(1) Stanley stood up, summoned his secretary and said: "Call my bookie."
(2) 2.41am BST Spurs 25-27 Heat - end of the 1st quarter Email from Roger Kirkby: And here we are, game six, TV happy, bookies happy, game on.
(3) That’s not a prediction, just the price that was available at my local bookies this morning.
(4) The 44-year-old performer was the bookies' favourite to claim the Oscar, despite a recent repeat of accusations that director Allen had abused his infant daughter, Dylan.
(5) He even put money on a Tory victory at the bookies.
(6) She tore up the old controls and you can see the result around you: Sky and Talksport peppered with urgent appeals to give your money to the gambling conglomerates; bookies, stuffed with fixed-odds machines, clogging the high street.
(7) Another Tour win, and hopefully people will see him differently, but mine and the bookies' money are not on our Kenyan-born Brit.
(8) Lincoln is currently the bookies' favourite to win the best picture nomination.
(9) Miliband said a number of councils had passed motions to ban bookies from the high street.
(10) Odds 20-1 Social media’s favourite, and the bookies’ outsider.
(11) It is just a week into the Labour leadership contest and Andy Burnham , the frontrunner according to the bookies, admits that it already seems to have “lasted for ever”.
(12) The bookies have not waited for the announcement of the results of the ballot and have already paid out.
(13) Kennedy described the new role, which hasn’t yet been cast, as “probably in the high teens, low 20s” , which should have the bookies scrambling to lower the odds on Breaking Bad’s 34-year-old Aaron Paul getting the role.
(14) Presenters kept shouting that Ed was now the bookies' favourite.
(15) With minor parties, from Greens to the BNP, doing their disruptive best, the bookies too are hedging their odds.
(16) A victory for AV would be a boost and the more so for now being regarded by bookies and pollsters as a remote possibility.
(17) Despite losing in the final, Boyle has been tipped to make millions from a singing career and bookies are already predicting a number one chart hit in America.
(18) With its lack of big names and its potential contenders that have yet to be published, the longlist has elicited wildly divergent assessments from bookies, with three different favourites – O'Neill for William Hill, Mukherjee for Ladbrokes and Flanagan for Paddy Power – and agreement only that Mitchell (expertly described in Paddy Power's press release as "the comedian David Mitchell") will be among the front-runners and Ali Smith and Jacobson not far behind.
(19) They’re tied for the third-best record in all of baseball and even though their pitching has been lights out in the second half bookies ain’t believin’ in the Birds.
(20) The club are apparently considering the credentials of the 60-year-old Yilmaz Vural, who has managed at 20 clubs in his native Turkey, while the bookies' favourite is Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
Speed
Definition:
(n.) Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success.
(n.) The act or state of moving swiftly; swiftness; velocity; rapidly; rate of motion; dispatch; as, the speed a horse or a vessel.
(n.) One who, or that which, causes or promotes speed or success.
(n.) To go; to fare.
(n.) To experience in going; to have any condition, good or ill; to fare.
(n.) To fare well; to have success; to prosper.
(n.) To make haste; to move with celerity.
(n.) To be expedient.
(v. t.) To cause to be successful, or to prosper; hence, to aid; to favor.
(v. t.) To cause to make haste; to dispatch with celerity; to drive at full speed; hence, to hasten; to hurry.
(v. t.) To hasten to a conclusion; to expedite.
(v. t.) To hurry to destruction; to put an end to; to ruin; to undo.
(v. t.) To wish success or god fortune to, in any undertaking, especially in setting out upon a journey.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brief treadmill exercise tests showed appropriate rate response to increased walking speed and gradient.
(2) The samples are first disrupted by sonication and the insoluble proteins concentrated by high-speed centrifugation.
(3) The percent pause time, the standard deviation of the voice fundamental frequency distribution, the standard deviation of the rate of change of the voice fundamental frequency and the average speed of voice change were found to correlate to the clinical state of the patient.
(4) Local minima of hand speed evident within segments of continuous motion were associated with turn toward the target.
(5) "Speed is not the main reason for building the new railway.
(7) Fog and base levels of E-speed film were greater than those of D-speed film.
(8) Liu was a driving force behind the modernisation of China's rail system, a project that included building 10,000 miles of high-speed rail track by 2020 – with a budget of £170bn, one of the most expensive engineering feats in recent history.
(9) While the correlations between speed and accuracy reversed over time, the abnormal vision group began and ended at the most extreme levels, having undergone a significantly more radical shift in this regard.
(10) The speed of visiting holes and the development of a preferred pattern of hole-visits did not influence spatial discrimination performance.
(11) 18 patients with typical sporadic Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) were investigated by the Motor Accuracy and Speed Test (MAST) and 18 healthy age- and-sex-matched volunteers, acted as controls.
(12) On the other hand conclusions seem to be possible on growth speed of neoplasia.
(13) Whether out of fear, indifference or a sense of impotence, the general population has learned to turn away, like commuters speeding by on the freeways to the suburbs, unseeingly passing over the squalor.
(14) The model can account for speed changes in locomotion with a relatively smooth change of system parameters.
(15) The speed of conduction over the spinal cord did not reach adult values until the 5th year.
(16) The physical parameters measured are the intensity attenuation and absorption coefficients, the ultrasonic speed, the thermal conductivity, specific-heat capacity and the mass density.
(17) It's that he habitually abuses his position by lobbying ministers at all; I've heard from former ministers who were astonished by the speed with which their first missive from Charles arrived, opening with the phrase: "It really is appalling".
(18) Species differed with respect to speed of habituation but not with respect to sensitivity towards stimulus change.
(19) He speeded the process of decolonisation, and was the first British prime minister to appreciate that Britain's future lay with Europe.
(20) A two-lane, 400m bridge – funded by Jica, Japan's aid agency – coupled with simplified procedures agreed by Zambia and Zimbabwe have speeded up processing time.