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The BDGP will continue to finish the remaining problematic regions of the euchromatic genomic sequence to high quality (see [ 17]), and focus efforts on refining the sequence of the heterochromatin [ 25].
Isolation and introspection, those staples of the Bildungsroman , scrape at young Coetzee's sensibilities, refining them raw.
As for the other part of refining, which consists in receiving new words and pharases, I shall not insist much on it.
The latter was made at a time when the king's head was still on, and refined elegance could still relax and keep refining.
In any event, it is still not clear why an oil shortage should put pressure on refining (one would expect the reverse) and why the prices resulting ought to rise (for fear would scarcely suggest `reduction' except in a petroleum trade journal or oil company annual report).