He lit his cigarette, then handed me the lighter, to light the unlit cigarette I had in my mouth for the last few minutes. |
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The latter was the last general to serve in the White House and did so in a decidedly unmilitary fashion. |
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Angola has joined Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique and Lesotho, which decided last year to ban unmilled seeds. |
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On non-washable materials try a little borax or hydrogen peroxide to get the last traces out. |
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I'll start out by saying that this is one of my all-round favourite Bordeaux, but the last two years I have scored it less well than usual. |
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He penned the last sentence and realised that Elissa had already slumbered off to slumberland. |
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Net service firm MSN closed down its unmoderated UK chat rooms last October over concerns paedophiles were using them for grooming. |
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Low levels of the banned performance-enhancing drug nandrolone were detected in the eight players' samples last year. |
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The author traces the roots of New Orleans' last and smallest zone of prostitution to antebellum bordellos and post-Civil War concert saloons. |
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The closest thing to an upset came at The Gytes where Peebles and Ayr had met last week in the league with the undefeated borderers winning. |
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How it ever kept going now was a miracle, and for the last three months it had been stuck, inanimate and unmoving, in the student car lot. |
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It left Thompson struggling to put his finger on why his Liverpool side have slumped to just one victory in their last six games. |
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Indeed, by the end of last year, a season in which he slumped to a dismal 133rd on the money list, he had lost his right to even play in Europe. |
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During the last few months, I'd had visions of him running away, scared and shamed by my unnatural passion. |
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The last thing I remember before I drifted off to sleep was the annoying slurping noise of him sucking on his thumb. |
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The last noodles disappear with a slurp and the spoon is left to clatter to the table. |
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They're the last people you would imagine to walk out unofficially and shout at the boss. |
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Thousands of civil servants have defied anti-union laws to unofficially walk out of work in the last two weeks. |
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These will last unopened for many months, but refrigerate once opened and eat fairly soon. |
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The idea was born when Prince William enjoyed a pint of cider in the hotel's Road Hole Bar last summer. |
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I'm sure that, for many of our respondents, their answers are born of what happened to them last week or last month. |
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It is being portrayed as a last resort but appears to be born of frustration with a regime and a leader the world would be better off without. |
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Although born and bred in Lismore, over the last two years the article has been done from our new hometown, Brisbane. |
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According to the last census there are 15, 141 of these unsung and unpaid heroes in Merton with around 2,000 of them young carers. |
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The last time the two sides met the Giants put on a display of footy unparalleled in their season to blitz Lower Clarence. |
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So what we consider a small business I think has changed over the last 10 years or so. |
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Over the last few years many unproven screening tests have become widely available. |
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Under the last Conservative government, Britain had small-scale, controlled immigration. |
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More than 1,000 cases of small-scale tax fraud were also identified by the Revenue last year. |
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But Pitt's six-year reign as a small-time godfather in south Manchester came to an end last year when he was jailed for life for murder. |
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They smile back at me as the fairy vanishes with the last drops of unpracticed salty pearls that I manage to squeeze. |
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In an interview last week, this elegant Bostonian told us his great love is working for post-conflict situations. |
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The 58-year-old Bostonian moved from Washington to take up a five-year post at the authority last month. |
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By the time of the last one-foot band, the painters were working together to try several methods at once, aiming for a maximum of smalt. |
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Lab busts have soared since last fall when Wright, a former narc, took over the county's 13-man drug task force. |
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They produced pictures of the target, his whole history as a nark, and audiotapes of his last info deals. |
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Over the last decade, Melhuish's team has produced a string of bots powered by sugar, rotten apples, or dead flies. |
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Many dairy farms have been abandoned in the last decade due to unprofitability. |
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The quality is unknown but when Scotland on Sunday tested bootleg DVDs last year, the results were unpromising. |
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Most of it, however, sounds like last night's carnival, a smarmy brand of entertainment, too self satisfied to show real soul. |
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The Saltires are doing a fantastic job against the counties just now, and the last thing Scottish cricket needs is a botch-up like this. |
