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Of the three hours in time savings, between one-third and one-half would result from the taking the more direct ( and newly upgraded ) S line and bypassing Wilson and Rocky Mount, whereas the rest would be from speed improvements, both from raising top speeds and from reducing bottlenecks.
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At her door, two or three hours later, Mary Jane whispered, `` Everyone is asleep ''.
They ran for three hours.
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Less than three hours ago we'd decided, in Maxine Wells's pad on Cosmo, to commit a trial murder.
The verdict came three hours later.
I could talk to you for three hours and still not be able to give you all of our plans ''!!
The ground crew, which ordinarily fuels a 707 in twenty minutes, took fully three hours.
At 7:30 a.m., more than three hours after landing, the Beardens gave an ultimatum:
With Martha's Vineyard on one side and the open sea on the other, it makes an excellent trip of about three hours.
John-and-Linda drove to Conneaut in three and a half hours.
`` Standard years -- eighty-four years, seven months, three days, two hours, eleven and one half minutes.
In a public suit the litigants each had three hours to speak, much less in private suits ( though here it was in proportion to the amount of money at stake ).
To qualify as a teacher of Alexander Technique, instructors are required to complete at least 1, 600 hours, spanning at least three years, of supervised teacher training.
John Young and Charles Duke spent 71 hours — just under three days — on the lunar surface, during which they conducted three extra-vehicular activities, or moonwalks, totaling 20 hours and 14 minutes.
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After three hours and six minutes, Young and Duke returned to the LM, where they completed several experiments and offloaded the rover.
Just over three hours before splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, the crew performed a final course correction burn, changing their velocity by.
The Independent review of the 1995 National Theatre revival praised the production, writing " For three hours of gloriously barbed bliss and bewitchment, Sean Mathias's production establishes the show as a minor miracle of astringent worldly wisdom and one that is haunted by less earthy intimations.
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Lord Cutts ’ column – who by 10: 00 had expelled the enemy from two water mills upon the Nebel – had already deployed by the river against Blenheim, enduring over the next three hours severe fire from a heavy six-gun battery posted near the village.
People commonly experience an increase in energy and a decreased need for sleep, with many often getting as little as three or four hours of sleep per night, while others can go days without sleeping.
To be a blizzard, a snow storm must have sustained winds or frequent gusts that are greater than or equal to with blowing or drifting snow which reduces visibility to 400 meters or a quarter mile or less and must last for a prolonged period of time — typically three hours or more.
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My new Aunt was perhaps three or four years older than I and it had been a long time since I had seen as gorgeous a woman who oozed sex.
He didn't stop till he was within three feet of Blue Throat and by that time the gang leader's right hand was on the butt of his revolver.
The man is right, and at this time, indications are that these three are ready for better seasons.
There were times now, like this, when she lost control of the time count and moved freely back and forth into three generations.
`` At three o'clock if it will be of convenience to you at that time ''.
I laid three layers of glass cloth on the inside of the stem, also installing a bow eye at this time.
You can save all that shimming time if you set your windows in one, two, three order -- first the stud on one side, then the window, then the stud on the other side.
By the time Barco reached the count of three, the situation seemed to Welch almost too good to be true.
By the time the film was released we were three million dollars over-spent, war was imminent and the public apparently had forgotten all about Mother Cabrini.
Results from this approach amply confirm the direct observations: about three years are required, there being a possible slight difference between males and females in the time required.
The extent to which the public-limit price is raised by a given increase in the basic wage rate is itself a function of three things: the passage of time, the level of GNP, and the size of the wage increase.
The second productive period, the decade from 1910 to 1920, can be related to three events: the completion of The Dynasts in 1909, which left Hardy free of pressure for the first time in forty years ; ;
`` After your child's baby teeth are all in -- usually at the age of two and one half to three -- it's time for that first dental appointment '', Dr. Brodie advises.
By the time he had smoked three cigarettes he had calmed down.
`` I kicked about 110 extra points in 135 tries during three years in high school '', he said, `` and made 26 in a row at one time.
He would come home in the evening tired and discouraged -- in no frame of mind to play with their three children, or spend much time chatting with his wife.
I'll never forget one time I struck out three times, dropped a fly ball, and we lost the game.
Two other people in time shared Mijbil's love: `` it remained around us three that his orb revolved when he was not away in his own imponderable world of wave and water ; ;
Growing up without a mother from the time she was three -- it wasn't a good thing for a child, even knowing the kind of mother Alice had been.
All three of these time scales were defined to read JD 2443144. 5003725 ( 1 January 1977 00: 00: 32. 184 ) exactly at that instant.
A paper published at the same time proposed that the original three families should be retained as subfamilies within Xanthorrhoeaceae sensu lato.
A paper published at the same time as the 2009 classification proposed that the original three families should be retained as subfamilies within Amaryllidaceae sensu lato.
Akira was the eighth and youngest child of the moderately wealthy family, with two of his siblings already grown up at the time of his birth and one deceased, leaving Kurosawa to grow up with three sisters and a brother.
The rain-affected Third Test ended with the last two Australian batsmen holding out for a draw and England won the Fourth Test by three wickets after forcing Australia to follow-on for the first time in 191 Tests.
The 2010 – 11 Ashes series is the only one in which a team has won three Tests by innings margins and it was the first time England had scored 500 or more four times in a single series.
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