When asked to do this, English speakers arrange time from left to right.
Margaret Thatcher was proudly, quintessentially English at a time when the Scots were rediscovering and reasserting their sense of Scottish identity.
Before the contract was signed, Batista, who spoke practically no English at the time, decided that to turn the company around he'd have to move his wife and three young children to Greeley.
The Chelsea takeover by Roman Abramovich was a game-changer and for the first time English and European clubs faced the prospect of competing with a club owner whose wealth made the signing of multiple world-class players possible.
Lawyers, accountants, management consultants and other professional-services grunts are drawn to London partly for the same reasons financial-services firms cluster there the global ubiquity of English and a time zone midway between the rich old world and emerging Asia.
These numbers pale in comparison to the television rights of the English Premier League, but at the same time many of the English clubs desperately need that money to pay off enormous debts.
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Then, using "augmented reality" technology from Total Immersion Software, the device translated the Mandarin characters on the sign into English, and in real time, super-imposed the characters on the device screen with English translations.
"I never knew she spoke English until it was time for her to move, " Thurman said.
The last time the English league had failed to have a team advance to this stage was 17 years ago.
There, American teachers provide real-time video English lessons to thousands of students in classrooms across Asia via high-speed fiber optic networks.
Mr McGlynn said William would have travelled to the Nottingham area because it was the main headquarters of the English army at the time.
But it is clear from talking to Bordeaux striker David Bellion ahead of Wednesday's crunch Champions League match with Chelsea that his time in English football was the making of him.
Al-Sahaf, speaking mostly in English for the first time since the war began, issued a list of civilian areas he said the coalition had bombarded, enumerating casualties in villages and neighborhoods.
But if there's an unofficial rule about crunch time in English soccer, it's this: As a season's worth of knocks begin to pile up, it sometimes pays to call in the cavalry.
The most capped English player of all time is Peter Shilton who finally retired his gloves at 47 while Dino Zoff captained Italy to a 1982 World Cup win four months after he turned 40.
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It is the first time the English Premier League giants have sold the branding rights to their coveted training ground on the outskirts of Manchester and represents another step in the club's strategy to increase revenues.
Born in Madrid to a wealthy family and the owner of a group of businesses, Mr Rato, who is 55, speaks excellent English thanks to his time studying at the University of California in the 1970s.
At previous gatherings he has stuck to French, using an interpreter to translate into English, despite the fact that he has a good understanding of English, having spent time in his youth as a Harvard student and forklift driver at a US brewery.
The judges' decision is thought to be the first time an English court has ever blocked an extradition request from a foreign government on the grounds that it would violate Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which safeguards the right to a fair trial.
The former Plaid Cymru president, Dafydd Iwan, when he looked more like he did in the days of this picture than he does now, used to sing - in Welsh - of school days that were filled with "lessons history, lessons geography" and "lessons English " all the time.
"A lot of guys got experience in English conditions for the first time, " Lara added.
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Scotland's A team also played for the first time in the English County 2nd XI Championship.
We received a reprieve most of the time in colloquial English, but never in written English.
Gary McAllister rejected an approach from Burley, preferring instead to seek a full-time role in English football.
For a long time, many English speakers have felt that the language was going to the dogs.
By the time the Oxford English Dictionary was completed, in 1928, the number had burgeoned to 414, 825.
It marked Bradford City's return to the second tier of English football for the first time since before World War II.
Forest start life in the third tier of English football for the first time in 54 years when they host Huddersfield on Saturday.
"I enjoyed my time in the English Premiership at Harlequins after joining them in 1995 and had a great four years there, " Llewellyn added.
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