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times and I
No sooner would I turn my head away from the counter before he would address me, at times quite sharply, in order to bring back my attention.
I had the impression that he had read my forms, perhaps several times.
I had read the story many times without asking myself why it affected me or caring why it did.
Mrs. Coolidge gave Mama this dress for me, and I wore it many times.
I supported Cleveland three times and Bryan twice.
I went to visit Alfred in the Kingston Hospital a few times.
Several times in my youth I voted the Socialist ticket, but less because I was Socialist than because I was not either a Republican or a Democrat, and I voted for Franklin Roosevelt every time he was a candidate.
I do it, lots o' times -- I like to lie in a hammock at night, by myself, when it's all quiet.
Now times have changed, and I must pretend that hair doesn't grow on my face.
I think I've taken it about fifty times already ''!!
Many times I tried to reach you, but I never knew how.
Eileen got to dancing, just a little tiny dancing step to a hummed tune that you could hardly notice, and trying to pick up strange men, but each time I was ready to say to hell with it and walk out she'd pull herself together and talk so understandingly in that sweet husky voice about the good times and the happiness we'd had together and there I was back on the hook.
I must know that that was my greatest weakness underlined three times.
`` How many times have I told you '' -- he began, and was almost glad when she cut him off -- `` Too many times ''!!
and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., Governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim Monday, May 22nd, 1961, as National Maritime Day, reminding our citizens that American Merchant ships and American seamen are ready at all times to serve our Nation in the cause of freedom and justice.
So many times I have wondered why veterinarians do not wipe the table clean before each new canine patient is placed on it for examination.

times and can
These societies can expect to face difficult times.
The instrumental method, however, is about 100 times more sensitive and yields numerical results which can be accurately repeated at will over a period of time.
At times we can say that it was the major factor.
`` For one thing you can stop keeping that child in starched dresses and changed from the skin out nineteen times a day ''.
The blackbelly salamander ( Desmognathus quadramaculatus ) can bite an attacking common garter snake ( Thamnophis sirtalis ) two or three times its size on the head and often manages to escape.
For example, " biweekly " can mean " fortnightly " ( once every two weeks – 26 times a year ), or " twice a week " ( 104 times a year ).
Protons have a positive charge and a mass 1, 836 times that of the electron, at, although this can be reduced by changes to the energy binding the proton into an atom.
In quantum field theory, this process is allowed only as an intermediate quantum state for times short enough that the violation of energy conservation can be accommodated by the uncertainty principle.
The holding power of this anchor is at best about twice its weight until it becomes buried, when it can be as much as ten times its weight.
For example, if for a given problem size a parallelized implementation of an algorithm can run 12 % of the algorithm's operations arbitrarily quickly ( while the remaining 88 % of the operations are not parallelizable ), Amdahl's law states that the maximum speedup of the parallelized version is times as fast as the non-parallelized implementation.
A deeper criticism of Green archaeoastronomy is that while it can answer whether there was likely to be an interest in astronomy in past times, its lack of a social element means that it struggles to answer why people would be interested, which makes it of limited use to people asking questions about the society of the past.
In modern times, southeastern Alaskans can often be identified by their fashion choices, notably
Drinking at inappropriate times, and behavior caused by reduced judgment, can lead to legal consequences, such as criminal charges for drunk driving or public disorder, or civil penalties for tortious behavior, and may lead to a criminal sentence.
During times of low demand, excess power can be stored in batteries for future use.
In modern times, beam bridges can range from small, wooden beams to large, steel boxes.
We can run the algorithm a constant number of times and take a majority vote to achieve any desired probability of correctness less than 1, using the Chernoff bound.
Bishops ( as well as other members of the priesthood ) can trace their line of authority back to Joseph Smith, Jr., who, according to church doctrine, was ordained to lead the Church in modern times by the ancient apostles Peter, James, and John, who were ordained to lead the Church by Jesus Christ.
# The fade can be repeated several times, for example, from the first track, fade to the second track, then back to first, then to second again.
where each x is a variable or a negation of a variable, and each variable can appear multiple times in the expression.
By having two different temporal positive feedback loops or “ dual-time switches ” allows for ( a ) increased regulation: two switches that have independent changeable activation and deactivation times ; and ( b ) linked feedback loops on multiple timescales can filter noise.
By attempting to predict which branch ( or path ) a conditional instruction will take, the CPU can minimize the number of times that the entire pipeline must wait until a conditional instruction is completed.
Also in case of Single Instructions Multiple Data — a case when a lot of data from the same type has to be processed, modern processors can disable parts of the pipeline so that when a single instruction is executed many times, the CPU skips the fetch and decode phases and thus greatly increases performance on certain occasions, especially in highly monotonous program engines such as video creation software and photo processing.
As a result, colour graphics can take up to four times longer to print than standard monochrome graphics, or up to 8-16 times as long at high resolution mode.

