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Some students from the University returned around six with a large pot containing enough hot soup to last me a week.
If we thus spent our very first day in the midst of a large number of your people honoring a new hero and a great national achievement, our last day, to us at least, was equally impressive and very moving, even though the crowds were absent and there was almost complete silence.
The progress of science over these last few centuries and the gradual replacement of Biblical by scientific categories of reality have to a large extent emptied the spirit world of the entities which previously populated it.
Before that time, at the peak of the last ice age ( c. 16, 000 BC ) sea levels everywhere were 130 metres lower, and there were large well-watered coastal plains instead of much of the northern Aegean.
A large collection of Maillol's work is maintained at the Musée Maillol in Paris, which was established by Dina Vierny, Maillol's model and platonic companion during the last 10 years of his life.
However, Mary II died childless in 1694, after which William III did not remarry, and Princess Anne's last surviving child, Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, died six years later, after which it was unlikely she would have any more children due to her age and the large number of miscarriages she had previously suffered.
As his teaching and work with the imperial chapel continued, his duties required the composition of a large number of sacred works, and in his last years it was almost exclusively in religious works and teaching that Salieri occupied himself.
His last work on a large scale appears to have been the unfinished serenata for the marriage of the prince of Stigliano in 1723.
The aurochs ( or ; also urus, ( Bos primigenius ), the ancestor of domestic cattle, is an extinct type of large wild cattle that inhabited Europe, Asia and North Africa ; they survived in Europe until the last recorded aurochs, a female, died in the Jaktorów Forest, Poland in 1627.
Because the differences between the prices are likely to be small ( and not to last very long ), this can be done profitably only with computers examining a large number of prices and automatically exercising a trade when the prices are far enough out of balance.
At the end of the game, the last remaining housemate is declared the winner of that particular series and receives prizes, often including a large amount of money, a car, a vacation and ( in some editions ) a house.
At last her own woman, Potter settled into the partnerships that shaped the rest of her life: her country solicitor husband and his large family, her farms, the Sawrey community and the predictable rounds of country life.
The large number of experiments exploring the physics and chemistry of these so-called " colloidal crystals " has emerged as a result of the relatively simple methods that have evolved in the last 20 years for preparing synthetic monodisperse colloids ( both polymer and mineral ) and, through various mechanisms, implementing and preserving their long-range order formation.
Chile won its formal independence when San Martín defeated the last large Spanish force on Chilean soil at the Battle of Maipú on April 5, 1818.
These large pterosaurs were the last representatives of a declining group that contained 10 families during the mid-Cretaceous.
However, the evolution has stopped by itself when the last descendant, an enormously large crab, was created, being unable to reproduce itself due to lack of energy and materials.
The last large scale military use of catapults was during the trench warfare of World War I.
By 1721, a whole generation of young Bostonians was vulnerable and memories of the last epidemic's horrors had by and large disappeared.
This dry weather during the last ice age may have killed off all the large diprotodonts.
Between 1591 and 1592 Oxford disposed of the last of his large estates ; Castle Hedingham, the seat of his earldom, went to Lord Burghley, it was held in trust for Oxford's three daughters by his first marriage.
The altitude of Geneva is, and corresponds to the altitude of the largest of the Pierres du Niton, two large rocks emerging from the lake which date from the last ice age.
The main feature that defines a galliard step is the last two beats consist of a large jump, landing with one leg ahead of the other.
The Holocene extinction includes the disappearance of large mammals known as megafauna, starting between 9, 000 and 13, 000 years ago, the end of the last Ice Age.
In Baghdad he found Abu Sa ' id, the last Mongol ruler of the unified Ilkhanate, leaving the city and heading north with a large retinue.
Although large airliners and, increasingly, smaller aircraft now carry their own terrain awareness and warning system TAWS, these are primarily backup systems providing a last layer of defense if a sequence of errors or omissions causes a dangerous situation.

last and wave
Riding a wave of popularity from the return of the last POWs from Soviet labor camps, as well as an extensive pension reform, Adenauer led the CDU / CSU to the first — and as of 2011, only — outright majority in a free German election.
The milieu can be viewed as representing the last gasp of Campbell-era science fiction, as the iconoclastic, counterculture influences of " new wave " science fiction of the sixties play no part in most of the stories.
A last wave of merges took place in the 1950s.
At the last night of The Proms, people of various nationalities with their national flags wave their national flags when singing along " God Save the Queen ".
: In that last breaking wave of delight, do we not feel something of our very soul go out from us?
The last literary generation of the 19th century signaled a decided break with the past and the advent of modernism-after the wave of optimism in the wake of the French Revolution at the beginning of the century, the lack of progress in implementing these ideals of freedom and brotherhood led to both a skepticism toward the possibility of ever achieving these ideals, and renewed efforts to do so.
The last wave of Arab immigrants, the Antalaotra, immigrated from eastern African colonies.
The end of the film implies that the defenders fought to the last man ; in reality, they surrendered after repelling the first wave of the Japanese attack.
The current geography of Acton was created when the last wave of glaciers retreated approximately ten thousand years ago.
One-hit wonders are normal in any era of pop music, but are most common during reigns of entire genres that do not last for more than a few years, such as disco, new wave and grunge.
For example during the Coventry Blitz on the night of 14 / 15 November 1940, 515 Luftwaffe bombers many flying more than one sortie against Coventry delivered their bombs in a raid that lasted more than 10 hours, while in contrast the much more devastating raid on Dresden on the night of 13 / 14 of February 1945 by the two waves of the RAF Bomber Command's main force, the first wave released their first bomb at 22: 14, with all but one of the 254 Lancaster bombers releasing their bombs within two minutes, and the last one releasing at 22: 22.
Once past the stomach a typical peristaltic wave will only last for a few seconds, travelling at only a few centimeters per second.
The release of their seventh and last original album, Blue Album, coincided with this final wave of shows.
Some of his creations other rappers have been using for the last 30 years such as " throw ya hands in the air and wave ' em like you just don't care.
He worked to establish Buddhist temples in Loyang and organized the translation of Buddhist scriptures into Chinese, testifying to the beginning of a wave of Central Asian Buddhist proselytism that was to last several centuries.
During the last 20 years, the party has included more of the principles of a social market economy in its policy, allowing for privatisation of government-held assets and services and reducing income tax progressivity, following the wave of economic liberalisation in the 1980s.
The last wave of emigration was one in 1999, following the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.
Recently, in their last float renovation wave, Colombian coaches operators have opted for Brazil's Marcopolo buses.
:: To be a heat wave such a period should last at least one day, but conventionally it lasts from several days to several weeks.
City officials did not release a heat emergency warning until the last day of the heat wave.
It was one of the last of the original wave of rock festivals, as well as one of the most well-executed and financially successful, and presaged the era of media consolidation and the corporatization of the rock music industry.
This led to the last great wave of migration from Turkey to Greece.
Ure and Egan began working with Strange during their last days with the band The Rich Kids, with Strange himself being at a loose end after leaving the new wave band The Photons.
After being given time to pray, write letters, and save their possessions to be sent to their families, Archy joins the last wave ; going over the top and into no man's land.

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