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  • It's good to have a cry sometimes.
  • What we do not know are the precise weighting of factors that go into why prices increase at any particular time.
  • By the time harmony was a few centuries old, it began to shiver and shake from them.
  • Laura Wade's Posh, timed to open as the Tories edged into power in May 2010, reminded us just what we were in for: overprivileged hooligans in drinking-society blazers who trash a pub as thoughtlessly as they will trash the country. Dominic Cooke: a life in theatre
  • He specialized in moonlit and winter scenes, usually including a sheet of water and sometimes also involving the light of a fire, and he also painted sunsets and views at dawn or twilight.
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  • That gave us the time to move arbalests and mangonels into position along the walls.
  • Which is stupid, considering the drivers around here A: Don't normally stop for people and in fact have been caught trying to sneak ~around~ them and B: I've been nicked several times and almost hit three times different instances last summer attempting to obey the biking laws, none of those for mistakes on my part as I've been scared shitless at the lack of aware driving that's crept over my town. The funny thing about Pain..... (Let's talk trauma!)
  • I just know that one beer bash was fine, two was tolerable, and the third was just a way to eat up time on Memorial Day.
  • Before you know it, all the Sandy Clarks and Billy Starks doing the media rounds are back in business until the next time they are given their jotters for failing to meet fans' expectations.
  • When Modin scored from the right circle to make it 3-0, it looked bleak for the Devils, who rallied from one-goal deficits twice before winning Game 2 in overtime. USATODAY.com - Tampa Bay creeps closer to New Jersey with 4-3 win
  • The hat, I think the style was called fedora, had a dark band and a dint in the top, which my father would sometimes correct with a chopping action of his right hand.
  • Leaked Reports Detail Iran's Aid for Iraqi Militias," blared the headline on afront page story inThe New York Times, which went on to report on several incidents recounted in WikiLeaks documents that journalist Michael Gordon called "the shadow war between the United States and Iraqi militias backed by Iran's Revolutionary Guards. Ali Gharib: What Did WikiLeaks Really Tell Us About Iran?
  • Does the plain, unsugared doughy type bagel look alike surpass the overly decorated with hundreds and thousands and pumped full of sweet chemicals with optional coating of chocolate (half dipped) Tescos Express doughnut win every time? Rabbit Stew. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • With the Senate gearing up for an all-consuming battle over judicial nominations, Congress has no time to waste.
  • Pulling one back with another penalty - this time converted by the regular taker - they finally conceded a third. The Sun
  • I'm still in contact with her - we write a couple of times a year.
  • However, by that time I was so hooked by the story that I let it pass.
  • A lot of human nature can be traced to instinctive behaviors evolved in harder times. ProWomanProLife » Why am I so skeptical?
  • Sometime in the early eighteen hundreds, they trekked to the flat plain between the Ohio River and Lake Erie and settled in Mount Vernon, which was then a few small buildings in a forest of tall trees. A Renegade History of the United States
  • Mr Smith said the department's own funds, which have bankrolled major improvements in the naval service, had been well tapped and it was now time to explore new ways of funding.
  • Having drop-dead gorgeous, private, windowed offices makes it a lot easier to recruit the kinds of superstars that produce ten times as much as the merely brilliant software developers.
  • The doctor has said that I can start stepping down my medication in a few days' time.
  • I think a lot of players from bigger clubs have spent time on loan at smaller clubs and it has really helped.
  • I could be wrong but as I recall in Batman Begins Batman 'growled' his lines just a few times but to very strong effect. All of The Dark Knight's Broken Records - Box Office Dominance! « FirstShowing.net
  • Labour is naturally a bit shell-shocked finding itself out of office for the first time in 13 years. Times, Sunday Times
  • Not only by the immense number of adherents that were won to his views during his lifetime, but also by the literary productions he left behind him, Tsong K'aba's influence has been great during the last five centuries of Tibetan history. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
  • The space left by evaporation is called the ullage, while the liquid lost is sometimes called the ‘angels' share’ and is particularly financially significant in the production of older cognac and Armagnac.
  • In the meantime Esco workers will be stuck with a bad deal.
