What was particularly disturbing in the data is that, of those in 'status zer0', 'long-term' members far outnumbered the 'short-termers' who had spent less than six months out of work and learning - only 6 out of the 402 sample (Istance et al., 1994, p. 53).

In the passage they encountered Mr. Mould the undertaker: a little elderly gentleman, bald, and in a suit of black; with a note-book in his hand, a massive gold watch-chain dangling from his fob, and a face in which a queer attempt at melancholy was at odds with a smirk of satisfaction […]

The courtiers tramping across the green eye the: [the Duke of] Suffolk with his big beard, his flashing eye, his big chest, and Master Secretary [Thomas Cromwell] subfusc, low-slung, square.

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