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When built at the turn of the last century this was in a smart district of the city, but decay has set in. |
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Sales of film dropped 15 percent from last year because cameras have become smart devices. |
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He disappointed on final start last season but had looked smart prior to that run. |
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You thought that some of the volunteers were too much trouble to bother with after you messed them about last year. |
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But the Gateshead Harrier, who finished sixth when he last competed at the championships in 1993, said the early start will not bother him. |
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Commitment-phobes are all quite hurtful, but I find the last type most bothersome. |
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I had strange, bothersome dreams last night that are still playing in my head. |
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And I can imagine the farmers' fears at the moment, mainly because we experienced a similar, smaller and unpublicised scare last year. |
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In an unpublicised ruling last week, the High Court agreed to her appeal against suspension from the Roll. |
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Then, at the end of last year and at the age of 26, the Frenchwoman finally took her courage in both hands and won the Tour championships. |
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The advantage of these imperial gains, especially in the last third of the century, had been uncertain and unquantified. |
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He has been collecting coins and currency notes for the last three decades and his thirst for more remains unquenched. |
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It was a moment in time that marked the last great communal outpouring of a population's unquestioning faith and innocence. |
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He was bottled during last November's attack and needed eight stitches to repair a head wound. |
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The star has had a troubled time in the last few months after reportedly hitting the bottle again. |
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The division began operating on May 31 last year to act as a means of organising unrated sailors who are not on course. |
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She says that the insurance inspector has evidence that all the times that he's smashed up the car over the last year haven't been accidents. |
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Sometimes they would use tricks like bringing you gently to the mat and smashing you down at the last moment. |
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Without last weekend's appalling weather, he reckoned that all attendance records would have been smashed. |
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It has been a dance-floor smash ever since Tall Paul dropped the track last year at London's super club Turnmills. |
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She was on her last unread volume and it's never a good idea to let this woman run out of books. |
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Another of the region's seats, with a narrowish 6,389 Labour majority over Tories last time, declares at about 3.30 am. |
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At last, after many narrow squeaks from shells and bullets, I reached him, and after some little delay received my instructions and returned. |
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As a result universities remain among the last unreformed corners of the public sector, still working to the medieval calendar. |
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Mumbai already boasts a nascent advertising industry and China made it into the top 10 countries for patent applications last year. |
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Over the last year, there's been a surge in illegal fishing activity in Australia's northern waters. |
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After a shower last night and a shower this morning, I can still smell the nasty stench of the awful artificial concoction. |
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Until last week he was out on parole, having served more than half of a seven-year sentence for being a nasty piece of work. |
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If they support the Nats they lose the voting support of the NZ public, especially those who voted for them in the last election. |
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The unreservedness of that moment used to embarrass me, as if it were years and not merely months since we'd all seen each other last. |
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In the last years most tourist estates have been equipped with swimming and natatory activity facilities. |
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According to the last media reports, the public sector pay dispute is still unresolved. |
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I had a nightmare last night, probably more than one as I know I woke up feeling totally unrested. |
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This bar and tapas place is just steps away from the more bougie wine-tasting spots that have popped up in the last few years. |
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A UN resolution adopted last month mandates unrestricted access at all Iraqi sites. |
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The Constitution Party held its national convention last week in Valley Forge. |
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You remember the complaints during the Democratic and Republican national conventions in Boston and New York last year? |
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At the Democratic national convention last week, big business put on its biggest party at a political event. |
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Elgin City, who finished 42nd out of 42 last season, are expected to find life similarly unrewarding in their second campaign as a league club. |
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We had a fire last weekend at Falinge flats in which no-one died because of a smoke detector. |
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For the last five minutes, they had been bouncing soccer balls from one knee to the other, not letting them touch the ground. |
