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"And these, " said the chief, as two of his tribesmen dragged an odd-looking crate into the hut.

Another project aims to parcel a scenic bit of the constituency and sell it to a university to set up a campus for 5, 000-odd students.

L obviously didn't care how odd his gestures and mannerisms appeared to others; certainly he would expect his successor to be the same.

Tom was born to a poor family. He had two elder sisters and one younger sister. His mother supported the whole family alone by odd jobs.

I thought it was odd at the time, I will admit, as though Samsung couldn't decide if it wanted the Q1 to be a business or consumer device.

The first couple of times it might be a bit odd, but many women say a little perseverance is more than worth it.

Amanda: It just seemed like an odd coincidence that it had to happen today.

We meet them after they've been forced to leave their previous ranch in a chain of events chalked up to Lennie's odd behavior.

It is so odd to me, that you should never have read Udolpho before; but I suppose Mrs. Morland objects to novels.

Behind the company's auction frenzy is a desire to keep from being the odd man out in the domestic auto industry.

Given all the talk about a connected world, it may seem odd that air travel does not seem to matter that much.

He looked up, and his instant thought was that he hoped this odd-looking visitor did not plan to climb a mountain.

my mother was all too aware of the odd distance between us, with which this puzzlement is intimately connected.

It sounds odd, especially when corporate culture is often consumed with deflating negative news.

you know? It's an odd position, 'cause you guys are still a young band, but to look back, retrospectively, on your career. . .

And with heavy promotion for , 24, and Lie to Me in full , it isn't hard to see who the odd man out is.

After doing odd jobs for a week, he got a permanent position as a typist.

It was an odd name, Lily thought, like every thing else about him.

Though she was smiling as she spoke, a few keen observers detected an odd hesitation in her voice.

Her bedroom haunted me with its silence, its unaccustomed tidiness, with the odd souvenirs from a childhood that was now history.

A slim, prosperous couple in their sixties, they moved easily: she with a simple precision, he with the odd heel-tap, a bit of dash.

His mother collected government checks from her previous husband who died in World War II and his father worked odd jobs.

It was an odd play for you to vacation in Thailand, you don't even like to swim.

He usually told which people he did not like, made malicious jokes about their, in his opinion, odd ways or shallow questions.

I had been a teacher for 10-odd years. I at last pined for the time staying with my students. Hope to meet them here!

This may sound like an odd tip but I have seen charismatic people do it quite a bit.

Such a thread is an algorithmic realization of an odd line, which is the only topological defect in glass or amorphous condensed matter.

Our survey also showed that of the candidates who were asked odd questions, just as many were offered places as those who weren't.

He shows up in foreign countries in odd dress, with odd make-up and hair-gel preferences, once having pinned a photograph to his chest.

"I'm glad to hear it, " Mandy said. This Cal was an odd bird. "What's your background? "

It's as if no one asks him questions about the food any more, just the wealth, the forceful personality and the odd television scam.

"The grown-ups are certainly very odd, " he said to himself, as he continued on his journey.

I have gone through the odd period in the year where I have been a bit down and not been as motivated as I need to be.

I sometimes think of Eli as having a huge book of odd knowledge in his head. In real time the contents can be hard for people to understand.

He does odd jobs that bring him in ten to twelve pounds a week.

So now you can see why I might have made the comment about being odd never to have dated at least once.

They glanced at him, shamefaced, yet in their eyes was an odd, triumphant defiance.

The scene greeting me was like a board meeting except for its odd location in the back corner booth of a fast-food restaurant.

Nothing can be more annoying than having that odd sprig of hair sticking up in the front.

For this odd-looking fish looks like he's just decided to head out for an evening stroll along the ocean floor.

Recently, the UFO seems to visit earth more frequently. The latest report said that in the sky of the Britain, there is an odd light circle.

So they would have been an odd man out, you know, in a situation when everyone is coming.

Breakfast was a bit, well, weird is the only word for it, v odd atmosphere!

You know, you think "graceful" . I find it odd that she clapped.

Yeah, you know, she's very beautiful and also can be really funny and that's odd, that's rare.

IT OCCURRED to me recently that in an odd sort of way visiting hospital is a bit like going to a rock concert.

On the face of it, Bouygues SA's decision to share the risk with the brothers was an odd one.

He said: 'The smoke seemed to have an odd bloom to it at the base of the column that was streaming south of the city.

She leaned against her raggedy old reading chair and stared at the stack of books and odd art supplies next to her.

It shouldn't be in there but this cute baby has decided to make the best of an odd situation by trying to eat his way out of a watermelon.

