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(in cricket) a bowled ball that is outside the batsman's reach and scores a run for the batting side
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She looked up with a sudden rush of delight, and in looking at Terence with eyes widened by pleasure she was struck by the change that had come over the sky behind them.
"It's wonderful," he said, as they widened and ceased.
The stream soon widened, and recurring areas of phosphorescent rock lighted my way.
They widened and widened, thrusting you both asunder, one from the other.
And so our widened incompatibility ended at last in open conflict.
The uncovered area is then digged perpendicularly to the depth of about three feet, and is then gradually widened so as to form a conical chamber six or seven feet deep.
They found him at a place where the avenue widened so as to let carriages pass each other.
'The CDA will widen U-turns at PWD and Pakistan Town from its own resources,' said the press release while giving details of a meeting which was presided over by Chairman Amer Ali Ahmed on Tuesday.
3 Interstate 630 Widening Widen 2.16 miles of 1-630 from Baptist
He motivated local residents of Paikpara and Kalyanpur to widen roads and by-lanes and make the ward 11 a planned, modern and beautiful city.
He said that the government has not taken any serious step to widen the tax net, therefore, masses will pay the price of their inaction.
'As a consequence, we have in the recent past taken steps to widen the tax base and seek the implementation of more broad-based taxes as a means of bringing more Kenyans into the tax net,' Uhuru said.
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