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Перевод: sixteen
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Тезаурус:
- Repression followed, in the form of a special Winter Assizes at Lewes; fifty-two men and women were tried, one was executed, seventeen transported to Australia, sixteen jailed and eighteen acquitted, sentences rather less severe than in many other counties.
- But he had always had a wish to join the Army, and at sixteen he enlisted as a drummer boy.
- Sixteen people have died within the last two years.
- Which is why, by the time of our story, there was a tangle of some two hundred satellite habitats, including five dozen tubes; fourteen platforms; seven wheels; sixteen miscellaneous unclassifiables, including casinos on immobilized system ships, crates, and permanent accidents; and three ziggurats of the Eladeldi - all in Terran orbit, besides the poor old neglected Moon.
- I was brought up perfectly ordinarily in the Church of England but when I was sixteen or seventeen my reason naturally rejected such nonsense.
- Robina (sixteen, beautiful, distracted) silently munches cornflakes.
- There were very few birdwatchers, about sixteen in the county, and it was quite different in those days - there was none of this rushing around the countryside, 2,000 people going to look at a rare bird.
- Of the most famous of all bird books, John James Audubon's Birds of America (1827-;38), I will only say that you will need to sell some fifteen or sixteen of your collection of Shakespeare First Folios in order to buy it.
- Here's him - no parents, no roof over his head, on the streets, sleeping God knows where - and here's me moaning on about waiting sixteen hours for my boy-friend to ring and being terrified that Mummy and Daddy'll tell me off when I get back to the Nest.
- It was so easy to flatter her, she took it like a sixteen year old wino's never heard it before.
- For one complete year (1985) every item relating to sex crime was identified in the sixteen newspapers - four popular dailies, two "quality" dailies, five national Sundays, three local evenings, and two local weeklies.
- At sixteen, Edgar gained a scholarship to the Royal College of Music in 1941.
- In contrast, his stage work included a role in The Sound of Music on Broadway in 1961, in which the baby-faced 22-year-old sang "Sixteen Going On Seventeen" to Laurie Peters, who was to become his wife, and Romeo and Ariel at the California National Shakespeare Festival.
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