  • Once upon a time there was an old sow of impeccable reputation who lived a quiet life inside a busy farmyard. Times, Sunday Times
  • The time is nigh for the resurrection of these long-forgotten principles.
  • Yet, there are times when I wonder if my love is misplaced, if I should temper my affection.
  • Not for a very long time has the discovery of new music so profoundly moved and excited me as the contents of this disc.
  • Everyone needed time to take stock after the most prestigious solo race had turned into a demolition derby. Times, Sunday Times
  • And at the same time the huge body tried to take the invader and enwomb it. The Gunslinger
  • After such a long time in storage, all the oil will have drained to the sump.
  • The increased number of detectors and tube rotation times combine to give faster coverage of a given volume of tissue.
  • The pictures show squares within squares - the water-holding depressions that in ancient times made the gardens fruitful.
  • Use of a University-owned mobile telephone and mobile telephone airtime service is intended for official University business.
  • We do not allow people a second try on a second question when they have so absurdly got it right the first time round.
  • The overseer, a great strong man, cracking his "blacksnake" from time to time, to enforce authority, excited our strong indignation. 'Three Score Years and Ten' Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and Other Parts of the West
  • The time when the production of best quality was a guarantee of earning best money is over.
  • The tranquility of Birch's daytime views hardly characterized the disputative climate surrounding the building, then and later.
  • With check-in times now prolonged because of security issues, traders are lapping up even more business as they tempt us with their trinkets and gewgaws.
  • For Brown, visiting Gill at South Fork is a six-hour schlep that he's managed only three times.
  • Once upon a time there were three beautiful girls who went to a writing college, and they were each assigned very hazardous duties.
  • There will come a time when the crisis will occur.
  • Tåkern is quite a large lake and in olden times it must have been larger still. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
  • The strike had been planned as a 24-hour walkout but has been extended three times. Times, Sunday Times
  • Europe was last united in neolithic times, before the inseparable meshwork of land, people, community and trade separated into hierarchy, nations and cities.
  • Over 20 factors were analyzed amongst the DUI attorneys sampled, including whether free consultations are offered, if a lawyer is willing to do 'outcall' (meaning they will meet with potential clients outside the office), how aggressive the defense of the client is, the degree to which each client is offered access to their lawyer, how much time is spent with each client talking by phone or over email, and other factors. WebWire | Recent Headlines
  • In that time she accompanied members of the Royal Family on some unforgettable overseas tours.
  • And here the concept of the masque comes into play one final time.
  • And on the need for contempt powers, he recounted how officials at times refused to obey the orders.
  • Under the agreement the Vietnamese can opt out at any time.
  • However, O'Kane's favourite pastime is hillwalking in the Wicklow hills.
  • There is an artistic and literary set, some of whom have swapped city life for part-time commuting. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sometimes I go through spells when I just draw, when I just write, when I just paint.
  • The time it takes to start or stop a stopwatch is the same amount of time it would take for someone driving under the influence to lose control of their vehicle, about seven tenths of a second. News/local from www.dailyamerican.com
  • Get an up close insight on the early song writing technics that produced several timeless Lynyrd Skynyrd Albums. Ronnie Van Zant Speaks « Lynyrd Skynyrd Dixie
  • It is therefore unsurprising that such seizures are sometimes confused with panic attacks.
  • Cazalbou's injury-time try came too late to ruin the party.
  • Why not put in some overtime at the office and find the company a way to save money, increase efficiency, or improve on a product?
  • De Forest had only one seat to his buggy, and it was rather irksome to be conveying two ladies around all the time. The Expressman and the Detective
  • Speaking of pal Dorian, he's mentioned to me a couple times at work that somewhere on the John Byrne Forum, some industrious individual "rewrote" events in Identity Crisis so that You-Know-Who wasn't sexually assaulted and killed. Archive 2004-07-18
  • Sometimes, when people die of heart failure, they first suffer angor animi, anguish of the soul. Times, Sunday Times
  • Sjogren's syndrome "targets and destroys over time the exocrine glands responsible for tear production and saliva -- and is characterized by dryness of the mouth and eyes," said Dr. Michael Belmont, an associate professor of medicine in the division of rheumatology at NYU Langone Medical Center and medical director for Hospital for Joint Diseases. Why Sjogren's syndrome caused Williams to quit U.S. open
  • That's the normal time-filler for parliamentarians at this time of year. Times, Sunday Times
  • By the time they were lurching slowly along the cart track the wind had dropped, letting the clouds gather.
