How To Use Nought In A Sentence

Above: South Shore terminus with four Dreadnoughts in line abreast, demonstrating their legendary capacity to absorb crowds.
When Sir Beaumains heard him say thus, he said, Sir knight, thou art full large of my horse and my harness; I let thee wit it cost thee nought, and whether it liketh thee or not, this laund will I pass maugre thine head. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
Nought is another way of saying zero.
But Mousie, thou art no thy lane, in proving foresight may be vain; the best-laid schemes o 'mice an' men gang aft agley, an 'lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, for promis'd joy. Roy M. Pitkin: Happy Birthday, Robert Burns
Net firms are in the process of moving to version 6 of the IP addressing scheme, which offers more than 3 undecillion individual numbers 3 with 38 noughts BBC News - Home

Nought is left undone but the inearthing of the dead.
It appears that the director made use of actual WW2 era (American?) destroyers and added some smoke stacks and flying bridges to them – to simulate Japanese pre-dreadnought ships. 2009 August 21 « Third Point of Singularity
No need to read this sheet and personally I believe that this jujement redned by a corrupted court under a corrupted judge and ploted by an industry of criminal parasites is beraly fgood enought to be use aas toilet paper. Pirate Bay verdict online: depth and detail
How am I supposed to get nostalgic for the early Noughties already? Times, Sunday Times
Sales rose by nought point four per cent last month.
Cedar and white ash, rock-cedar and sand plants and tamarisk red cedar and white cedar and black cedar from the inmost forest, fragrance upon fragrance and all of my sea-magic is for nought. Hymen
It is the number one followed by 12 noughts; a trillion pounds is roughly equivalent to the combined gross domestic product of the world's 155 least wealthy nations.
The more precise figure is a big number with a lot of noughts: £5,842, 700,000,000!
Then, when hunger made them desire to go on with the repast, finding there was nought upon the table, they called clamorously for the cook. The Canterbury Puzzles And Other Curious Problems
'Twas granted him not that ever the edge of iron at all could help him at strife: too strong was his hand, so the tale is told, and he tried too far with strength of stroke all swords he wielded, though sturdy their steel: they steaded him nought. Beowulf
I'm despert -- I'm despert, as far as I think of myself, but there's nought -- _nought_ -- as I wouldn't do to serve A Girl of the People
On mentioning the above to another birdcatcher he gave a huge snort of dissatisfaction, and roundly swore that my man knew "nought about it," for he always set his cages as near the nets as possible; "for don't it stand to reason," quoth he, "that if you set your cages fur away, your 'call birds' will 'tice the wild' uns down round 'em? an' they won't come near your nets. 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
No surprise, then, that in the compassionate noughties, the antimaterialist backlash has begun. Times, Sunday Times
Forsooth she wondered that the stark and gruff old man was so changed to her in little space; for nought she knew as yet how the sight of her cast a hot gleed of love into the hearts of them who beheld her. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
Hieland sowens by Mr. Duncan MacDonought, the last minister, who began the morning duly, Sunday and Saturday, with a mutchkin of usquebaugh. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
Our electronic search ended in nought but disappointment. Slumdog Millionaire Wins All The BAFTAs. All Of Them.
Ships of War, "round" and "long"; trireme; penteconter; liburna; galley; dromon; galleas; junk; Viking craft; galleon; two and three-deckers; steam; submarine; destroyer; battle cruiser; dreadnought A History of Sea Power
Lifted from their debut EP, this minimalistic yet charmingly whimsical slice of lo-fi alt-folk opens with nought but a lone slappy bass riff and jerky surreal prose, before blossoming out into a cacophony of wondrous twangy noises, and ends up sounding like Badly Drawn Boy, Sufjan Stevens and a parliament of owls caught up in a weird feathery, beardy group hug, happily tumbling down an upwards escalator in slow motion. This week's new singles
The cross represents the masculine side of his face, the nought represents the feminine side.
