Traditionally, in China and Korea, only monastics engaged in Zen meditation, usually spending at least six months each year in retreat. |
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The library has been reprieved and will remain open for at least another year. |
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The only country to have won at least one gold medal at every Summer Olympic Games is Great Britain. |
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The BRSC runs at least one coach to every away game and proceeds from raffles held on these trips are donated to nominated local charities. |
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There are now more than 550 golf courses throughout the country, with at least 21 courses in Edinburgh alone. |
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The fact is the school system has spent itself into debt, at least partly by exhibiting a champagne taste on a beer budget. |
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Five of the 21 men achieved at least a double career Slam at Men's Doubles, led by Roy Emerson and John Newcombe with triple Slams. |
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Eight of the 22 achieved at least a double career Slam at Women's Doubles, led by Martina Navratilova with seven or more titles in each Major. |
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Fitzsimmons knocked Dempsey down at least 13 times and by the finish left him in such a pitiable condition that he begged him to quit. |
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Most agree that he would have gone down, at least to a knee in any event, and this was called a knockdown. |
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Stonehenge evolved in several construction phases spanning at least 1500 years. |
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Even if you don't agree, at least have the goodness to be polite! |
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Because the skeletal system does not reach full maturity until the horse is at least four years of age, young racehorses often suffer injuries. |
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Rather, it has its own Mongolian style of horse racing in which the horses run for at least a distance of 25 kilometers. |
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Hunter certificates are issued to horses that have hunted for at least four days in the season before racing starts in January. |
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Although they do not make webs, female huntsmans at least have not lost the ability to produce silk. |
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He is the first driver in the history of F1 to have made the podium after starting 20th place or lower at least 3 times. |
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At the Brazilian Grand Prix, Hamilton needed to finish at least in fifth position if Massa won the race to secure the World Championship. |
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His victory made him the thirteenth driver in Formula One history to have won Grands Prix for at least three different constructors. |
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As part of the deal BMW expected at least one driver to be German, which led to the team's signing of Ralf Schumacher for the previous season. |
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All of the above games were still played in at least some English pubs in the 1970s, but many were in decline and some may since have died out. |
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The purpose of the many microcharges is to help avoid, or at least limit, broader tax increases. |
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Despite their geographical isolation from the rest of the Celtic world, the Galatians maintained their Celtic language for at least 700 years. |
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Other countries such as Belarus or Tajikistan have retained their communist coats of arms or at least kept some of the old heraldry. |
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Common Brittonic was used with Latin following the Roman conquest of Britain in 43 AD, at least in major settlements. |
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Amaurobioids are characterized by slender unbranched tracheal tubes, while dictynoids should have at least the median tracheae strongly branched. |
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Case distinctions, at least in the masculine gender, were marked on both the definite article and on the noun itself. |
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In 367 BC a law was passed which required the election of at least one plebeian aedile each year. |
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To fulfill administrative duties adequately, a population of at least five million per state was considered as necessary. |
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South Sudan was at war with at least seven armed groups in 9 of its 10 states, with tens of thousands displaced. |
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The proposal was supported by the Lakes state government and at least one Ramciel tribal chief. |
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The process, to start after the EAC Council of Ministers meeting in August 2013, was projected to take at least four years. |
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He also bribed several Roman commanders, and at least two tribunes, before and during the war. |
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Around 66 BC, a movement to use constitutional, or at least peaceful, means to address the plight of various classes began. |
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It stipulated that Hong Kong would retain its laws and be guaranteed a high degree of autonomy for at least 50 years after the transfer. |
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We don't have much money, but we can at least pay some of these chump-change bills. |
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There are at least 180 endemic plant species in the overseas territories as opposed to only 12 on the UK mainland. |
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If a permanent resident is denied naturalization, he or she must wait at least one year before reapplying. |
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In both cases, at least one adoptive parent must be a British citizen on the date of the adoption. |
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The erasure of transpeople's experiences can be understood, at least partially, as a function of the hegemony of cisnormativity. |
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The king instead tried to leave control of the region, at least in part, to his children. |
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Clean out your purse and at least get rid of all the trash you're hauling around. |
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The Code of Conduct Group, at least in theory, keeps most of its documentation and discussion confidential. |
