Seated over lunch in a pub in the small town of Ledbury, she witnesses — a silly coincidence?

Extreme flood events often result from coincidence such as unusually intense, warm rainfall melting heavy snow pack, producing channel obstructions from floating ice, and releasing small impoundments like beaver dams.

At one point in the 1960s, packets of the Cap ' n Crunch breakfast cereal included a free gift: a small whistle that ( by coincidence ) generated a 2600 Hz tone when one of the whistle's two holes was covered.

The odds of this coincidence occurring again is extremely small.

A mathematical coincidence often involves an integer, and the surprising ( or " coincidental ") feature is the fact that a real number arising in some context is considered by some ill-defined standard as a " close " approximation to a small integer or to a multiple or power of ten, or more generally, to a rational number with a small denominator.

By fortunate coincidence, the deviation between this lunisolar calendar and the true solar year is small enough to require a correction only once every 200 years.

One may grumble … that she depends a little too much upon coincidence and manufactured effect … but how small are such blemishes compared with the brilliance of the whole conception!

One coincidence of the small computer game industry is that the game was produced for EA by Don Daglow.

On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

The flat, hard cap was small, but he thrust it to the back of his head.

There was some idle talk, a listless discussion of this or that small happening during the day's drive.

Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.

Often, I heard my uncles and cousins speak of it when I was a small boy growing up in Rabaul.

The feeling subsided, it was only a small yearning.

She came from Ohio, from what she called a `` small farm '' of two hundred acres, as indeed it was to farmer-type farmers.

The sun was not yet high and all of them were in the small area of shade cast by the boulder.

While he was handling the multi-million-dollar funding operations of the Government he had to resort to borrowing small sums from friends.

Once, then -- for how many years or how few does not matter -- my world was bound round by fences, when I was too small to reach the apple tree bough, to twist my knee over it and pull myself up.

The double editorial on Two Aspects Of `` The U.S. Spirit '' was subtly calculated to suggest a moral sanction for gambles great as well as small, reflecting popular approval of this questionable attitude toward the highest office in the land.

In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.

He soon quarreled with all the party leaders in the House, and came to be regarded with detestation by regular Democrats as a professional radical leading a small pack of obedient terriers whose constant snapping was demoralizing to party discipline.

There was only one hitch: the small town of Kehl, on the other side of the Rhine, was still under French jurisdiction.

his hospital and doctor bills had been large and his income had been cut until he was receiving little except small rentals on some properties he still owned.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

Now he was married to a beautiful girl, had a small son, and lived in an expensive apartment and worked for the movies.

Though Garibaldi's fight was small shakes compared to Pickett's Charge -- which, like all Southerners, I view in almost Miltonic terms, fallen angels, etc. -- I associated the two.

That exchange was not only possible but commonplace last week in Manhattan, as more and more New Yorkers were discovering 29th Street and Eighth Avenue, where half a dozen small nightclubs with names like Arabian Nights, Grecian Palace and Egyptian Gardens are the American inpost of belly dancing.

Al's Little Cafe was small, dark, narrow, and filled with the mingled scent of beer, tobacco smoke, and Italian cooking.

The nude was small and black-haired and elfin, and was called `` Eloise ''.

In addition, mixed race ( European and African ) people amount to about 2 %, with a small ( 1 %) population of whites, mainly ethnically Portuguese ( as a former overseas territory of Portugal until 1975, the Portuguese make up currently the largest non-African population, with certainly more than 100, 000, a number that has been constantly increasing from the 2000s, because of Angola's growing demand for qualified human resources.

Armenia is the second most densely populated of the former Soviet republics because of its small size.

A former cloth warehouse was converted into a small theatre in 1974, and the alternative culture center KIFF ( Culture in the fodder factory ) was established in a former animal fodder factory.

Abd al-Rahman and a small selection of his family fled Damascus, where the center of Umayyad power had been ; people moving with him include his brother Yahiya, his four-year old son Sulayman, and some of his sisters, as well as his former Greek slave ( a freedman ), Bedr.

After the fall of the communism in 1990, the former communist party changed to Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP ) and won the first post-communist elections for the new constitution in 1990 with a small majority.

During 1988, the Liberals formally merged with the SDP to form the Liberal Democrats, though a small splinter Liberal Party was formed in 1989 by former members opposed to the merger.

While the definitive studies are lacking, the former view received support from a 2004 meta-analysis of 13 small studies.

The battle closed with the celebrated stand of Reginald of Boulogne, a former vassal of King Philip, who formed a ring of seven hundred Brabançon pikemen, and not only defied every attack of the French cavalry, but himself made repeated charges or sorties with his small force of knights.

In 1969, the county was abolished and Carson City and a few small surrounding settlements within the former county were merged into a newly formed independent city called Carson City Consolidated Municipality.

A small but affluent middle class can afford to shop at the former, while the large impoverished rural community resorts to buying small amounts of daily essentials from colmados ( small stores that often double as bars ).

As in other former East German cities, a small number of GDR-era names commemorating socialist heroes have been preserved, such as Karl-Marx-Allee, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz and Karl-Liebknecht-Straße ; this followed a long process of review in which many such street names were deemed inappropriate and were changed.

* Jenner Gardens at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, opposite one of the scientist's former offices, is a small garden and cemetery

The former is especially important in the area of intercultural relations and the latter in improving management operations in small businesses.

Varadkar in particular has been a strong proponent of small, indigenous business, advocating that smaller firms should benefit from the government's recapitalisation program Its former finance spokesman Richard Bruton's proposals have been seen as approaching problems from a pro-enterprise point of view.

It has a membership of around 120 and has a large selection of dinghies and a small fleet of keelboats, including Solings, which are former Olympic boats.

For example, former field hands ( during the early days of Reconstruction ) are described behaving " as creatures of small intelligence might naturally be expected to do.

By contrast, Pétion broke up the former colonial estates and parceled out the land into small holdings.

Across Europe Bricha (" flight "), an organization of former partisans and ghetto fighters, smuggled Jewish holocaust survivors from Eastern Europe to Italy, where small boats tried to breach the British blockade of Palestine.

The former name International Hydrographic Bureau was retained to describe the IHO secretariat comprising three elected Directors and a small staff at the Organization's headquarters in Monaco.

Director Michael Mann tagged Voight for a small but crucial role in the 2001 biopic Ali, which starred Will Smith as the controversial former heavyweight champ, Muhammad Ali.

The minority party, the Kenya African Democratic Union ( KADU ), representing a coalition of small tribes that had feared dominance by larger ones, dissolved itself voluntarily in 1964 and former members joined KANU.

The small bits of rail lines within Kyrgyzstan, about 370 km of broad gauge in total, have little economic value in the absence of the former bulk traffic over long distances to and from such centers as Tashkent, Almaty and the cities of Russia.