While Portuguese and Spanish activity in the region had weakened, the English had built fortified trading posts on tiny Ai and Run islands, ten to twenty kilometres from the main Banda Islands.

While the institute is best known for its Millennium Prize Problems, it carries out a wide range of activities, including a postdoctoral program ( ten Clay Research Fellows are supported each year ) and an annual summer school, the proceedings of which are published jointly with the American Mathematical Society.

While Sheffield would be the family home for ten years, Allen was often absent for extended periods.

While debating what became the Land Ordinance of 1785, Thomas Jefferson's committee wanted to divide the public lands in the west into “ hundreds of ten geographical miles square, each mile containing 6086 and 4-10ths of a foot ” and “ sub-divided into lots of one mile square each, or 850 and 4-10ths of an acre ”.

While emigration began to tail off in England and Wales after the First World War, it continued apace in Scotland, with 400, 000 Scots, ten per cent of the population, estimated to have left the country between 1921 and 1931.

While I was doing it, I sensed, as I mentioned before, the deep profundity of scriptural exposition ; and, raising myself from illness by the strength I received, I brought this work to a close – though just barely – in ten years.

While in Baltimore the team advanced to the postseason ten times and won three NFL Championship games in 1958, 1959 and 1968.

While the Jaguars managed to win key games in 2005, nine of their final ten games were against opponents with losing records.

While the live performers recorded the master phonograph, up to ten tubes led to blank cylinders in other phonographs.

While there he wrote a content analysis of newspaper horoscopes ( now collected in The Stars Down to Earth ), the essays “ Television as Ideology ” and “ Prologue to Television ”; even so, he was pleased when, at the end of ten months, he was enjoined to return as co-director of the Institute.

While the towns were only a mile apart, Toledo grew by 359 % in ten years while Manhattan only grew by 148 % because of the change in the canal outlet.

* While engaged in a war with the Mongols, the Song Chinese official Li Zengbo writes in his Kozhai Zagao, Xugaohou that the city of Qingzhou is manufacturing one to two thousand strong iron-cased gunpowder bomb shells a month, dispatching to Xiangyang and Yingzhou about ten to twenty thousand such bombs at a time.

While butter made from pasteurized cream may keep for several months, raw cream butter has a shelf life of roughly ten days.

While the 1792 act was never implemented, there were ten instances when the Vice Presidency was vacant.

While engaged in a war with the Mongols, in 1259 the official Li Zengbo wrote in his Kezhai Zagao, Xugaohou that the city of Qingzhou was manufacturing one to two thousand strong iron-cased bomb shells a month, dispatching to Xiangyang and Yingzhou about ten to twenty thousand such bombs at a time.

While the title of Ron Champion's book claims to offer a means to build a car for £ 250, most Locosts are usually as much as ten times that cost or more.

While much smaller in volume than other chemical sectors, their products tend to have very high prices — over ten dollars per pound — growth rates of 1. 5 to 6 times GDP, and research and development spending at 15 to 25 percent of sales.

While in Martinique, he produced between ten and twenty works ( twelve being the most common estimate ) and traveled widely and apparently came into contact with a small community of Indian immigrants, a contact that would later influence his art through the incorporation of Indian symbols.

While this was going on, Stanford University AI programmers, many of them MIT alumni, were working on their own project to build a PDP-10 that was ten times faster than the original KA-10.

While the party struggled as a marginal force for its first ten years, since 1984 it has been the unrivalled major force of French right-wing nationalism.

While Erhard led all the early est courses himself, by the mid-1970s there were ten trainers trained by him.

While the system was operational, at least ten satellites – one spare for each satellite in the basic constellation – were usually kept in orbit.

While the idea of American football as an origin for the phrase is possible, it is also absurd: to achieve a first down in football -- at least from a first-and-ten position -- one must gain the whole ten yards.

While " Magic " was the band's only American top 40 hit, a later single from the band, " January " became a much bigger hit than " Magic " in the U. K., claiming the number 1 spot (" Magic " did not even make the U. K. top ten ).

While the particular limits of these groupings may seem artificially arbitrary, they do fairly express a corresponding grouping of more variable material, and they eventuate also in five classes, along a similar scale, containing approximately equal numbers of cases, namely 19, 14, 15, 11, 12 in Athabascan.

