Then everything suddenly got much more complicated, as researchers started coming up with new theoretical and methodological bases for language teaching.
These transpositions are efficient but not always elegant: the ear receives a jolt when what was previously a rising second suddenly becomes a descending seventh.
This upswing in contraceptive usage was not merely the result of previously unsatisfied demand being suddenly met by the establishment of family planning clinics.
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