[195] "The Hindus call the nought explicitly _ ['s] [= u] nyabindu_ 'the dot marking a blank,' and about 500 A.D. they marked it by a simple dot, which latter is commonly used in inscriptions and MSS. in order to mark a blank, and which was later converted into a small circle. The Hindu-Arabic Numerals
The commision is negotiable, 6% for the 1st 100k and 1 or 2% for the rest is good enought for these do nothings. Real estate agents are next « BuzzMachine
The driver tried to swerve out of he way but it was for nought: they hit the other vehicle head on and died in a blaze of fire.
McQueen really belongs to the 'loadsamoney' 1990s and early 'Noughties'. Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed
Tartars be most insolent, and they scorne and set nought by all other noble and ignoble persons whatsoeuer. The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini
In Frost at Midnight, Coleridge, with his young son at his side, muses on his own childhood in London, where he ‘saw nought lovely but the sky and stars’.
‘All the financial investment would have been for nought if our staff were working with sour faces and a grudging attitude,’ he said.
The lawsuit came to nought but the couple a divorced. Times, Sunday Times
Nor was there in the second innings when he was again out for nought to complete a treble failure. Great Sporting Failures
Intending to describe the spring of the yeare, which euery man knoweth of himselfe, hearing the day of March named: the verses be very good the figure nought worth, if it were meant in Periphrase for the matter, that is the season of the yeare which should haue bene couertly disclosed by ambage, was by and by blabbed out by naming the day of the moneth, & so the purpose of the figure disapointed, peraduenture it had bin better to haue said thus: The Arte of English Poesie
There be two of these things; and one is an image of a tall woman of middle-age, red-haired, white - skinned, and meagre, and whiles she has a twiggen rod in her hand, and whiles a naked short sword, and whiles nought at all. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
Thus a privileged land-tenure was created -- bookland; the rules as to the succession of kinsmen were set at nought by concession of testamentary power and confirmations of grants and wills; special exemptions from the jurisdiction of the hundreds and special privileges as to levying fines were conferred. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
At last, on a morning when the dame had bidden her to nought of work, Birdalone took her bow in her hand and cast her quiver on her back, and went her ways into the wood, and forgat not the tress of The Water of the Wondrous Isles
Any story where a space-pirate wielding a space-axe could chop through a ray-shielded space-airlock, kidnap a beautiful space-princess and escape in a space-superdreadnought over a mile long, destroying at least one or perhaps two planets during the resulting space-battle, without this seeming in any particular out of place with the scale, scope, drive or moral code portrayed in the rest of the story, then the story is a Space Opera. SF Tidbits for 10/2/06
The most perfectly honed field configuration is for nought when you have a dibbly dobbly part-timer like Mike Hussey helping the batsmen get their eye in and boost their batting average. Cricket-Blog.com
It is home where the criminal attitude of the children towards women could be prevented and thus the crimes against women in the future could be brought to nought.
Merry is he that hath nought to lose.
Sailors dash around in fearnought firefighting suits.
Hiatt's eponymous Gibson dreadnought buzzed and untuned itself throughout the two-hour performance, which added a rock-and-roll edge to the unplugged affair. In concert: Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt at the Birchmere
We must talk, think, and live up to the spirit of the times, and write up to it too, if that cacoethes be upon us, or else we are nought. Barchester Towers
Merry is he that hath nought to lose.
Lifted up on this stately mound, whose top is fanned with air as light to breathe as nitrous oxide gas -- and bivouacked on its very ridge, (where nought on earth is seen in distance save the thousand treeless, bushless, weedless hills of grass and vivid green which all around me vanish into an infinity of blue and azure), stretched on our bears 'skins, my fellow-traveller, Mr. Wood, and myself, have laid and contemplated the splendid orrery of the heavens. Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians
Finding the ideal love match has never been more difficult for the ‘have-it-all’ generation of the noughties.
But if the proposition is that State amendment rules can displace and effectively set at nought the Commonwealth limitation, then we obviously would have difficulty and reject that proposition.
Nought venture, nought have [gain, win].