While in Puerto Rico slavery was 2 % of the population and blacks were less than 11 %, Cuba was 30 % black and slaves wee the backbone of the plantation economy.

While the Red Guards consisted mostly of volunteers ( who, at the beginning of the war, were paid wages ), the White Army contained only 11, 000 – 15, 000 volunteers, the remainder being conscripts.

While industrialised countries saw an increase in premiums of around 1. 4 %, insurance markets in emerging economies saw rapid expansion with 11 % growth in premium income.

While a 1987 study showed that 11 of 14 ( 78 %) patients had a > 50 % reduction in pain, another study ( published in 1993 ) found no beneficial effect.

While he was in prison, Pope Pius IX sent Davis a portrait inscribed with the Latin words, " Venite ad me omnes qui laboratis, et ego reficiam vos, dicit Dominus ", which comes from Matthew 11: 28 and translates as, " Come to me all ye who labor and are heavy burdened and I will give you rest, sayeth the Lord.

While in the Netherlands, people began touring the waterways connecting the 11 cities of Friesland, a challenge which eventually led to the Elfstedentocht.

While the Qur ' an does not mention the king's name, Muslim commentators have assigned Nimrod as the king based on Jewish sources, namely the Book of Jasher ( 11: 1 and 12: 6 ).

While Patton was recuperating from his wounds, hostilities ended with the armistice of November 11, 1918 ( which happened to be Patton's 33rd birthday ).

* August 11 – While conducting a siege against the Song Dynasty city known as Fishing Town in the province of Chongqing, China, the Mongol Khagan, Mongke Khan, dies in the nearby hills.

While studying at a private school in Bayswater, Sullivan, then aged 11, persuaded his parents and the headmaster, William Gordon Plees, to allow him to apply for membership in the choir of the Chapel Royal.

While traveling to Chattanooga, Sherman departed Memphis on a train that arrived at the Battle of Collierville, Tenn., while the Union garrison there was under attack on October 11, 1863.

While this extreme would almost never occur in practice, in game 11 of their 1927 world championship match, José Raúl Capablanca and Alexander Alekhine each had two queens in play at once ( from move 65 through the end on move 66 ).

* While supportive of the American government in the wake of the terrorist attacks of 9 / 11, he opposed the 2003 invasion of Iraq ( see Rogues and his contribution to Philosophy in a Time of Terror with Giovanna Borradori and Jürgen Habermas ).

While Bartlebooth's puzzle narrative is the central story of the book, 11 rue Simon-Crubellier is the subject of the novel.

While in Sydney, the band shot the video for their next single, " Warning ", from March 7 until March 11.

While the various sagas name anywhere from 11 to 20 sons of Harald in various contexts, the contemporary skaldic poem Hákonarmál says that Harald's son Haakon only would meet " eight brothers " when arriving to Valhalla.

While away, on September 11, 1541, local Indians led by Michimalonco attacked Santiago.

While some philosophers such as Aristotle ( and George Bernard Shaw ) consider pride a profound virtue, some world religions consider it a sin, such as is expressed in Proverbs 11: 2 of the Old Testament.

While visitor numbers grew to around 700, 000, by 2005, and partly due to the negative impact on US tourism of 9 / 11, visitor numbers at Graceland had reportedly declined to around 600, 000 due to the rough surrounding neighborhood.

While there were 14 600 farms in 1979, only 11, 320 were counted in 1988 and 6, 320 in 2000.

While inspecting trenches close to the perimeter of the fortress on 11 December ( 30 November Old Style ), 1718, Charles was killed by a projectile.

While there are a few small motels in Bullhead City, the sister city of Laughlin, Nevada, makes visiting the area very convenient with more than 11, 000 hotel rooms, full service spas, fitness centers, banquet halls, big-ticket concerts, and a River Walk.

While Oxford officially marks the year 1683 as its founding because in that year it was first named by the Maryland General Assembly as a seaport, the town began between 1666 and 1668 when were laid out as a town called Oxford by William Stephens, Jr .. By 1669 one of the first houses was built for Innkeeper Francis Armstrong ( see Talbot County Land Records, A 1, f. 10 / 11 ).