Every domestic arrangement that works reasonably well is stretched out over a web of understandings about who does what, and for 24 years -- three houses, that is, and two children and two extended families and a long, noisy, generally good-natured parade of teenagers and exchange students and visiting nephews and whole soccer teams clumping in and out -- I have been the one who cooks.

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And this is what we did for the first two or three years after the independence of Zimbabwe.

BBC: News Online

What this Bill will do is make people think two or three times before committing to a pet, and it will also allow the authorities and charities like the RSPCA intervene if the animal is suffering in any way.

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This is one of the things that's changed in the world economy over the last two or three decades, is that this is a global economy now, and what happens anywhere in the world can have an impact here in the United States.

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"I can't spend all my time looking at this standards issue and doing the job at the council, so I thought the best thing to do was to temporarily stand down for two to three weeks to deal with this matter and then get back to running what is regarded by the Audit Commission as one of the best-run councils in the country".

BBC: Derrick Murphy

But it was very much 'Sign up an author and wait two or three years for a manuscript, ' rather than saying, 'This is what we think doctors and nurses need, what the book should look like and what the content should be.

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