If you think it's been a bit parky outside this week spare a thought for David Maxfield, for whom freezing point would be positively balmy. |
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Still, it's been fascinating to see how it's been debated in the message boards and newsgroups of the Internet. |
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It's hard to believe it's been 20 years since the band released its sophomore album. |
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Now, it may seem odd to focus on letter spacing, but it's been a holy grail of the printing industries since the beginning. |
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According to a quick browse of the OxBlog archives, it's been eight months since I've said anything about Burma at all. |
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But as time passed, the songs never left my noggin, and it's been months now. |
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I want to blog, I really do, but it's been an overwhelming few weeks and I can't get my noggin in order. |
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Even the lighting's perfect for noir and is a breath of fresh air as it's been a long time since someone has lit a film so fittingly. |
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So even though I bucked up as the evening went on and the air cleared, it's been a less than pleasant day. |
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I don't know if it's been chief and council passing the buck or the co-manager passing the buck. |
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It was built in 1961, and it's been renovated in fits and starts, so it's sort of an architectural Frankenstein. |
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In London, it's been one of the most successful viral marketing stories ever. |
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It shows how narrow economic modelling is, for starters, let alone whether or not it's been done accurately. |
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So it's been with some self-satisfaction that I have been reading the stats this past two weeks. |
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At one time, there was even roller skating here, but it's been years since there's been an Odd Fellows ' charter here. |
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My apartment is a mess, I'm a mess, all my clothes are wet and hung out to dry and it's been drizzling steadily all day. |
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As a reviewer, sometimes I'm perfectly happy to receive a game well after it's been released. |
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The school will find it's been subsidising the lunches of the nearest old folks home. |
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Apparently someone stuck the box up on that shelf without telling me and it's been there these five and a half years. |
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And it's been the kind of week so far that makes you want a nice stiff drink. |
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It's nice looking, well made furniture and will look fantastic once it's been delivered in a few weeks. |
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I'm looking forward to the Gehry building, though, even though it's been watered down a bit from its original design. |
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In fact, it's been snowing for at least 4 hours now and is still going strong. |
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Now it's been discovered that two of the players have been banned from the games for substance abuse. |
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Like so many anniversaries recently, this one feels like it's been overexposed well before the correct date arrives. |
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It's like it's been programmed into my skull and some mysterious overlord is controlling my actions. |
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There's quite a history of it, and in fact it's been a public issue before. |
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In the meantime, I would strongly suggest not using the light until after it's been checked. |
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There's more fun to be had with a wedge-shaped cheeser, especially when it's been thoughtfully prepared. |
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He says world economic growth is the strongest it's been in 15 years, and wool prices are more competitive against cotton and synthetics. |
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I mean, c'mon, like three governors have apologized for it now, and it's been thirty years since it ended. |
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I facetiously call it the bitter season, and there have been times when it's been hard. |
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Despite the turn in his public fortunes, privately it's been a difficult year. |
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However, it's been used so pervasively by public figures and media pundits that I'm not sure anyone has a clear claim to this anymore. |
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We're only realizing it now, just how long it's been and all the groups that have come and gone since we've been in this. |
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After being the surprise package of last season, it would be fair to say that it's been an indifferent start this time round for the team. |
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Another reason we could say that it's been successful in Korea was that indigenisation took place relatively early. |
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What with water problems indoors and the horrid wet weather outdoors, it's been a shut-in day once more. |
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Now I realise that it's been there all along, with its stupid, slobbering tongue and its vacuous, infantile grin. |
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Because of the high cost and complexity of the project, it's been built piecemeal. |
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But I also like to know that it's been grown without chemicals and pesticides and fertilisers. |
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But for almost a month now it's been covered with these festering piles of garbage. |
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The knowledge of this has always been there, but it's been half hidden, concealed for its own good. |
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Shellfish processors may be more willing to perform high pressure processing once it's been conclusively shown to inactivate norovirus. |
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Employers in Waterford are seeking to fill jobs in the leisure and retail sectors more than any other area, it's been revealed. |
