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My husband's hours away from home for the past years have been from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. the early part of the week, and as late as 8 or 9 on week-ends.
( I watched it on television late one night last week and it `` stands up '' remarkably well, even twenty years later.
The severe yet harmonious vases of the previous fifty years, the Strong Geometric style of the late ninth century, display as firm a mastery of the principles underlying Geometric pottery ; ;
One can apply these facts to Britain in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as she spread her dominion over palm and pine, and they can be applied again to the United States in more recent years.
Two species are described in the literature: A. ramidus, which lived about 4. 4 million years ago during the early Pliocene, and A. kadabba, dated to approximately 5. 6 million years ago ( late Miocene ).
In the late 9th-century Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ( around four hundred years after his time ) Ælle is recorded as being the first bretwalda, or " Britain-ruler ", though there is no evidence that this was a contemporary title.
The most likely time frame is in the late fifth or early sixth century AD – at least 100 years after Athanasius.
The Abbey was built over some sixty years using local red sandstone, but gives the impression of a single coherent, mainly ' Early English ' architectural design, though the round-arched processional doorway in the western front looks back to late Norman or transitional work.
Then subsequently the city was, for more than a thousand years, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, the Greek-speaking Roman Empire of late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
For many years, bouldering was commonly viewed as a playful training activity for climbers, although in the 1930s and late 1940s Pierre Allain and his companions enjoyed bouldering for its own sake in Fontainebleau, considered by many to be the Mecca of bouldering.
A major programme of remedial work on the West Coast Main Line started in 1997 and finished in 2009, far over budget (£ 10bn ), many years late and still not bringing the line up to the standards originally proposed by Railtrack.
However, owing to project delays, groundbreaking took place in March 1985, almost two years late.
Bodmin Gaol, operational for over 150 years but now a semi-ruin, was built in the late 18th century, and was the first British prison to hold prisoners in separate cells ( though often up to 10 at a time ) rather than communally.
In the late 800s, Alfred the Great assembled the Doom book ( not to be confused with the more-famous Domesday Book from 200 years later ), which collected the existing laws of Kent, Wessex, and Mercia, and attempted to blend in the Mosaic code, Christian principles, and Germanic customs dating as far as the fifth century.
Other researchers believe that cooking was invented as late as 40, 000 or 10, 000 years ago.
They most likely originated in West Gondwana and are 67 – 107 million years old, so the oldest split could relate to the break-up of Gondwana in the middle Eocene to late Oligocene, 45 – 24 million years ago, and reached their current distribution by multiple intercontinental dispersal events.
As recently as the late 1990s it was rather run-down ; it underwent a controversial gentrification in recent years ( in conjunction with the development of the nearby University Park at MIT ), and continues to grow more expensive.
Over the next few years, Yuan proceeded to abolish the national and provincial assemblies, and declared himself emperor in late 1915.
The elections for Curule Aedile were at first alternated between Patricians and Plebeians, until late in the 2nd century BC, when the practice was abandoned and both classes became free to run during all years.
As late as 1953 – just five years before Carey introduced the theory of plate tectonics – the theory of continental drift was rejected by the physicist Scheiddiger on the following grounds.
However, repeal of the Corn Laws came too late to stop Irish famine, partly because it was done in stages over three years.
Despite the move away from the Valley, Charlton were promoted to the First Division as Second Division runners-up at the end of 1985 – 86, and remained at this level for four years ( achieving a highest league finish of 14th ) often with late escapes, most notably against Leeds in 1987, where the Addicks triumphed in extra-time of the play-off final replay to secure their top flight place.

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I say the late seventeenth century because Racine ( whom Lessing did not really know ) stands on the far side of the chasm.
She asked if I had other advice and, heady with success, I rushed it in, I hope not too late.
I did have the decency to call up Thelma and tell her I'd met old friends and would be home late.
The night after reading her letter about her surgeon uncle -- it must have been late in September -- I had a vision of myself returned in ragged uniform from The Front, nearly dying, my head bandaged and blooded, and Jessica bending over me, the power of her love bringing me back to life.
It was late, we were playing kissing games, and Jessica and I were called on to kiss in front of the others.
I would expect that sales at retail in the first half of 1961 might be below 1960 by some 10 - 15% but that second-half levels should show a favorable comparison, with a possibility of quite strong demand late in the year if business conditions recover as some recent forecasts suggest they will.
John said: `` I have some antiseptic salve with me, but it's too late for that ''.
And I suppose now that you've finally grown up, if a little late, you'd go on producing kittens every six months or so.
I did my shopping, had my dentist appointment, and from there I went to the women's lunch at our parish church where we discussed plans for the annual Christmas bazaar, so that dusk was beginning to gather when I drove home in the late afternoon.
`` I didn't know it was going to be this late ''!!
I think we were very tired, for we awoke at the same moment, deeply rested, surprised to see the late morning sun on the windows, which were wet where the rime had melted.
I felt myself tremble, thinking of the diamond light of that beauty I had held a few moments before, and I wanted to run down there and halt, if I could, that frenetic pirouette, catch the boy in the moment of his savagery, and save a glimmer, a remnant, of that which I remembered, but I knew it was already too late.
:" I have been called in too late.

