• This was particularly noticeable over the range of sound levels associated with everyday tasks such as listening to the television or chatting at the dinner table.

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  • Another door downstairs to the left of the foyer opens into a more casual living room for Mr. Gouw and his family, with a grand piano, a large-screen television, a sofa and coffee table.

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  • The players contended that the NFL left money on the table in negotiating the television contracts in return for provisions allowing for the NFL to receive full payment in the event of a lockout.

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  • It was served with an injunction preventing any further work but the exterior was already completed and facilities including a training centre, medical facility, pool and table tennis tables, satellite television, internet and washing machines, have been set up inside.

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  • Old movie stars stared out over a leatherette couch, a television, a rack of videocassettes, a card table with a few chairs.

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  • The sitting area has a game table, sofa and chairs, telephone and television.

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  • The Secretary-General took part in a round-table interview with international and Brazilian journalists and a television interview with the Brazilian television network Globo before wrapping up his visit on the evening of 17 June.

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  • Chinese state television is showing five hours a day (its top ranking in the medals table may help).

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  • They divided the north wing, originally a ballroom, into a media room with a large-screen television and a room decorated with sports memorabilia, a bar and a pool table.

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  • By the time the soft spoken Dodgers manager sat behind the designated table for a 30 minute session with the baseball writers, a phalanx of microphones and television cameras were ready to capture every syllable and word that Mattingly uttered regarding the 2011 season and the future of his ball club.

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  • He looked dapper in a dark suit and tie and proved a gracious host, speaking excellent, if not always idiomatic, English for 90 minutes in his suite at the posh Carlyle Hotel, where a lesser-known novel by Alexandre Dumas lay open on the coffee table and a stack of European films on DVD sat next to a flat-screen television.

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  • All day Sunday, the maul continued - the stifling tension peaking as the last frame was whittled agonisingly down to the black, which was chased around the table until Taylor smoothly potted it at 11.23pm - to the delight of a late-night television audience of many millions.

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