monetary integration having gotten too far ahead of actual political, fiscal, and banking union.
From ping-pong diplomacy with China to the united German Olympic team that competed in 1990 before actual reunification, sport has prefigured political developments, and politicians everywhere have seized on the importance of the World Cup.
This disclosure raises interesting new questions because Dr Khan was peripheral to actual weapons-related work.
When examining the cost of conflict, the Copenhagen Consensus economists estimate the actual costs of global military expenditure.
The equilibrium rates are reported in the accompanying table and so are today's actual rates.
The actual transformation in the coming years will have one major advantage compared to this illustration.
One option would be to increase substantially the number of mid-career recruits with actual practical experience in developing countries.