How To Use Leicester In A Sentence
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The sight of the fireball was followed by a sonic boom as the meteorite exploded into thousands of pieces over Barwell near Leicester.
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But they escaped the relegation trapdoor by just one point as Leicester were held at Stoke.
The Sun
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The two other witnesses interviewed are a former senior council official and a former lord mayor of Leicester.
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When standing on the dancefloor, I could have been in any typical club around Leicester Square or Piccadilly Circus… plenty of drunks, try-hards, sleazes, idiots, and easy girls all packed in.
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Leicester were full of verve and energy and, basically, bewildered most of the opposition last season.
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I was brought up in Leicestershire and I used to play for the county team at Under 15 to Under 19 level.
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Earlier this season he was lobbed by an opposing keeper which cost Leicester City all three points.
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On the baize, the balls roll on, but the former stars who now commentate cannot resist blathering about the Jester from Leicester or the Wizard of Wishaw.
In praise of ... 'Whispering' Ted Lowe | Editorial
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The sides played each other four times last season but only once did Leicester come out on top.
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The Bath coach Steve Meehan has given his criticised fly-half Butch James his full support ahead of Saturday's Heineken Cup quarter-final at Leicester
Leicester 12-26 Bath | LV Cup match report
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Darren Staples/Reuters A man with an illuminated gumshield at the start of Diwali celebrations in Leicester, England, Sunday.
India in Pictures
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A native of Leicester, she's now a resident of Düsseldorf from where she runs an ‘assessment and certification’ consultancy.
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Leicester inhabits the world of the policy wonk, the person who provides the meat of politics, while staying out of the soap opera of characters which dominate the way politics is often perceived through the media.
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Wisden owned a sporting goods and tobacconist shop in London's Leicester Square and in 1864 he brought out the first edition of his cricketers' almanac, which has been published every year since.
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Leicester and tries are becoming only distant cousins at the moment.
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The body of King Richard III was treated with much indignity. Trussed naked over a horse and besmirched with mud, it was borne in parade to Leicester, a sad spectacle.
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Sir Leicester, for all his scrupulous politeness, is unable to assist her, and is left behind.
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Still hopeful, he returns to Leicester and sits in a cold sweat, watching the screen of his mobile phone until the text drops just after 10.
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Leicester were glum and Bath were almost gleeful.
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But Leicester made that sort of argument redundant last season.
The Sun
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Thereafter, he systematically dismantled the Leicestershire attack with selective strokeplay of the highest class.
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Leicester were playing Leinster yesterday in the European Cup quarter-final at the Aviva Stadium.
Fears over Queen's visit to Irish republican landmarks
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His adoptive parents were solicitors from Leicestershire.
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Leicester and tries are becoming only distant cousins at the moment.
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Bug beaten: A new vaccine against an which kills 10 million people a year worldwide has been developed at Leicester University.
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The York ranks prevailed at home, but were unable to match that supremacy away at Leicester for the overall loss.
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There were the sari shops with Hindu down from Leicester.
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The largest hoard of Iron Age gold and silver coins yet found in Britain was found by a detectorist walking a field in Leicestershire earlier this year.
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They have already trialled the idea and are set to open two large salons in Leicester and Chesterfield.
The Sun
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Three goal scoring chances were conjured up by Swindon, only to be magicked away by Leicester.
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Leicester are still scratching that itch.
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The streets of Leicester become soaked with comedy for the 21st annual festival.
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Thereafter, he systematically dismantled the Leicestershire attack with selective strokeplay of the highest class.
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He was compelled to take an external London degree at the fledgling University College, Leicester.
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He arrived in England for a trial with Leicester but visa problems robbed both parties of what could have been a fruitful relationship.
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But he won a recall at Leicester two weeks ago and gave a defensive masterclass in a 1-0 win.
The Sun
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In the wintry weeks that followed he remained in the No3 shirt as the Leicester scrum did its worst to high-flying Saracens at Vicarage Road, then – and particularly wince-worthy this demolition job – to a Wasps pack, complete with Simon Shaw and England's incumbent loosehead, Tim Payne, a Lion no less.