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James did not create a British Crown, but he did, in one sense at least, create the British as a distinct group of people. |
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The capture is apparently lower in the tropics, at least from what I have experienced as a collembologist. |
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A report from the organization Human Rights Watch in May 2012 identified at least 72 civilians killed in the campaign. |
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All Roman cities had at least one Thermae, a popular facility for public bathing, exercising and socializing. |
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The oldest definitely dated EEMH specimen is the Grotta del Cavallo tooth dated in 2011 to at least 43,000 years old. |
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The fossil is one of the few finds in Europe that could be directly dated, and is at least 37,800 years old. |
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These Happisburgh footprints were dated to at least 800,000 years ago, the early Pleistocene. |
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Grattan Flood wrote that there were at least ten instruments in general use by the Gaelic Irish. |
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Shortly after the Ferns agreement, Maurice FitzGerald landed at Wexford with at least 10 knights, 30 mounted archers and 100 foot archers. |
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On 23 August, Strongbow landed at Passage with at least 200 knights and 1,000 soldiers. |
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Raymond FitzGerald landed at Wexford with at least 30 knights, 100 mounted soldiers and 300 archers. |
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David was certainly at least one of medieval Scotland's greatest monastic patrons. |
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There is no commonly accepted modern definition of feudalism, at least among scholars. |
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Dad's astrobabble theory is annoying, but at least it does the trick. Mom lets it drop for now. |
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However, the possibility that a royal veto might be exercised independently by the monarch remained for at least two further centuries. |
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The Administration and Congress have had to prove they are at least attempting to mind the store. |
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The fleeing Jacobites must have put up a fight for Kerr's 11th recorded at least 16 horses killed during the entirety of the battle. |
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However, it was not uncommon for Romans to throw waste out of windows into the streets, at least according to Roman satirists. |
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The Imperial court was based in York until at least AD211, in which year Severus died and was succeeded by his sons, Caracalla and Geta. |
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From the time of Henry VII onwards, Parliament began passing Acts to stop enclosure, to limit its effects, or at least to fine those responsible. |
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Although Royal forests were not technically commons, they were used as such from at least the 1500s onwards. |
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After the use of ice caps for some days it is well to provide cool bathing for the head, at least three times daily. |
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It takes less than two hours to get to York from London by rail, with at least 25 direct trains each weekday. |
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Thirdly, at least four pieces of Imperial legislation constrained the Canadian legislatures. |
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The discovery of the Mauer 1 mandible shows that ancient humans were present in Germany at least 600,000 years ago. |
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It penetrated into the country from at least the third century, but may have been present even earlier. |
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It is relatively certain that 2,500 German fighter pilots attained ace status, having achieved at least five aerial victories. |
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Coastal Command's Eastchurch was bombed at least seven times because it was believed to be a Fighter Command aerodrome. |
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The rest of the Chinese troops tried to return to Yunnan through remote mountainous forests and out of these, at least half died. |
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Consensus of two opinions is Bayesian iff at least one of the opinions consensed is Bayesian. |
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Allied casualties on the first day were at least 10,000, with 4,414 confirmed dead. |
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Petrarch's original metaphor of light versus dark has expanded over time, implicitly at least. |
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I couldn't count them all, but I think there must have been at least 500 people in attendance. |
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There had been a Kentish royal hall and reeve in Lundenwic until at least the 680s, but the city then passed into Mercian hands. |
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However, different countries within the United Kingdom have national costumes or at least are associated with styles of dress. |
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This would have ended the arrangement which has existed since 1957 of having at least one Commissioner for each Member State at all times. |
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By 1990, at least 197 UDR soldiers had been convicted of loyalist terrorist offences and other serious crimes, including 19 convicted of murder. |
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It is estimated that the coastal plain may have been at least one mile broader than it is today. |
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Since we were now living so close, at least those couple hours of talking together helped boost our spirits. |
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Marines killed at least 12 civilians and injured 33 in Shinwar district, Nangrahar, in a response to a bomb ambush. |
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Investment bank UBS stated on October 6 that 2008 would see a clear global recession, with recovery unlikely for at least two years. |
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Guthrum was true to his word and settled in East Anglia, at least for a while. |
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Come to think of it, I certainly don't envy you all the work involved. Gad, you must be superhuman, or at least superdevoted to crifanac! |
