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The very first serial was Hampton Wick ( 1971 ) written by Barker, which began as a pastiche of costume dramas about a governess called Henrietta Beckett, played by Madeline Smith, with the Ronnies playing a wide variety of other characters, but had a neat twist ending that turned this notion on its head.
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School began in August, the hottest part of the year, and for the first few days Miss Langford was very lenient with the children, letting them play a lot and the new ones sort of get acquainted with one another.
I had had difficulties from the very first day.
From the very first he regarded himself as Mr. Hearst's disciple, defender, and afterward his prime minister, self-ordained.
We saw it frequently afterward, but our suggestion for the very first encounter is near sunset.
Our first necessity, at the very outset of war, is post-attack reconnaissance.
The expectation is that first-level supervisors will be selected in approximately equal numbers from the second and third engineering level, with very few coming from the first level.
The data for the first day indicate a meteor stream with a very high concentration of particles and may have led to the high estimates of micrometeorite flux.
When 1 ml of conjugate was passed through a column ( Af ), the first and second milliliter fractions collected were the most specific and gave no nonspecific staining in some experiments, and very little in others.
In their very first collages, Braque and Picasso draw or paint over and on the affixed paper or cloth, so that certain of the principal features of their subjects as depicted seem to thrust out into real, bas-relief space -- or to be about to do so -- while the rest of the subject remains imbedded in, or flat upon, the surface.
At the very first, then, Brumidi was required, by the classically pyramidal shape of his central group, to fill in the triangular space above the seated girl on Liberty's right, before starting on the allegorical figures themselves.
It cannot be said that our very first day in the Soviet Union turned out to be an ordinary one.
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.
It is obvious that the careful choice of photocathode which maximizes Af for a given input E ( in the case of the second stage, for the first phosphor screen emission ) is very important.
Two days later, some 30 of them had struck at a convoy off Bougie, sinking a troopship -- and it had been that very night that the Me-210 had made its first appearance.
In the South, after the first year of the war, paper and ink were very poor.
Another school frowns on such a shortcut, and insists that after leaving the bin an old red wine should first stand on end for several days to allow the sediment to roll to the very bottom, after which the bottle may be gently eased to a tilted position on its side in the cradle.
From the lioness' point of view, this strange creature on the back of another creature, lashing out with its long thin paw, very likely appeared as something she could not at first cope with.
It was Porter, however, who produced the very first movie whose name has lived on through the half century of film history that has since ensued.
Katya Roslev, who would be Katharine Ross so very soon now, rang up her first sale of the day and counted back the change.
On that first day, Blanche literally thought she was going to die, or, at the very least, go out of her mind.
Meanwhile, it was learned the State Highway Department is very near being ready to issue the first $30 million worth of highway reconstruction bonds.
-- those were His very first creative words -- He began the world with light -- this God still gives light to a world which man has plunged into darkness.
One of the very best is only now published in this country, five years after its first publication in England.
In their very first speeches it was clear that Shakespeare, like a Nostradamus, had foreseen this moment.
very and serial
Suitable plans range from those that are very easy to develop to those that are difficult to formulate and require borrowing ranging from short-term serial notes to long-term bonds.
In this serial Davros was again played by Molloy, his appearance as Davros was the same with very minor changes.
Universal Asynchronous Receiver / Transmitter ( UART ) block makes it possible to receive and transmit data over a serial line with very little load on the CPU.
This trend was especially noticeable toward the series ' finale, by which time the show was scripted — intentionally — very much as a serial.
The industry expanded very rapidly with the advent of television in the 1950s and the age of highly produced serial radio shows ended.
It contained very informal ' inside ' information from the Citadel Mail Order Department, news, game reviews, articles and competitions as well as a short lived cartoon serial.
Even before Vanity Fair completed its serial run, Thackeray had become a celebrity, sought after by the very lords and ladies whom he satirised ; they hailed him as the equal of Dickens.
Foglar is also the author of a comics serial called Rychlé šípy (" Rapid Arrows "), very successful among young readers.
He noticed that the material offered by a syndicate to the magazine was not very good, so he wrote a serial which was bought by the syndicate for 75 pounds.
Thus, recently-allocated serial numbers may duplicate very old serial numbers, but not other recently-allocated serial numbers.
This anticipation and conversation-inducing authorial technique would often be very contrived as the only purpose was to maintain interest in the monthly serial.
Three other children, Paul, Basil and Rosalie, appeared in the original black-and-white serial and in the credit sequence of the colour episodes, but very rarely in subsequent episodes.
A serial port requires very little supporting software from the host system.
RS-232 has been standard for so long that the circuits needed to control a serial port became very cheap and often exist on a single chip, sometimes also with circuitry for a parallel port.
The French Author Honore D ' Urfe wrote a very popular serial novel called L ' Astree ( Astraea ), the first and second parts being published in 1607 and 1610 and each installment very much anticipated by the aristocratic public at the time.
It has been argued that " Finnegans Wake, much more so than Ulysses, was very much directly shaped by the tangled history of its serial publication.
The basic design of the transputer included serial links that allowed it to communicate with up to four other transputers, each at 5, 10 or 20 Mbit / s – which was very fast for the 1980s.
Detective stories and thrillers have proven a very successful genre of new Russian literature: in the 1990s serial detective novels by Alexandra Marinina, Polina Dashkova and Darya Dontsova were published in millions of copies.
They exist because in the early days of Fidonet, computer hardware was very diverse and there were no standards on how software was to communicate with the serial interface hardware.
These machines ran some form of DOS ( Disk Operating System ) and their BIOS provided very poor support for serial communications — so poor that it fell far short of the needs of any non-trivial communications task.
The novel shows its serial origin: it is very long ( an undated but clearly very old edition with tiny type fills 551 pages ) and its events occur over many years and in several countries before the reader reaches the predictable conclusion.
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