Dan Cole the tighthead Tiger who is too good to ditch
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Even though Newcastle were on the wrong end of a hiding against Leicester last weekend, May repaid Andrew's faith by setting up Newcastle's two tries.
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Leicester have spent all season proving many of the things we hold true to be badly wrong.
Times, Sunday Times
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For Leicester, the bottom club, teenager Kitson is likely to retain his place in attack.
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Twelvetrees does not have the control and consistent goalkicking of Staunton but that hardly mattered against a Leeds side who could not cope with Leicester's power at the scrum and all-round velocity.
Billy Twelvetrees revels in new role as Leicester hammer Leeds
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His score of 29 had helped Leicestershire reach a presentable total.
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The two other witnesses interviewed are a former senior council official and a former lord mayor of Leicester.
Times, Sunday Times
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Leicester had failed to score in three successive matches but their pipe dream would become an astounding reality over the next four months.
The Sun
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Last night Mr Claydon was critically ill in a Leicester hospital burns unit.
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The England manager has Leicester's Dan Cole as his established tighthead, with Davey Wilson of Bath in contention, while Gloucester's Paul Doran-Jones, rated by both Vickery and the England management, understudies Sale's Andrew Sheridan at loosehead.
'Enough's enough' says England and Wasps iron man Phil Vickery
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It was the sheer physicality of Leicester's game that induced a rash of penalties from the visiting team.
Times, Sunday Times
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Life at Leicester continues to reach giddy heights.
Times, Sunday Times
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He did recover his composure and went on an hour-long walkabout with the Leicester Square crowds, signing autographs and chatting on mobile phones in customary fashion.
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You usually can't go far wrong with Cheddar or Red Leicester.
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The aircraft has been languishing in a hangar on a wartime airfield at Bruntingthorpe in Leicestershire where enthusiasts have so far raised £400,000 to keep it well-maintained.
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Experts who found the monarch's skeleton under a council parking lot in Leicester reconstructed his face from the skull.
The Sun
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This study was funded by the Leicestershire Neurological Trust, a Registered Charitable Organization in the United Kingdom.
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Their affinity with the Leicester public, too, is unsurpassed.
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Leonardo's best feat of brainstorming is the illustrated stream-of-consciousness notebook "Codex Leicester," which is on loan to the show from that billionaire brainstormer Bill Gates.
The Real Leonardo
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On reception into prison, the man gave an address in Leicester, where he said he had been living with an unnamed friend.
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As last season stuttered to its unsatisfactory end, Leicester seemed to be a symbol of changing times.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Association has recently purchased a large, detached house in a residential area of Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.
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In those days, long before comic shops were conceivable, especially in the nowheresville, Leicestershire where I lived, American comics were as rare and sporadic a presence as nylons in wartime.
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They picked themselves up, dusted themselves down, pulled together and went at Leicester like cornered wild dogs.
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It builds on work undertaken by the researcher on the first generation in Leicester, thus providing a basis for intergenerational comparison.
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A survey of general practitioners in Leicestershire has shown they are seriously dissatisfied with the systems in place for handling controlled drugs such as opiates.
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I bank with Alliance & Leicester, which offers travel insurance as part of its account service.
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Mark Johnston, who withdrew all three of his intended runners at Leicester yesterday in protest at the lack of stabling at the course, will have no such complaints tomorrow at the Headquarters of racing.
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We went to a little Italian restaurant near Leicester Square.
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We went to a little Italian restaurant near Leicester Square.
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Burlesque shows have been seeping into theatreland for a while now, and one, The Hurly Burly Show, returns after a successful Leicester Square Theatre run.
This week's new theatre
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On the baize, the balls roll on, but the former stars who now commentate cannot resist blathering about the Jester from Leicester or the Wizard of Wishaw.
In praise of ... 'Whispering' Ted Lowe | Editorial
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In such a county as Leicestershire, foxes are not "accidentally" killed, but when so, what bewailings over the "late lamented!" what anathemas upon the villain's head who is suspected of "vulpicide"!
Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a
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Leicester are now urging rugby union's governing bodies in the northern and southern hemispheres to agree to a date for such a fixture next term.
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However I'm currently cleansing my palette by finishing off my festival photography show (all will be revealed eventually) and by making a set of classic, plain pots and bowls in undyed British fleeces and yarns - Black Welsh, Blue Faced Leicester, North Ronaldsay and Jacob sheep, possibly some Wensleydale too.
Imaginary Invertebrates Galore!
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Leicester nudged ahead again thanks to a Flood penalty but they were struggling to get any momentum against a powerful Clermont defence.
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Two hours later Shelley glumly rescued her over-baked potato from the oven, grated some Red Leicester over it and ate at the kitchen table.
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Situated in Leicester Square, in the shell of the collapsed superclub Home, the new Marquee couldn't appear more different from the original.
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More recently, he has masterminded the rise and rise of the Leicester club he played for with distinction and he cites several reasons for their current omnipotent state.
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A win over Leicestershire would have left them top of their group but now they need to overcome Durham to get back on track for qualifying for the quarter final stages of the competition.
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Leicester and tries are becoming only distant cousins at the moment.
Times, Sunday Times
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Within 10 minutes Leicester were in full cry for the distant try line.
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Adrian Mole is 35 and works in a second-hand book shop in Leicester.
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In south-east Leicestershire two anthropoid shells of local manufacture are to be found in an extensive seventeenth-century vault.
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Leicester in the lunchtime kick-off tomorrow will be an early judgment day.
The Sun
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Doctors at Leicester Royal Infirmary are to assess the benefits of giving magnesium to heart attack victims immediately after an attack.
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By 1840, a locally financed firm of British machinists adopted water-powered machines, to make woolen and merino shirts and drawers like those of their native Leicester.
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Of course, only a low-down sneak would at this point suggest that such a punitive policy should include hefty fines for wealthy parents whose children are found being sick in Leicester Square after completing their exams.
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Morrison awarded them a contentious penalty try after Leicester's pack brought down Bath's drive from a lineout.
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But Johnson's latest performance in the red and green of Leicester showed that he still has a ravenous appetite for club rugby.
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A photo of Leicester Tigers decorates the wall behind him, beside French windows that offer an uninterrupted view of fields.
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Experts who found the monarch's skeleton under a council parking lot in Leicester reconstructed his face from the skull.
The Sun
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Young gen'lm'n, Rugby; three parcels, Leicester; hamper o 'game, Rugby," answers hostler.
Tom Brown's Schooldays
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Born in Montfort, he was well received by Henry when he arrived in England in 1230, allowed to claim the earldom of Leicester, and married the king's youngest sister Eleanor.
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They are in second place, only 11 points adrift of Surrey, but fourth-placed Leicestershire could also come into the reckoning if they defeat Yorkshire.
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Leicester raised their game to score the crucial try with twelve minutes to go.
Times, Sunday Times
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Red Leicester would be ideal for making macaroni cheese.
Times, Sunday Times
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Leicester had failed to score in three successive matches but their pipe dream would become an astounding reality over the next four months.
The Sun
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Leicester Square which is a centre of attraction to indifferent foreign hotels and indifferent foreigners, racket – courts, fighting – men, swordsmen, footguards, old china, gaming – houses, exhibitions, and a large medley of shabbiness and shrinking out of sight.
Bleak House
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But Leicester is first and foremost.
The Sun
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In spite of his more serious subjects of distress, Tressilian could not help feeling that he, with his riding-suit, however handsome it might be, made rather an unworthy figure among these “fierce vanities,” and the rather because he saw that his deshabille was the subject of wonder among his own friends, and of scorn among the partisans of Leicester.
Kenilworth
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D alated to commercial ice machines from fireroom practicably his leicestershire that the cuboidal fortunella is to centralised the zigadene and middling poultry flashily unoriginal.
Rational Review
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Leicester are overwhelming favourites to finish as champions.
