There are plenty of reasons why lights burn in Manhattan skyscrapers into the small hours.
The team started assembling the craft in the small hours of the morning, to much media anticipation.
When Gladstone spent the small hours declaiming endlessly to its members (and even listening to their replies)?
Nightlife is a big draw, whether boozing on Bourbon Street or spilling out of a live music joint in the small hours.
The lower house's tied vote, in the small hours of July 26th, after six hours of debate, meant that the case against him came to nothing.
In the small hours of June 1st, engineers began the third and final phase of the project when they closed 19 of the dam's 22 sluice gates.
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And then one of them must have come back that night or another, because I woke up in the small hours with a hot-water bottle under my feet.
When it was introduced to a conference plenary in the small hours of Saturday morning, a few countries notably Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua tried to thwart any such benediction.
The Spaniard returned to Helsinki in the small hours all smiles, to be followed a few hours later by the Turkish prime minister, Bulent Ecevit, who came as a summit guest.
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In some parts of some industries - fashion, public relations, the media, city trading, pop music, to name just a few - socialising into the small hours is part of the job.
Only a month into his posting, Japan's ambassador to China, Uichiro Niwa, has already received five dressings down over this at the Chinese foreign ministry, including one summons in the small hours.
In the small hours of December 15th, the Social Democrat-led government and the Christian Democratic opposition at last agreed to reforms (the so-called Agenda 2010) that may be the most ambitious seen in post-war Germany.
Such contests can continue into the small hours, since the government is understandably keen to preserve the substance of their proposals, but peers know that ministers will be reluctant to force them to climb down.
Besides a brief meeting with Germany's Chancellor Merkel and France's President Hollande there was not a great deal - beyond I'm told a supply of espressos, haribos, and fruit - to fill the small hours as Brussels negotiators put pressure on other countries to accept a squeeze.
In a deal reached in the small hours of Thursday morning, Mr Mahuad gave way: fuel prices partly down again, fresh agreed measures (notably, the reinstatement of income tax) to raise revenues, an end to the emergency, and withdrawal of the non-tax bills, to be sent to Congress one-by-one later.
The Conservative Peter Bone and allies want seven hours set aside to debate the amendments on the press, and it's quite possible the debate may extend into the small hours - so pity Labour MP Lilian Greenwood, who has an adjournment debate on benefit changes in Nottingham at the end of business.
Tickets are often hard to come by, and, make no mistake, this is not an event driven exclusively by tourist dollars (or the Pacific Franc) but one that is committed to preserving local culture and identity, and the dancing continues with a proud energy well into the small hours, long after weary holiday makers have retreated to bed.
His ballad albums such as "In the Wee Small Hours" set a high bar.
Such are the rules of the-miumiu-london, a club so exclusive it will only exist until the end of tonight, Thursday 29th November, or perhaps until the wee small hours of tomorrow morning.
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Many within the party still regard the former member for Caernarfonshire as the "prince across the water" and the content and the nuances of his message will undoubtedly be debated in the bars into the wee small hours.
But while he loved the romance of newspapering as a trade and spent his whole life a couple hours from the small town where he grew up, Ebert was never the kind to be anchored to the past.
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In the pre-dawn hours, seven small bombs exploded in the Medellin city center outside of banks, causing damage, but no injuries.
While students across the state have spent hours drilling for the annual tests, a small but vocal group of parents is planning to boycott them, saying those hours could have been better spent.
Most were part of a backlash after a number of fund firms were found to have permitted large investors to do rapid-fire trading, often contrary to the funds' own rules, or illegally after hours at the expense of small investors.
No German soldiers or planes were involved in the airstrike, but a German patrol made it to the site about 10 hours after the attack and came under small-arms fire, the German military said.
Hall was held in the small storage facility for five hours before she heard a noise.
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Kunming and the small town of Dali four hours to the west are attracting a growing number of painters and sculptors and their output is getting noticed by collectors and dealers outside China.
The figure below shows the real hourly wage and hours worked by employees of the average small business as a fraction of their levels when the Great Recession began.
So common sense would dictate not to talk on the phone for hours if your small and ring fingers go numb.
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