For a while it looked as if things were going to be irreconcilable. Getting it down to six was the hard graft.

A way out: irreconcilable differences over documents.

I looked up at the score several times (and said), 'Alright, we're at six, let's just keep cutting it.' ? It was definitely frustrating. We were looking for that one basket just to get over that little hump.

Sighed and looked, and sighed again.

the judges felt the level of the short-listed novels was as high as it can ever have been.

Technology will be key to economic development. These numbers and these trends are disturbing.