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These activities seem to be far more profitable than the humdrum business of managing payments and channelling savings towards investment.

She was glad to be out of the flat, because already she felt that it was a narrow, humdrum place, and that interest and joy lay elsewhere.

Was it a humdrum crime of trying to steal banking details?

We should hesitate to admit this if it were merely a question of humdrum dwellers on this corner of the universe called Earth.

Last but not least, students' creativity tends to be repressed due to the humdrum and dull homework.

Hours before the panic began, there were signs that Thursday was not shaping up to be a humdrum day.

So humdrum was the technical work that it killed Wu Yu's patience. He hoped to be unique. He needed more space for himself.

Reality always look better in slow motion. Even the most humdrum events can seem like the most dramatic moment of an action film.

Making tomato sauce was humdrum domestic work that did not contribute to my goals and , more important, wasn't scheduled.

There are also few new experiences for you, just the humdrum of daily life and the loneliness of having to get on with it on your own.

She felt that she must not yield. She must go on leading her strained, humdrum life.

At first glance, nothing could be more mechanical than the humdrum business of getting ready to start a class.

A couple of weeks ago I dreamt that a page editor asked me to do some humdrum subbing as he was too busy.

Instead of being the humdrum statistical world, everything seemed to turn into butterflies and perfume.

But at the more humdrum end of the business, smaller presses for simple metal shapes, Chinese competition is hurting Galdabini.

The sophisticated technology that sets luxury cars apart from humdrum, mass-market vehicles comes with a high degree of risk.

This case shows how the apparently humdrum process of transliterating names from one language to another can be exploited by criminals.

but as it was it would mean taking her from one everyday humdrum life to another as humdrum or perhaps more so.

The information is in part humdrum and also dramatic, showing in raw detail the intelligence reports sent from personnel in the field.

Boy: Hmn, I feel very humdrum. There is nobody here to talk with me. How humdrum!

Humdrum office life was briefly interrupted with a little drama.

Its most striking feature is to delegate the humdrum task of ferrying people and equipment to low-Earth orbit to the private sector.

Why all the fuss over a firm that focuses on the seemingly humdrum business of storing data?

Some analysts predict humdrum sales for traditional retailers, but booming ones for internet retailers.

In Hollywood, the romantic comedy is well into humdrum middle age. But in China, the genre is still in its honeymoon phase.

Municipal committees in rebel-held towns were assigned the basic tasks of humdrum administration.

Companies use the term "commodity business" to describe humdrum, low-margin activities.

Without the taxes paid by people in the more humdrum sorts of employment, helping to fund research and start-ups is an awful lot harder.

What is left is rather humdrum. One task is to chair some sectoral councils, for instance of agriculture ministers.

By never letting life get static, this woman busts the myth that being married means feeling humdrum.

Mr Ganesh's job, issuing Indian visas to Afghans, often for medical treatment, sounds humdrum.

Jesus probably had his first revelations while doing humdrum carpentry work.

Fundamentally, though, the job for Asian policymakers has reverted to the humdrum business of balancing growth with price rises.

The good news is that I convinced them both To leave town. What do you care about humdrum humphrey anyway?

eg: It was a narrow, humdrum place.

You're right, Fred. It's just one humdrum day after another. -Look at us right now. Two able-bodied, red-blooded men, and what are we doing?

Now it is back to the humdrum business of serving the productive economy.

Film exhibition was until recently a humdrum business.

It is the gentle yet penetrating lucidity of Mr Eugenides's writing that makes a slightly humdrum plot into so involving a novel.

Nevada now needs humdrum jobs more than glitzy casinos.

They may marry, and sink to the humdrum of other old marry people.

They are not buying middle-class, humdrum clothes.

I pity those who lead a humdrum life year in year out.

The problem with putting yourself on a pedestal is that it is hard to get down from it and engage in the humdrum work of politics.

The work humdrum ed on for days.

But it is in humdrum cases, such as Mr Yusuf's, where no improvement has been seen.

What do you care about humdrum Humphrey anyway?

Though you have enough sleep, you will feel sleepy when you are humdrum.

The Governor's complaints against "adversaries" and "enemies" were more humdrum

the unvarying daily round oftheir humdrum lives

And dream not that such humdrum ways