After her first attempt to crack the code failed, the countdown appeared on the clock's display. |
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I accomplished it in half the time as my first attempt last week and the results are more polished. |
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More than that, it was the first attempt to apply evolution explicitly to the human race. |
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The first attempt to storm the parliament was rebuffed by a volley of police tear gas. |
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Hildebrand's first attempt at hopping the gender fence hasn't really proved all that difficult. |
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Our first attempt ends up with the shot on a rock covered in colourful anemones. |
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My first attempt at aromatherapy, forty years later, was using lavender oil. |
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Gawky and terrified during her first attempt to dance, she gradually began to loosen up. |
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Now there is very little to prevent them from making history and advancing beyond a World Cup group at the first attempt. |
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Drivers who pass their test at the first attempt should be made to do it again. |
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If they are to gain promotion at the first attempt they will have done it against the odds. |
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I was fortunate enough to undergo successful IVF treatment at the first attempt, resulting in the birth of twin daughters. |
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As I wait for the next workshop image, I write this article as my first attempt at humor. |
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However, this book is the first attempt at consolidating all information in one volume. |
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Sue designed the website herself and for a first attempt at web design it is an ambitious project! |
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Andrus Varnik from Estonia took the silver after reaching 85.17m at his first attempt. |
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However unfortunately in the first attempt, the embryo did not take and did not grow. |
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Rossiter's first attempt was well saved by goalkeeper Burke but the kicker stabbed home the rebound. |
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His tee shot landed in the right-hand bunker and his first attempt at escape rolled back to his feet. |
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I left the chillies out from the original recipe and the result was a little uninspiring, but not bad for a first attempt. |
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My first attempt at trying to see a thrush nightingale by the Narew River was marred by my inability to use my binoculars properly. |
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The 25-year-old was untouchable as she soared to her winning height of 2.06m at the first attempt. |
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His first attempt to speak in public proved a failure, and he retired from the bema amidst the hootings and laughter of the citizens. |
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He says that after he failed to get through in his first attempt, he was shattered. |
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Amazingly this was not his first attempt at the east-west transatlantic crossing. |
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Andrea miscarried on her first attempt and the second attempt didn't take hold. |
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A first attempt at trying him in the Moldavian town was abandoned because of riots. |
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It was our first attempt in the field at lashing down the sledges tightly and preparing the skidoos for a full day's sledging. |
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On his first attempt he was unsuccessful, because he couldn't reach the pedals. |
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The testing team achieved rotation tracking on the first attempt, and no modifications to the breadboard were required for testing. |
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Their first attempt on goal, some half an hour into the match, was more by accident than design. |
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At the first attempt to induce the magnetic somnolency, the mesmerist entirely failed. |
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The Charter was the first attempt to give the public a clear specification of what it could expect. |
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The first attempt to cut the Panama Canal was abandoned after thousands had died from yellow fever. |
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She added to her credentials that afternoon when she took the Appalachian Stakes in her first attempt on the grass. |
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You could have chosen a much safer, less challenging topic for your first attempt at a novel. |
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I tell you, there was more head on the first attempt to pour me a pint in The Punch and Judy on Tuesday than there was in Caligula passim. |
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Hopefully there will be no repeat of his first attempt over fences when he came a cropper. |
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Our first attempt to fix the problem only made matters worse, and in the end we wound up re-cooking the whole meal and comping it. |
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So, not content with reducing my audience to laughter with my first attempt, I cued the musicians to start over. |
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The next step is the OD, the first attempt at an orchestrated full score, with the correct notation for transposing instruments. |
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The journal has all the style of a 13 year old's first attempt with the school's desktop publishing software. |
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After our ultimately disastrous first attempt at using our incubator this is just the ticket. |
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My first attempt, a chapbook of satiric epigrams, led me to examine the social facts. |
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This is my first attempt with dry point, a craft that has been around for centuries. |
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Annan said the first attempt to call a truce on April 12 had failed. |
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On Saturday night I made a passable first attempt at Cossack dancing. |
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The lawyers work tirelessly to delay the execution after the prison botched its first attempt at terminating their client. |
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But his first attempt to open an ice cream parlour at Weeton, near Harrogate, fell foul of Harrogate planners so he moved to Jervaulx, near Ripon. |
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I felt a little bit low-spirited after my first attempt but decided to cheer myself up, and headed for the head office of one of the biggest commercial banks in town. |
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It is not the first attempt at supply management by American dairymen. |
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Limitations aside, the survey is the first attempt at collecting data on sexual harassment and assault in fieldwork. |
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Their first attempt to unseat the House speaker failed miserably, so why not try again? |
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Often, of course, it's judicious fixing of the director's first attempt that saves a turkey, or elevates it from being tolerable to something rather better. |
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That's what Ranieri the player was like, constantly banging away at something until he succeeded, without caring whether more talented people succeeded on the first attempt. |
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My first attempt to saw into the boulder barely scuffs the rock. |
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I am proud of my first attempt at real Italian cooking for the simple reason that it did not involve opening jars of ready-made sauce and popping garlic bread in the oven. |
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The first attempt to deflect an asteroid should not be when it counts for real, because there are no doubt many surprises in store as we learn how to manipulate asteroids. |
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At the largest caucus in the Show-Me State held, in St. Charles County, the first attempt at selecting delegates ended in chaos. |
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During the first attempt at reform, it initially seemed as if internal and external forces would align to compel the President to take real action. |