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) At this late date, it is impossible for St. Michael's College to find a suitable replacement for me.
Efforts began in the late 1940s to find non-volatile memory.
In ancient literature, we find a reference to the workings of water-powered marble saws close to Trier, now Germany, by the late 4th century poet Ausonius ; about the same time, these mill types seem also to be indicated by the Christian saint Gregory of Nyssa from Anatolia, demonstrating a diversified use of water-power in many parts of the Roman Empire.
The use of metal aircraft structures was pioneered before World War I by Breguet but would find its biggest proponent with Anthony Fokker who used chrome-molybdenum steel tubing for the fuselage structure of all his fighter designs, while the innovative German engineer Hugo Junkers developed two all-metal, single-seat fighter monoplane designs with cantilever wings: the strictly experimental Junkers J 2 private-venture aircraft, made with steel, and some forty examples of the Junkers D. I, made with corrugated duralumin, all based on his experience in creating the pioneering Junkers J 1 all-metal airframe technology demonstration aircraft of late 1915.
He created a storm in the British press soon after his arrival by suggesting that the two countries might find common ground opposing communism's spread: The Führer is convinced that there is only one real danger to Europe and to the British Empire as well, and that is the spreading further of communism, this most terrible of all diseases-terrible because people generally seem to realize its danger only when it is too late.
The USAID and the World Bank worked together with the Malagasy government in the late 1980s to try to find a way to reconcile these two difficult and seemingly mutually-exacerbating problems.
" I felt I ’ d better go find out where it is ; what it is to be black in this country ; what this rage is all about ," Brando said on the late night ABC-TV talk show Joey Bishop Show.
In the late 1960s, Roosevelt County, New Mexico in the Great Plains was found to be a particularly good place to find meteorites.
When the king saw Anne for the first time in late December 1539, a week before the scheduled wedding, he did not find her attractive but was unable, for diplomatic reasons and in the absence of a suitable pretext, to cancel the marriage.
Copies were hard to find prior to the late 1990s.
Returning to France in late 1191, he began plotting to find a way to have those territories restored to him.
The story, narrated by a criminologist, tells the tale of newly-engaged couple Brad Majors and Janet Weiss, who find themselves lost and with a flat tire on a cold and rainy late November evening.
Throughout the late 1980s, the Soviet government attempted to find a new structure which would reflect the increasing power of the republics.
this all most correct but they are missing the 3D bit and part to find were they are but for that to happen, when they do find it, it will be too late due and u will be pulling into.
Some players, especially those who find the 20K excessively heavy for marching, prefer the slightly smaller King model 1250, first made in the late 1920s and also still in production as the model 2350.
Charles did not arrive until late in the day on 25 August 1270, only to find that his brother had died of dysentery that morning.
In late spring of 1943, Ulam asked von Neumann to find him a war job.
Alarmed at the Russian troops concentrating near their borders, unable to find any allies to resist Russian aggression, and short of money to fund a war, the government of Denmark threatened in late June to invade the free city of Hamburg in northern Germany to force a loan from it.
One grave find on the lower Volga gave a similar date, and one of the Steblev graves from the East European end of the Scythian area was dated to the late 8th century BC.
As late as the accession of Assur-bani-pal and Shamash-shum-ukin, we find the Babylonians appending to their city laws that groups of aliens to the number of twenty at a time were free to enter the city ; that foreign women, once married to Babylonian husbands, could not be enslaved ; and that not even a dog that entered the city could be put to death untried.
In many histories of the Mausoleum one can find the following story of what happened: The party, deciding it was too late to open it that day, returned the next morning to find the tomb, and any treasure it may have contained, plundered.
Following the trappers in the late to l840's and early l850's, government explorers came to the valley to find routes across the continent.

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