The Sun
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Leicester made a mockery of their lowly position.
The Sun
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Leicester have spent all season proving many of the things we hold true to be badly wrong.
Times, Sunday Times
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Leicester were being overrun in midfield and their defence looked as leaky as a colander.
The Sun
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And so "basting," as he said, "with a weak body and a willing mind; to do, he feared, no good work," he set forth from Middelburgh to rejoin Leicester at Arnheim, in order to obey, as well as he could, the
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Leicester's next Premiership match is away to Birmingham City on Saturday.
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She had always wanted to be a nurse and turned her childhood dream into a reality when she signed up for nurse training at Leicester Hospital 13 years ago.
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In Leicester, though, they treat those twin impostors, panic and the ticking clock, with disdain.
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Sir Leicester has no objection to an interminable chancey suit.
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But Johnson's latest performance in the red and green of Leicester showed that he still has a ravenous appetite for club rugby.
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Leicester's feat will go down in the annals of history as the most unlikely in any major sporting sphere.
The Sun
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Leicester fans had arrived expecting to see an embarrassing goal drought finally brought to an abrupt end.
The Sun
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The study, led by Dr Hasan Jilaihawi (Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK), also singled out postprocedural anatomical factors affecting the left ventricular outflow tract, such as septal hypertrophy and the
TheHeart.org
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The idea of the great house as a pattern for everyone is already an anachronism in the mind of Sir Leicester.
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The former Leicester City boss also believes that Porto's time-wasting and all-round behaviour made a mockery of UEFA's Fair Play campaign.
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The Association has recently purchased a large, detached house in a residential area of Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire.
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Conversely, victory for Bath leaves them very much in the title hunt, hot on the heels of Leicester.
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Leicestershire and Cambridgeshire the name _eddish_ prevails, I am told, and hence _eddish cheese_, made from the milk of cows which have grazed
Notes and Queries, Number 196, July 30, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
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In May 1645 Prince Rupert captured Leicester, forcing the parliamentarians to raise the siege of Oxford.
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Leicester see him as the ideal man to repair their tarnished reputation after a number of controversial incidents.
The Sun
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While this is but mere anecdotal evidence of what remains achievable in modern rugby union, Leicester certainly look and play like a team reborn.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whenever his Wanderers team were awarded a free-kick in Leicester territory he placed two players in what can only be described as wildly offside positions inside the penalty area.
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After his death his body was dissected and scattered at various rural spots in Hertfordshire and Leicestershire.
The Sun
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Leicester statute book: By water, Earth and heavenly body system ".
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Sir Leicester has no objection to an interminable chancey suit.
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So far Stilton and Cheddar are doing good, but they would love to have us eat more Sage Derby, Leicester and Double Gloucester cheese too!
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Leicester then elected not to kick a penalty that could have squared the game and failed to secure a try.
The Sun
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We went to a little Italian restaurant near Leicester Square.
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Leicester looked second best all afternoon and their lack of discipline, with three yellow cards, also cost them dear.
The Sun
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Leicester City are the first reigning champions for more than 50 years to lose three consecutive away league games by at least three goals.
Times, Sunday Times
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It clearly did not go unnoticed at Leicester, where he had a successful loan spell four seasons back.
The Sun
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In the chauvinistic mood of the 1918 election MacDonald suffered a heavy defeat at Leicester.
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The theatre over, Mr. George comes across the water again and makes his way to that curious region lying about the Haymarket and Leicester Square which is a centre of attraction to indifferent foreign hotels and indifferent foreigners, racket-courts, fighting - men, swordsmen, footguards, old china, gaming-houses, exhibitions, and a large medley of shabbiness and shrinking out of sight.
Bleak House
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Leicester played some decent football but, unless they find a prolific finisher fast, they are going to spend the campaign in a relegation dogfight.
The Sun
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Leicester failed to muster a shot on target in a league game for the first time since May 2015?
Times, Sunday Times
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Perhaps it was a sounding about Sir Leicester's KCMG: Knight Commander.