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It's not the case that it's been trampled by big conglomerate multinationals. |
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For so long, it's been black or linen in plain colours, and suddenly there's been an explosion of colour which is really inspiring people. |
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There's a lot of concern about the way it's been waged, and the fact that there's no plan to achieve peace. |
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It seems to me that it's been a long time since that was a working metaphor among diocesan clergy. |
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For over 30 years it's been thought that interglacials lasted about 10,000 years. |
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Hawks are still an outstandingly fine team and they may well win the league at a canter, but it's been good to show they are not invincible. |
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And according to Helen Donovan, it's been made all the more difficult by the point-blank refusal to establish an International Crimes Tribunal. |
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The fact is, you'd have to be crazy to want to drive in central London, and it's been that way for 20 years or more. |
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I do my best to never exceed my credit limit, though there are months when it's been a close call. |
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For years, it's been assumed that bacteria enter empty feather follicles during poultry processing. |
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And it's been interesting having children throw frisbees at me, even though they seemed to be aiming for my head. |
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We need to get the air conditioning repaired because it's been on the fritz for three weeks. |
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The vessel is surprised by the very ship it's been tracking, a larger, more powerfully armed French frigate. |
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Rather than build the development to match the surrounding homes, it's been built to match the power station. |
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Since then, it's been a rather gentle decline, although many in the UK during the 80s and 90s still thought I was a gas. |
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Ever since I was a wee lad of five, it's been imprinted on my brain to be chivalrous and gentlemanly. |
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It takes longer to defrost meat this way, but it will add storage life after it's been cooked. |
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Well, it's been three years since she left the glitz and glam of Hollywood for a life of a full-time mom. |
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Yet for decades it's been serving up buoyant romantic comedies about prostitutes both actual and suspected. |
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Oh what a post that is gonna be, it's been festering for a while let me tell you! |
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I'm feeling a bit gutted, we've wanted to marry for a while now and it's been one draw back after another. |
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This is not an innocent programme, and in the past it's been closely linked to broader ideas of governing the state. |
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Though it's been a year since his best friend's death, Shelliano still grieves the loss. |
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From the time the Hurricanes grouped together pre-season for a one month training session in New Plymouth, it's been special. |
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Despite our loser basketball players, and a few other embarrassments, it's been difficult to quell the American spirit. |
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It's hard to believe that it's been ten years since Germany's Basic Channel label crossed the threshold between deep techno and dirty dub. |
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Seattle will pretend it's been hit by a radioactive dirty bomb, and Chicago health workers will face a strange flu-like illness. |
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It's been a bad year for good movies, but it's been a great one for guilty pleasures. |
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It's a phenomenon known as bilateral gynandromorphy, and it's been observed in butterflies, moths, and lobsters. |
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Dining out and regular travelling have eaten into our disposable income, but it's been money well spent. |
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There's been no prolonged bad weather so it's been less disruptive than normal. |
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Coupled with a sizeable thunderstorm drifting overhead just now, it's been quite an eventful afternoon. |
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Of course everyone is going to be twitchy for the first one because it's been so long. |
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Anyway, I dusted my hands clean of that place, and what a load feels like it's been lifted. |
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For the rest of us, it's been an unbearable nightmare escapable only through alcohol and movies. |
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But it's been put back together with doughty resolution, notably up on the volcanic bump of the old town. |
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Like many other dotcoms it's been hit by the economic downturn and the global decline in advertising revenues. |
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Companies have been able to outsource because it's been in dribs and drabs, a few thousand jobs here and there. |
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It doesn't look as if it's been used for some time, as a small jungle of bushes, nettles and weeds have grown up around it. |
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I'm actually looking forward to watching it, since it's been recut and improved. |
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Festival lights are ablaze everywhere, and it's been raining nonstop for hours. |
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Basically, it's been a day and a half of taking it easy and ambling around in the heat. |
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When I've had a drink in the past it's been to enhance the way I was feeling. |
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Allan, it's been said, was the missing link between heavy-reverb surf music, early garage punk and psychedelic acid rock. |
