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I

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• To keep the setup time down, ...

• This cut (or reduced, or decreased) cleaning time over 50 percent from old methods.

• The device cuts down engineering man hours.

• To cut (or trim, or reduce) the cost of ...

• Coalescence into the Gulf Stream often cuts short the life of an eddy.

II (матем.)

• Like factors can be cancelled from the numerator and denominator.

• We cancel two out of that fraction.

III

• The electron volt will (now) be abbreviated to eV.