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In 2001, the Arbor was our first attempt to build a beautiful small building with no money, no power tools, using materials scavenged in my neighborhood. |
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On my first attempt to spend time with the Trappists at Spencer, I was unable to get a room at the abbey, so I stayed at Mary House, about a mile away. |
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Don't be discouraged when your grandiose plans fail on the first attempt. |
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If you are happy with your first attempt an in your dummy run on making a bouquet then get started on making your dream come true by doing it your way. |
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It was Namangani's first attempt to strike out from his mountain hideouts to the strategic heartland of Central Asia, the fertile, densely populated Ferghana Valley basin. |
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His first attempt hit the bar but he leapt highest to score the rebound. |
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The new Lancashire captain will turn to his predecessor for help as he bids to lead the club back to the County Championship's top flight at the first attempt. |
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He won the World Championship in 1979 at the first attempt, and reached the 1988 final. |
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Meekins and another surfman volunteered for the first attempt.Meekins and the other surfman slowly waded farther out into the chilly water. |
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In these instances, the male will first attempt to intimidate the other fish. |
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They won the division at the first attempt and were promoted to the Premier Division. |
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He failed in his first attempt but succeeded in his second attempt. |
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Through the act of mating, the female releases an egg and is often fertilized on the first attempt. |
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I set myself the goal of doing 100 situps and, although it took a while on my first attempt, I managed to do them. |
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However, the council's pronouncements on music were not the first attempt at reform. |
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He was elected Treasurer of the Union in 1872 but was defeated at his first attempt at the Presidency. |
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The first attempt to square the circle, was made in February 1848, when the young Marquess of Granby was installed as the leader. |
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Initially, economists made the first attempt to study the entrepreneurship concept in depth. |
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As the first attempt to improve the lot of factory children, it is often seen as paving the way for future Factory Acts. |
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Songcraft didn't appear to stay when seventh in the Dubai Gold Cup in March, losing a shoe in the process on his first attempt at two miles. |
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In 2012, Chesterfield SC took part in the Arena National Swimming League and achieved promotion to the top division at the first attempt. |
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A first attempt to explore western South America was undertaken in 1522 by Pascual de Andagoya. |
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At this time, her father made the first attempt to publish one of her novels. |
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His first attempt was in 1926 for a revue staged by Nigel Playfair and Rambert's husband Ashley Dukes. |
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He shanked the first attempt, but it is estimated his second went more than 200 yards. |
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The team won promotion at the first attempt and reached the FA Cup final in 1976, but were beaten by Southampton. |
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Chapman was also successful at Indianapolis with the Lotus 29, almost winning the 500 at its first attempt in 1963 with Clark at the wheel. |
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The first attempt to bring the play to the screen occurred in 1957 when the BBC broadcast a televised version narrated by Donald Houston. |
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Carolina was not settled until 1670, and even then the first attempt failed because there was no incentive for emigration to that area. |
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Many golden eagles still have white on the tail during their first attempt at nesting. |
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In 1962, Spain, ruled by the military dictator Francisco Franco, issued its first attempt to join the European Communities. |
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It was his first attempt at cooking, but I tried it and it was not half bad. |
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During a university vacation he made his first attempt at writing a novel. |
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Tracheal intubation of the awake parturient, using the AWS with lignocaine jelly to anaesthetise the pharynx, was performed smoothly at the first attempt. |
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The first attempt to repress the movies was a humdinger by any standards. |
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On his first attempt, he failed to reach the Falls of the Nahanni but a short time later, accompanied by trapper Albert Faille, he got to the base of the impressive sight. |
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Jordan has had no previous experience of this tensest of scenarios in limited-overs cricket, but could hardly have made a better job of it at the first attempt. |
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Henry's first attempt to invade England was frustrated by a storm in 1483, but on his second attempt he arrived unopposed on 7 August 1485 on the southwest coast of Wales. |
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Queen Mary I, who succeeded him, returned England again to the authority of the papacy, thereby ending the first attempt at an independent Church of England. |
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The first attempt by General Lorencez was repulsed by the forces of General Ignacio Zaragoza at Puebla on 5 May 1862, the first defeat of a French Army since Waterloo. |
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Both Liverpool and Bury won the division at the first attempt. |
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Simply the League failed because the clubs failed and with no new clubs emerging the first attempt at bringing rugby league to Wales came to an abrupt end. |
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On 4 August 1911, after weeks of negotiation, it was announced that Wolgast would face Welsh on 30 November, Welsh's first attempt at the world title. |
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He demarcated the region for production of Port to ensure the wine's quality, and this was the first attempt to control wine quality and production in Europe. |
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The first attempt on Zeebrugge was made on 2 April 1918 but cancelled at the last moment, after the wind direction changed and made it impossible to lay a smokescreen. |
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The year before, Graham and other specialists from the Naval Air Command Sub Aqua Club had dived in this area on a first attempt to find the Association. |
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The work, a universal history of the calamities that have happened to mankind was the first attempt to write the history of the world as a history of God guiding humanity. |
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The first attempt took place in 1274, with a fleet of 900 ships. |
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On their first attempt to take Villahermosa upriver, they failed. |
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In 1721, Cotton Mather conducted the first attempt at recording the speech of slaves in his interviews regarding the practice of smallpox inoculation. |
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America's first attempt to use primate astronauts in 1948 failed when a V2 rocket exploded midflight, killing its passenger, a rhesus monkey named Albert. |
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The Army, making its first attempt to shoot the moon, had spent weeks fussing over the Juno II, a 60-ton Jupiter IRBM with a spike of high-speed rockets. |
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The first attempt at epidural catheter placement was complicated by dural puncture with a 17-gauge epidural needle, confirmed by free flow of cerebrospinal fluid. |
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