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It doesn't work quickly for everyone, it depends on the acuteness of the complaint and how long it's been there. |
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Oh, it's been a jolly time, all those years laughing and talking and partying with Steve. |
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Try as I may, though, it's been a dull day, with my brain partly addled by pain-killers. |
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The left slipper sock has been becoming tattered and pulled and raggy, but at least it's been in my room. |
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We've been putting in a lot of work over a long period of time, it's been a struggle. |
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At times, when it's been a white-out, I have walked past Corrunich because I couldn't see anything. |
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But it's been about a decade since his canny combination of show-biz razzmatazz and high style was on a Broadway menu. |
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Between their thick and wobbly tones and my horrible drawl, it's been a struggle. |
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It's really odd, and it's been going on for hours and it's starting to really get on my wick. |
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We could basically make philosophy more popular than it's been since the days of the agora, in ancient Greece. |
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Hollywood has a long tradition of mining American history for film plots, but lately it's been harder to find those essential happy endings. |
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Any Key lime pie you've had that's green is either not from real Key limes, or it's been colored with green food coloring. |
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Now it's been recast with African-American actors and remade as Love Don't Cost a Thing. |
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Analog is more expensive, has slightly better sound quality when reception is good, and is more widespread because it's been around longer. |
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For me, it's been great to reconnect with these guys, in a completely different setting and context. |
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As you can see, it's been 20 years since America ran anything but red ink in the trade department. |
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I can see why it's been called wordy, but I don't mind a bit of repetition as long as they say it funny, and they did. |
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So it's been like a new music adventure for me now, you know, like starting all over again. |
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In other cases it's been shown that veterinary wormers can kill invertebrate insects that are really critical for dung removal. |
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The Age reports that the krouts have found it's been raining toad entrails, hallelujah! |
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I can hear the excitement in his voice when he's talking about things and it's been sadly lacking in his voice of late. |
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Yes, it's been scorching so keep spraying that ozone layer with your tins of hair lacquer! |
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It happened 15 years ago and it's been either a big yawn or a big laugh ever since. |
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Russian cross-country skiers have explored the region for 30 years, but it's been largely missed by alpinists. |
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The only problem is it's been ten years since Hiromi last wore her yukata and she doesn't know how to tie mine. |
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Utterly nondescript, but it's been a grocery store, an auto dealership, an office building, and a laundromat. |
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Most models offer a digital zoom, which lets you magnify an image after it's been snapped. |
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If the live CD seems like it's been a long time coming, you can rest assured that it feels exactly the same way for its creator. |
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Most of the couples probably value marriage more than the average heterosexual couple because it's been denied them. |
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It's also richened and deepened over time, and from day one it's been the perfect complement to the Def Lep sound. |
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I've also been memorizing PLU numbers for every kind of apple we have at the store, so it's been very appley. |
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Have her see her doctor if she has any signs of pain, especially if it's been a few months since the last appt. |
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It's definitely been pushing up the expense to make games, but it's been good for a record industry that's still very much on the ropes. |
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I ended up being a lone voice on the committee but there's nothing we can do now because it's been decided. |
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You'll probably be just a little sickened to hear it's been pretty much plain sailing for this up-and-coming roving reporter. |
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Meanwhile, the other side doesn't get a look-in, because it's been tarred as untrustworthy. |
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Today I'll run through what I'm reading on the Internet, as it's been an interesting week. |
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I was awed by it when it was a dump, and now that it's been buffed and spiffed it's even better. |
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This is the most amazing, awesome and deadly frightening image of fire that it's been my privilege to see. |
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I was quite happy to accept the pressures and responsibilities, and in many ways it's been the making of me. |
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But I don't have a pair of scales to check and it's been so long since I did check that I wouldn't know what's a loss and what's a gain. |
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Traditionally it's been a venue for blustering declarations from fulminating premiers, but today instead of foot-stamping there was backslapping. |
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You look at one of my documents on a screen, and hopefully you can tell that it's been crafted to make you want to read it. |