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A series of proposals were submitted to the leading unionist and nationalist parties in Northern Ireland last week. |
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For the last hour she has insisted she is totally unromantic about the life she has chosen. |
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No royal blood flowed through his veins, and none of his unroyal blood had been spilled in battle since early in the last war. |
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He lives down the road from my lodgings and bounced in unexpectedly during breakfast last week. |
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I am writing to thank you for bouncing my check with which I endeavored to pay my plumber last month. |
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If you read The Sunday Times last week, there were smoke signals that gave you a pretty good idea what that might be. |
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As I was walking back the last night it there was the remains of a pallet smouldering in the smoke. |
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Yep, the guy behind this quote is the guy who attacked the Tussaud's nativity in December last year. |
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The first time I put my knife and fork down was after my last mouthful, it was rushed, and totally unsatisfying. |
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I remember at the nativity play last year how some children had to leave the room for pictures to be taken. |
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I don't think it's out of bounds to say that that last comment that she made that was very controversial. |
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That where he is bound come April 5, when he will attempt to better his brave fourth place in last year's National. |
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He collected seven trophies last season in novice events and has made a smooth transition to clubmen races this season. |
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Secondly, job security has also crossed traditional class boundaries in the last twenty years. |
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The creation of the new government was greeted with immense goodwill and boundless hopes, but the honeymoon was not to last. |
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I've gone to extraordinary lengths over the last 14 months to try to keep my phone unscratched, unscuffed and undamaged. |
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He argues the item was raised at last month's meeting without prior notice and in breach of standard procedures of natural justice. |
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I believe this is the last part of the manor that lays unsearched, is it not? |
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It was in the upper fifties or lower sixties tonight, and I'd say it was unseasonable but it was just as warm last year. |
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Tomorrow is the last chance to register for the elections on May 2, when 174 English councils go to the polls, including all the London boroughs. |
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While ISRM's guidelines, which were updated last year, are not law, Croydon Council is one of 12 London boroughs to have adopted them. |
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Every Friday for the last year the children have been taking their spare pennies or any small change from around the house to school. |
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In the year up to March last year 1.9 million books were borrowed, including 370,000 at the central library. |
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According to City sources, Russell had been on borrowed time since last summer. |
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You could try to unpick all the false assumptions in that last sentence, but frankly, its not worth it. |
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The last element required for the success of the future hoax was a savage, unpitying streak which both of them had in abundance. |
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A top-class colt last season, Azamour has all the credentials required to win this crackerjack of a race and he is awarded the nap vote. |
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Got home very late from LA last night, and sat in the small hours of the morning, listening to it three or four times over. |
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I sat into the small hours of the morning and read from the first paragraph to the last! |
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We were up and about chatting into the small hours last night, so this morning ran a little late. |
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The book was taken to the bosom of America, was a No. 1 best-seller last year and is still on the best-selling lists in hardcover and paperback. |
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Until last year, my only act of resistance involved trading copies of live shows and bootlegs on the internet. |
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It was in position for two-and-a-half years before being taken in the autumn of last year, probably ending up in a boot sale or someone's garden. |
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They will probably feel a bit unlucky they did not defeat Warrington last weekend. |
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At last there is official recognition of New Jersey's unmannerliness in emptying its housekeeping slops into New York's front yard. |
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After delicately dipping a last onion ring in mayonnaise, he moistens his throat with a slug of brandy, and starts to talk. |
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Susan Deacon, the health minister, was last week targeted by the Daily Record for being an unmarried mother. |
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With the police closing in, Richard vows to unmask the true killer and take his revenge, even if it is the last thing he ever does. |
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Sierra also led all qualifiers with a 1.067 slugging percentage last week, and he posted a.500 on-base percentage. |
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He led the team last season with 11 pinch hits and made 55 starts, finishing with a.429 slugging percentage. |
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If true, it is a feat of economic wizardry unmatched in the western industrialized world in the last quarter century. |