He started and gazed around "Solitude!" cried he, with a faint smile; "nought is here, but Wallace and his sorrow. The Scottish Chiefs
In the Noughties, the job spec of a model has grown considerably. The Sun
So I opened the ambry, and within it was even more gloriously wrought than without; and there was nought therein, save The Water of the Wondrous Isles
The lawsuit came to nought but the couple a divorced. Times, Sunday Times
But he is determined not to let the drama plunge him back into the darkness he felt after his career nosedived in the early Noughties. The Sun
Queen Elizabeth might do it, but how likely was it that the Admiralty would permit the prize superdreadnought to be exposed to the dangers involved in entering the Sea of Marmara? Castles of Steel
The Spy" by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott is a wonderfully written and historically fascinating espionage novel set in pre-World War I America, in which our hero, Isaac Bell a characteristically brilliant and strong Yale man, stops a slew of Japanese, German and English spies who are trying to break America's secret program to build the most powerful dreadnought battleships and control the world's waters. Twelve Months of Reading
Most of the Crustacean's money-making schemes came to nought.
The superdreadnought Chicago, as she approached the imaginary but nevertheless sharply defined boundary, which no other ship had been allowed to pang, went inert and crept forward, mile by mile. First Lensman
Above: South Shore terminus with four Dreadnoughts in line abreast, demonstrating their legendary capacity to absorb crowds.
Afterwards the clergy introduced a system by which the owner could grant the 'bookland,' held by book or charter, setting at nought the claim of his kinsmen, and in order to give validity to the arrangement, obtained the consent of the king and his Witenagemot (see p. 45). A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII
No longer is the Tory party what it was in the 90s and early noughties - a preserve of old men who have something of the night about them, seeming Vulcans or sexless husks readily satirised with grey underpants outside their trousers.
I have becket my vonderbilt hutch in sunsmidnought and at morningrise was encampassed of mushroofs. Finnegans Wake
But here and now in the noughties, Governments do care.
He took sabbatarianism as a type of the things that should be set at nought. De Profundis
Then he turned and went slowly up the stair, and came out on to the open face of that Isle, and he saw that it was waste indeed, and dreadful: a wilderness of black sand and stones and ice-borne rocks, with here and there a little grass growing in the hollows, and here and there a dreary mire where the white-tufted rushes shook in the wind, and here and there stretches of moss blended with red-blossomed sengreen; and otherwhere nought but the wind-bitten creeping willow clinging to the black sand, with a white bleached stick and a leaf or two, and again a stick and a leaf. The Story of the Glittering Plain; or, the land of Living Men
The "dreadnought" body style was one of these triumphs; it included a larger, deeper body that provided more volume and bass resonance. Five Great Depression Success Stories
When it lunged out of the cloudbank the dreadnought's gunners had only a few seconds to fire and the one shell that hit bounced off the cruiser's streamlined hull. Sun of Suns
Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit or zero / nought degrees Celsius .
While it has kept last year's two-star rating (out of a possible nought to three stars) it has risen towards the top of this level.
There be two of these things; and one is an image of a tall woman of middle-age, red-haired, white-skinned, and meagre, and whiles she has a twiggen rod in her hand, and whiles a naked short sword, and whiles nought at all. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
The senior surgeon at the Dreadnought Seamen's Hospital had a series of incomparable radiographs of bladder and renal chyluria.
Last seen in the Noughties, metallic and shimmer nails are back in the spotlight. Times, Sunday Times
I love the pre-dreadnought era of naval history, with its giant flaring brass ventilator shafts, underpowered guns, white paint and coal funnels. 2010 March 30 « Third Point of Singularity
It's hard to imagine a worse way to rebalance the economy away from the excesses of the Noughties. Times, Sunday Times
Under the command of Admiral Firmus Piett from the Star Dreadnought Executor, the Imperial fleet engaged the Rebels in an effort to annihilate them once and for all.
I wept bitterly; and clasping my hands in agony, I exclaimed, "Oh! stars and clouds, and winds, ye are all about to mock me: if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness. Chapter 17
To calm the First Sea Lord, Churchill immediately agreed to bring the superdreadnought home and to replace her at the Dardanelles with new monitors carrying 14-inch guns. Castles of Steel
Just to see a ‘one’ with those six noughts next to it is hard to believe.
Sales rose by nought point four per cent last month.
However in their earnestness to achieve optimum results some voluntary organisations tend to lose direction, often resulting in their efforts coming to a nought.
