Final numbers for the holiday season including after-Christmas sales will not be known for a while.

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Voltaire went and hung out with Frederick the Great, and after a while he said, "Let me out of here."

伏尔泰曾经与腓特烈大帝来往,过了不久他便说,"我要离开"

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After a while, there were stretches where red gullies dropped off on either side of the road, and behind them there were patches of field buttoned together with 666 posts.

过了一会，有几段路,红色的排水沟在道路两旁延伸，后面是一块块的田地,一共有666根插在上面。

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To get the color you want without burning the sugar, you may have to lower the heat after a while.

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Murphy headed the Reds opener after a McMullan cross while the provider notched Cliftonville's second a minute before the interval after good work by Ronan Scannell.

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Undaunted by the colossal downpour, a large blue vessel, the Milford Mariner, cuts through the choppy waters until, after a while, the rain falters and stops.

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