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The second came more than three hours later on what they will remember as a long night of wasted opportunities.

This reform of the sugar market is yet another wasted opportunity.

Still, I can't help think of it as a wasted opportunity.

Indeed, the broadcast of last night's ceremony was a wasted opportunity.

To me that seems like a wasted opportunity to really connect people with science as it happens.

She noticed how his eyes darkened with the knowledge of wasted opportunity.

Many said they had wasted opportunities in childhood that would have saved them later.

If Tom only had the wasted opportunity back again!

What a wasted opportunity to make a real difference.

Instead it has been a wasted opportunity where the health of patients is used as a commodity for profit.

It is regrettable that this has been a wasted opportunity, in part.

Instead, it's behind him, in front of Silva, and a wasted opportunity to make this game safe.

In that respect, this was not a boring Summit, but instead yet another wasted opportunity.

Another wasted opportunity for the disabled to be heard.

This report represents a wasted opportunity to support a European policy for development based on social justice and solidarity.

We should be mourning for lives and wasted opportunities.

And what a wasted opportunity for the Roundabout too.

If I didn't challenge him, the interview would be a wasted opportunity".

The boy's mother used to say that a wasted opportunity wasn't just a missed chance, but was a wound to your future.

The Olympics feels like a massive wasted opportunity, with too much politics and not enough creativity.

Deporting them is an absolute shame and a wasted opportunity.

My character was never given anything meaningful to say and that was such a wasted opportunity.

This is a wasted opportunity to really get the most out of our displays, and the screen often feels cramped while playing.

Gone are other automatics, such as blown saves and wasted opportunities.

"There were some wasted opportunities and there weren't any later in the game. "

But this is really an example of a lost opportunity.

"But if he says no, it's a lost opportunity, particularly with a new president coming in."

This is a lost opportunity, in terms of growth, which we will no longer be able to allow.

I am afraid of the lost opportunities death will bring.

What might have been a watershed now seems another lost opportunity.

"It was a rather major lost opportunity," another official said.

And they pay the highest price - in lost opportunities.

Given the series's high ambitions, it's hard not to see the results as a lost opportunity.

The International collection, none of it older than 1995, is a lost opportunity.

However, all I have been trying to do is to steer things back to this lost opportunity.

But there is much ground and many lost opportunities to recover.

"It's a huge lost opportunity," a person close to the company said.

Still, fiscal experts view the last several years as a lost opportunity.

It could also mean a lost opportunity to promote respect for human rights.

For a moment all she thought of was the lost opportunity to aid the Queen.

Repeatedly, their lost opportunity turned out to be nothing more or less than a failure of white society to give.

It was also described as "at best, a lost opportunity".

He concedes, however, that this approach can mean lost opportunities.

He is not a romantic about football and lost opportunities.

But the program's proponents saw its passing as a lost opportunity.

"But there is no reason to speculate on lost opportunities," he said.

I think she's making up for a lot of lost opportunities!"

And he'd spent his life since regretting the lost opportunity.

For the most part, he felt numb, stunned by the lost opportunity.

Far too often, the quarterback position has been a cemetery of lost opportunity.

At that point he thought of her as a missed opportunity.

This is a missed opportunity if ever there was one.

But there were missed opportunities on the other side as well.

And so what I've said is there's been some missed opportunities.

This may not be a bad deal, but it's a missed opportunity.

If Coach had done anything else, it would have been a missed opportunity.

But their lead was immediately followed by a missed opportunity.

The debate about the missed opportunity has continued ever since.

All good stuff, no doubt, but perhaps a missed opportunity as well.

"But now I'm going to make up for all those missed opportunities."

Yeah, it's a missed opportunity because there is never a good time to lose.

And yet here he was once again, the victim of another missed opportunity.

That drive was just one of Army's many missed opportunities.

But think of each such tribunal as a missed opportunity.

May 21 was a day of missed opportunities for Grant.

"There must be no more missed opportunities," the king said.

In a game of missed opportunities, his will be remembered most.

The game began as one of missed opportunities for both teams.

Failure to agree terms will not just be a missed opportunity.

I also think it is a missed opportunity for the banks themselves.

The result is therefore a missed opportunity to do more to protect our water.

That was the missed opportunity, for now there could be no second surprise.

Here, where the show comes to life, one sees the missed opportunities.

Missed opportunity to raise funds for a good cause here.

For just an instant he had a sense of missed opportunity, as if such a chance might never come again.