The thought came back, the one nagging at him these past four days.

In the past an orthodontist might have tried, over four or five years, to straighten and fit the boy's large teeth into a jaw that, despite some growth, would never accommodate them.

He knew the house fairly well, he had been there on two previous visits during the past three or four months alone.

The Secretary of State himself, in his first speech, gave some idea of the tremendous march of events inside and outside the United States that has preoccupied the new administration in the past four months.

During the past four hundred years, Virginia Dare has become a prominent figure in American myth and folklore, symbolizing different things to different groups of people.

Historicists interpret all four prophecies as extending from Daniel's time, past the present to a future Kingdom of God.

Founded on 4 February 1862, and family-owned for the past seven generations, Bacardi now employs nearly 6, 000 people, manufactures its brands at 27 facilities in 16 markets on four continents, with sales in more than 150 countries.

Earth has undergone periodic climate shifts in the past, including four major ice ages.

The 2006 science fiction film Déjà Vu revolves around a US federal law enforcement officer using an instrument called Snowhite to view the past four and a half days of anywhere in the world ( limited radius as permissible by the program ) in order to solve a murder and a terrorist bomb attack on a ferry that was being boarded by about 500 citizens and military members.

Participation has grown over 60 percent the past four years with 19 percent of males in the U. S. playing fantasy sports.

Bel Geddes expounds upon his design in his book Magic Motorways, stating, “ Futurama is a large-scale model representing almost every type of terrain in America and illustrating how a motorway system may be laid down over the entire country – across mountains, over rivers and lakes, through cities and past towns – never deviating from a direct course and always adhering to the four basic principles of highway design: safety, comfort, speed and economy .” He had acknowledged this in the belief that “ A free-flowing movement of people and goods across our nation is a requirement of modern living and prosperity .”

Between and of Iraq ’ s declared oil production over the past four years could have been siphoned off through corruption or smuggling, according to a US Study from May 12, 2007.

For example, four miles past the Ineyzane River, after the British had comfortably crossed, and after they had spent a day consolidating their advance, the Zulu finally launched a typical " buffalo horn " encirclement attack that was seen off with withering fire from not only breach-loading Martini-Henry rifles, but 7-pounder artillery and Gatling guns.

John Graves Simcoe was the only surviving son of John and Katherine Simcoe ; although his parents had four children, he was the only one to live past childhood.

Mr. Annan concluded his report saying that " It is time, 14 years after the end of hostilities and four years after the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, for all parties concerned to set aside the remaining vestiges of the past.

At four minutes past midnight of 6 September, one of them ( likely Issa ) turned on the hostages in the eastern helicopter and fired at them with a Kalashnikov assault rifle from point-blank range.

Nijmegen is famous for the International Four Day March Nijmegen (, informally Nijmeegse Vierdaagse ), an annual event starting on the third Tuesday in July, comprising four days of walking ( distances ranging from 30 to 50 km a day ), and the accompanying festivities ( the Vierdaagsefeesten including the independent festival de-Affaire ), which have been drawing the largest crowds for any Dutch event in the past few years.

The new, largely conservative House was on much better terms with Bismarck than previous bodies ; at the Minister-President's request, it retroactively approved the budgets of the past four years, which had been implemented without parliamentary consent.

This is composed of one year in general surgical training and four years in otolaryngology – head and neck surgery ; in the past it varied between two and three years of each.

Amerindians are found in the southern Andes, though a large portion, also to be found in the southern and central coast due to the massive internal labor migration from remote Andean regions to coastal cities, during the past four decades.

In a memorable NLCS, with four of the five games going into extra innings, they fell behind 2 – 1 but battled back to squeeze past the Houston Astros on a tenth-inning, game-winning hit by center fielder Garry Maddox, and the city celebrated its first pennant in 30 years.

Overall U. S. foreign assistance to Rwanda has increased fourfold over the past four years.

Suleiman's two Haseki Sultans had borne him eight sons, four of whom survived past the 1550s.

In the 2005 survey, Switzerland ranks 7th ( out of 158 surveyed ), with 9. 1 out of 10 possible points, representing an improvement of 0. 4 points over the past four years.

The arrest and long-term detention of two reformist Parliamentarians, Ma ’ mun al-Humsy and Riad Seif, in August and September 2001, respectively, and the apparent marginalizing of some of the reformist advisors in the past four years, indicate that the pace of any political reform in Syria is likely to be much slower than the short-lived Damascus Spring promised.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

of these and a host of other antiquated legends that deny the South its progressive leaps of the past century.

The continuities, contrasts, and similarities discernible when past and present are surveyed together are inexhaustible and the one is often understood through the other.

In the past these same Southerners were inclined to look the other way.

Whereas the maintenance rotary fund had in the past sustained losses considerably beyond expectations, the introduction of the cost-billing system plus other control refinements has resulted in keeping the fund on a proper working basis.

The Department of Defense appropriation acts for the past several years have contained a rider which limits competitive bidding by firms in other countries on certain military supply items.

A stream which has all of its watershed within a national forest or other lands under good conservation practices is less likely to be affected by pollution than one passing through unrestricted logging or past an industrial area.

Fortunately we were alone in the building -- so few people nowadays are interested even in their own past or in the lovely craft of other days -- for they began to abuse each other in the foulest language.

It is a proposal that justice now be served by means other than those that have ever preconditioned the search for it, or preconditioned more positive means for attaining it, in the past.

A half-dozen other stations in the New York area also bid for attention of the city's Negro population, up about 50 per cent in the past decade.

Further cultural subdivisions according to tool types, such as Olduwan or Mousterian or Levalloisian help archaeologists and other anthropologists in understanding major trends in the human past.

It is only within about the past century, however, that amateur astronomy has become an activity clearly distinguished from professional astronomy, and other related activities.

The time when cases had drawn him from one end of England to the other was past.

In some popular views, this continued existence often takes place in a spiritual realm, and in other popular views, the individual may be reborn into this world and begin the life cycle over again, likely with no memory of what they have done in the past.

Short-sighted habits that have become harmfully exaggerated over time, such as restricted breathing or other habitually assumed adaptations to past circumstances, will stop after learning to perceive and prevent them.

But as the war changed his attitude and personality, poems and other aspects of his past life become something Paul could not remember having any link to, and he learns to disconnect himself from his feelings.

This latter construal is sometimes expressed by saying " there is no fact of the matter as to whether or not P ." Thus, we may speak of anti-realism with respect to other minds, the past, the future, universals, mathematical entities ( such as natural numbers ), moral categories, the material world, or even thought.

Logging has been an important industry in the past, but has been steadily declining with competition from other areas and the closure of the region's major pulp mills.

According to the U. S. State Department, " U. S. relations with Burkina Faso are good but subject to strains in the past because of the Compaoré government's past involvement in arms trading and other sanctions-breaking activity.

Relations are good but subject to strains in the past because of the Compaoré government's past involvement in arms trading and other sanctions-breaking activity.

Over the past few decades rapid developments in genomic and other molecular research technologies and developments in information technologies have combined to produce a tremendous amount of information related to molecular biology.

The Chronicles, on the other hand, were written much later, after the restoration of the Jewish community in Palestine, at a time when the kingdoms were beginning to be regarded as the nostalgic past, something to be at least partially imitated, not something to be avoided.