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Our previous study demonstrated a 12% average decrease in elliptical angle and A-P axis measurements between aged transparent lenses and those of age-related nuclear cataracts [ 4 ] ; this is roughly the same amount of change reported here between transparent and nuclear cataractous diabetic lenses (11% decrease).
It's determinedly swirling, discursive, elliptical.
Scot's speech explains the elliptical style, and the best fix might be, “Temporary cripples.”
I frankly don't know what to make of Besieged , which attempts to forge a complicated relationship between its protagonists through "pure cinema," and has won admiration for being allusive, elusive, elliptical, and other words that begin with "a" and "e" (enigmatic, ambivalent, evocative, etc.).
Bruce, it turned out, was the author of the 15-word super-sentence--a creation that not only contains an elliptical adverb clause of comparison, “than I [practised],” and a hidden noun clause, “[that] he stank,” but compacts the four phrases into the subordinate part and the three clauses into the main part.
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