• But it was more like a firecracker, one quick burst and then nothing, rather than fireworks where the display continues and continues.

    FORBES: Yuan Shift A Baby Step, No Giant Leap

  • Those who are eligible get half their salary for the first five months, a third for another two months and then nothing.

    ECONOMIST: South Korea

  • He adds that they had seen growth for about three weeks and then nothing for a couple of weeks, while the herbs re-grew.

    BBC: Who, What, Why: Where has all the tarragon gone?

  • In the last gen Sony used hardware, then software and then nothing at all for backwards compatible gaming, while Microsoft went all software -- we'll see how it balances out this time around.

    ENGADGET

  • If you need skilled care in a nursing home, Medicare will pay the Medicare-allowed rate for the first 20 days, part of the cost for the next 21 to 100 days and then nothing at all after 100 days.

    WSJ: The Experts: Financial Mistakes in Retirement

  • They are small cubicles -- each individual will have one -- that has a wooden top and then nothing more than chain-link fence, exposing the person to the elements but of course also making him always available to be seen.

    CNN: Franken

  • It beats the current system of stating and digging in on partisan positions, getting nothing done, and then watching nothing getting done.

    FORBES: If It's Sunday, It's Like Watching Paint Dry

  • They need to prove how many internships that they applied for, and then if nothing pans out, then you make them pick up the phone and start calling employers in their field if they could talk to the owner or manager about paid or unpaid internships, whether it could be part-time or full-time.

    FORBES: 5 Mistakes College Job Seekers Make

  • The idea that if we stood back and did nothing, then nothing would happen to us.

    BBC: Take your politics too seriously

  • Tech companies that pay dividends or issue buybacks are doing so because they have stopped growing at high rates, and then have nothing to do with their cash.

    FORBES: Why Apple Should Not Listen To Morgan Stanley

  • He says the point of his rearguard action is not to defend the hereditaries but to ensure that the reformed house is at least as independent as the present one, and that the government does not use its newly announced royal commission as an excuse to abolish the hereditaries and then do nothing to fill the vacuum.

    ECONOMIST: Robert Cranborne��s Maxim gun

  • But I can tell you, boys, and then I've nothing else to add.

    NPR: Baseball, Apple Pie and Steroids

  • This was one of the central promises when scientists decoded the human genome seven years ago--and then a lot of nothing happened.

    FORBES: Will You Get Cancer?

  • But if the world keeps the promises that it has made to itself to really fight extreme poverty and preventable disease, then nothing is impossible.

    CNN: Bono: Fight poverty to reach the 'Zero Zone'

  • Y. all that time without exercise and then trying to do nothing, but headwork when came back was working the one part without greasing it with the other.

    FORBES: NYC Psychiatrist and Hemingway On The Benefits Of Exercise On Work And Depression

  • He led Alonso by more than five seconds at his pit stop, but that was trimmed to three soon after and then Vettel could do nothing as his Red Bull suddenly lost power.

    CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

  • Portadown's pressure paid off when Mackle scored a goal out of nothing and then Mouncey's header looped over the goalkeeper after Ross Redman's free-kick over the back of the defence was crossed in by Braniff.

    BBC: Portadown 2-0 Coleraine

  • And what is or is not included with the ambit of that definition then becomes an argument and nothing more.

    CNN

  • The prof has built a team of students who win fortunes in blackjack during weekend trips to Las Vegas and then resume life on campus as if nothing had happened, and his new recruit becomes the star player.

    NEWYORKER: (director: Robert Luketic; 2008)

  • That was the purpose that both Democrats and Republicans had in mind when they wrote the legislation, A. And then, B, if they had nothing to do with it and never liked it in the first place, why, as a Republican congressman has said, did they vote for it, overwhelmingly?

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • And if you made soup with nothing but these grains, and then you left it lying around for a bit, that would also have fermented.

    NPR: Looking at the World Through Beer Glasses

  • You can then turn around and spend nothing to get more views a month.

    FORBES: How Two Israeli Companies Are Leading The Pack In The AdSense For Content Space

  • Earlier today we heard an IRS official say she'd done nothing wrong and then plead the Fifth.

    NPR: With White House Bogged Down By Scandal, GOP Looks For Boost

  • So it's a mixed practice or nothing then and that probably means NHS dentistry will not be the same again.

    BBC: A toothy smile

  • It wouldn't be CES without Stream TV showing off more interesting glasses-free 3D technology and then launching, um, nothing into the wide market.

    ENGADGET

  • If Vettel finishes in the top four, then nothing Alonso and his Ferrari do on Sunday can keep him out of that rare company.

    WSJ: Vettel Leaves Nothing to Chance

  • Though its aim is to be a commercial service, at the moment there is no limit to how much of your collection you can upload and then stream - for absolutely nothing.

    BBC: MediaMaster

  • Mr. ABBAS: (Through translator) As to how much hope we have, if the basis of the ruling will be the law and justice, then we have nothing to worry about, we will get acquitted.

    NPR: Striking Textile Workers in Egypt Get Concessions

  • We have to spend a week of doing that, and then they pass by 100 to nothing or 90-10.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Takes Questions from Senate Democrats

  • But many Japanese executives still say that if the units make money (and they often do), then nothing is wrong.

    ECONOMIST: Japanese business

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