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:...‘ about six o ’ clock, that morning, I observed the air very much condensed in my chamber-window ; and, upon getting up, was informed by a tenant that finding himself cold in bed, about three o ’ clock in the morning, he looked out at his window, and to his great surprise saw the ground covered with a white frost: and I was assured that two men at Barton, about off, saw in some shallow tubs, ice of the thickness of a crown-piece .’
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`` The town of Buckhorn's only about six miles from here.
In point of fact, this is a beige box with a bright red door, about one and a half feet square and hung from the wall about six feet from the door to Wisman's right.
In spite of the dreams of the host for oneness in the group, the Af incoming messages for each guest overload his receiving system beyond comprehension if N exceeds about six.
The assumptions upon which the example shown in Figure 3 is based are: ( A ) One man can direct about six subordinates if the subordinates are chosen carefully so that they do not need too much personal coaching, indoctrinating, etc..
( B ) A message runs too great a risk of being distorted if it is to be relayed more than about six consecutive times.
His reading ranged from Agatha Christie to The Book Of Job and he had an insatiable interest in his fellow-creatures, while his letters were full of gossip about new politicians and old men of letters with whom he had been intimately thrown six decades before.
It is possible to make a few generalizations about the six giants themselves.
Hans Schweizer had one that increased from 19-1/2 inches to 5 feet 3 inches in five years, and J. J. Quelch records a growth of from less than 4 feet to nearly 10 in about six years.
At Yalta he thought more about the six million Germans who would have to leave, trying to find work in Germany, and Roosevelt objected to the Western Neisse River being chosen in the south, instead of the Eastern Neisse, both of which flow into the Oder.
Thus, the combined efficiency of the elements replaced by the two fiber plates ( with a combined efficiency of 0.25 ) is 0.043 or about six times less than that of the two fiber plates.
Dr. H. V. Hilprecht, Professor of Assyrian at the University of Pennsylvania, dreamed that a Babylonian priest, associated with the king Kurigalzu, ( 1300 B.C. ) escorted him to the treasure chamber of the temple of Bel, gave him six novel points of information about a certain broken relic, and corrected an error in its identification.
In Chicago, some time ago, Mr. H., age 27, a diabetic since he was six, stopped using insulin because he had bought a `` magic spike '' -- a glass tube about the size of a pencil filled with barium chloride worth a small fraction of a cent -- sold by the Vrilium Company of Chicago for $306 as a cure-all.
Photos showed later that she'd been about six feet from Means.
The share of the new housing market enjoyed by apartments, which began about six years ago, has more than tripled within that span of time.
Government attorneys, Leavitt said, have questioned him closely about `` five or six loans '' totaling about $40,000 which the liquor company made to Stein in the last year.
When he attended the Christian Anti-Communist Crusade school here about six months ago, Jim became convinced that an individual can do something constructive in the ideological battle and set out to do it.
The logical works of Aristotle were compiled into six books in about the early 1st century AD:
The urn is made of terracotta and is about six inches ( 150 mm ) tall and may originally have been a perfume jar.
Ludgate's engine would be much smaller than Babbage's of about 8 cubic feet ( 230 L ) and hypothetically would be capable of multiplying two 20-decimal-digit numbers in about six seconds.
More than six feet tall ( about 1. 9 m ), he was also noted for his immense physical strength.
As a result of this, powered descent to the lunar surface began about six hours behind schedule.
The original thoroughfare, flanked by rows of columns and shops, was about 73 feet ( 22 meters ) wide ( roughly the equivalent of a present-day six lane motorway ), but buildings have extended onto the streets over the centuries, and the modern lanes replacing the ancient grid are now quite narrow.
about and o
In his Spór o istnienie świata ( Ger: " Der Streit um die Existenz der Welt ", Eng: " Dispute about existence of the world ") he created his own realistic position, which also helped to spread phenomenology in Poland.
* Cała prawda o planecie Ksi (" Complete Truth about planet Xi "), 1983
The 1 is normally set at approximately 60 degrees clockwise from the uppermost point of the dial, or approximately at the 2 o ' clock position, and then the numbers progress counterclockwise, with the 0 being at about 5 o ' clock.
* Rasskaz o samo glavnom, 1924-' A Story about the Most Important Thing ' ( tr.
# Janez Strnad, Natančnejši podatki o vesolju ( More accurate data about the Universe ), ( Delo, Znanost / Scientia, April 7, 2003 pp 3 )
At about five o ' clock in the afternoon, after observing the infantry battle from the hilltop, Sobieski led Polish husaria cavalry along with Austrians and Germans into a massive charge down the hillside.
On 5 July 2003 about 350 skiers and 70 skifield staff were trapped on the mountain overnight at Top o ' the Bruce when a sudden snow storm blew up and within a few minutes made the access road too dangerous to descend.
You will hear about it on the 6 o ' clock news.
In 2006 the BBC ran a series of programmes called The Lost World of Friese-Greene, presented by Dan Cruickshank about Claude Friese-Greene's road trip from Land's End to John o ' Groats, The Open Road, which he filmed from 1924 to 1926 using the Biocolour process.
The Czech language uses the locative case to denote location ( v České republice / in the Czech Republic ), but as in the Russian language, the locative case may be used after certain prepositions with meanings other than location ( o Praze / about Prague, po revoluci / after the revolution ).
** Feminine nouns ending in-ia, e. g. Kasia (" Katie ") → o Kasi (" about Katie "), Austria → w Austrii (" in Austria ")
** Feminine nouns ending in-ść, e. g. miłość (" love ") → o miłości (" about love ")
*-ach Used for plural nouns of all genders, e. g. kobiety (" women ") → o kobietach (" about women ")
*-ej Used for feminine singular adjectives, e. g. duża krowa (" big cow ") → o dużej krowie (" about a big cow ")
However, this case is also used after the preposition " о " (" about ") as in " о студенте ", o studente (" about the student ").
These forms end in "- у ́" or "- ю ́": " лежать в снегу ́", lezhat v snegu ( to lie in the snow ), but " думать о снеге ", dumat o snege ( to think about snow ).
The Slovak language uses the locative case to denote location ( na Slovensku / in Slovakia ), but as in the Russian language, the locative case may be used after certain prepositions with meanings other than location ( o Bratislave / about Bratislava, po revolúcii / after the revolution ).
** Masculine inanimate nouns ending in a soft consonant ( c, č, ď, dz, dž, j, ľ, ň, š, ť, ž ), e. g. ovládač (" remote ") → o ovládači (" about the remote "), tŕň → tŕni
** Feminine nouns ending in a soft consonant or a soft consonant followed by a, e. g. vôňa → o voni, kosť (" bone ") → o kosti (" about bone ")
*-ách used for plural feminine and neuter nouns, e. g. ženy (" women ") → o ženách (" about women ").
**-ich /-ych when the preceding vowel is long: rýchle autá (" fast cars ") → o rýchlych autách (" about fast cars ")
" He was fond of telling people a story about how he had raced at a high speed down Piccadilly in London at three o ' clock in the morning for the sheer enjoyment of it, only to be pulled over by a policeman for such illegal and potentially dangerous activity.
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