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From at least the 16th century, boats from mainland Scotland and the Netherlands dominated the local herring fishery. |
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The harvest failed in Scandinavia at least nine times between 1740 and 1800, with great loss of life. |
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After crossing his palm with a donation, I felt entitled at least to ask where he was from. |
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The primordial wants have been satisfied only by incessive toil, at least for most people. |
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The charged was judged incompetent to stand trial, at least until his medication started working. |
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Each dwelling usually has at least one of these tanks forming part of its foundation. |
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Ralph was at least part Breton and had spent most of his life prior to 1066 in Brittany, where he still had lands. |
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There is indirect evidence that the use of the Irish language continued in Montserrat until at least the middle of the nineteenth century. |
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The Court of Appeal consists of a president and at least two justices of appeal. |
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It is possible that at least one of the three people that voted 'No' did so out of a desire for full independence. |
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Guernsey, with its sandy beaches, cliff walks, seascapes and offshore islands has been a tourist destination since at least the Victorian days. |
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To include switch, cut-out and molly guard, you'll probably need to order at least two, probably three components. |
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If they had no more food than they had had in Jones's day, at least they did not have less. |
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The road users should at least get some benefit from this waste, another case of Somerset Highways showing ineptocracy. |
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Dicentric frequency was determined for at least 250 lymphocytes per sample. |
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It is held at least once a year but a special Ard Fheis can be called by the Ard Chomhairle or the membership under special circumstances. |
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By his first wife Eleanor of Castile, Edward had at least fourteen children, perhaps as many as sixteen. |
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It also required the calling of triennial Parliaments, with each sitting for at least five months. |
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Marlites are not disintegrated by exposure to the atmosphere, at least in six years. |
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The Inner House always sits as a panel of at least three Senators and with no jury. |
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Gaining access to such maps means navigating through an interministerial bureaucratic procedure with at least 15 stages of negotiations. |
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Mostly these were military technologies, such as cannon casting adopted by at least the 15th century. |
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Therefore, Parliament approves the Army by passing an Armed Forces Act at least once every five years. |
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A soldier is not normally permitted to leave until they have served for at least four years, and must give 12 months' notice. |
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Before induction into a specific branch of the armed forces, recruits undergo at least 9 weeks of basic military training. |
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Dollarwise, I probably lost out by at least 100 percent, but it spawned a career. |
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One intervenient said that whereas we cannot prevent tourism, we can at least try to minimize the impact and the destabilizing effects. |
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A British soldier and at least 25 West Side Boys were killed in the operation. |
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On 4 April Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton said that the RAF was planning to continue operations over Libya for at least six months. |
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The word Anglican originates in ecclesia anglicana, a medieval Latin phrase dating to at least 1246 that means the English Church. |
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In the Church of England the position of archdeacon can only be held by someone in priestly orders who has been ordained for at least six years. |
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There was a new respect or at least a curiosity in his limpid, moonful face as he reached me. |
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Most historians believe that they are a fraud, but there are some today who still believe at least one of the stones to be genuine. |
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Because of this obstacle, England never was in any real danger, at least from the Duke of Parma and the Army of Flanders. |
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This vision of at least partial democracy in ecclesiology paralleled the struggles between Parliament and the King. |
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He set a goal for himself of exercising at least three times a week. |
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When this was refused, he asked that at least those willing would be released from their martial oath to be free to return to Britain. |
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Sagi is sole shareholder of at least 16 Mossack Fonseca offshore companies, mostly real estate ventures. |
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The Panama Papers include at least 780 names of individuals based in Thailand and another 50 companies based in Thailand. |
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In Newtonian physics, however, no such acceleration can occur unless at least one of the objects is being operated on by a force. |
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A crew of at least two people is normally required to operate a steam locomotive. |
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It has always had at least one operational steam locomotive, Union Pacific 844, on its roster. |
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Additional carbon from building a new rail route would be larger in the first ten years at least than a model were no new rail line was built. |
