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Example sentences for: now--but

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The real story of San Francisco may not be that it loses local headquarters--almost every city in America outside New York is a branch manager's town now--but that it may be the first major American city to be primarily a bedroom community.
I'm starting my own business and just don't want to be in a committed relationship right now--but I would like for us to be friends.