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There were enormous construction projects, including the restoration of the Grand Canal and the Great Wall and the establishment of the Forbidden City in Beijing during the first quarter of the 15th century.
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There were three other men within this prison whom Barton would have liked to liberate, but they were in other cell blocks.
There were no less than six or seven saloons in Ganado, not counting the lower class dives, all vying for the trade of celebrating miners and teamsters.
There was a measure of protection in its concrete walls and ceiling, but the engineers who hastily installed it were well aware that concrete is not much better than prayer, if as efficacious, when a direct hit comes along.
There were two rubbing sticks for making fire, two stones shaped roughly like knives, a woven-root container which held a few pounds of dried worms and the dead body of some rodent.
There is evidence to suggest, in fact, that many authors of the humorous sketches were prompted to write them -- or to make them as indelicate as they are -- by way of protesting against the artificial refinements which had come to dominate the polite letters of the South.
There is a mediocre restaurant at Sounion and I fed a thin little Grecian cat and gave it two saucers of water -- there was no milk -- which it lapped up as though it were nectar.
There was much sickness in the corps, and the men were, in addition, without the clothing, shoes, and blankets needed for the winter weather.
There were several men of ninety or more whom I knew first or last, all of whom were still productive and most of whom knew one another as if they had naturally come together at the apex of their lives.
There were four from St. John's and four from Christ's, three from Pembroke, and two from each of the colleges, Jesus, Peterhouse, Queens', and Trinity, with Caius, Clare, King's, Magdalene, and Sidney supplying one each in the ordo senioritatis.
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There was also a long wooden spear and a woomera, a spear-throwing device which gives the spear an enormous velocity and high accuracy.
There has been an enormous amount of international intervention in civil wars since 1945 that served to extend wars.
There were also enormous war reparations to be paid over a period of 70 years, although they ended in 1931 ( but were resumed after World War II ).
There had been an enormous growth of interest in the ICD and ways had to be found of responding to this, partly by modifying the classification itself and partly by introducing special coding provisions.
There are vague plans about extending rail lines from Balykchy in the north and / or from Osh in the south into the People's Republic of China, but the cost of construction would be enormous.
There are an enormous number of software packages and other tools for multivariate analysis, including:
There is a new profession of trail blazers, those who find delight in the task of establishing useful trails through the enormous mass of the common record.
There is enormous structural diversity ; nearly two hundred different polysaccharides are produced by E. coli alone.
There are also references to Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 and his Gravity's Rainbow, an equally enormous experimental novel concerning liberty and paranoia that was published two years prior to Illuminatus !.
There are structures in nature which act as waveguides: for example, the SOFAR channel layer in the ocean can guide whale song enormous distances.
There was an enormous funeral, attended by many from the artistic communities in Montmartre and Montparnasse.
Finley adds, " There was themis — custom, tradition, folk-ways, mores, whatever we may call it, the enormous power of ' it is ( or is not ) done '.
There was as yet no sign of the " Win " half of " Wintel ," though Microsoft was achieving enormous revenues from DOS sales both to IBM and to an ever-growing list of other manufacturers who had agreed to buy an MS-DOS license for every machine they made, even those that shipped with competing products.
There were also enormous works of historiography and large encyclopedias, such as Sima Guang's Zizhi Tongjian of 1084 AD or the Four Great Books of Song fully compiled and edited by the 11th century.
There was a perception in Washington that the value of what is called ' special nuclear material ' - plutonium or highly enriched uranium ( HEU )-was so enormous that the strict financial accountability of the private contractors who dealt with it would be enough to protect it from falling into the wrong hands.
There are enormous bodies of religious literature that form not only the substance of the courses in Islamic seminaries, but inspirational reading for the ordinary Muslim.
There were nuclear weapons on Chichi Jima and Iwo Jima ( Iwo To ), an enormous and varied nuclear arsenal on Okinawa, nuclear bombs ( without their fission cores ) stored on the mainland at Misawa and Itazuki airbases ( and possibly at Atsugi, Iwakuni, Johnson, and Komaki airbases as well ), and nuclear-armed U. S. Navy ships stationed in Sasebo and Yokosuka.
Former UK Minister of Defence Geoff Hoon commented on this issue in 2007 and said, " There was an enormous amount of post-war planning.
* Collections ( Greek: Ανθολόγιον, Anthologion ; Slavonic: Сборникъ, Sbornik ) There are numerous smaller anthologies available which were quite common before the invention of printing but still are in common use both because of the enormous volume of a full set of liturgical texts and because the full texts have not yet been translated into several languages currently in use.
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