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Example sentences for: gaining

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Passed from village to village, from hearthside to field and tavern, losing a word here, gaining one there, sometimes so badly pronounced as to change sound, though not sense, the refráin or saying having the almost sacred pan bread as its foundation came to form an integral part of country life.
Lately the terms African-American and Afro-American seem to be gaining wider acceptance, although according to a recent poll most U.S.
If you are dead set against anyone gaining access in your absence, you might ask someone if he or she would be willing to let you move your plants to their apartment for the three weeks.
A force was gaining strength in the east to threaten their new bases.
Of the FALS cases about 20% are due to mutations in SOD1 [ 4 ] . Rodents transgenic for mutant human SOD1 develop progressive skeletal muscle atrophy, paralysis and death similar to human cases [ 5 6 7 8 ] . The disease causing property of mutant SOD1 is independent of the normal SOD1 activity, and thus, mutant SOD1 kills motor neurons by gaining a toxic property (reviewed in [ 9 10 ] ).