When he finished a second piece, he took a napkin, wiped his lips, and looked at Luda.

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Yiannis Okkas claimed two close-range goals in a fine display, while a Konstantinos Charalampidis header from another set piece finished Wales off.

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He said that he had just finished reading my piece on the cycles and was really asking if I thought this cycle was ending.

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In contrast, it would appear that the Amazon Kindle Fire is a finished, serious piece of work, ready to go when it starts shipping in November.

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Last year, then-Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow played the closest thing to a college-style NFL offense in years and finished the season in one piece.

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The 34-year-old finished off a set-piece for his first, firing Simon Heslop's short lay-off past Harriers keeper Ross Atkins, who could only get a hand to the ball.

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The finished five-pound foot was a single-piece construction, hollow (to minimize weight) and with no seams or fasteners.

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He is endearingly reluctant to admit that the finished document, which he describes as "a key piece of source material for the election, for candidates, for MPs, for campaigners in the field and also, obviously, for journalists", is, like any party's manifesto, unlikely to top the bestseller lists.

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Why anyone would have found that piece of information interesting was beyond my comprehension, but before I finished uploading my photos I had received no fewer than nine other status updates.

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What was interesting was that I got this piece of news (about the earthquake) yesterday just after I had finished watching the program 'Biblical disasters' on the history channel.

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