  • But that day isn't going to be now, or any time in the next ten years, absent a major breakthrough.
  • One of the earliest lullabies in English was written during the time of King Edward II of England in the 14th century.
  • Josefina Scaglione's YouTube video When Mr. Laurents first called the willowy soprano, who speaks with lushly rolled r's and sometimes interrupts conversation to ask the meaning of an English word, she was performing the role of Amber Von Tussle in a Buenos Aires production of "Hairspray. I've Just Met a Girl Named Josefina
  • Moreover, don't these choices facilitate a feminist reading of the text, deconstructing sentimentality to expose masculine failings and feminine rebellion?
  • And then I got there and they're like, no, you're writing sketches for other people, which I had never done and I was really kind of bummed because I had auditioned like two or three times. Zach Galifianakis: A Comedic Actor Takes A Dark Turn
  • A gold bracelet will be on your wrist till the end of time. Times, Sunday Times
  • A business tycoon, arts patron and committed left-winger, Berge opted to sell the collection amassed over a lifetime after Saint Laurent's death last June aged 71.
  • the game was finished in regulation time
  • The exams are just around the corner and students are bogged down with preparation work for practicals and orals but the Transition year students found time to raise funds for those less fortunate.
  • This concept of embodiment doesn't apply just to times of exertion, of course.
  • Taking up the whole stage included three guitarists, a bass player, one on drums, and a xylophonist, but this time no microphone in sight. FasterLouder.com.au > Your Access All Areas pass to the latest in Australian rock music! News, Reviews, Photos, Forums and more
  • He spent three days in jail after smashing up an apartment, and has done time in a drug rehabilitation centre.
  • Once all that is figured out, the most confusing factor in the equation must be pondered: playing time.
  • He also worked part-time at a satellite uplink station.
  • He plainly demanded to be in the thick of the action all of the time.
  • This is because people who suffer Panic Disorder, when they experience tetany for the first time, often think incorrectly that they are about to die.
  • Egg-laying adults are especially active during bloom, a time period when insecticides should not be applied.
  • But of time and of becoming shall the best similes speak: a praise shall they be, and a justification of all perishableness! Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
  • It was the highlight of my time there. The Sun
  • Mr Johnson said that sometimes Pete was on morphine to control the pain.
  • I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods
  • Mickey-boy, 'if the Joy Lady is so anxious to get the baby, and sew its clothes herself, why I'll just let her,' so I did _let_ her, but it took some time to make them, so I had to wait to bring it 'til tonight. Michael O'Halloran
  • A six-time Grammy nominee (talk about frustration), Elling has released six albums of audacious vocalese that trumpet his daring range and intellectualism.
  • It will not matter, however, whether the part-timer or the full-timer are working on fixed-term or permanent contracts.
  • A fellow council worker, who had just got out of the vehicle and was standing close at the time of the impact, suffered serious injuries.
  • There was something captivating about this man, who dedicated much of his time to his artistic talents, his creative genius, and photographic exhibits.
  • Instead, I was stuck in my little dorm room, answering the phone every time it rang in case it was Clay.
  • It is true that, even at the time of the discovery of nitrobenzol, he pointed out the striking similarity of its smell to that of the oil of bitter almonds. The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants
  • I have found men who didn't know how to kiss. I've always found time to teach them. Mae West 
  • ‘There were many times when I felt faint at matches because of menstrual cramps,’ Susan says.
  • There is something about rainy days that can make you feel strangely melancholic and happy at the same time.
  • The site aims to find you the best real-time prices on airfares by trawling 35 airlines and travel websites.