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Nevertheless, it amounts to at least three million people, and has forced the issues of ethnic diversity onto the French policy agenda. |
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Leicester is one of the oldest cities in England, with a history going back at least two millennia. |
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Thus means that all the inhabited islands are now connected to at least one other island by a land transport route. |
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The mines were in a neglected state, caused by careless operations dating back at least to the time of the final fall of Louisbourg. |
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The church has grown extensively and now has a presence in at least 23 countries in the region. |
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I will not say, that Mr Oldenburg did rather inspire the French to follow the English, or, at least, did help them, and hinder us. |
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Most Scottish Hindus are of Indian origin, or at least from neighbouring countries such as Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh. |
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This is a list of individuals who were part of the Open Brethren movement for at least a part of their lives. |
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Members are elected annually via a postal ballot, and current standing orders mean that at least ten seats must change hands each year. |
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In 2002, at least 60 percent of US medical schools have at least some class time spent teaching alternative therapies. |
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Literacy rates are difficult to gauge, but in France at least, the rates doubled over the course of the 18th century. |
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He married a woman named Elizabeth Walsh, with whom he had at least one son, named Robert, and possibly one or two other children. |
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This, coupled with the probability that Malory had at least some wealth, allowed a certain level of comfort and leisure within the prison. |
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Ending jizya lifted a real burden on the poor, and promised, at least symbolically, a greater equality between the followers of different faiths. |
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Like a kangaroo novice, each joey word must take at least one hop through the letters of the mother word. |
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Public houses in the Canal Street area have had a gay clientele since at least 1940, and now form the centre of Manchester's gay community. |
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Some at least of the broad and typical human emotions he can never experience. |
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The 1936 thriller A Gun for Sale was filmed at least five times under different titles. |
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Clare Blanchard, a former girlfriend, advised him not to publish the book, or at least to do so under a pseudonym. |
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The King, alarmed by the violence, backed down, at least for the time being. |
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Well, at least one kid might not suck, I think, ever the judgy-pants snob-a-rina, silently snarking in the third row. |
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Subsequently, he made at least three concerted attempts at writing a third novel, but none went further than a solid start. |
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Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them. |
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But though you will be angry to hear it, I believe, for myself at least, what is is best. |
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Democratic or not, there is a certain easygoingness in Asmara, at least on the surface. |
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Pound has shaken the dust of London from his feet with not too emphatic a gesture of disgust, but, at least, without gratitude to this country. |
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Literary interest in the popular ballad form dates back at least to Thomas Percy and William Wordsworth. |
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Grattan Flood wrote that, in Gaelic Ireland, there were at least ten instruments in general use. |
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By the end of the 17th century, Scots had practically ceased to exist, at least in literary form. |
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Third, musicals often use various various genres of popular music or at least popular singing styles. |
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In this the Government was supported by the Liberal Party and, officially at least, by the Conservative Party. |
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When Williams' fifth studio album, Escapology, was released in late 2002, it hit number one in at least 10 countries around the world. |
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His efforts were constantly directed towards giving the world at least one book that exceeded anything that had ever appeared. |
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Each of those floors is split into a large east and west wing with at least 11 rooms in each. |
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As I said, I listened spellbound to this small Hungarian wizard, as Emeric unfolded his notes, until they were at least six inches long. |
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This differs from our other instalment schemes, where at least half of the licence fee is collected in advance. |
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I'm sure there are at least a few 'babyfics' out there like that, complete with diapers. |
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Some school level textbooks and at least one UK examination board make a further distinction between strong and weak rule utilitarianism. |
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For one very rich man there must be at least five hundred poor, and the affluence of the few supposes the indigence of the many. |
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Where there is no property, or at least none that exceeds the value of two or three days' labour, civil government is not so necessary. |
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Yet his influence on the Circle's thought was at least as important as that of any of its members. |
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Hey, he took a lot of time to paint that picture for us. I think we should at least pretend it doesn't smell like a load of Bandini. |
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But at least they learned to dance and smile and talk and choose engineeresses appropriate to their engineering futures. |
