I remember being told it would happen so fast people would think it took place overnight.

Our meeting took place in May, 1961, during one of the Maestro's stop-overs in New York, before he left for Europe.

The achievements which dispelled our fears of the cosmos took place three centuries ago.

At the trial which took place later, the Pomham matter was completely omitted.

The subject of immortality brings to mind a vivid incident which took place in 1929 at Montreux in Switzerland.

The revolution in jazz that took place around 1949, the evolution from the `` bebop '' school of Dizzy Gillespie to the `` cool '' sound of Miles Davis and Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz, and the whole legend of Charlie Parker, had made an impression on many academic and literary men.

All this remembering took place the other night when I had supper with the Ziegfeld Girls at the Beverly Hills Club.

The first pretrial conference -- held to appoint amici curiae to represent the interest of the stockholders of Du Pont and General Motors and to consider the procedure to be followed in the subsequent hearings -- took place on September 25, 1957.

A dinner and celebration in honor of this piece of engineering took place July 4, 1793, in a tavern erected by the corporation on the island.

Following the kick-off of SAAMI's shooting development program in 1954, a most interesting meeting took place in Washington, D.C..

Half the manhours you pay for on most jobs are wasted because the job was not planned right, so the right tools were not handy at the right place at the right time, or the right materials were not delivered to the handiest spots or materials were not stacked in the right order for erection, or you bought cheap materials that took too long to fit, or your workmen had to come back twice to finish a job they could have done on one trip.

Interesting evidence can be found in the results of the Chamber of Commerce elections, which took place three weeks before national elections.

but all too many observers have been misled by this fact into minimizing the degree of change which took place in the early first millennium.

Horse races took place here in the Middle Ages.

Motion-picture exhibitions took place in stores in a general atmosphere like that of the penny arcade which can still be found in such urban areas as Times Square.

A taxi took him back to the bar and grill where he had left his car, and a few minutes later he found a parking place across the street from his apartment.

The Fulton County Grand Jury said Friday an investigation of Atlanta's recent primary election produced `` no evidence '' that any irregularities took place.

It was when he attempted to end the relationship that the murder took place.

The executions took place at dawn only a few hours after Havana radio announced their conviction by a revolutionary tribunal at Pinar Del Rio, where the executions took place.

The existing reverence for Centrality must have been still further stimulated toward the close of the second century B.C., when the Han Emperor Wu Ti ordered the dynastic color changed to yellow -- which symbolized the Center among the traditional Five Directions -- and took 5 as the dynastic number, believing that he would thus place himself, his imperial family, and the nation under the most auspicious influences.

Gershwin brought back some Parisian taxi horns for the New York premiere of the composition, which took place on December 13, 1928 in Carnegie Hall, with Walter Damrosch conducting the New York Symphony.

Apollo helped Admetus win Alcestis, the daughter of King Pelias and later convinced the Fates to let Admetus live past his time, if another took his place.

Marlborough took control of the left arm of the Allied forces including the attacks on Blenheim and Oberglauheim, whilst Eugene commanded the right including the attacks on Lutzingen.

The merchants with whom they were travelling, defended themselves vigorously and for a time successfully, but eventually they were conquered and overcome by the pirates, who took from them their ships and all that they possessed, whilst they themselves barely escaped on.

His efforts were inspired after a visit to Taunton's Musgrove Park Hospital whilst receiving treatment for a broken toe ; when he took a wrong turn into a children's ward, he was devastated to learn that some of the children had only weeks to live, and why.

He defended Salman Rushdie, the novelist who was subject to a fatwā requiring Rushdie's execution by Ayatollah Khomeini, and took a strongly pro-interventionist position against Serbia during its conflict with Croatia and Bosnia, supporting NATO forces whilst citing defence of civilian populations in the latter countries.

In the 1993 elections, both PAM and labour took 4 seats each, whilst on Nevis, a new party, the Concerned Citizens Movement, took 2 seats, beating the NRP's 1.

The Empress stayed at Arundel Castle, whilst Robert marched north-west to Wallingford and Bristol, hoping to raise support for the rebellion and to link up with Miles of Gloucester, a capable military leader who took the opportunity to renounce his fealty to the king.

After passing some time at the court of Emperor Sigismund, Albert took part in the war against the Hussites, and afterwards distinguished himself whilst assisting the German king, Albert II, against Poland.

The girl and her friend reportedly took one tablet each whilst at home before the event.

People like Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao shifted more to the Left and were among the leading founders of the 1921 Communist Party of China, whilst other intellectuals, such as the Anarchist writer and agitator, Ba Jin also took part in the movement.

At the age of 15, Wright, whilst attending Markethill High School, took a part-time job as a farm labourer where he came into contact with a number of staunchly unionist and loyalist farmers who served with the Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) Reserve or the Ulster Defence Regiment ( UDR ).

The barrier was closed on 3 June 2012 to reduce the river flow whilst the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant took place as part of the celebrations for the Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee celebrations.

During the Second World War, many people took advantage of the privileged location of the Gallery, whose Southern door provided access to the Free zone, whilst the Château's entrance was in the occupied zone.

Tony Lundon and Kelli Young took the time to work on new tracks for the band's third album, whilst both contributing on other artists album in both producing and writing.

In broad terms, Gallions Housing Association took over the ownership and management of the housing assets whilst Tilfen, later Tilfen Land, took over the remaining undeveloped land.

Matilda stayed at Arundel Castle, whilst Robert marched north-west to Wallingford and Bristol, hoping to raise support for the rebellion and to link up with Miles of Gloucester, who took the opportunity to renounce his fealty to the king.

A gun stands right in its way, between the wheels of which the shell in the head of the rocket bursts, the gunners fall right and left … our rocketeers kept shooting off rockets, none of which ever followed the course of the first ; most of them, on arriving about the middle of the ascent, took a vertical direction, whilst some actually turned back upon ourselves-and one of these, following me like a squib until its shell exploded, actually put me in more danger than all the fire of the enemy throughout the day.

" It is about fourteen Years ago, that the said Members of the ( Gilead Lutheran ) Congregation, whilst the Number of them did increase, so that the Block Meeting House, where they used to serve the Lord, was to small for them, and the said Meeting house was not fit for any Worship, for fear it might brake down and kill them, so that the took a Notion of building a Church, and they begone it in the year 1775.

She took a keen interest in the work of young contemporary artists, such as Stanley Spencer, and she was particularly close to Mark Gertler and Dora Carrington, who were regular visitors to Garsington during the war, whilst Gilbert Spencer lived for a while in a house on the Garsington estate.

He designed the first Tay Rail Bridge whilst working for the North British Railway, and the official opening took place in May 1878.

From November 1944, No 4 Aircrew School took over for pilots, navigators, and air gunners to complete their ground training whilst waiting for a posting to a squadron.

1831 saw Phillpotts as the victim of the Guy Fawkes Night custom of burning effigies of clergymen ; knowing his reputation he took action by requesting protection, thus the 7th Yeomanry Cavalry filled the palace at Exeter, whilst the crowd in the cathedral yard burned Phillpotts in effigy ; ".... hollow turnip as head and candle as nose, clad in mitre and lawn sleeves ..." ( Chadwick I, 1997, p 29 )

As many customers took up their connections before the system-wide upgrade from 1Mb to 2Mb basic rate, one commonly finds that people have paid for a 2Mb connection, whilst only having a 1Mb connection.