  • Not so with this trivial, lawless country club set of the 1920's, drunk part of the time and reckless all of it, codeless, dutiless, restless. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism
  • Sometimes things happen that are just out of your control.
  • Within the context of modernity, the autonomous artist, as a creative being, explores varying moods, passion, sentiments and emotions.
  • Our nearest relatives, the chimps tend towards matrilinear, while patrilinear seems more prevalent in a majority of the different aboriginity groups in more modern times. Discovered: the basis of human civilization.
  • The same thing happened when I was at the animal hospital, too; two or three people got preggers there, sometime before I left.
  • Every jag, every bump on the wall revealed a zone of darkness that was worth to explore, but every time, in the shadows, there was just the sides of the cave, continuing.
  • Inconveniences and time requirements are cited as cause for avoiding or procrastinating office visits.
  • At the time we weren't selling textbooks, just wholesaling them out to textbook dealers.
  • It was mid autumn and the leaves were already starting to swirl around me as a harsher wind blew, creating almost a curtain of color each time the breeze came.
  • With cross-sectional data it is not possible to make precise comparisons between changes in employment and economic activity over time.
  • It is time to take a look at this most outstanding work on algebra in Greek mathematics.
  • Perhaps some time in the future bonds will be issued for foreign investors. Inside Perestroika: The Future of the Soviet Economy
  • But while he speaks of war-time heroes and exploratory pioneers, he forgets about another interesting lifetime.
  • He insisted the second try - which levelled the scores in injury time - was short of the line.
  • We are trialling it for commercial growing for the first time in this country.
  • I'm not being funny, but we haven't got much time.
  • As soon as this began to thicken, Neb carefully removed it with a wooden spatula; this accelerated the evaporation, and at the same time prevented it from contracting an empyreumatic flavor. The Mysterious Island
  • There was a final flourish in the last seconds of stoppage time. Times, Sunday Times
  • We did get a digital box so we could record programs and watch them at our leisure and not get tied to a schedule for tv programs but we end up recording so much that it always seems like I spend more time trying to watch tv and clear space in my digi box than write. On Efficiency, Or How To Get Everything Done As A Multi-Tasking Writer - by Joanna Penn | The Creative Penn
  • It is this potential for music to express contradictory, sometimes inexpressible emotions that drives Ward to write songs.
  • This was the first bloodless revolution the city, which has been burned down forty times in its history.
  • Had such a nice time, it was really charming in a slightly run-down way and on a beautiful little lake called Stoney Lake. AND GOD CREATED THE AU PAIR
  • A 'the time we lay there it lowped and flang and capered and span like a teetotum, and whiles we could hear it skelloch as it span. David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.
  • My constant fear is that we're going to run out of writers in Chicago, " said Mr. Griffith, 27, who in his spare time is a theater critic for The Chicago Reader, an alternative paper.
  • Korsibar in time had been overthrown, and Prestimion's sorcerers had sliced his usurpation out of the history of the world. KING OF DREAMS
  • My garden had become a veritable jungle by the time I came back from holiday.
  • Aliquots were withdrawn at the indicated times, the viable titer was determined, and the percentage of survivors was calculated.
  • The pilot process is a monstrous waste of time and money, stunningly inefficient an you say "amortize" kids? Re-Arranging the Deck Chairs
  • Often considered to be one of the most spectacular lizard species, sometimes called the "Jesus lizard", the green basilisk is a striking addition to any reptile collection.
  • You are welcome to visit the school at any time; we have an open-door policy.
  • It was the first time I'd finally counter-attacked.
  • Another step forward was the progressive declarations of invalidity extended to certain laws, decrees, and edicts issued in Stalin's time.
  • Times when the range is not used are increasingly infrequent and rarely coincide with ideal surfing conditions. Times, Sunday Times
  • The only thing I was thinking at the time was what a bloody bum deal I was getting.
  • When you think that we craftsmen who make all these things by hand, it follows that piece is different; these are all timeless pieces. Times, Sunday Times
  • So is it time that we at least recognise the kisan? Outlook India
  • He admired Machiavelli for recognizing that sometimes our ends are mutually exclusive and for facing that fact unblinkingly.
