The purchasers rejected the order in two letters written in vigorous terms.

There she extracted two limp vellum sheets and wrote off the letters, one to Abel, one to Mark.

The letters home, the talks later given by returning members of the Peace Corps, the influence on the lives of those who spend two or three years in hard work abroad -- all this may combine to provide a substantial popular base for responsible American policies toward the world.

It was professedly worth three thousand dollars in stock and good will, and the name was written in gold in foot-high letters across each of the two display windows.

The US ASCII 1968 Code Chart was structured with two columns of control characters, a column with special characters, a column with numbers, and four columns of letters

The English word alphabet came into Middle English from the Late Latin word alphabetum, which in turn originated in the Greek ἀλφάβητος ( alphabētos ), from alpha and beta, the first two letters of the Greek alphabet.

Alpha and beta in turn came from the first two letters of the Phoenician alphabet, and originally meant ox and house respectively.

The Phoenician script was probably the first phonemic script and it contained only about two dozen distinct letters, making it a script simple enough for common traders to learn.

* A language may represent the same phoneme with two different letters or combinations of letters.

The word " alphabet " in English has a source in Greek language in which the first two letters were " A " ( alpha ) and " B " ( beta ), hence " alphabeta ".

* conjunct consonant letters where two or more letters are graphically joined in a ligature, or

In the polytonic orthography of Greek, alpha, like other vowel letters, can occur with several diacritic marks: any of three accent symbols (), and either of two breathing marks (), as well as combinations of these.

In sign languages, however, several channels operate simultaneously — hand shape, often with the two hands operating independently, hand location, hand motion, facial expression, mouthing — making an alphabetic script more complicated than just stringing letters together in the order sounds are produced.

The term antimatter was first used by Arthur Schuster in two rather whimsical letters to Nature in 1898, in which he coined the term.

A notorious murder scandal, the Overbury case, threw up two imperfect anagrams that were aided by typically loose spelling and were recorded by Simonds D ' Ewes: ' Francis Howard ' ( for Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset, her maiden name spelled in a variant ) became Car findes a whore, with the letters E hardly counted, and the victim Thomas Overbury, as ' Thomas Overburie ', was written as O!

For example, consider the following two strings of length 64, each containing only lowercase letters and digits:

Among the letters of Julian are two ( 29 and 30 ) addressed to Alypius ; one inviting him to Rome, the other thanking him for a geographical treatise, which no longer exists.

He led two embassies to the Mongols: the first carried letters from Pope Innocent IV and the second bore gifts and letters from Louis IX of France to Güyük Khan.

* Variable names were limited to two letters ; they could be made longer, but only the first two letters would be used.

The computer industry uses terms such as kilobyte, megabyte, and gigabyte, and corresponding symbols KB, MB, and GB, in two different ways.

The members of the two classes share similar properties and are given both a common name ( such as sarin ) and a two-character NATO identifier ( such as GB ).

Some newer CPUs also support a 1 GB page with two levels of paging and 30 bits of offset.

All Guobiao standards are prefixed by GB, the latest version is GB18030 which is a one, two or four byte encoding.

The second part is two digits, which is the Guobiao GB 2260 numeric code of the subdivision, except Hong Kong and Macao, which use 91 and 92 respectively while their Guobiao codes are 81 and 82.

GB Christmas Aerogram ( one of two issued in 1967 )

The standard Mac Pro featured two 2. 66 GHz dual core Xeon ( Woodcrest ) processors, 1 GB RAM, 250 GB hard drive, and a 256 MB video card.

The GB Hunter is one of two Nintendo 64 items released by EMS Production Ltd., the other being the N64 Passport.

* 512 MB DDR RAM ( two slots, up to 1. 5 GB, 2 GB Pegasos I only )

Nevertheless, having been reinforced by two other bombers, GB I / 32 carried out a bombing mission against the beaches at Safi, where more U. S. soldiers were landing, the next morning.

According to the company's published information, Sina. comXpressTM and Sina. comPlusTM are Sina. com's two main exclusive technologies, which bring ease-of-use benefits and enable the audience of Big 5 ( traditional Chinese character ), and GB ( simplified Chinese characters ) to view the webpages sourced from around the Chinese communities of the world.

Less than two years later, in 2003, GB Palladin, a joint venture between Gordon Brothers Group, LLC and Palladin Capital Group, Inc. acquired Spencer Gifts LLC.

The main ADS server is located at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is a dual 64-bit X86 Intel server with two quad-core 3. 0 GHz CPUs and 32 GB of RAM, running the CentOS 5. 4 Linux distribution.

It consists of two primary systems ; an Interface Frame ( IF ) and a Glovebox ( GB ).

DVD + R DL discs employ two recordable dye layers, each capable of storing nearly the 4. 7 GB capacity of a single-layer disc, almost doubling the total disc capacity to 8. 55 GB ( or 7. 96 GiB ).

Some of the new features include the ability to create an image file that is larger than 2 GB ( in Ghost 8. 2 or earlier versions, such image files are automatically split into two or more segments, so that each segment has a maximum size of 2 GB ), more comprehensive manufacturing tools, and the ability to create a universal boot disk.