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An errored second is any one-second interval containing at least one bit error. |
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The few next days passed eventlessly by, or at least as eventlessly as days can pass to visitors in Home. |
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As the sanctuary was bandited at least once, it may be that the silver wine cups I have are from the treasure. |
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Mum is going to join the Greens instead. Dad says at least they are all so busy knitting yoghurt they do not have time for sexual scandal. |
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By convention, at least two of the Lords of Appeal in Ordinary were Scottish and at least one from Northern Ireland. |
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In hearing peerage claims, at least three Law Lords had to be present in order to maintain a quorum. |
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Judaism was an active proselytising faith, and at least one Arab political leader converted to it. |
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Every woman, if she is honest, will admit to having performed a fauxgasm at least once in her life. |
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The monarch stays at Holyrood for at least one week each year, and when visiting Scotland on state occasions. |
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He had gone through the work from the title-page to the finis at least forty times, and had just commenced it over again. |
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At the Wardmote the ward's Alderman appoints at least one Deputy for the year ahead. |
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We diverted ourselves with bantering several poor scholars with hopes of being at least his lordship's chaplain. |
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The area of Folkestone has been occupied since at least the Mesolithic era. |
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If the lanifice of Mende at least staggered into the closing years of the ancien regime, it only did so in a purely nominal sense. |
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And, driving back in the fly, Macmaster said to himself that you couldn't call Mrs. Duchemin ordinary, at least. |
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Outside of Australia and parts of New Zealand, most areas with an oceanic climate experience at least one snowstorm per year. |
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Maybe you suffer from foot-in-mouth disease, too, at least occasionally. If so, then I expect you've also learned about the remedy. |
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Wells has been an ecclesiastical city of importance since at least the early 8th century. |
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There is slightly denser Iron Age and Roman activity with some evidence of at least seasonal occupation. |
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Leftpondians are at least 24,000 years older than previously thought, according to an article in today's Independent. |
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The Act gave the government responsibility for specifying its price stability target and growth and employment objectives at least annually. |
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It may also be that the name at least partly derives from the Roman name for the River Ribble and its eponymous Celtic deity, Belisama. |
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There are at least 73 churches, chapels, missions and meeting houses, as well as 15 cemeteries and burial sites, for which records exist. |
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In fact, it seems that in the Primary rocks the distinctive Leptosporangiate annulus was at least rare, if it existed at all. |
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A bad haircut is no fun, but at least you're not stuck with it for good, only until it grows out. |
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All horizontal surfaces were occupied by at least one open beercan stuffed with cigarettes saturated in some reeking liquid. |
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John Hooke also was in charge of a local school, and so was able to teach Robert, at least partly at home perhaps due to the boy's frail health. |
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As is well known, in finite dimensions each Lie group is, at least locally near the identity, completely described by its Lie algebra. |
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Crucially all of at least four who Jenner deliberately inoculated with smallpox virus resisted it. |
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Greens mowers are used for the precision cutting of golf greens and have a cylinder made up of at least eight, but normally ten, blades. |
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An exeat was needed to be away for the night and, in theory at least, an absit for the greater part of the day. |
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In colder climates where heating and lighting is required during the cold and dark winter months, the heat byproduct has at least some value. |
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Each line is serviced by at least one specific route with trains stopping at all or some of the line's stations. |
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Thus the combined frequency for some routes is at least every 6 minutes if not greater. |
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Although a fictitious event, at least six calls were made to GMPTE asking if services had been affected. |
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He had to send back the binders and return to clothing that was at least gender-neutral. |
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The Cabinet's formal relationship with Parliament, or at least the Prime Minister's hopes for it, are set out in the Ministerial Code. |
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Studies of humans with life spans of at least 100 have shown a link to decreased thyroid activity, resulting in their lowered metabolic rate. |
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If he cannot digest a strong and abstersive drug, for to remove his evill, let him at least take a lenitive pill to ease the same. |
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Significant numbers of people with at least some English ancestry also live in New Zealand, South Africa and South America. |
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The 54 invasion was probably an attempt to conquer at least the southeast of Britain but failed. |
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Farming of crops and domestic animals was adopted in Britain around 4500 BC, at least partly because of the need for reliable food sources. |
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He constructed at least two temples in honour of Jupiter, the supreme deity in Roman religion. |