  • What he was doing was centuries ahead of the time. Times, Sunday Times
  • He was a true gentleman and always had time for fans. The Sun
  • The referee said I was a liar and a cheat, but my foot was injured at that time.
  • Content is kept to a minimum while style wins over substance every time.
  • They have already, we note, calmly written their answer down some time before.
  • To my mind, Tom Hank's Forrest Gump is a Walter Mitty , for he sometimes was a Vietnamese War hero and later a table tennis diplomat between America and China.
  • Chain car collisions on the Interstate, hysteria-tinged second by second updates from the weatherman on the local TV stations, a stunned, awestricken look from the locals that almost made one think that this was surely the first time they had ever seen this precipitation thing occurring. Election Central Sunday Roundup
  • Now, moreover, with the nation in an economic downturn, is not the time to assert the urgency of passing referendum legislation.
  • Sometimes he is also assisted by an adjunct who will later represent him during absences.
  • Some archaeologists have been championing the culture of pre-Roman Britain for some time and the Shropshire road may confirm that traders were bringing back continental innovations to add to existing native achievements in art and engineering. Letters: Native culture of pre-Roman Britain
  • Matters went on pretty well with us until my master was seized with a severe fit of illness, in consequence of which his literary scheme was completely defeated, and his condition in life materially injured; of course, the glad tones of encouragement which I had been accustomed to hear were changed into expressions of condolence, and sometimes assurances of unabated friendship; but then it must be remembered that I, the handsomest blue coat, was _still in good condition_, and it will perhaps appear, that if I were not my master's The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 262, July 7, 1827
  • Once upon a time, 12 young men were turned into swans by their wicked stepmother. Times, Sunday Times
  • Providing measurements of birds in both inches and centimeters was a very good idea.
  • The Last Supper. The final time that the apostles shared a meal with Jesus.
  • I'm personally offended both by the error on the Times website and by your association of me with what you call the intentional slander of US marines. Rightwing Spin That Haditha Massacre Never Occurred
  • It is no more a sign of weakness to change leadership in wartime if success depends on it than it is to remove a baseball pitcher who is getting shelled in order to prevent the game from becoming hopelessly lost.
  • The only cloud on the immediate horizon is raising a mortgage - especially if you are a first time buyer.
  • He claimed that the Chief of the USAR at the time, told him that he didn't need to re-enlist (he had only accrued two good years for retirement in the 4 years he was back on the books) and to keep singing for the troops. Heroes or Villains?
  • It's not the time to be exploring your nasal cavity. Times, Sunday Times
  • The only time it was ever used was when my father had important people dining with him for business.
  • Sometimes he goes to watch birds in the suburban marshes, where more rare species can be found.
  • Played three times for his native Northern Ireland. The Sun
  • The currency fund can be leveraged up to five times the value of its underlying assets.
  • KEEPS the England midfield ticking over like an expensive timepiece. The Sun
  • The difference in turn-on time would generally not be noticeable for standard household incandescent bulbs, since they turn on very quickly.
  • At one time the schools were mainly attached to the church.
  • In the early days after the birth, it can be useful to set aside some time to rest when the baby sleeps.
  • Do your legs and arms sometimes feel sore and tight? Banish Anxiety - how to stop worrying and take charge of your life
  • She took her time looking me over, dug into her fake Gucci handbag and handed me a ballpoint saying, ‘Give it back when you're done.’
  • In 1672, when Mars was in the vicinity of the three Psi stars of Aquarius, the time was ripe for obtaining the first reliable parallax of Mars.
  • If you're keeping it traditional and not using Halloween as a three day extended party, you can get down on the actual holiday with the Latin funk of Pimps of Joytime and Nayas at Rock and Roll Hotel. Nightlife agenda
  • Having worked himself into this ridiculous kind of phrensy, which lasted, perhaps, from twenty to thirty seconds, he suddenly discontinued it, and suffered his features to relax into their natural form; but the motion of his head seemed to have so stupified him, as indeed it well might, that there remained an unusual vacancy and a drowsy stare upon his countenance for some time afterward. Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1
  • He may be intense and sometimes untactful on an issue you are debating, but that will only be on that ANC Daily News Briefing
  • The war-time legacy of the five-shilling legal maximum on restaurant bills was an open cheque for profiteers to pose as restaurateurs.