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Bryce finished his coffee, enjoying the last, unmelted portion of the chocolate as it slid slowly down his throat. |
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There is plastic in the trees from the last floods that obviously sluiced over our path. |
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I think my last book, I'm Losing You, struck many people as cold or unmerciful. |
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Thus the yelps emanating from Moscow in the last two days have been both comforting and worrisome. |
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I was working the evening shift in my last year of medical school when they wheeled Dylan into the pediatric emergency room. |
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My last view of her was of a dynamic, compact figure, her thirst for intellectual adventure clearly unquenched, as she marched towards yet another threshold. |
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The name-dropping in the last two paragraphs isn't so important. |
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Local Traffic Department chiefs are investigating how an unroadworthy bus which had its licence suspended last week managed to obtained a replica licence disc. |
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Guilbault plays an ageing boozehound who looks back over the last 30 years of her life in the same apartment, and tries to muster up a bit of dignity before she dies. |
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At the last moment, Levin abruptly bails out, makes everything go right again, and wraps it up with a happy ending. |
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She wistfully wondered aloud to me last year if she had made the right decision. |
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That gave last night's dinner with Ahmadinejad an air of wistfulness tinged with growing fear. |
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Bloodshed, even death, are overt objectives as extended Andean families, called ayllus, square off in slugfests that can last from a few minutes to nearly a week. |
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Apologies on the Hugo Chavez overload, but one last post about the fallen dictator. |
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And it led me to consider a thought I had back at the last bop. |
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When was the last time you had a cute kitty design on your unmentionables? |
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They were in no mood to squander it as they started afresh when play commenced at 11 am, 30 minutes late as the last of the overnight storms were sluiced from the field. |
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The Angolan government has hit back at critics of its move last month to ban unmilled genetically modified seed in donations meant for the hungry. |
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They offer unmistakable evidence that summer is, at last, on its way. |
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But the latest fire should serve as yet another wake-up call to the authorities, who appear to have returned to their slumbers since the last fire. |
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The country's largest mobile phone operator suspended its chat services last year after it became concerned about some content in unmoderated chatrooms. |
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Turning the last page, he lit it up and puffed out a smoke ring. |
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Hague last night insisted that he would not be silenced by accusations of racism, which he said were designed as a smokescreen to hide Labour's problems over asylum. |
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The oldest Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphin to be born and raised in captivity, 35-year-old Dolly was last seen mating with Domino in September last year. |
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On the back of hefty unrealised profits in their property and stock holdings, Japanese banks boosted their global operations, thinking the expansion could last forever. |
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A 15-minute spell had seen Barnet score four times and they made it five in the last seconds making sure the Bees went nap to leave Morecambe in a state of shock. |
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The last few words were slurred together as he spoke them quickly. |
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Various smoke signals have been sent up, but in truth, nobody knows. This is the type of thing that Bertie always, always keeps in pectore until the very last moment. |
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I seem these last two weeks to have expended a lot of unnecessary energy. |
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For the last four years, I have been teaching seminars on meditation and out-of-body travel. |
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One of his first public comments after being appointed Minister for Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs last June was that he was not promising boreens paved with gold. |
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Acceptance rates at top state universities for out-of-state applicants reached an all-time high last year. |
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The acceptance rate for out-of-state students at UCLA was only 30 percent last year. |
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Stuck on a stalled train last week, I sank into Security and the hours whizzed painlessly by. |
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In the last 20 years, four cars piloted by intoxicated illegal aliens have veered off the road into our vineyard, causing thousands of dollars in unrecompensed damage. |
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The Tories will smell blood and be an effective opposition again at last. |
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I mean, wow, the true scale of the AIPAGT didn't hit me until I unpacked my suitcase for the final time last week and fished the final Trophy from my luggage. |
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Humanitarian Paul Farmer and World Bank Leader Jim Yong Kim captured the problem in a Washington Post article last week. |
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This time last year she dropped in at the White House during a trip to Washington to address the World Bank. |
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BlackBerry StormThe iPhone, remarkably, outsold Research in Motion last quarter. |
