The allergy pill knocked him out for a good three hours.

Modern dishwashers clean most pots, pans, china and cutlery […] . Several china and cutlery manufacturers now indicate that their goods are machine-washable.

Rainy days seemed to follow one another all summer.

A survey of Huangchuan County, Henan Province, revealed that, in the period 1979-86, 39.6% of all marriages were through the matchmaker, 37.6% through third-party introductions, 6.9% through relatives’ introductions, and only 15.8% through direct acquaintance, ‘the model of modern marital behaviour’ (1994, 174-5).