When the money came through, I went to the cash machine, pressed that little button and saw all the noughts come up at the end.
Kentucky hunters, of the true "dreadnought" stamp. Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains
If the ‘90s were the decade of the Internet, the noughties could well be the decade of the mobile.
Extraordinary measures were taken by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds to safeguard the noble fish-hawks at their eyrie by Loch Garten after egg-thieves had brought the birds' first efforts to nought.
Calyffeez, ne noughte han ben, sithe the tyme of Sowdan Sahaladyn. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
A billion is 1 with 9 noughts after it.
In addition to these vessels, Congress authorized seven dreadnoughts in 1916 and seven fast battleships in 1940, none of which was finished.
She stepped ashore straightway, and looked up the land and to the right hand and the left, and saw at once that it was indeed the Isle of Queens, and the house stood trim and lovely as of old time; then she longed somewhat to tread the green meadow a little, for yet young was the day, and she saw nought stirring save the throstle and a few small beasts. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
But if I had pride in my learning, I had more in my desire not to remain where there was nought for me but the fading memory of my father's name.
And the kyng may nought deme no man to dethe, with outen assent of his barouns and other wyse men of conseille, and that alle the court accorde therto. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
As such he wrote the following poem: _The trade of a bookbinder is the worst of all; its leaves and its fruits are nought but disappointment. A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions
Nought venture, nought have [gain, win].
Despite all human efforts, our best-laid plans indeed Gang aft a-gley, an' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain. "Terrorism is a cancer in Pakistan, we are determined, God willing, we will rid the country of this cancer."
Than sone after was callid a set a parliament, wherynne alle the comoens were aggreed, and rightfully electe hym as heire apparent of England, nought to procede in any other matiers till that were graunted by the lordes, whereto the kyng and lordes wold not consent nor graunte, but anon brake up the parliamente. A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum
I once had to pay a tax bill with a serious number of noughts on it.
He felt as if all the years of hard work in London had come to nought, angry that I had somehow misrepresented my financial position and that I seemed bent on continuing to write even though it meant impecuniousness for us as a family. A better woman
But perhaps the generation of the noughties, like that of the sixties, is starting to realise that cynical detachment just gets you screwed.
Such thronging to the wicket, and such churlish answers, and such bare beef-bones, such a shouldering at the buttery-hatch and cellarage, and nought to be gained beyond small insufficient single ale, or at best with a single straike of malt to counterbalance a double allowance of water — “By the mass, though, my young friend,” said he, while he saw the food disappearing fast under The Abbot
Plus ugly little Noughties canine in tow. Times, Sunday Times
In pre-euro days, Italians had little confidence in the lira - and no wonder, with all those absurd noughts that required a focusing of the eyes on the dinner bill.
Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit or zero / nought degrees Celsius .
Since his talents broke out of the conservatoire in the mid-noughties, British pianist Gwilym Simcock started insisting that composition was by no means a second string to the keyboard virtuosity that attracted plaudits from jazz stars as big as Chick Corea and Lee Konitz. This week's new live music
Last seen in the Noughties, metallic and shimmer nails are back in the spotlight. Times, Sunday Times
Numerous attempts to persuade him to write his memoirs came to nought.
Merry is he that hath nought to lose.
(That so many promised family reunions have come to nought is indicative of how poorly, on the whole, both sets of leaders — not just the tyrants in the North — have served the Korean people.) The illegitimate nephew of Napoleon
Concrete Jungle could be a noughties update on The Specials classic with which it shares its title.
Merry is he that hath nought to lose.
This car can accelerate from nought to sixty in ten seconds.
Maybe the naughty noughties won't be such a cultureless decade after all.
Nought venture, nought have [gain, win].
The boneheads, after being taken through a superdreadnought and through a library by Lensmen as telepathic as themselves, capitulated to Civilization immediately and whole-heartedly. Masters Of The Vortex
Yet the courts of the land counted as nought this wondrous devotion.
The Admiralty placed its faith in dreadnoughts and Britain's traditional naval ships - and this, to a great extent, did not include submarines.