Sure, it had the odd cheesy line ( "I live life a quarter mile at a time" ), but it's safe to say most car fans would have enjoyed it.

It was a very odd watch. It had twelve hands but no numbers; instead, little planets were moving around the edge.

It was odd; a moment before his insides had been writhing like snakes, but suddenly he didn't seem to have any insides at all.

She was the odd one out, just as she had been at school and university: a square peg in a round hole.

If the point is within the polygon, the line will intersect the edges of the polygon an odd number of times.

When he used to come in for the odd game, he looked nervy but now he's got that confidence about him - he looks the part.

His head still hurt, but there was also an odd sense of numbness, as if ice had been laid on an injury.

The First Lady was more visible around the West Wing than the newly elected President of the United States. It was. . . odd.

I heard everything he said. Yankee, I would honor to help save your dad's job. (To Screwing) And he, I thought you are hard hard odd cranky.

But the title of his book is a bit odd: wasn't cross-border finance the last, rather disappointing, globalisation?

"The nations I would worry about, weird places run by odd dictators, they're just not capable of doing this stuff, " he said.

It seems like an odd title for an article written by an Asian Supremacist, but there are very good reasons why I hate many of my own kind.

Look, I'm not odd. I'm just trying to be an actor; not a movie star, an actor.

"It was one of those odd situations where the next word was always there, " he says.

She gripped it tightly in her little fist, and with a solemn look, but still with that odd glint in her eye, marched down the boarding ramp.

He joined his hands and began a prayer, which excited my laughter from its odd phraseology.

It has no troops on the ground and is not exchanging fire with hostile forces (unless you count the odd drone strike).

She has trouble written all over her, and a number of other odd tattoos, but I ignore her, stirring my gazpacho .

in the dusk she had not noticed it before , and would hardly have noticed it now but for an odd fancy that the effigy moved.

I tried to imagine him up there, Miller, foot stuck in the stairwell in some odd way that prevented him from falling like the rest of us.

You'll see odd, wavy plants growing out of the desert that look as if they belong underwater.

Voynich asked the leading cryptographers of his day to decode the odd script, which did not match that of any known language.

It's not easy when most of the people you know are married or in relationships and you feel like the odd man (or woman) out.

When you think of the IBA orchestra, maybe the custom of watching Egyptian movies ceremony sounds a little less odd.

"It seems odd since I've only met Berlusconi once and that was in an attempt to get aid into Darfur, " Clooney said in a statement.

What was odd, as he posted his irregular blogs about his latest adventure, was how much fear he felt this time.

Though the central bank now seems to suggest the status quo will continue, it would be odd for China to flag any move on the yuan.

I knew it was odd, and yet it was a great education for me.

So to attack. And for here it's actually a bit of a close run thing, but in an odd sort of way.

They stood, feeling a bit odd in their clothes. They were dressed as hunters, with thick short cloaks made of animal skins.

He was then asked if he did not think it odd that all of his favorite foods kind of resemble the male member.

When came the time of harvest, odd thing happened that the farmer's ears of wheat should have been shrunken, there was no any wheat seeds.

But this evolution being unknown, there was an odd sense of ambivalence on the plane back from Beijing.

He worked his way through at every kind of odd job including washing dishes at a fancy fraternity that did not admit Jews.

Out of his pocket he took an odd-shaped, ornamented brass whistle, on which he piped a series of complicated trills.

It may have struck our students as a bit odd that so far no one has used a business card (also called a name card or calling card).

He said he has a vivid imagination and sometimes paints "odd things" .

Odd though it might seem, it had never occurred to me that working was selfish.

He was dressed in an hussar's jacket with gold buttons, shiny leather boots and an odd-looking wooden cloak sticking out of his back. '

What intrigued me about this chart was the fact that somenumbers have odd distribution patterns.

He was dressed in an hussar's jacket with gold buttons, shiny leather boots and an odd-looking wooden cloak sticking out of his back. '

What intrigued me about this chart was the fact that somenumbers have odd distribution patterns.

The only odd thing about this election is the fact that the Democratic candidates both seem more comfortable with God-talk than Mr McCain.

It may seem odd that signs of employee dissatisfaction should emerge at a time of high unemployment, but it's hardly surprising.

I wondered why he held his head motionless at an odd angle, as though he were in meditation.

That does not imply that politicians will abandon the odd intervention, or stop trying to talk the yen down through verbal intervention.

All of these tests went well, but I was surprised by one odd thing: I could check myself into nearby places even if I wasn't there.

Those of her colleagues who detected in her something odd and reprehensible would not have dared to call it "religious" .

