Fortunately, there were occasions when I enjoyed a normal day when I played catch with my sons and helped my daughters with their homework.
Others complained to BBC News Online that they spent more than half an hour in a queue for the technical help line of the Genie Wap service - a premium rate call costing 50p a minute when accessed on a normal telephone landline.
When his train reached a normal section of track, it suddenly appeared on screens across the system, as if from nowhere, and a dispatcher saw what was about to happen.
It appears to condemn parents who take youngsters trick-or-treating, saying it is a time when normal law-abiding people damage their "good neighbours" property and in some cases "bring on fear".
We were a bit shaky at times which is normal when you are having a bad run.
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It was 8:58 a.m. when I left the office on a (normal) beautiful NYC September day with that signature blue sky.
When the doorbell rang on a normal April Sunday afternoon, 17-year-old schoolboy Aamir Siddiqi volunteered to answer.
When demand exceeds supply in a normal market, the price rises until it reaches a market-clearing level.
On a normal day when I'm not portraying the pirate character, I kinda look like a Harley guy, because of the beard.
"Rory is in a very, very difficult position and it's a rather unique position because he has played for Ireland and played for Great Britain and Ireland and he has similar allegiances to both, and that's not a normal thing when you consider other countries, " she said.
C-sections account for more than 30 percent of all deliveries in the US, at roughly 1.5 times the average costs of a normal delivery, when the medically indicated rate is easily less than half that.
The idea is that it gives much better quality shots when you zoom in compared to a normal camera phone, which matters because there is no room for a big zoom lens on a typical mobile.
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Indeed, I think you could argue that the current low interest rate environment has slowed down the move from physical retail to online: if and when we get back to a more normal environment of two to three percent real interest rates, perhaps 5 or 6 % nominal, then those burdens of multiple stocks are going to be felt more keenly.
Even more troubling was the finding that people who had been given a panorex when they were under ten had 4.9 times the normal risk of developing a meningioma.
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So, what happens when someone does spot such a higher than normal profit opportunity?
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But I think that is normal when you live in a city and come from a small town.
We see a similar overvaluation when looking at historically normal levels of price-to-sales.
But the Pentagon said no blanks were used, and that all the procedures used were consistent with normal operations when there is a threat of encountering hostile forces.
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Motaeb could have nicked it at the end of normal time when he had a great chance on his left foot but hit the side-netting instead of the back of the net.
Our reporter says the courts are located in one of the busiest parts of the city, and were full of people when the attacks happened - Sunday is a normal working day in Somalia.
When a regular driver uses a sports car, they use their mental model of a normal car to make sure they do not crash.
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Even on a normal day like Tuesday, when nothing happened, Dendreon shares changed hands 30 million times, three times their average trading volume.
"I really think I'm going to be able to live my life in a normal way, eventually, when I get that permanent prosthesis, " Ms. Abbott said, speaking at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
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There were a couple of days leading up to the big game that were less than productive when measured against the normal work week, but everyone in the office had a good time, we were able to let our hair down and enjoy a little camaraderie as friends.
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Air traffic control personnel "would have known immediately" of a crisis when the planes veered away from their normal route, according to Chris Yates, aviation security editor of Jane's Defence Weekly.
Next up is a scan on coordination of benefits through normal claims processing to look for cases when another state program or private insurance paid all or part of a claim.
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He said that when he first found it he thought it was a "normal stone".
Interim compensation to be paid during a serious disease epidemic, and supplementary compensation when normal conditions are restored.
When others strongly disagree, a stare down is a perfectly normal human reaction.
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