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Staring about the room he estimated that there were at least thirty bodies in various stages of mutilation and bloatation. |
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The latter became the woman's personal property, but the former may have been paid to her relatives, at least during the early period. |
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There must be at least one of the alliterating sounds on each side of the caesura. |
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She had been standing behind the curtain of coloured glass beads for at least half an hour now, waiting patiently with a silver lota of water. |
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However, permanent settlement by the Cornish across the Atlantic Ocean was rare until at least the 19th century. |
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There is at least a tinge of truth in that picture of Southern England as one enormous Brighton inhabited by lounge-lizards. |
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Worldwide, 178 countries have at least one official language, and 101 of these countries recognise more than one language. |
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In North America, since 1600 at least 52 Native American languages have disappeared. |
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Cornwall's rich heritage and dramatic landscape have inspired writers since at least the 19th century. |
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Most schools around the world teach at least one foreign language and most colleges and high schools require foreign language before graduation. |
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To know fiddles and judge them you must be always looking at them. For a time, at least, I got my eye in by dwelling on the best models. |
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Is Raven ever going to wrestle on TV? Or at least get to the fireworks factory? |
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The ecumenical movement has had an influence on mainline churches, beginning at least in 1910 with the Edinburgh Missionary Conference. |
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He's a lusty, jolly fellow, that lives well, at least three yards in the girth. |
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She was a gobbly kisser, or at least this kiss was a gobbly kiss. He liked it, he even liked the way she made up for her thin lips by gobbling. |
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There appear to be at least two distinct ways to assign levels of grammaticalness to deviant sentences. |
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A similar practice in French cathedrals, called machicotage, is documented from 1391 through at least the eighteenth century. |
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Quaker women even published at least 220 texts during the seventeenth century. |
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Accounts differ regarding whether George was born in Cappadocia or Syria Palaestina, but agree that he was raised at least partly in Lydda. |
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Wilfrid's network of monasteries extended across at least three of the kingdoms of England in his day. |
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It was reported on May 21, 2008 that in Kenya, a mob had burnt to death at least 11 people accused of witchcraft. |
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Most had at least an undergraduate degree, and worked in a mix of white collar and blue collar jobs. |
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Each authority has at least one dedicated central source from which data can be downloaded or ordered. |
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However, university professors still utilized some autonomy, at least in the sciences, to choose epistemological foundations and methods. |
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The particles themselves must have an interior and gravitative being, and the multeity must be a removable or at least suspensible accident. |
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It is earned after three years of studies, of which at least a year and a half in the major subject. |
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The greenhouse effect could lead to global warming or, at least, climate change. |
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It is reviewed by a Doctoral Committee composed of examiners external to the program and at least one examiner external to the institution. |
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The thesis is examined in a final public oral exam administered by at least five faculty members, two of whom must be external. |
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He would have to act, and if he got gutshot in the process, at least he would go down swinging. |
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The article stipulates that the negotiations to leave will last at least two years. |
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There are at least 29 Nobel Prize winners and 3 Fields medalists amongst UCL's alumni and current and former staff. |
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Our waistline will extend a few more inches at least, and our aging skin will blotch and sag. |
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Most Roman cities had at least one, if not many, such buildings, which were centres not only for bathing, but socializing. |
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Use of a blue background for the Saint Andrew's Cross is said to date from at least the 15th century. |
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Eighteen of the Alzheimer elderly were able to identify at least ten body-parts. |
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Eve's decision is enough to make me consider choosing agnosticism as my preferred faith, or at least maltheism. |
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He crossed back and forth between the continent and England at least 19 times between 1067 and his death. |
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Wattle and daub has been used for at least 6,000 years and is still an important construction material in many parts of the world. |
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This is a bad Pacifism, as it allows the creature to stay around and at least chump block for a turn. |
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A tradition dating back at least to the end of the 16th century gives Robin Hood's birthplace as Loxley, Sheffield, in South Yorkshire. |
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These results suggest that CG methylation acts in some unknown way to limit methylation in the other contexts, at least in brachypodium. |
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Ubi and his allies repeated the festival in 1973 with at least 1,400 in attendance. |