The Beijing News did not specify whether the odd-even system would be used for the Games.

Though it is a bit odd when you're trying to concentrate on kissing and there's a cameraman moving around you.

Though it is a bit odd when you're trying to concentrate on kissing and there's a cameraman moving around you.

The odd thing is that America's politicians should find this attitude so hard to understand: their sentiments on the matter are the same.

"Sure, " I said. An odd request, but no harm would come of it. As the old woman was leaving, I called out, "Goodbye, Mother! "

Also, despite all the blather about juche (self-reliance), it would be odd if rival factions did not court outside help.

And I found a woman that had -- We found her, she was odd because she had data after she died.

Unless she is a very odd woman indeed, she would not pick the newest hire, and a young man at that, as a confidant on matters of the heart.

Notice what he's doing here, he differentiates the law from promise, which would be very odd coming for a Jew at the time.

This one probably looks a little odd to you, but it's easy to walk through.

The odd thing was that the four of us were still friends, even though Greg and I had this secret.

But Humpty Dumpty used words in an odd way, and that made him a master of gobbledygook, not a master of language.

But Humpty Dumpty used words in an odd way, and that made him a master of gobbledygook, not a master of language.

She told me that she saw two dark faces with 'odd' expressions peering out of the windows, but when I looked, the car was empty.

He took him to be an odd fellow, a little soft in his head.

It was an odd way to greet a complete stranger who had invaded her home, but it was all she could think of to say.

Some of these publications, odd to say, which were patronized by a prince, are to be found in the Secret Library.

The girl students do very odd things; but I expected you are used to dealing with that form of exhibitionism.

Stars emigration to abroad is no longer odd news, but such news happens frequently is inevitable to be focused by the public.

As you drill all day heap in the book, not a pedant would be odd miles.

To Malfoy's left, his wife made an odd, stiff nod, her eyes averted from Voldemort and the snake.

I realize it seems odd to say that of events characterized by panic, a credit crunch, slowing growth and falling stock markets.

"There are a couple of odd stories, " he said, "but I don't think they're any threat at all. "

When Google launched the Nexus One in January, the company hit on an odd bit of marketing to distinguish the new phone from its rivals.

That seemed like an odd question, but I felt fine and told him so.

Touchstone still found it odd to see Sabriel dressed in Ancelstierran clothes, particularly their court clothes, as she was wearing today.

Then I started to go on the odd night out with a young man I met while researching a story.

It might seem odd to be erecting skyscrapers when Britain's economy is still recovering from its nastiest shock since the 1930s.

It had just been her and I , and we'd grown apart over the last twenty some-odd years.

"He had been a little bit odd for several months, but I couldn't really put my finger on it, " Laura says.

Whenever I looked over at Keith, he would gleam his teeth at me and shake his head all wry, as if to say, "Odd job of work, isn't it? "

It's common to see large predatory sharks come in and feed on schools of bait-fish - the odd thing was I didn't see any bait-fish at all!

He said he had read the book at odd moments.

His translator was an odd little man with a moustache and a dapper suit, whose cell phone kept ringing.

LastPass reported last month that it had noticed some odd behavior in its network traffic logs and might have suffered an online break-in.

Thanks fellow odd dealers the support which works to us to wish the general odd dealer friend once more to invest smoothly! ! ! !

The amount of money may be unusual for that lottery draw. $18 million is an odd amount of money and may be a rare event.

It was odd to have summoned him in that way, and then forgotten him; but Archer felt more curious than mortified.

In fact, some people might be happy to hang around the office for no salary at all in the hope of picking up some odd jobs.

Even if it's a bit odd at first to chat about such personal stuff, listen up for the valuable things he has to say.

He adds, "It seems odd. . . He's been living in Switzerland for years and I've visited him there, so this is all very strange. "

Then we got Barney and, a few months later, Dylan began to talk. It was only the odd word, but I could clearly understand what he said.

They might have been a secret society, meeting at odd hours in hidden nooks around the lake.

He looked down and saw the lightsaber and he thought, how odd, Dooku is behind me, why is the lightsaber in front of me?

Diego: "us" ? You two are a bit of an odd couple.

It seemed a bit odd that the number assigned for Mr. Mousavi was "4" and that of Mr. Ahmadinejad was "44. "

She seemed a little odd with her hair dyed red and fasted by a glowing clip as well as a overweight body.

This list deals with odd diseases that have no known cause - or at least no consensus on cause.

I knew I was trying to do something different, but you keep on looking for the odd thing you recognise.

And using renewable energy to make fuel might seem like an odd thing to do, given that it could power electric cars directly.