* An updated libSystem with both 32-bit and 64-bit versions ; combined with the aforementioned kernel change, this allows individual applications to address more than 4 GB of memory when run on 64-bit processors, although an application using Apple libraries or frameworks other than libSystem would need to have two processes, one running the 64-bit code and one running the code that requires other libraries and frameworks.

Also in 1999, King used two GB Spitfire basses, handmade in England by Bernie Goodfellow.

Using proprietary DDR SDRAM DIMMs, it can be upgraded to a maximum of 4 GB via four slots in two banks.

Allied Irish Banks ' UK division, with total assets of € 15. 1 billion ( approx £ 10 billion ), operates in two distinct markets, Northern Ireland and Great Britain ( where it operates as Allied Irish Bank ( GB )), with different economies and operating environments.

The 9345 DASD Model 1 had two 1. 0 GB HDDs while the Model 2 had two 1. 5 GB HDDs.

The presence of the two exhaust fans seemed to indicate that the hall could become crowded for air.

There were two front rooms, both dark behind their transoms, and there was no sound or light in the entire house to indicate that any of the occupants were awake.

Historians of anthropology, such as Marvin Harris, indicate two major frameworks within which empirical anthropology has arisen: interest in comparisons of people over space and interest in longterm human processes or, humans as viewed through time.

Richard M. Davidson, however, points out that " on the basis of the final form of the OT canon, references to Abigail in the biblical accounts indicate two different individuals.

At least two of the cellphone calls made by passengers indicate that all the hijackers they saw were wearing red bandanas, which some have questioned may have signified an allegiance to the Egyptian Islamic Jihad.

At least two of the cellphone calls made by passengers indicate that all the hijackers they saw were wearing red bandanas, which some believe may have signified an allegiance to the Egyptian Islamic Jihad.

Most likely one of these two is the biblical Barnabas ; the first one is more likely, because the numbering by Hippolytus seems to indicate a level of significance.

For example, the Gregorian calendar has no inherent dependence on the seven-day week, but in Western society the two are used together, and calendar tools indicate both the Gregorian date and the day of week.

Latest estimates indicate naval strength consists of two combat patrol vessels, three coastal patrol vessels and approximately 30 smaller inshore and river patrol craft allocated to both the navy and the local gendarmerie.

The time between the presentation of a stimulus and an appropriate response can indicate differences between two cognitive processes, and can indicate some things about their nature.

* In Iliad 9. 165-93 three characters, Phoinix, Odysseus, and Aias set out on an embassy to Achilleus ; however, at line 182 the poet uses a verb in the dual form to indicate that there are only two people going ; at lines 185ff.

The earliest known chord keyboard was part of the " five-needle " telegraph operator station, designed by Wheatstone and Cooke in 1836, in which any two of the five needles could point left or right to indicate letters on a grid.

Long-term cohort studies indicate that approximately 50 % of those infected clear within a year, 80 % within two years, and 90 % within three years.

Trailing zeros after the decimal point are not necessary, although in science, engineering and statistics they can be retained to indicate a required precision or to show a level of confidence in the accuracy of the number: Although 0. 080 and 0. 08 are numerically equal, in engineering 0. 080 suggests a measurement with an error of up to one part in two thousand (± 0. 0005 ), while 0. 08 suggests a measurement with an error of up to one in two hundred ( see significant figures ).

* Galician vowels can bear an acute accent ( á, é, í, ó, ú ) to indicate stress or difference between two otherwise same written words ( é, '( he / she ) is ' vs. e, ' and '), but trema is only used with ï and ü to show diaeresis in pronunciation.

Euripides sometimes ' resolved ' the two syllables of the iamb (˘¯) into three syllables (˘˘˘) and this tendency increased so steadily over time that the number of resolved feet in a play can be understood to indicate the approximate date of composition ( see Extant plays below for one scholar's list of resolutions per hundred trimeters ).

Also, because the kanji represent meaning while the furigana represent sound, one can combine the two to create puns or indicate meanings of foreign words.

The two problems together indicate a range of values for Pi between 3. 11 and 3. 16.

* Many of the properties of galaxies ( including the galaxy color-magnitude diagram ) indicate that there are fundamentally two types of galaxies.

Placing the modifying noun in the genitive case is one way to indicate that two nouns are related in a genitive construction.

*" Homo -" prefix may be used in organic chemistry trivial names to indicate next higher straight chain homolog i. e. one noncyclic carbon more ( and similarly " dihomo -" meaning two noncyclic carbon more ), and is opposite of the prefix " Nor -" which usually means one noncyclic carbon less.

However, a new translation of two stanzas of the Rig Veda indicate that the Brahmins may have had the idea, common among small-scale societies around the world, that an individual cycles back and forth between the earth and a heavenly realm of ancestors.

As the last two of these features indicate, this language was a koiné based on dialects spoken in the Nanjing area, though not identical to any single dialect.