But he is determined not to let the drama plunge him back into the darkness he felt after his career nosedived in the early Noughties. The Sun
I know nought," answered Griffeth, "save that Wenwynwyn has been up to the commot of Llanymddyvri, and thou knowest what all they of that place feel towards the English. The Lord of Dynevor
She launched the festival, and in the first year had 800 visitors, in the second year, 12,000, yes, that nought is 12,000, and now has so many people who want to come along, that they have big-screen monitors and overflow tents. In Case of Litfest Break Glass
A previously unknown letter has surfaced, detailing the "shriekingly funny" Dreadnought hoax of 7 February 1910, when members of the Bloomsbury group of writers and artists donned beards and costumes to disguise themselves as Abyssinian princes and gained access to the pride of the British naval fleet. How a bearded Virginia Woolf and her band of 'jolly savages' hoaxed the navy
When I came to her, I saw nought dreadful or ugsome about her: she was cheerful of countenance and courteous of demeanour, and greeted me kindly as one neighbour in the street of Wulstead might do to another. The Well at the World's End: a tale
If you marked this Springbok team, on this match, for creativity you would have given them zero, nought, nothing, out of 22.
From a child this Frank had been a donought that his father, a headborough, who could ill keep him to school to learn his letters and the use of the globes, matriculated at the university to study the mechanics but he took the bit between his teeth like a raw colt and was more familiar with the justiciary and the parish beadle than with his volumes. Ulysses
Houses are graded from nought to ten for energy efficiency.
During the research, ultrasonic signal testing system was designated by adopting transform the average value of function to nought, optimizing of collection frequency and transducer frequency.
Roudaire's dream came to nought but a few years later, an engineer from Montpellier, Alphonse Duponchel, argued that a railway should be driven across the Sahara linking French colonies in North and West Africa.
Truly most deare spouse, nought was done but for pastance. Ralph Roister Doister
The report dubs the upsurge in cycle sales among this demographic as "the noughties version of the mid-life crisis". Cyclists v drivers? They're often the same people
From another less analytical viewpoint, music was thought, also, to possess an inspired virtue, not easily defined, but revealed in its power to alter man's very being: there is “nought so stockish, hard, and full of rage,/But music for the time doth change his nature” Dictionary of the History of Ideas
And thoughe that men bryngen of the plauntes, for to planten in other contrees, thei growen wel and fayre, but thei bryngen forthe no fructuous thing: and the leves of bawme ne fallen noughte. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
But Ralph called Clement to him and they drew a stalworth band together, and, heeding nought the chase of the runaways, they fell on those who had the Champions in their midst, and fell to smiting down men on either hand; and every man who looked on Ralph crouched and cowered before him, casting down his weapons and throwing up his hands. The Well at the World's End: a tale
After the sweat drenched Cancerian hands over a cheque for a nominal sum, after they wring out their underwear, they realize that their years of worry were for nought. Astrology and Income Tax Evasion
But when she came to the top there was no sign either of the stairs or the house, or aught that ever was builded; there was nought but the bare bent top, ungrassed, parched by wind, scorched by sun, washed by rain. The Water of the Wondrous Isles
Forget the glitz and glamour of the Nineties and Noughties. Times, Sunday Times
When her proud pretensions are baffled, and her vain towering hopes of an absolute and universal dominion brought to nought, and she appears not to have been so strong and considerable as she would have been thought to be, then to see the nakedness of the land do they come, and it appears ridiculous. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
I thought it was €30,000 I had won but there was a couple of more noughts!
On approaching the latitudes of the Falkland Islands, the crew, complaining of cold, received what was called a Magellanic jacket, and a pair of trousers made of a thick woollen stuff called Fearnought. Captain Cook His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries
`Don't smile at me like that or friendship will be for nought, you Viennese heartbreaker. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Six and a half years into his premiership, after seven Queen's speeches, umpteen reshuffles and relaunches, the New Labour Dreadnought is listing, its gallant captain beginning to look his 50 years.