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And yet, in Wales, at least in this part of Wales, it's been like nothing so much as having been wired to the terminals of a dead battery. |
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The ballet slipper is a danseur's best friend but, in the hearts of ballerinas, it's been overshadowed by the pointe shoe. |
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There are no knocks, creaks or rattles either, indicating that it's been well screwed together. |
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Many thanks for the reply but as much as I tried to follow your advice, it's been a bad week. |
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So it's been a road with various curves and detours, not a straight, linear march towards a predetermined goal. |
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And straight ahead, it's been a disastrous hurricane season so far, and it's not over yet. |
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And thirdly, right across Australia it's been very difficult to get an appropriate focus on performance and get results out to parents. |
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It's not the financial basket case it's been painted as, but it does need to be modernised to meet future challenges. |
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Minor industry tiffs aside, it's been an exhilarating 12 months for the band. |
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In some ways it's been draining, or at least the changes have left me feeling drained. |
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Clearly, for longer-term investors, it's been a toss-up between the blue chips and mid-caps, with the latter winning out in recent years. |
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And they're geniuses, but it's just eaten them up and spit them out, and it's been tough on them. |
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How do you send a book soaring on the best-seller list even before it's been published? |
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More recently, it's been a case of millionaires striking against billionaires. |
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She bewails the fact that the street's turned so quiet since it's been pedestrianised. |
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A woman in a grey smock goes round polishing each glass cover after it's been kissed. |
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I think it's been a bit of a misquote because I've never thought of my upbringing as being oppressive in any way. |
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That's not where it all ends, for it's been found that some types of synthetic material used for making cups doesn't easily biodegrade. |
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Well, I think it's been pretty clearly shown that it was a short-range missile. |
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So far it's been okay, I kiss Greg under the mistletoe when I get a chance. |
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Well, it's been quite a trip so far, and I am about to start my fifth year of this stuff, and I've had enough. |
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Perhaps this isn't true of most scientists today, but it's been true of very many. |
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I suppose it was a moderately successful experiment, and it's the shortest it's been for four years. |
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Unfortunately, it's been more of the latter lately, so watch out for the signs that you need more shut-eye. |
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It is perched on a plateau of tufa rock, almost like it's been carved straight from its roots. |
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So it's been a long summer, a long hot summer, and once the hot season ends then the monsoon is just now come. |
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That might sound unnecessarily silly or trivial, but it's been a serious point of contention. |
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Since the disaster it's been a constant challenge to maintain motivation and morale. |
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Very difficult to get ones hands on a version as it's been mucked about with quite a bit. |
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It's not that it's been hot so much as the very high humidity that's made me feel darned uncomfortable. |
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For years, it's been underfunded and overwhelmed and, by its own admission, barely able to cope. |
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I grew up with a passion for musicals, but it's been a long time since I've actually seen one. |
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But it's been sleeting for the last ten minutes and you've been standing out in it. |
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There's a round thing that fits in a hole to close the bonnet, and it's been jammed down very, very securely. |
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I don't know if it's been raining heavily in Manchester, but the pitch really does look slow, borderline sloshy even. |
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That often happens when it's been a slow news day, a sluggish news week or sometimes even a slothful news month. |
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One of the largest mass rapes in our time has gone not only unpunished, to a large extent, it's been overlooked. |
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One of the significant cultural aspects of the Internet is that, given its narrowcast properties, it's been able to open up the discussion. |
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All in all it's been a boring, unsatisfactory day and, at the end of it, I'm not in the least reluctant to apply head to pillow. |
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Once it's been diagnosed you have to use tricks to unscramble the wrongly decoded message. |
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But other than that, remember folks, it's been a huge success and anybody who doesn't see it that way is a nattering nabob of negativism. |
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My relationship has been up and down, but for the most part it's been good. |
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And, other than that, it's been a quiet Spring day, overcast and with a soft rain on and off throughout. |
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Her voice has grown a bit deeper, but mostly it's been enriched with a soulful breathiness and grit. |
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It's a dull ache rather than a pain and it's been there for a week. |