times and recall
The auditor instructs the preclear to recall as much as possible of the incident, going over it several times " until the preclear is cheerful about it ".
The 9th-century Historia Brittonum also refers to this tale, with the boar there named Troy ( n ) t. Finally, Arthur is mentioned numerous times in the Welsh Triads, a collection of short summaries of Welsh tradition and legend which are classified into groups of three linked characters or episodes in order to assist recall.
In one testing session, an American cross-country runner was able to recall a string of 79 digits after hearing them only once by chunking them into different running times ( e. g., the first four numbers were 1518, a three-mile time.
A further problem for the decay hypothesis comes from experiments in which the recall of a list of letters was delayed, either by instructing participants to recall at a slower pace, or by instructing them to say an irrelevant word once or three times in between recall of each letter.
Thomas Jefferson wrote favorably in response to Jackson in December 1823 and extended a preemptive welcome to Monticello: " I recall with pleasure the remembrance of our joint labors while in the Senate together in times of great trial and of hard battling, battles indeed of words, not of blood, as those you have since fought so much for your own glory & that of your country ; with the assurance that my attamts continue undiminished, accept that of my great respect & consideration.
It may also reflect selective recall, in that people may have a sense that two events are correlated because it is easier to recall times when they happened together.
These two sounds, constituting a single unit of shofar sounding, were rendered three times during a service added specially for Rosh HaShanah: first in honor of God's Kingship ( malchiot ); next to recall the near sacrifice of Isaac, in order to cause the congregation to be remembered before God ( zichronot ); and a third time to comply with the precept regarding the shofar ( shofrot ).
The line " good times and riches and son-of-a-bitches ; I've seen more than I can recall " was changed to " good time and riches, some bruises and stitches ; I've seen more than I can recall " for the single release of the title-track.
Camejo ran for Governor of California three times, against incumbent governors Gray Davis and Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2002 and 2006, and in the 2003 recall election in which Schwarzenegger replaced Davis as governor.
Cyllene ( or Kyllene ) herself was a mountain nymph ( an oread ) who had taken for her consort Pelasges in the most ancient times that Greek mythographers could recall.
Many Saudi and expat residents of the Eastern Province that grew up in the 1980s and 1990s will recall some quaint memories of the channel, e. g., the onscreen calligraphy that appeared to announce the prayer times, or the fact that most shows were at least a couple years old and could not show any kissing between men and women.
Repressed memory, also known as recovered memory, is a hypothetical concept used to describe a significant memory, usually of a traumatic nature, that has become unavailable for recall ; also called motivated forgetting in which a subject blocks out painful or traumatic times in one's life.
Later in Saxon times, after the recall of the Roman legions, the village reached a position of great importance and fame.
In this period ( in which can be included the promise made to Abraham, centuries earlier, and its recall by Nehemiah half a millennium later ), the Hittites are mentioned about a dozen times as part of an almost fixed formula that lists the " seven nations greater and mightier than Hebrews " whose lands will be eventually conquered.
After being sent off in a match against Norway in an Euro 1992 qualifier, Bergomi spent years without getting a callback to the Azzurri, but received a surprise recall for the 1998 World Cup, at nearly 35, after playing 28 times in the league and leading the Nerazzurri to the UEFA Cup – his third and last.
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle make mention of messengers being sent by King Edward the Elder ( 899-924 ) to recall members of the Kent fyrd, but it is generally regarded that the origins of the postal services stem from the Kings Messengers ( Nuncii et Cursores ) of medieval times.
A member of the regiment would later recall that for the two battalions that returned to Australia ' the first eighteen months of the regiment's existence were harrowing times ...
The defences at Walmer Castle, one mile north of the village, recall historic threats in Tudor and Napoleonic times, but there is also a reminder of more recent conflicts south of Oldstairs Bay where the former Royal Marines rifle range lies inland of concrete sea defences built by the Ministry of Defence.
One of his most famous investigations involved asking participants to read a Native American folk tale, " The War of the Ghosts ", and recall it several times up to a year later.
During Brougham's cross-examination, Majocchi replied " Non mi ricordo ( I don't recall )" more than 200 times.

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