Sooth Pacific: "Verily, whenas there be a dame, fain would there be nought like it. Style Invitational Week 875: 'Learn From My Fail' life lessons; and puns on movie titles
I was stalking hameward across Blackwater-mosses, and whistling as I tramp'd for want of thought, when a noise struck my ear, like the crumpling of frosty murgeon; it made me stop short, and I thought I saw a strange form before me: it vanished behint a windraw; and again thare was nought in view but dreary dykes, and dusky ling. English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day
Back in the early noughties I got involved with a dotcom startup.
But that's exactly what happened when the two eternal dreadnoughts of Scottish football last met, on April 29.
Crazy paving for the Noughties. Times, Sunday Times
For, it is impossible to turn our eyes on any point of the starlit vista of human history, without being overwhelmed with a heart-breaking sense of the immense treasure of radiant human lives that has gone to its making, the innumerable dramatic careers now shrunk to a mere mention, the divinely passionate destinies, once all wild dream and dancing blood, now nought but a name huddled with a thousand such in some dusty index, seldom turned to even by the scholar, and as unknown to the world at large as the moss-grown name on some sunken headstone in a country churchyard. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays
If there's something that sets my tolerance barometer to nought it's people suggesting presents for people they don't know.
Instead, for political reasons, he got dreadnoughts - which were then stationed near home.
It's dangerous to make moral judgments on the Leeds players just because they have more noughts than us on the end of their salaries.
Admiral Carden was given the new superdreadnought Queen Elizabeth with eight 15-inch guns, the battle cruiser Inflexible with eight 12-inch guns, and twelve British and four French predreadnought battleships carrying a total of fifty-six 12-inch and eight 10-inch guns. Castles of Steel
A million is written with six noughts.
Sadly, when some ends of the sporting market do business with seven noughts permanently attached, it is hard to admit failure.
O consider how you indignify (172) and set at nought that great manifestation of God’s love, “God manifested in the flesh,” how you despise his love pledge to sinners, a greater than which he could not give you, because as great as himself! The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
It is beyond doubt that Ganguly's boys have, more often than not, choked in the final, what with their famed batting line-up coming to nought when it comes to the crunch.
Sales rose by nought point four per cent last month.
The crazy nineties are giving way to the nonplussed noughties.
'The volume of lending in the early noughties was unsustainable. Times, Sunday Times
As far as styling goes Lakewood are obviously borrowing heavily from the Martin heritage, since in outline these are millimetre-perfect dreadnought copies.
The ex-Darlington dreadnought returned against Forest Green Rovers but did not train for much of last week after aggravating the injury.
Friesland, which is a very high and cragged land, and was almost clean covered with snow, so that we might see nought but craggy rocks and the tops of high and huge hills, sometimes (and for the most part) all covered with foggy mists. Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage
For example, if burglary is necessary to save life, it deserves warrant, but if considered only to ascertain the truth of a wagered outcome, one may do nought but persuade its possessor to divulge. I, Pirate …
Hieland sowens by Mr. Duncan MacDonought, the last minister, who began the morning duly, Sunday and Saturday, with a mutchkin of usquebaugh. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
But he is determined not to let the drama plunge him back into the darkness he felt after his career nosedived in the early Noughties. The Sun
There is the 1: 250 scale Lightship Ambrose, HMS Dreadnought, Admirable class minesweeper-subchaser and the old V108 Torpedo boat. Digital Navy | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models
Finally, they remind audiences in the noughties that Australia has a long and proud film heritage for which we have fought successfully in the past - and which deserves to be recognised and protected in the present.
It's hard to imagine a worse way to rebalance the economy away from the excesses of the Noughties. Times, Sunday Times
Their good work was set at nought a minute later when Kildare lost the ball in midfield and senior midfielder Martin McGrath raced through to stick the ball in the net four minutes from the interval.
So could Prosecco be to the noughties what Chardonnay was to the '90s?
Forget the glitz and glamour of the Nineties and Noughties. Times, Sunday Times
Marshal," said he to Chabannes, "we are told that over the Po yonder is Sir Prosper Colonna, with two thousand horse, in a town called Villafranca, apprehending nought and thinking of nought but gaudies. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4
He denoted the number of natural numbers by the transfinite number (pronounced aleph-nought or aleph-null).
