• To begin at the beginning, I had to go back, way back, to the first Europeans who crossed the ocean blue, long before fourteen hundred and ninety-two.

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  • The lay-by was a couple of hundred yards long.

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  • Probably then the ECB will step in with its long-awaited couple of hundred billion - which is already out there in the marketplace and just needs to be unleashed as long term rather than short term lending.

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  • Before long the fund has several hundred positions, which makes it difficult to have real conviction in each holding.

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  • But I've done that long journey six or seven hundred times and I can't face getting back at 2am feeling depressed if we have lost.

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  • That long tail includes about a hundred databases of specialized information that the search engine is now working on indexing, such as the Security and Exchange Commission's online filings and the online collection of medical journals known as PubMed.

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  • Exhibits include an eight-foot-long rotor, half of a hundred-and-fifty-ton truck, and a pump of Brobdingnagian proportions.

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  • Fifty-two feet wide and a hundred and sixty feet long, the chute can generate sixty-five thousand pounds of drag.

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  • But Tendulkar's 38th Test hundred has gone a long way towards ruining their chances of equalling their own world record of 16.

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  • This recession-age fable, which revolves around love, work, family pressures, and hidebound traditions, is set in contemporary Lisbon but breathes the air of a dreamy, timeless romanticism one that befits the long view of life taken by its hundred-year-old director, Manoel de Oliveira.

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  • Its first edition is seven hundred and forty-two pages long, and much of it has to do with small questions of spelling and pronunciation.

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  • Sammy brought up the hundred with his third six over long-on but his innings came to an end with the first ball after the drinks break as he chopped a regulation delivery from Bopara on to his stumps.

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  • But have a fire break out on a day like yesterday, with the weather conditions they were, we knew that we were going to be in for a long battle--about two to three hundred thousand acres in our area.

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  • Before Levinton had planted thousands of oysters in steel cages in these waters last summer, they had long been barren of those same creatures that a hundred years ago almost entirely paved the bay and its creeks.

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  • Why should drugmakers pay for long-term research trials that can easily cost a hundred million dollars or more if they get no sales benefit?

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  • With just a few hundred miles of ocean between us and a long history that binds us together, Haitians are neighbors of the Americas and here at home.

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  • And the balance may be different in short-term purchases costing a few hundred pounds, such as motor insurance, and long-term investments costing many thousands, such as pensions.

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  • It would take a long time for me to get enough experience to make even three hundred a week.

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  • Before long, the number of spindles on a typical mule jumped from four hundred to a thousand.

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  • With just a few hundred beds on campus, the University of Central Florida was long known as a commuter college.

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  • Working with a facility in Long Island, Warren and her vice president Wickham Boyle have manufactured several hundred jars of shea butter that they will market to high-end shops and boutiques in New York and eventually the rest of the United States.

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