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matter of

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a matter of doing something
something that needs to be done. Staying healthy as you age is often a matter of avoiding weight gain.
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a matter of something
an amount that can be measured. The guards will react to an alarm call within a matter of minutes. We were off our course by a matter of ten to twenty miles to the west.
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It is probably a matter of still more difficulty to determine their rights as citizens who are admitted to their freedom after any revolution in the state.
Yes; and we had before agreed that anything of this kind which we might find was to be described as matter of opinion, and not as matter of knowledge; being the intermediate flux which is caught and detained by the intermediate faculty.
On the one hand, many psychologists, especially those of the behaviourist school, tend to adopt what is essentially a materialistic position, as a matter of method if not of metaphysics.
 
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