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Nobody knew, at least we never did, whether it was from just acting the jennet or out of badness that he called Babs by that name. |
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However by the late 19th century, and in the West Country at least, Morris dancing was fast becoming more a local memory than an activity. |
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The custom persisted until at least 1970, when it was performed in private houses and pubs in Dore on New Year's Day. |
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A number of ambulance vehicles attend the event, since there is invariably at least one, and often several injuries requiring hospital treatment. |
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All warders are retired from the Armed Forces of Commonwealth realms and must be former warrant officers with at least 22 years of service. |
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Longaniza is the most common type of sausage, or at least the most common name in Chile for sausages that also could be classified as chorizo. |
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Mixtures of milk and eggs thickened by heat have long been part of European cuisine, since at least Ancient Rome. |
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Yet Sayyid Akbar was a weak ruler and produced no capable heirs, at least in the opinion of the Akhund. |
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When that outworn empire perished with the fall of Constantinople, Ivan succeeded nominally at least to its heirship. |
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There were at least three sieges of Carlisle fought between England and Scotland, and two further sieges during the Jacobite risings. |
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Going to a public bath at least once daily was a habit with most Roman citizens. |
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As part of the cult of the Virgin Queen, courtiers were rather expected to wear the Queen's likeness, at least at Court. |
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He continued to add to the series until at least his departure for England, and presumably added Inigo Jones whilst in London. |
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Of the 80 Academicians, there must always be at least 14 sculptors, 12 architects and 8 printmakers with the balance being painters. |
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Moore produced at least three significant examples of architectural sculpture during his career. |
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He travelled abroad many times, at least some of them in his role as a valet. |
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I think women, at least those who do their own work, would live very simply in that respect, if there were none of the masculines to feed. |
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On at least one occasion he delivered diplomatic letters to England for Walsingham, Burghley, and Leicester, as well as for the queen. |
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Four of the ships sank or capsized, with at least 1,450 dead, including the commanding admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell. |
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Groups of seven of a kind are called canastas, and before a player can go out he or his partner must have at least one canasta. |
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After the war began, the Magazine included many reviews, at least 34 of which were written by Johnson. |
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Cole wrote at least seven books for the Left Book Club, all of which were published by Victor Gollancz Ltd. |
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Polygamy and concubinage were rare but existed, at least among the upper classes. |
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We thus cannot exclude that the increase of follistatin immediately after the race at least in part was due to hemoconcentration. |
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The Oxford Dictionaries suggest that there are at least a quarter of a million distinct English words. |
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The House of Commons is a democratically elected chamber with elections held at least every five years. |
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So accurate was her description of thallium poisoning that on at least one occasion it helped solve a case that was baffling doctors. |
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The hornpipe is a style of dance music thought to have taken its name from an English reed instrument by at least the 17th century. |
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Since at least the 1950s, certain shanties have become staples of the Folk genre. |
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The rhyme dates back at least to the 18th century and exists with different numbers of verses each with a number of variations. |
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In the later years of the century there was, in Britain at least, a revival of interest in Elgar's music. |
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Vaughan Williams refused a knighthood at least once, and declined the post of Master of the King's Music after Elgar's death. |
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In each case, the bill must be passed by the House of Commons at least one calendar month before the end of the session. |
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Australopithecus garhi is certainly megadont, at least relative to craniofacial size. |
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This is at least in part due to music industry differences between the US and Great Britain. |
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Thousands of homeless families find themselves stuck in emergency accommodation for at least two years. |
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Let the guest awhile be abiding, though he long for his homefare sore, To tarry at least for the morrow, that the gift I may fulfil. |
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has been translated into at least 174 languages. |
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The Lombard state was relatively Romanized, at least when compared to the Germanic kingdoms in northern Europe. |
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Association football has been played by women since at least the time of the first recorded women's games in the late 19th century. |
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This means that at least one part of his body or bat is touching the ground behind the popping crease. |
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A game is won by the first player to have won at least four points in total and at least two points more than the opponent. |
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