• On the desk there was a very old typewriter, and Frankie sat down before it, trying to think of any letters she could write: but there was nobody for her to write to, as every possible letter had already been answered, and answered even several times.

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  • He frequently adjusted his uniform, at times pitched from the stretch with no one on base and even once had to wave several times to get Romine's attention when he wanted a new baseball.

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  • Several times a week, and even sometimes on days when they're pitching, they take a few minutes to play catch with someone who is standing unusually far away from them.

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  • Meanwhile, in Tunis, the government charged that Libya's rocket-firing at Tunisia is a violation of its sovereignty and puts citizens and infrastructure at risk, even though Tripoli pledged several times not to fire in the direction of Tunisia, the foreign ministry source told the Tunisian News Agency.

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  • With assets and liabilities that are several times larger than GDP, even relatively strong European economies such as France, Germany or the Netherlands might struggle to stand behind their banking systems were they to get into serious trouble, as Ireland found to its cost in 2008.

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  • He recovered even though his heart stopped for 78 minutes and had to be restarted several times.

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  • "It was like being hit between the eyes, " said Ms. Benathan, who wears a Richard III necklace at all times, has several portraits of him at home and even carries a tote bag with Richard's emblem sewn into it.

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  • "The radiation environment in deep space is several hundred times what it is on Earth, and that's even inside a shielded spacecraft, " Zeitlin said.

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  • So presumably, the notice would not apply to your plumber whom you hire to install a new faucet at home, nor to the gardener who prunes the trees in your hard several times a year, even if he does it year in and year out for 20 years.

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  • Contact with the outside world was even tougher - colleagues had to try several times to get through to me, and I could make no international calls.

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  • Even though we were in a hybrid, the gasoline engine kicked on several times and it was nearly impossible to detect an increase in noise from within the cabin.

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