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Come Inside... => Saloon Bar => Topic started by: Uncle Mort on September 05, 2007, 12:40:05 PM
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Just read This on BBC piece about the arrests in Germany.
Last summer, two suitcase bombs were planted on commuter trains in several German towns but they failed to explode.
Two bombs in several towns?
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rubschin: Several = more than one, it would seem.
Sloppy reporting/editing if you ask me.
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one = one
two = a couple
few = three
several = four or more
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Just read This on BBC piece about the arrests in Germany.
Last summer, two suitcase bombs were planted on commuter trains in several German towns but they failed to explode.
Two bombs in several towns?
Perhaps there were two bombs on two trains but the trains were moving and passed through several towns? whistle:
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It's the decline of the Beeb again. I heard a woman pronounce Sibelius as Cyber lee us yesterday noooo:
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It's the decline of the Beeb again. I heard a woman pronounce Sibelius as Cyber lee us yesterday noooo:
eeek:
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Perhaps there were two bombs on two trains but the trains were moving and passed through several towns? whistle:
I looked, two bombs, two trains, two towns (Dortmund and Koblenz)
sloppy english.
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one = one
two = a couple
few = three
several = four or more
In my mind 'several' = anything more than two.
Few = not enough noooo:
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one = one
two = a couple
few = three
several = four or more
In my mind 'several' = anything more than two.
Few = not enough noooo:
Few is never enough!! Would three chocolates be enough? I think not!! eeek:
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one = one
two = a couple
few = three
several = four or more
In my mind 'several' = anything more than two.
Few = not enough noooo:
How about "a shed load"?
Is that the amount that would tumble off a large lorry on a bend, or the most you could shove in a small wooden hut?
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one = one
two = a couple
few = three
several = four or more
In my mind 'several' = anything more than two.
Few = not enough noooo:
How about "a shed load"?
Is that the amount that would tumble off a large lorry on a bend, or the most you could shove in a small wooden hut?
That would be the right amount of chocolate, diamonds, profiterols so yes that's a good amount.
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Changed:
Last summer, two identical suitcase bombs were planted on two commuter trains in the German cities of Dortmund and Koblenz but they failed to explode.
lol:
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don't mention the war
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How about "a shed load"?
Is that the amount that would tumble off a large lorry on a bend, or the most you could shove in a small wooden hut?
Quite simply a shed load = too much
Doesn't matter where it came from or where you could store it - it would all be superfluous so it doesn't matter.
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How about "a shed load"?
Is that the amount that would tumble off a large lorry on a bend, or the most you could shove in a small wooden hut?
Quite simply a shed load = too much
Doesn't matter where it came from or where you could store it - it would all be superfluous so it doesn't matter.
Indeed?
If you had a shed-load you?d have to put a bloody good lock on it too. whistle: