On this point it is poles apart from when I set myself on learning English 20 years ago.

At a Cambridge, Massachusetts Suncoast-a metropolitan branch of a nationwide retailer of videos-anime DVD sales comprise more than twenty-five percent of the store's total revenue.93

My sister resembles my mother.

He was thirsty enough to drink a well dry.

Were you just pulling my leg when you said we were all going to get extra bonuses?

Plum trees were left unattended and those planted on crop fields were cut down to be replaced by other crops.

The radioactivity leaked out of the nuclear power plant.

He was nominated for the presidency.

She may well feel unhappy.

It may be that the happiness awaiting us is not at all the sort of happiness we would want.