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At the last moment, he looked up, extended his arms like a wide receiver, and opened his Rawlings Model HH glove. |
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And it was this unrelieved emotion that made The Children Are Watching Us such a radical departure for a film made during the last years of the Fascist regime. |
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He may be the last link to the old Borscht Belt comedians, the old Vegas, the old nightclubs and stage shows, the real swank days of lounge culture. |
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The doctor who called me bossy last week said I was doubly bossy today! |
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It was carved by my great-grandfather and came to me unrequested, a bargained token in the frantic last minute horse-trading as my parents' divorce was settled. |
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The latest luxury hotel group to cave was Rocco Forte Hotels, which announced last month that in-room Wi-Fi is now free. |
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The infants enjoyed their traditional run-up to Christmas in the last few weeks of term with their own version of the nativity, performed for their parents. |
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The shock news comes after five Bury branch post offices and eight others elsewhere in the borough were axed last year as part of a nationwide closure programme. |
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He deployed 25,000 army troops last year to take on the narcos. |
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These bouts of unproductiveness usually last for a day or two. |
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The last two presidential elections raised doubts about whether Democrats were capable of wining at all. |
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The suit comes after his attempt to overturn the standards via executive order was rejected by a judge in state court last week. |
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In the last year or so a number of people have pointed out this truly disgusting trend, that an increasing number of men are using their table napkin to blow their nose. |
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A Belgian consumer organisation which last week claimed that three Nokia batteries were unprotected against short-circuiting is to re-examine its findings. |
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The restaurant also coped with an unscheduled shutdown last Thursday. |
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I went round to my 80-year old neighbour's last year, and threw out all her gin bottles and filled her fridge with organic smoothies, much better for her really. |
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Several minutes later, the last two men exit the sauna within seconds of each other, walking so casually that they might be a pair of boulevardiers going for a stroll. |
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This trip to Scotland could represent Leinster's last chance of making the last eight of the Celtic League and he knows the champions live on borrowed time. |
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They were tasked with choosing the most compulsively readable, unputdownable of six shortlisted novels, which had been published in paperback, in English, in the last year. |
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That was the last time the band allowed tepid performances and overwrought production overwhelm an otherwise solid set of songs. |
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Her husband Gareth died last year, so it's up to the green-fingered experts to finish the dream garden he was going to create for his family. |
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But farmers and beachfront dwellers aren't the only individuals likely to suffer directly from greenhouse effects, scientists reported last week. |
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Five people, believed to be ringleaders of the mosque group, were expelled last week by the immigration office in Dili. |
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The Granata are flying high in Serie A and last weekend's 3-1 triumph at Hellas Verona lifted them to seventh place. |
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A dozen Little Gulls were at Criccieth over the last couple of days and a Great Northern Diver is on Glaslyn Marshes, Porthmadog. |
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The perv, now 15, was convicted last month and sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday. |
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Winners were grinners last night as three Territory finalists were honoured at the Australian Training Awards in Hobart. |
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This is one of Scotland's last wetland sites and it attracts all sorts of birds, from herons to great crested grebes. |
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The finale builds grippingly to those jabbing A's, and triumph vividly is beaten into submission in the last bars. |
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City may have been soaraway winners of the Championship last year, but they are in dire straights as they try to avoid an immediate return. |
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The Cape Town native had originally joined the Falcons from Griquas this time last year, making 26 appearances in all competitions. |
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Greater yellowlegs, a shore bird, wander among stalks of last year's corn planted to give food and cover for wildlife. |
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Asda sold more persimmons than mangoes during the persimmon's three-month season last year. |
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They filmed the show last November and had to beat the celebrities in a series of quizzes as they aimed for the Celebrity Ding Dong title. |
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Just don't dae yer dinger if the recipient respectfully requests that you haud yer wheesht or skedaddle aff until they've turned the last page. |
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Only a discombobulating dolt would not notice this and cling with pathetic desperation to the last vestiges of past glory. |
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Greenwing teal were the most numerous duck found in the valley this year, posting a 36 percent increase over last year. |
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The Nvidia GTX Titan Z graphics card was announced last March 2014 during the GPU Technology Conference. |