  • It would free us up time to get on with scrubbing ourselves with carbolic soap…
  • They described ‘torture techniques’ and claimed that detainees had been forced into painful positions for 18 to 24 hours at a time or left to foul themselves.
  • This very careful attitude to money can sometimes border on meanness.
  • Part B (to be completed during the appraisal by the appraiser - where appropriate and safe to do so, certain items can completed by the appraiser before the appraisal, and then discussed and validated or amended in discussion with the appraisee during the appraisal.) name of appraiser: position: time managing appraisee: B1 Describe the purpose of the appraisee's job. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Meanwhile, all sorts of things that at one time or another were considered tests for artificial intelligence — playing chess, doing integrals, doing autonomous control — have been cracked in algorithmic ways. Wolfram Blog : Stephen Wolfram on the Quest for Computable Knowledge
  • And as I watched, having circled back through the carlot, she turned back from heavy traffic several times. Grouse Diary Entry
  • This book will continue to generate excitement for a long time.
  • Organizing your finances and time helps you become more productive and responsive and ensures you avoid unnecessary pitfalls, such as incurring wasteful late fees. AllBusiness.com - Home Page RSS
  • At about the time Hanson began making his realistic figures in the 1960s, other artists were also making life-sized figures molded from actual people.
  • The program design is based on bus time sharing and interrupt servicing. It can renew the speeds and the directions of every motor at real time.
  • I compassionated him, and sometimes felt a wish to console him; but when I looked upon him, when I saw the filthy mass that moved and talked, my heart sickened, and my feelings were altered to those of horror and hatred. Chapter 17
  • The boys are planning to decorate when they get the time.
  • Cheerful competition between strongmen is harmless enough in times of peace. Times, Sunday Times
  • For example, utter the words: "A house is my fire," and observe the comparative duration of time in the pronunciation of each word, the comparative stress, and the relative pitch (e.g. of _a_ and _fire_). The Principles of English Versification
  • In the meantime, though, he hopes to see more work to bridge this scientific gap. Smithsonian Mag
  • By this time, Dad and I had replaced the old dipole with a short Yagi array, horizontally polarized of course, and screwed to one of the crossbeams in the attic, so now we had three channels with excellent reception.
  • The shelter was quite a long way away, and there wouldn't be time to come back to the steps.
  • The requests were the old ones: portraits of pretty mistresses done up as Arcadian shepherdesses, Virgins with downcast eyes and brilliant blue cloaks, sentimentalised pictures of the Infant Christ.
  • A mere two minutes passed before Cooks was celebrating again in the end zone, this time after a 32-yard punt return.
  • It is now widely recognised that there are uncertainties in determining both R and D. Uncertainties in D (loads/demand) are due to the fact that they may vary depending on location and time (eg. there are no snow loads in summer, change of use). 2009 January - Telic Thoughts
  • I am treasuring up my thoughts of this happy time to give me joy in the future.
  • In my scenario, the Senator tells the drowning person that it was the flailing non-swimmer's fault for falling in and not learning how to swim, not the Senator's doing, just before the erratic splasher goes under the surface for the last time. Norman Cressy: Musings II
  • Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always. Hippocrates 
  • The company employs six full-timers and one part-time worker.
  • Her enthusiasm was undimmed by the paucity of choice on the high street at the time: 'My mum used to shop in menswear shops. Times, Sunday Times
  • The people who inhabited America at that time were fighting an uphill battle. Times, Sunday Times
  • But going back to the days when I was seeing these epics first time round, in the fleapits and bug-hutches of south-east Leeds - most of them converted music halls or disused chapels - we didn't give a hoot what the title of the film was.
  • Springtime for Henry played Broadway in the early '30s and then again in the early '50s but became a laughingstock as Edward Everett Horton repeatedly barnstormed it.
  • We asked the surgeon, are you talking millimeters, centimeters, inches?

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