KARA KUSH
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Andrew was a member of the Rotary, a knight of St John Ambulance, divisional surgeon at the local ironworks, and a member of Leicester and Nottingham medical associations.
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In Leicestershire he would be regarded as a hunting man, while in his own district he is known as a vulpicide, for Reynard is seldom, if ever, found in his coverts.
The Horsewoman A Practical Guide to Side-Saddle Riding, 2nd. Ed.
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Leicester offer ￡20,000, car, and pension as bait for coaching director.
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Leicester were being overrun in midfield and their defence looked as leaky as a colander.
The Sun
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In 1996, the Blue Box mobile theatre made its final journey to Leicestershire to become the centrepiece of an exhibition of touring and travelling theatre.
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Wheeler is categorical that this has played a large part in Leicester's success.
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In fact, as to this question of opposition, the fair Dedlock's observation was superfluous, Sir Leicester on these occasions always delivering in his own candidateship, as a kind of handsome wholesale order to be promptly executed.
Bleak House
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But O'Neill was then Leicester manager, officially unapproachable.
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Leicester have spent all season proving many of the things we hold true to be badly wrong.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were the sari shops with Hindu down from Leicester.
Times, Sunday Times
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IV. bore the office tt of escheator of the counties of Warwick and Leicester.
Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical
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Given the lack of data describing the way multiplex cinemas are used by different consumer factions, an extensive survey was completed in Leicester.
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Having opted for a formation that he thought would beat Leicester, David O Leary saw it blow up in his face.
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Most visitors to London gravitate to Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square.
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He will be expected to reproduce that form at Leicester City.
Times, Sunday Times
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The two other witnesses interviewed are a former senior council official and a former lord mayor of Leicester.
Times, Sunday Times
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For Leicester, the bottom club, teenager Kitson is likely to retain his place in attack.
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John Gosden's exciting colt fulfilled previous promise when winning an above-average maiden race at Leicester in the style of a useful performer.
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It was Charlton who stopped a winning streak at the end of last season which cost Leicester automatic promotion.
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Leicester fans had arrived expecting to see an embarrassing goal drought finally brought to an abrupt end.
The Sun
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Police were today setting up extra patrols outside schools in Leicester to stop pupils walking out to join an anti-war demonstration.
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His web of deceit finally unravelled at Leicester Royal Infirmary when, as Reed told police, the hospital visits of the three wives ‘went out of sync and they all arrived at once’.
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Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and to a lesser extent East Anglia, are full of place-names ending in by, thorp, and other Scandinavian elements.
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Leicester failed to muster a shot on target in a league game for the first time since May 2015?
Times, Sunday Times
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By the time the league was back to normal in March, it was clear that the race for the title rested between Spurs, Leicester and Everton.
Football news, match reports and fixtures | guardian.co.uk
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Masters, the 33-year-old Essex seamer, is in many ways the archetypal journeyman cricketer but here he seized the advantage of a helpful pitch and a dispirited opposition to claim the outrageous figures of eight for 10 as Leicestershire were brushed aside for 34 in 88 balls.
Essex v Leicestershire | County Championship match report
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Two tube journeys later, we found ourselves bimbling around Leicester Square until we eventually found the Prince Charles "art" cinema.
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He will be expected to reproduce that form at Leicester City.
Times, Sunday Times
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Having cycled out of Sheffield on Saturday, the team are due to arrive at Trafalgar Square today? via Nottingham, Loughborough, Leicester, Stratford, Oxford and Reading? then to finish at Earl's Court, the 2012 volleyball venue, saddle-sore, but undaunted.
London 2012 Olympics: Volleyball players on their bikes to raise cash
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The two other witnesses interviewed are a former senior council official and a former lord mayor of Leicester.
Times, Sunday Times
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Five thousand fans lined the streets outside the Odeon cinema in London's Leicester Square for the film premiere.
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Leicester City are the first reigning champions for more than 50 years to lose three consecutive away league games by at least three goals.
Times, Sunday Times
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Except that Leicester were not reading the writing.
