Sinclair and Taylor played a number of high-risk shots to advance the score and no sooner had the 50 partnership been posted then it should have been broken.

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But no sooner had the Tax Policy Center and others tried to figure out what it might mean, Romney changed up.

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But no sooner had he voiced this plan than Britain's customs service let it be known that last July it had seized an illicit shipment of missile parts, on their way to Libya in defiance of an arms embargo.

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No sooner had the G7 statement been issued than there was widespread debate over what it really meant.

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But no sooner had she touched the spindle than the magic spell took effect, and she pricked her finger with it.

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No sooner had Charles Clarke, the home secretary, stressed the dangers of cannabis (though he has no plans to reclassify it so that possession would attract stronger penalties) than, across town, a company legally growing the stuff told investors that business was booming.

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