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Although the beauty of the metric system is its foundation on decimal values , which has sold it to every country in the world except the United States , and some other oddballs - - though even American customary units are officially defined in metric terms - - some customary units and strange usages have been retained or crept in for convenience . The work was left unfinished , with welfare state white elephants , like the National Health Service , left untouched , though even now British unemployment is far from the double digits familiar in Euro-socialist France and Germany . " jokes seems mean-spirited , though completely in character . B & H is generally very good , but you 'd get only 7 days to return a digicam , though presumably without a restocking fee if you returned it in sufficiently good condition . Each county had three Coroners and a poor man who had to walk behind their horses , carrying the " Coroners ' Rolls " and pen and ink : a Medieval Coroner 's Officer , you might call him ; though even this minor office was abolished in later years to provide for another Coroner . The great column height is probably too much as well ; the largest phreatic column in 1924 just reached 9 km , though even that would have been enough to impact present-day interisland air traffic . The contagion spread to northern cities as well , though imperfectly . MILLION DOLLAR BABY ( B + ) Well , I suppose there had to be more to this than just " gruff trainer reluctantly admits girls can box , " though once established , the second-half change of direction ( it 's okay , I 'll be vague ) follows a fairly predictable path itself .