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The half an hour journey to the centre of Edinburgh helped build on the existing popularity of the village, though it put the steamers out of business.
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I'll be soaking for at least half an hour ''.
'' For the last half hour Mary Jane had criss-crossed half the length of the Gardens and, at last, come upon her knight.
`` If I don't come out within half an hour ride back to town and bring out a posse ''.
At Camp Taylor in Kentucky a barracks was built in an hour and a half from timber that had been standing in Mississippi forests one week before.
When Blackman emerged from the bedroom, everyone was gone except the tolerant Lord Thomson, who stayed and chatted with him for half an hour, and then Blackman lay awake most of that night, despairing of what he must expect on the Continent.
A half hour later the Vice President arrived.
but Cousin Simmons said he had watched them marching west early in the morning, and moving at a much brisker pace it had still taken half an hour for their column to pass, what with the narrowness of the road and their baggage and ammunition carts.
McFeeley told the parents he would escort them to police headquarters in a half hour.
If my pass is approved, I may be a half hour.
Within half an hour I jumped a six-point buck that hop-skipped through a rhododendron thicket, and I caught him just behind the left foreleg at 60 yards.
It will accommodate firing rates as low as a half gallon an hour.
Although the play does show a certain structural amateurishness ( there are eleven acts varying in length from twenty-five seconds to an hour and a half ), the statement it makes concerning the ceaseless yearning and searching of youth is profound and worthy of our attention.
In addition to other treatments, treating the sections with normal sheep serum for half an hour before layering Af did not reduce nonspecific staining.
Rugged outdoor exercise for an hour and a half every day in all kinds of weather was the rule.
Became `` Yes, the first half hour is tough, but by then I'm so numb I don't notice it ''!!
Very old red wines often require several hours of aeration, and any red wine, brought from the cellar within half an hour of mealtime, should be uncorked and allowed some air.
At Osaka, Mr. Yoneda had to leave us to get the train to his home, but Mr. Nishima and I had an hour and a half before train time to see Osaka at night.
My man came out an hour later, drove to the beach, turned right and after half a mile went to the Swim and Tan Motel.
in half an hour the reception would be over.
I had a bowl of decent chowder, phoned the Doc and he said he'd leave the death statements with his girl -- in a half hour.
One house was without power for about half an hour, a Narragansett Electric Co. spokesman said.
Rosburg had started early in the day, and by the time Palmer and Player were on the course -- separated, as they were destined to be for the rest of the weekend, by about half an hour -- they could see on the numerous scoreboards spotted around the course that Rosburg, who ended with a 73, was not having a good day.
Starting half an hour behind Player in company with British Open Champion Kel Nagle, Palmer birdied the 2nd, the 9th, the 13th and the 16th -- four birdies, one bogey and 13 pars for a 69.
But its relentless discursiveness and determined complexity are so overwhelming that after an hour and a half a listener's stamina begins to wilt.
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Recent discoveries of arrowheads in Lafonia ( on the southern half of East Falkland ) as well as the remains of a wooden canoe provide evidence that suggests the Yaghan people of Tierra del Fuego may have made the journey to the islands.
The previous year he and his wife made a journey on the Continent that lasted five and a half months and took them through Brussels, Germany, and Italy.
Each half of the journey takes, and the round trip takes.
This removes any fuel requirements for the deceleration half of an interstellar journey, which would benefit interstellar travel enormously.
Philostratus devoted two and a half of the eight books of his Life of Apollonius ( 1. 19 – 3. 58 ) to the description of a journey of his hero to India.
Since Paul's journey to Cyprus is usually dated to the first half of the 40s ( and some scholars would date his visit even earlier ), it is thought Sergius first served his three years as Proconsul at Cyprus, then returned to Rome, where he was appointed curator.
The failure of Leopold to advance above his Vice-Kapellmeister position at Salzburg is attributed by the Grove Dictionary to the great amount of time that the journeys kept him away from Salzburg ( the longest journey was about three and a half years ).
After half a day's journey, they reach the city of Catchfools.
Newbury was roughly half way between London and Bath and an obvious stopping point in the two day journey.
The journey from Bath to Newbury took an average of three and a half days.
There is a delay refund scheme entitling passengers to a partial or full refund of the ticket price if a journey is delayed by half an hour or more.
After a month's journey through wastes so harsh that even some of the camels died, on 2 February 1932 Philby arrived at a patch of ground about a half a square kilometer in size, littered with chunks of white sandstone, black glass, and chunks of iron meteorite.
During 1964, he served as the main driver of the bus Further on the iconic first half of the journey from San Francisco to New York, which was immortalized by Tom Wolfe's book, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
Hephaestion took part in a notable cavalry charge at the battle of the Hydaspes river ( 326 BC ) and then, when the army began its homeward journey, was again entrusted with half the army, including the elite troops and two hundred elephants, as they travelled south-west along the banks of the Hydaspes.
The Lam Pao reservoir effectively cuts the northern part of the province in half but there are car ferries connecting the district of Sahatsakhan in the east with the district Nong Kung Si in the west, saving up to one hour off the journey by road.
More than a half a million pilgrims made the journey to Rome for the Jubilee of 1825.
Though all the Europeans who are with me should die, and though I were myself half dead, I would still persevere, and if I could not succeed in the object of my journey, I would at least die on the Niger.
He resigned himself to the three and a half day journey and to the loss of his son.
The alternative road journey is 75 kilometres and takes about an hour and a half, while the ferry crosses the in 8 minutes.
Trains depart to Glasgow Central railway station every half hour, with a journey time of 27 minutes.
The represent more than a half century of his life's journey and Christian pilgrimage.
It will shorten the distance from Hong Kong to Macau and Zhuhai from 60 km to 30 km, and reduce the journey time to within half an hour.
A miniature railway runs half the length of the park along the river but, due to the lack of any turning space, the return journey is made in reverse.
With a journey time of 20 minutes from Kilmarnock to Glasgow ( roughly half that of the existing train service ), the M77 motorway has transformed the link between Glasgow and Kilmarnock.
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