Braun, the 2011 National League MVP, told reporters that nearly two days passed between when a collector took his sample and when it was delivered to a FedEx office.

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Two days before the budget package passed, he had launched a last-minute personal bid to save Philipp Holzmann, a private German construction company, from bankruptcy and the loss of some 60, 000 jobs.

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But yesterday, they introduced a water bill which will be passed in just two days.

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The allegation was passed to the Met from Kent Police two days after the woman said she was attacked.

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Two days later, after cursory debate, the lower house of parliament passed a new law allowing Japan's ailing life insurers to cut the rates of return they guaranteed to policyholders, and thus to break unprofitable contracts.

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For two days and two nights, she stupidly watched the sky, the clouds that passed before her, running the way the children of the village would doubtless run after her from now on.

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The Senate took up I think two days ago a cloture vote on our small business lending initiative that the House had previously passed.

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And I was pleased that Democrats and Republicans in Congress came together a few days ago and passed a plan to cut spending and keep the government running for two more weeks.

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