The hound fared on up the dale to where the water was bridged by a great fallen stone, and so over it and up a steep bent on the further side, on to a marvellously rough mountain-neck, whiles mere black sand cumbered with scattered rocks and stones, whiles beset with mires grown over with the cottony mire-grass; here and there a little scanty grass growing; otherwhere nought but dwarf willow ever dying ever growing, mingled with moss or red-blossomed sengreen; and all blending together into mere desolation. The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale
The rest I had borrowed on a nought per cent interest credit card. The Sun
[In the heliotropical noughttime following a fade of trans-formed Tuff and, pending its viseversion, a metenergic reglow of beaming Batt, the bairdboard bombardment screen, if taste-fully taut guranium satin, tends to teleframe and step up to the charge of a light barricade. Finnegans Wake
Plus ugly little Noughties canine in tow. Times, Sunday Times
As is, I was curious enough and the title pissed me off enoughto read the whole thing. Strong Women Characters
Even in an age of outsize literary biographies, Irvin Ehrenpreis's life of Jonathan Swift counts as a superdreadnought. Animated Paradox
Life's general ‘business’ and stress has made depression one of the top illnesses of the noughties.
Whereas scientific managemant system proffer reference of objective, nought refutation for individual profession development.
All the previous corruption sagas have come to nought, which is partly why many Nigerians are cynical about the anti-corruption moves. Archive 2005-10-01
Nevertheless, for the moment, Fisher had won: the superdreadnought sailed for Malta and home and all thought of another naval offensive at the Dardanelles was suspended. Castles of Steel
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), p. 277 (“technological revolution”); Marder, Dreadnought to Scapa Flow, vol. 1, pp. 71, vii, 139 (“pensions”); Williamson, Politics of Grand Strategy, pp. The Prize
The bill from the hotel came to 1644 Turkish lira followed by six noughts.
Nor was there in the second innings when he was again out for nought to complete a treble failure. Great Sporting Failures
Wha can do nought but fyke an 'fumble, [fuss]' Twad been nae plea; [grievance] Robert Burns How To Know Him
The bill from the hotel came to 1644 Turkish lira followed by six noughts.
One presice strice in vital spot (yes, every living thing has those - even Aliens) with a dagger is enought. How Would The Na’vi Of ‘Avatar’ Stack Up Against James Cameron’s Other Creatures? » MTV Movies Blog
With the databases obtained from the alien refugees, they incoming ships were identified as Dreadnoughts, which are obsolescent capital cruisers.
Nor was there in the second innings when he was again out for nought to complete a treble failure. Great Sporting Failures
The lawsuit came to nought but the couple a divorced. Times, Sunday Times
In the months between-country springs and summers-they played with real Spam tins-tanks, tank-destroyers, pillboxes, dreadnoughts deploying meat-pink, yellow and blue about the dusty floors of lumber-rooms or butteries, under the cots or couches of their exile. Gravity's Rainbow
John Fisher was astute enough to support most technical developments - such as submarines and the dreadnoughts - and his impact on naval policy on World War One cannot be disputed.
The numbers are moving lightning fast, but are very simple: made up of noughts and ones.
The first was a strong, tall, powerful man, in a grey riding-coat, having a hat covered with waxcloth, a huge silver-mounted horsewhip, boots, and dreadnought overalls.
Hiatt's eponymous Gibson dreadnought buzzed and untuned itself throughout the two-hour performance, which added a rock-and-roll edge to the unplugged affair. In concert: Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt at the Birchmere
I've never heard her called nought but Bess, you see. The King's Daughters
One more error and all the good work she had done on Friday would be for nought.
Nor was there in the second innings when he was again out for nought to complete a treble failure. Great Sporting Failures
Hindley was nought, and would never thrive as where he wandered.
But twentysomethings could do more to spark some life back into the grey noughties.
But the fact the Cowboys had never beaten the Broncos counted for nought last weekend.
It is far from the first time a country has dispensed with excess noughts - some 50 countries have done so since Germany in 1923.
Byron wrote that "nought so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion;" but this dictum is hardly confirmed in the case of Mr. Bence Jones's assailants, who number among them a minister of religion, as well as the irrepressible grogshop-keeper. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.

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