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- Australian sports teams win more than their fair share of titles, demolishing rivals with seeming ease.
- If IgA levels suddenly fall below a certain level, training is eased or propped altogether.
- At the Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996, these sliced as much as two per cent off cyclists' and rowers' time.
what does these sentences mean especially the bold part? And I appreciate if you provide me any extra grammatical tips in these sentences you think I'm better to know.
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1. "more than one's fair share" of something means more than you would expect if that thing was shared among people equally. "fair share" is a set phrase.
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- "more than one's fair share" of something means more than you would expect if that thing was shared among people equally.
- "fair share" is a set phrase.
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- I assume that "propped" is a typo for "dropped" (meaning "stopped").
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1. "more than one's fair share" of something means more than you would expect if that thing was shared among people equally. "fair share" is a set phrase.
2. I assume that "propped" is a typo for "dropped" (meaning "stopped").
3. "time" should read "times". It means that cyclists' and rowers' times were reduced by up to two per cent.
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