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Actually, it's been about two-and-a-half years since they massacred the song at the Isle of Wight festival, which everyone would probably like to forget. |
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It looks like it's been written by a teenage girl from the shires. |
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Since it's been suggested there were too many stickies at the top of the forum, I'm going to add a layer of indirection and replace them with this thread. |
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We've been tracking the Olympic Torch as it's been traveling to the State Capitol Building where it should be arriving sometime in the next half hour. |
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I've watched and loved the unabashedly girly dramedy Gilmore Girls from its very first episode, which's an accomplishment considering it's been on the WB for four years now. |
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Originally a BBC production, it's been slightly Americanized. |
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I had so much I wanted to say to her, and it was all I could do to avoid biting her head off when she passed a remark about how long it's been since Bro rang her. |
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The Federal Government denies it's been orchestrating a smear campaign. |
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Everything that's to be had here is available on the official releases from the period and much of it's been collected previously on two separate anthologies. |
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For Alan and Penny, it's been a lot of hard graft, but worth every minute. |
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As a rule, the more expensive your alcohol is, the greater the chance that it's been through a comprehensive distillation process to filter out many of its congeners. |
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The galaxy itself is turning, as shown in the example in the photograph, sort of like the spiraling froth on the top of a cup of cocoa after it's been stirred. |
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Your grandmother is worried sick about you, and to tell you the truth it's been long since I've seen her worried about anyone but Jasmine and her siblings. |
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Mid-January to mid-February was the warmest it's been seen 1659, foxing unwary plants into flowering prematurely, to give the frost something to kill. |
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Not only has the brown argus moved into those habitats, it's been using them as stepping-stones to populations of H. chamaecistus that used to be too far apart. |
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My moms been giving me the silent treatment since we fought, it's been days now and I have given her tons of apologies but she just seems to ignore me totally. |
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I didn't think about it over the weekend, but it's been on my mind today. |
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The end is near, and more's the pity, because it's been a good trip. |
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My hands are scattered with various scratches, grazes and cuts, the worst of them on my middle finger, which looks as if it's been attacked with a hammer. |
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He is in mourning for his father still, even though it's been 3 years, and goes about dressed in sables which people think terribly unfashionable. |
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We're talking real people from Paris, real feedback, and it's been good. |
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Of course, it's been a few years since the press first declared that sapphism was no longer subversive but chic, and much of the fuss has subsided. |
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Today, even if the original forensic sample is no longer viable for DNA analysis, the glass phial it's been in for decades may offer up enough material. |
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It's been 25 years and it's been slow, not instant, overnight stuff. |
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It's all very well saying that a worn and tatty book got that way because it's been well used, and continues to be well used, but they don't look good on my new shelves. |
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For more than 60 years, it's been my joy, my passion and my vocation. |
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But it's been left largely unexamined by economists and social scientists. |
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And it's been a notorious fact for years that immigration's modest economic benefits are offset by very large fiscal costs. |
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But like last year's computer, it's been nudged aside by new technology. |
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Jermaine, it's been no secret the family has feuded in the past. |
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In the past it's been called everything from shell shock to battle fatigue. |
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Do you know how long it's been since I had a slug of whiskey? |
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I spoke to both artists about that incident right after today's announcement, and for them it's been cleared up and it's just water under the bridge. |
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Now it's been advanced to make hair curl to your desired waviness. |
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Far from being the pristine oasis of calm portrayed in magazines, my house still looks as if it's been done over by a gang of particularly thorough burglars. |
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We don't always quite see eye to eye on things and I've been so unutterably miserable this week that it's been making him unhappy to see me so unhappy. |
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Makes the skin of your face tingle and smart like it's been slapped. |
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Lately for me, it's been all about hobnobbing with former stars. |
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While it is difficult to put an exact figure on the total of undocumented Irish in the United States it's been estimated that there are tens of thousands. |
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It explains how to tell from the label whether an animal has been kept in a restricted environment and if it's been given suitable food and bedding materials. |
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I'm still getting adjusted to life in Waterloo, and it's been tough. |
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Well, it's been a long time coming and a long time promised but what say we splash a bit of spring water in the two combatants, release the aromas and let the taste off begin? |