People who display qualities that may be typical of a person with autism are just odd and will grow out of it.

First contact began for us as a very odd mission and was proclaimed by Heaven to be a divine intervention.

Also, if I chose my "religion" by my favourite programming language, I would be a Neo-Pagan. . . slightly odd eh?

The word is straight out of Ancient Greek so it's no wonder it looks a little odd to my eye.

It is an odd time for us and we must try to get out of it, looking ahead to Wednesday and Maccabi Haifa.

Clare frowns, and makes a motion with her hand as though to bat away this odd idea.

Ernesto and some of his other friends gave him odd looks as he danced with the girl in white.

Maneuvering the six giant black shapes out of a formation of sixty-odd vessels by starlight was a tedious tricky business.

Does this sound a little odd if you think back on what may be the most famous verse in the entire New Testament?

The train goes direct from shanghai to Beijing. At this time, this did not strike me as odd.

To database watch, be about to decide watch name is to use complex number or odd number form at the beginning from the project.

He was more than a little odd, very fastidious about his manners but an incredibly sloppy dresser.

Though inflation theory forecasts many odd facets of the distant universe, not many scientists predicted the dark flow.

Of course there was still the odd screamer - the long-range, right-foot winner against Liverpool was a case in point.

Look at these rather strange onions . Never tasted and do not know why they are in such an odd shape.

"US" ? You two are a bit of an odd couple.

It was argued in odd logic that it would be immoral to disarm the vanquished unless the victors also stripped themselves of their weapons .

The idea of a teenage Dumbledore was simply odd, like trying to imagine a stupid Hermione or a friendly Blast-Ended Skrewt.

For instance, some quite odd people have said, either in interviews or directly to me, that they were influenced by me.

Scientists are trying to figure out why even the skeptics among us cling to lucky numbers, special game-day clothing and other odd rituals.

Thank you. Ben was satisfied with that answer and kind of likes the idea that infinity is big enough to be both odd and even.

It has odd angles (reminiscent of a stealth bomber) to reduce its radar cross-section, and was coated in radar-absorbing material.

The odd thing was, his daughter had been right behind him when the free paper took the photograph - shown in the photograph above.

He does odd jobs that bring him in about 30 a week.

Some subjects were told to imitate the odd sounds. Others were told to simply listen, or to repeat the sentence in their normal voice.

Even Mendes herself thinks it's odd. Why is she considered too dark to be paired with a white lead, but just right for an African-American?

This most excellent utility lets a number of programs be linked together into a single executable. The organization is a little odd, though.

The first explorers remarked at how odd it was to see living creatures at seven miles deep.

The odd looking "creature" or "hand" extending down from the top of the above photo is a gas cloud known as a cometary globule.

So it seems rather odd that they should have signed up for hedge funds which charge annual management fees of 2% plus 20% of any returns.

Today the nation's 15-odd pencil manufactures produce about a billion and a half wooden pencils a year.

Yet even in a country as batty as North Korea, it would be odd to throw a lavish get-together of the main party hacks for no reason.

Despite the larger footprint and weight , I didn't find the HD2 clumsy to carry in a pocket or odd to hold up to my ear .

He got his first job in a Chinese restaurant in London, he did all the odd jobs.

Stinky Teddy's odd name probably won't help the company in the long run, but this search engine reinvents meta-search for the real-time web.

Odd things are happening to Brits. . . we seem to be developing green fingers!

The robot's "head" has an array of sensors that give it the odd appearance of a cross between a bug and a dog.

he was looking at her with an odd , flickering smile , faintly sensual and appreciative.

There's something else a bit odd about this dialog: Why does it only ask about saving changes when you are all done?

If you haven't done a lot of this sort of thing, some of the code may seem odd.

It was odd of her to do that.

Among the four skills in learning English, which one of these is the "odd-man-out" ?

Julian Assange, the founder, director, frontman, guiding spirit of global whistleblowing service WikiLeaks looks a bit odd for a start.

The last of these limitations ruled out 2, 000-odd opposition members banged up in jail.

But many Muslims concluded that this was a pretty odd way to go about it, and demands for an apology soon poured in.

The odd thing about him was his body weighed five pounds and his balls weighed five pounds.

About this time I met with an odd volume of the Spectator.

Then the hall is filled with an odd green light born of the double shell of the sky and the sea.

Republicans, however, will have none of it, raising objections that range from the odd to the incoherent.

He often behaves in an odd way as if controlled by something invisible.

This makes "horoscope" a bit of an odd word.

This time too, some things are familiar: the odd bit of violence, a lot of incoherent ranting and plenty of inconsistency (see article ).

Uranus always brings something out of the blue that we had never anticipated - it could be weird, rarely heard of, or odd.

I ran into one odd flaw with my test Droid, and with a second test unit tried by a colleague.

This was partly because it had an odd typing mechanism where the whole screen moved with each tap on the virtual keyboard.

If Muslim tribunals are starting in Britain, it would be odd to abolish sharia in a place where it has been applied since Ottoman times.

Collins picked up a few dollars a week doing odd jobs.

The general solution of (5. 122) is an arbitrary linear combination of a series of even powers and a series of odd powers.

Two-hundred-odd years before the birth of Christ, the king of Qin, the largest of six Chinese states, is trying to conquer an empire.

For the first time I began to realize an odd consequence of the social effort in which we are at present engaged.

But with another 15-odd countries on the agenda and about three to four weeks to go, allowing the torch relay to go on might be much worse.

Contestants had to wrap odd shape objects like a set of golf clubs and a baby grand piano.

Only Pippa, into whose mind a breath of modernity had blown, began to think her brother's coldness odd.

In an odd but real way, my five-mile runs up Abu Nawas Street made me wonder what the war in Iraq was all about.

As my index finger ran up and down the phone book pages, I felt an odd sense of power.

Calls that use this primitive type fail if the count is less than two or is odd .

Since flying into Britain to clean up the mess in Wapping he has made some odd mistakes, notably making such a fuss over Rebekah Brooks.

The Nanny Diaries is something of an odd-duck movie.

It would be odd indeed for something looking similar to happen in the party's own choice of a candidate this year.

It would be very odd if two such similar and powerful men, preaching to religious communities in these places, were unknown to each other.

Miranda: Right. Maybe after years of odd men, the universe is throwing me a bone.

After doing odd jobs for a week, he got a permanent job.

The odd property on which Dr Hess's plan rests is called negative refraction.

This legal case since says not and up what difficulty odd, I might as well break rules once and say my viewpoint in advance a while.

President George H. W. Bush certainly noticed that there was something a bit odd about the height of summer.

There was always, in her conversation, the same odd mixture of audacity and puerility.

Alternate: Like the long and short patterns, but with the same number of odd and even rows, as in the 45-star flag.

Didn't the size of his boots and the odd appearance of the water around him raise any questions with the public?

The perspective is a bit odd, and I probably should have drawn in a solid floor line.

He remarked how odd it was to see someone who looks and acts like him.

Occasionally he would telephone me at some odd hour, to talk about what he was painting or an exhibition he had seen.

FOR a country that prides itself on its "peaceful rise" , it was an odd way to celebrate a birthday.

This sort of research was for low stakes (coffee mugs, chocolate bars) and in odd, artificial conditions.

In another email, he appeared to respond to the death of a climate sceptic with the words "in an odd way this is cheering news! " .

It is odd that an industry that would not be seen dead in last season's colour is wedded to the last century's technology.

I thought that odd, so I rebooted (thinking it was just a fluke).

he wants to change a contract , put forward odd material to be bought by oneself , also be decorated the company refuses.

It was an odd combination of elegant old wooden buildings and new three-story reinforced-concrete buildings.

Mr. Pengnian Yu, bored in Hunan province, came to Hongkong for a living at the age of 26, and found an odd job in a company.

It is odd that this was regarded as a clinching argument, as there are more than enough jets in Afghanistan.

deviating from what is usual or common or to be expected; often somewhat odd or strange.

Some are just a little odd. . . others are dramatically different.

On the face of it, this horse-trading is odd (though stitch-ups of the parliamentary presidency are quite normal).

Osborne isn't Jewish, and I can see it might be odd to have a false ethnic flag pinned to your back.

Research suggests this sort of scenario is more common than the odd high-profile case that makes it to court would suggest.

Sean Connery held many odd positions from lifeguard to milkman but the strangest of all was as a coffin cleaner.

I am glad for you to do odd jobs, also islam cuts the vegetable time to speed up the frequency only for to obtain your praise.

I was the odd man out in the group, and I couldn't really blame everyone else for not taking me seriously.

With his fortune dissipated, the black sheep reduced to what he was before: doing odd-jobs, earning slender income, eating frugal meal.

Odd, isn't it, that it takes a Pravda commentator to drive home the point that the Obama administration is on the wrong side of history.

Kirk was forced to have a lot of reserve and odd neighbors narasimha "s act together to protect themselves, he and his wife. "

In our hometown has "at the torch " , said the torch festival is in when odd millet began heading.