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Fox limped off the Staples Center court last Sunday and an MRI showed he had completely torn the peroneus longus tendon. |
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Ms Greenaway recorded a verdict of misadventure at the original hearing last year. |
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Faced with a roadblock, Google last year came up with a workaround. |
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While we find her energy a refreshing change, sometimes her quirky peppiness just about gets on our last nerves. |
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At the hospital last night his grandad, Matthew Gregal, said he was showing signs of improvement. |
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In the last century, numerous studies have attempted to discover the etiology of periodontal disease. |
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According to its findings, the directorate lost nearly TL 67 million in the hajj and umrah trips it organized last year. |
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Paul Nicholls' Bury Parade heads the handicap this year and routed re-opposing stablemate Grandioso by five lengths at Ascot last time out. |
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The film was shot over 19 days, wrapping on Oct. 11 of last year. |
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Gratifyingly, Young had the last laugh as customers revolted against keg beer and demanded a return to traditionally-styled pubs. |
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Front brake pads last 18,000 to 22,000 miles or you risk damaging the more expensive discs, so listen out for any graunches. |
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Graz, who had already lost three times to United in the last 18 months, could barely get out of their own half. |
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His 83-year-old wife Christine, was found wearing a personal stereo playing music, when their bodies were found on August 25 last year. |
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The Sunnis in Syria have also been disempowered by a minority Alevite regime in the last few decades. |
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When we first introduced the Turkey Cranberry Griller and Salad last year, guests really enjoyed the fresh, fall flavors. |
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Furthermore, the report said that US per capita poultry consumption will surpass levels of the last decade in contrast to red meats. |
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Sylvester Gooden denied not wearing a seatbelt in Renfrewshire last August, but was found guilty after a trial at Greenock Sheriff Court. |
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Bilateral relations have been at a low since the military regime declared the Turkish ambassador to Cairo persona non grata last month. |
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Ex-glamour model Heather, 39, led a PETA campaign to ban the trade in dog and cat fur before her split from 64-year-old Sir Paul last May. |
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The dynamic Wasps No8 ended up missing four months of last season after the infection led to discitis and then a catalogue of misfortune. |
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Greenpeace bosses were last night desperately trying to stave off bankruptcy as all their UK assets were frozen in the injunction. |
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We went west, coming up on another great blue heron, even closer this time than the last. |
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This mare finished fifth in a novice event at Wexford last time, form boosted by the subsequent wins of runner-up Pepperwood and fourth Straycat Strut. |
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Pepperwood Grove wines, from Cecchetti Sebastiani Cellar, was included in the Rising Star category last year before reaching the Fast Track for the first time this year. |
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His trainer has hardly been bullish about his chances in recent weeks but the colt improved on his second to Petara Bay to run out a ready winner at Newmarket last time. |
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Over the last year, business schools have become more vocal in stating that they consider GRE scores equally with other test scores in the admissions process. |
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A Scaup remains on Parc Eirias boating lake, not deterred by last week's fireworks, and the Great Grey Shrike continues its stay at Llyn Du near Porthmadog. |
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Shoesmith, who had perviously driven as a cabbie for 20 years without serious incident, was arrested at the scene of the crash on October 24 last year. |
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Swift, Rihanna and Underwood also performed at last year's Grammy Awards. |
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The last 65 years have seen three grenade launchers moving in and out of the Goshen County Sheriff's Office, but not one of the weapons has been used by the county's deputies. |
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As a Quaker I would be among the last to argue that God can be found only in a consecrated place of worship, though I uphold the value of corporate discipleship. |
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Birdwatchers have had an exciting start to the new year, with a great grey shrike, found at the very end of last year, remaining in the Margam Forest. |
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The zones, which will cover Greyfriars Road and Churchill Way, were imposed at last night's full meeting of Cardiff council following concerns raised by South Wales Police. |
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The dynamic Wasps number eight ended up missing four months of last season after the infection led to discitis and then a catalogue of misfortune. |
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Approximately 300 bird species have been recorded on the peninsula and the British Bases are home to the last breeding colony in Cyprus of the impressive Griffon vulture. |
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Gordon, who's the current Mr Scotland, lined up with 37 other hopefuls last night in the finals of a competition to find the world's dishiest man. |
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Dinkum Diamond would perhaps not want too much more rain, but is clearly suited by the conditions of this race judged by his convincing success in last year''s renewal. |
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