When she appeared, two or three of the little girls jumped up and down, yelling, `` Goody, goody ''.

When this second dilemma first became obvious -- during the mid to late '50's -- the United States appeared to have three choices.

`` When Konishi gets back with the jeep, I want you to round up two or three Japanese boys.

When everything had been done, Rector went back to his desk to occupy himself with his monthly report until three o'clock.

When three dice are tossed repeatedly, what is the probability that the number of aces is 0 ( or 1, or 2, or 3 )??

When now we count the frequency of the 71 items in the two language families appearing in the same column or grade, or one column or grade apart, or two or three or four, we find these differences: Af

When authorities convicted him of practicing medicine without a license ( he got off with a suspended sentence of three years because of his advanced age of 77 ), one of his victims was not around to testify: He was dead of cancer.

When he was told that no one had seen Burton since then, he thought of three other places that were possibilities.

When the mast was raised, Alexander gave the order for Small and Cromwell to be placed under arrest, and now three figures in irons sprawled upon the open deck and terror stalked the Somers.

When King Æthelwulf died in 858, Wessex was ruled by three of Alfred's brothers in succession, Æthelbald, Æthelbert and Æthelred.

* When 2000 was approaching, at least three large Swedish magazines ranked penicillin as the most important discovery of the millennium.

When White eventually returned three years later, Virginia and the other colonists were gone.

When the merger took place, all ten AFL franchises became part of the merged league's new American Football Conference ( AFC ), with three teams from the original 16-team NFL ( the Pittsburgh Steelers, Cleveland Browns, and Baltimore Colts ) joining them.

When the work was completed, three dragons rushed against the wall, and while the two of them which attacked those parts of the wall built by the gods fell down dead, the third forced its way into the city through the part built by Aeacus.

When the three drugs are taken together, there is a very high risk of developing renal failure.

When he arrives at the Necronomicon's location, he finds three books instead of one.

* SVO — Save opportunity: When a pitcher 1 ) enters the game with a lead of three or fewer runs and pitches at least one inning, 2 ) enters the game with the potential tying run on base, at bat, or on deck, or 3 ) pitches three or more innings with a lead and is credited with a save by the official scorer

When a few ( around three to six ) monosaccharides are joined together, it is called an oligosaccharide ( oligo-meaning " few ").

When defending against a smash, players have three basic options: lift, block, or drive.

When the Apple II, PET 2001 and TRS-80 were all released in 1977, all three had BASIC as their primary programming language and operating environment.

When the club folded after the 1870 season, Wright was hired by Boston businessman, Ivers Whitney Adams to organize a new team in Boston, and he did, bringing three teammates and the " Red Stockings " nickname along ( Most nicknames were then only nicknames, neither club names nor registered trademarks, so the migration was informal ).

" When or where Teach collected the ten gun Briganteen is unknown, but by that time he may have been in command of at least 150 men split between three vessels.

When Selig was only three, Marie began taking him and his older brother, Jerry, to Borchert Field, where the minor league Milwaukee Brewers played.

When a symbol is not marked by any of the three grammar symbols ( square, cone, inverted cone ), they may be a non material thing, a grammatical particle, etc.

When the smaller facet-planes of Analytical Cubism were placed upon or juxtaposed with the large, dense shapes formed by the affixed materials of the collage, they had to coalesce -- become `` synthesized '' -- into larger planar shapes themselves simply in order to maintain the integrity of the picture plane.

When a merger occurs, the larger hotel chain always acquires the smaller hotel chain.

When attacking smaller prey, such as young lambs, the kill is made by biting the skull and spinal regions, causing massive tissue and bone damage.

When the universe was young, before the formation of stars and planets, it was smaller, much hotter, and filled with a uniform glow from its white-hot fog of hydrogen plasma.

When the overstory regrows, seeds of annuals and smaller plants may lie dormant until the next fire creates the conditions required for germination.

When the elements of a type character are smaller than a full pixel, ClearType lights only the appropriate subpixels of each full pixel in order to more closely follow the outlines of the character.

When choosing a set of shells, a jazz drummer may want smaller maple shells, while a rock drummer may want larger birch shells.

When the electric current is applied, the larger molecules move more slowly through the gel while the smaller molecules move faster.

When light strikes a material, most of the light is absorbed while a smaller amount of a particular frequency or wavelength is reflected.

When observed from farther away, the image of the rows of pixels still merge, but the total image becomes smaller as the distance increases.

When Assyria grew into an empire, it was divided into smaller parts, called provinces.

When increasing concern within the company over the pricing and availability of fuel during the oil crisis of the 1970s became an issue of contention, smaller engines were considered in the interest of fuel economy.

When the federation collapsed in 1962, following Jamaica's withdrawal, a smaller federation was briefly attempted.

When tea-drinking was first introduced to England circa 1660, tea was rare and expensive, as a consequence of which teacups and teaspoons were smaller than today.

When the administration was approached by the comparatively smaller Boom town of Tulsa and offered a chance to move, the decision was made to relocate.

When software rescales an image ( the same process that creates the thumbnail shown in the lower image ) it, in effect, runs the image through a low-pass filter first and then downsamples the image to result in a smaller image that does not exhibit the moiré pattern.

When some of the operands are given implicitly, the number of specified operands in an instruction is smaller than the arity of the operation.

When the nearer object appears larger than the farther one, it will completely obscure its smaller companion ; this is called an occultation.

" When Earth tries to reclaim the colony, the revolutionaries plan to use in defense a smaller duplicate of the electromagnetic catapult formerly used to export wheat.

When the metal had cooled and hardened, the smaller ingots ( the pigs ) were simply broken from the much thinner runner ( the sow ), hence the name pig iron.

When the Fourth Red Army under Zhang Guotao was formed in the Sichuan-Shaanxi border area from several smaller units, no standard nomenclature of the armies of the Communist Party existed ; moreover, during the Chinese Civil War central control of separate Communist-controlled enclaves within China was limited.

When lactating, female rats display a 24 hour rhythm of maternal behavior, and will usually spend more time attending to smaller litters than large ones.

When Socrates tells the child that he ( Socrates ) will later be smaller without losing an inch because Theaetetus will have grown relative to him, the child complains of dizziness ( 155c ).

When Worlds Collide ( 1951 ) based on a 1933 novel by Philip Wylie, deals with two planets on a collision course with Earth – the smaller planet a " near miss ," causing extensive damage and destruction, followed by a direct hit from the larger planet.

When provoked, or for defense, coatis can be fierce fighters ; their strong jaws, sharp canine teeth, and fast scratching paws, along with a tough hide sturdily attached to the underlying muscles, make it very difficult for potential predators ( e. g., dogs or jaguars ) to seize the smaller mammal.