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Simple sentences
The clouds floating in the sky are beautiful.
The fisherman saved himself by means of a floating board.
The police found Tom's body floating in the harbor.
A balloon was floating in the air.
A ball is floating down the river.
Then she was floating on her back.
The boat was broken by the floating ice.
Thousands of dead fish have been found floating in the lake.
Is the ticket good for the floating tram as well?
All sorts of rumors were floating around about her.
Tom saw some dead fish floating on the lake.
Satellite imagery is being used in an effort to narrow down the area in the Indian Ocean where floating debris has been observed.
The police found Tom's body floating in the harbour.
My book is floating about here somewhere but I just can't find it.
Clouds were floating in the sky.
The petals are floating on the water.
I went to Hokkaido to see the floating ice.
There's something floating in my water.
Movie subtitles
Okay, so just-just imagine I'm, like, floating, like, on a pillow of magic.
Floating out, floating out.
No, I-I didn't feel like I was floating.
I was floating.
The floating figure is a devil coming to get the witch by lifting her up into the air.
A regular floating palace!
Tomorrow morning, when he's floating down the river.
Ever since Prohibition, it's been floating around, waiting to get picked up.
Or they may be cloud forms or great landscapes or vague shadows or geometrical objects floating in space.
Well, I know Professor Peagram explains the corset he wears as due to a floating kidney.
For instance. has anyone in this audience ever seen a wedding dress floating down that river?
Dark object floating off starboard bow, sir.
Barging in here at dawn, flushed and starry-eyed and expect me to see rice and old shoes floating through the air.
No! No, I-I didn't feel like I was floating.
You mean from inside that supercell floating above us?
They'll reckon it's gone down hours ago instead of floating on like this.
Although I've seen victims floating down the river after the Gabonis finished with them.
Another time, I was floating over Constantinople.
It was awfully nice of you floating this case my way.
That's why it's safer to keep floating around.
Big, shining rafts a-floating in the ocean of God's night.
Then what are you doing out here in this floating junkpile?
Looks like the money's floating.
Tore was afraid he would be crushed between the logs, and let go of the logs he was clinging to-- He would rather go under than be crushed by the floating logs.
It's floating, so no heavy coins.
They might be, oh, just masses of color. Or they may be cloud forms or great landscapes or vague shadows or geometrical objects floating in space.
When you leave, my body will be floating in the harbor.
I'm afraid it is little better than a floating slum!
Babies' linen drying like tiny flags and pendants, floating merrily, nothing out of the ordinary, saluting a small nation, a nation of little ones, of children.
News and current affairs
He gave a fascinating talk about his adventures, complete with clips of him floating around, catching bubbles in his mouth, and so on.
There are altogether too many complex ideas floating around that look good on paper, but might well prove deeply flawed in a big-time crisis.
Let's start by acknowledging that the modern system of floating exchange rates has, on the whole, acquitted itself remarkably well.
But the continuing success of the floating exchange-rate system does not imply a smooth ride in 2011.
The floating exchange-rate system works surprisingly well, but currency volatility and unpredictability look likely to remain an enduring constant in 2011 and beyond.
There are a number of schemes floating around for leveraging Germany's lower borrowing costs to help its partner countries, beyond simply expanding the ECB's balance sheet.
Like Cardoso, Neves is committed to inflation targeting, creating a primary surplus, and maintaining a floating exchange rate.
The Slovak koruna was initially kept within pre-defined fluctuation bands around target parities with the Deutsche Mark and the US dollar, before moving to a fully floating exchange rate in 1998.
Low interest rates meant that deficits could be financed by floating bonds.
Only fire-breathing free-market advocates, seemingly oblivious to the fact that China's shaky financial system cannot survive liberalization overnight, are calling for an extreme version of floating.
Nearly all mortgages have floating rates that vary with the five-year loan rate set by the People's Bank.
To be sure, China remains far from embracing a free-floating currency, let alone a fully convertible one, which would require further liberalization of controls on cross-border financial flows.
But most of southern Europe relies mainly on floating rates.
The world no longer has a fixed exchange-rate regime, but the dollar remains the major reserve currency--a sort of floating Bretton Woods.
Finally, currency chaos is the safest bet of all, with sharp and unpredictable swings in floating exchange rates around the world.
When a bloody coup against Corazon Aquino's fledgling democratic government failed, the leader of the putsch escaped from a floating prison - and then successfully ran for senator.
If the country has a floating exchange-rate regime, the currency depreciates, too.
And, by protecting the floating exchange-rate regime, the central bank ensures that Chile does not confront the kind of foreign-debt crisis that has hit other Latin American countries.
Whatever the ultimate economic effects of China's first modest step towards floating its currency, one has to admire its strategic brilliance.
By floating the currency Brazil got some breathing room to cut interest rates and head off depression.