Times, Sunday Times
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In London, young bachelors – most of them military men – didn’t consider themselves men if they weren’t chucked from the Empire Theatre on Leicester Square at least once in their lifetime.
The Bachelor Life | Edwardian Promenade
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Leicester fielded what was virtually a reserve team and still won at a canter.
Times, Sunday Times
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Picture the scene: the boardroom at fashion retailer Next's head office in Leicester.
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They have the running power and energy of Leicester, but with more skilful players.
Times, Sunday Times
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On a bitterly wet and windy day at an old airfield in Leicestershire I had reason to question both claims.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dave Bassett has earmarked Craig Hignett as his first Leicester signing.
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Leicester rarely threatened to pierce the Manchester United defence.
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Pearson alleged that Ward barged into Leicester's dressing room towards the end of the interval as he was talking to his players.
Leicester City 2-2 Middlesbrough | Championship match report
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Leicester were just one goal from leapfrogging them.
The Sun
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He said on Friday that if he had been given a straight choice between the Scotland job and the Leicester one, he would have taken the latter.
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Leicester then elected not to kick a penalty that could have squared the game and failed to secure a try.
The Sun
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Leicester, despite finishing top after the 22-game regular league season, never threatened to hit top gear during a match they began seeking a title hat-trick for the second time.
Evening Standard - Home
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He was aiming to attend three gala premieres of the film in one day, starting at Manchester and jetting on to Birmingham and finally London's Leicester Square.
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Ironically, when Leicester did run at the opposition, the previously secure Quins looked vulnerable.
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Leicester hospitals declared a crisis and urged patients to stay away because waiting times were so long.
Times, Sunday Times
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Leicester are still scratching that itch.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Researchers' Co-Operative was just off Leicester Square, reached through an alley alongside one of the big prestige cinemas.
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Dressed in a low-cut black dress, the brunette beauty spent more than an hour signing autographs for the excited 500-strong crowd in Leicester Square.
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Mr. Perry, who married one of the coheiresses of the Sidneys, Earls of Leicester, built a fine seat at Turville park, and was sheriff of the county in 1741.
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The lands in Atterton were held of the king, as of the honor of Leicester, in free socage, by suit of court and a rent of 3s. 4d., and worth 2s.
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Leicester do not have a game in the next two weeks and a mini-break in warmer climes might accelerate Croft's recovery more than hitting tackle bags in Bagshot.
Leicester 14-15 Saracens | Aviva Premiership match report
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Leicester hospitals declared a crisis and urged patients to stay away because waiting times were so long.
Times, Sunday Times
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PW - I don't know about any more Eiffels in Blighty but there used to be a baby Statue of Liberty on a hosiery factory roof in Leicester.
Destination Moon
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Mark Chilton then got Lancashire's reply off to a flier with a confident 57, sharing an opening stand of 71 with Alec Swann before Leicester hit back with three late wickets.
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Scientists at Leicester University hope to develop a new kind of nanoparticle that could improve cancer treatment and MRI scans.
The Engineer - News
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He was quick to let Leicester know he was in a happy frame of mind, skipping early on with pace down the left wing.
Times, Sunday Times
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He got 18 months suspended at Leicester crown court after admitting affray and criminal damage.
The Sun
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Red Leicester would be ideal for making macaroni cheese.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the Odeon cinema in Leicester square, children were enjoying a Jurassic park triple bill, willing the velociraptors to appear but terrified when they did.
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Aldborough free school, a primary in Redbridge in east London, and Krishna-Avanti primary in Leicester are among 24 new schools opening this week and next.
Secondary school where every teacher will be a soldier
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Based largely on the lush Hastings archives in the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, it is the story of Henry Hastings, fifth earl of Huntingdon, and his lord lieutenancy of Leicestershire in the early seventeenth century.
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Having come through the Leicester mill, he says that coach John Wells and the senior Tigers players will use the reverse by Gloucester to goad their team.
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Leicestershire won by an innings and 151 runs after amassing 681-7 declared which is the highest score ever made against Yorkshire by any county.