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With the position of top Republican talking head up for grabs, it's been Liz Cheney's turn to wear the crown this month. |
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At rehearsal Missy walks out when she sees the Toros routine, recognising that it's been lifted wholesale from the East Compton Clovers, a cheer team from the LA ghetto. |
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Your book is found to be libellous and the publisher doesn't want to get sued, so they cancel publication, or if it's been printed, withdraw the book and pulp it. |
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From cold and frosty, through inches and inches of rain, to big and little heat waves, with a microburst or two thrown in, it's been a challenging rose season. |
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And then, to cap it all, I set the video for the Billy Wilder double bill on BBC2, only to see that it's been cancelled on account of the golf from Augusta. |
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I still get choked up listening to it and it's been, like, seven years. |
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But despite MacKenzie's thrashing, it's been well-reviewed by critics and other Amazon commenters. |
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What a great skill to have and what a neat idea that it's been revived! |
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After it's been decided, the tossers will have to swallow their insults. |
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In certain periods of history it's been the paranoids who survived. |
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Like most of what's gone on in Manama since Monday, it's been hard to predict where the day will go. |
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Now it's been confirmed that their efforts will be captured by the team at Unchartered Productions. |
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Whether or not you believe in global warming, my strictly nonscientific assessment is it's been a long time since I suffered weather envy. |
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I know it's been difficult, particularly with Frick and Frack here leaving for college. |
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But I got pretty good at it and it's been a great base for mixed martial arts which is what I'm really passionate about. |
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What signifies keeping the poor lassie in a swither? I'se uphand it's been Robertson that learned ye that doctrine. |
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I had thought that the term was a nonce, but it seems as if it's been picked up by other authors. |
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Darker and pacier than series one, it's been an intense shoot but I believe the quality of production and performances speaks for itself. |
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Killers seems as if it's been overedited, underwritten, and, as a last resort, jury-rigged. |
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As cold as it's been here this week, Jeff Tweedy can't wait to get back to Dublin. |
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In the afterword to the play's published version, Kushner says it's been suggested that he adopt the name Eara Lee Prescient as a drag moniker. |
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So, woohoo, it's been promoted to BBC2 where Canadian Katherine Ryan has taken over at the helm. |
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Although it's been out since 2004, the game's novel ambisexuality, not to mention its communist underpinnings, has gone largely unnoticed. |
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With this timeless classic, satisfaction is guaranteed now that it's been subjected to digital remastering. |
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Also called retro-running, it's been popular for years in Europe where races vary from sprints to the 26.2-mile marathon. |
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It's a circuit board that can process skin-surface myoelectric signals, and it's been shared on the Internet for several years. |
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Our meeting was a short six minutes today. Every day for the past month it's been at least twenty minutes long. |
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But when the antinukes quote this study, they do not tell anybody that it's been discredited. |
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We had some problems at the very beginning, but it's been smooth sailing since the second week or so. |
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Sometimes mythologised as Glasgow's oldest pub, it's been The Merchant, The Weemann's and The Pipinjay. |
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It's a flintier, more complex tale than Rocky, to which it's been compared, more resembling Raging Bull with its study of not always likable characters. |
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If you're particularly fond of Foster's, Heineken or Moosehead at home, you will be disappointed to find that it's been wimped down for the American market. |
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An amber light means it's been a year or more since UTAP has been able to revalidate the material with the equipment's PM or their representative. |
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So, for those who missed Stewart's West End run in the lead role of 'the Scottish play' it's been filmed here by director Rupert Goold for this one-off TV special. |
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As for Cunningham, it's been a whole lot of public unproductiveness and private whispering that he's another in a recent string of second-round busts by the Patriots. |
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It's the elephant in the room as far as the club is concerned, but fans are starting to change their underwear because it's been relegation form for some time. |
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Now it's been improved, with power up to an even headier 381bhp. |
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Modified citrus pectin is one of the most powerful chelating substances I've found in the world, and it's been proven to work in human clinical studies. |
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I've had it for over 20 years and it's been re-covered twice. |
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My little brother, he couldn't say Harriet. He called me 'Hassie'. 'Hassie' it's been ever since. I don't like it, but I giss nobody never had a name like it in the world. |
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