They both went in a great hurry, and when they were gone the house seemed dreadfully quiet and empty, and the children wandered from one room to another and looked at the bits of paper and string on the floors left over from the packing, and not yet cleared up, and wished they had something to do.

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His desk is laden with the thick, string-bound paper dossiers beloved of Indian civil servants and cordially loathed by everyone else.

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Another woman sat at the end of the bench, holding between her knees a string bag full of parcels wrapped in oiled paper.

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It found a string of abandoned or half-built facilities, including a paper factory, an aluminium mill and a fleet of unused buses - all of which apparently received money from Fonden.

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The paper was just three pages long, and it introduced what would arguably become the most famous string of letters and numbers in the world.

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