Learned by Reading
In the British National Corpus:
Solly’s years in the wilderness were more than just a dearth of high-profile wins.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Via CT Blog – After a few years in the wilderness, the U.S. military and its allies in other parts of the world have honed the cutting edge of a significant series of steps that are yielding highly successful results in combatting non – state armed groups – including terrorists, not just in Iraq but in Colombia and elsewhere.
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(. .)))
In the British National Corpus:
The most famous and obvious dissenter was Winston Churchill who, in his years in the political wilderness, was a great critic of both Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
And you are in the midst of a pennant race in the city where pennant races mean the most, which must be something to behold after those years in the wilderness in Pittsburgh.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
After a few years in the wilderness, the U.S. military and its allies in other parts of the world have honed the cutting edge of a significant series of steps that are yielding highly successful results in combatting non – state armed groups – including terrorists, not just in Iraq but in Colombia and elsewhere.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
All I can think at this moment is that after two years in the wilderness, the House Republicans are back.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
But after eight long years in the political wilderness, they want to win, badly.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
It would appear that it took a year for them to hike down to Nahom, where Ishmael was buried, and now he says that they wander 8 years in the wilderness before coming to Bountiful, so that must have been 7 years on the eastward portion of the trail.
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(. .)))
In the British National Corpus:
They were to remember how they had come: “You must remember all that road by which the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness.”
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
After a few years in the wilderness, the U.S. military and its allies in other parts of the world have honed the cutting edge of a significant series of steps that are yielding highly successful results in combating non – state armed groups – including terrorists, not just in Iraq but in Colombia and elsewhere.
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(. .)))
In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
If they hadn’t had the divine intervention of God, they would never have survived their flight from Egypt or their years in the wilderness.
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(. .)))
In the British National Corpus:
He regarded all existing churches as false, believing the true church would emerge only at the end of the 1,260 years in the wilderness (Revelations xii.
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(. .)))
In Wikipedia:
He was single – minded and obsessional about his work and had no time or talent for self – promotion, which may go some way to explaining his long years in the historical wilderness.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
And you shall remember that the LORD your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Both held to the central message that Moses, a great leader of the Israelites he delivered from slavery and led them for 40 years in the wilderness to the brink of Canaan, stands as a testament to faith in God’s plan.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
“And you shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you, and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commands or not.”
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In Wikipedia:
Since the completion of The Years in the Wilderness in early 2007, Shane started a new group with his family members called Shane Tutmarc & The Traveling Mercies.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
Today he returned from his years in the wilderness – older now, + wiser, he says.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:
After many years in the wilderness and being considered MIA professionally,?
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