Two substitutes were used during the critical basketball game last night.

The feeling of competition among the students in all the classrooms where the test was going on was noticeable to everyone.

In the world of sport, the four-minute mile — the "dream mile" — until recently was the most intriguing goal remaining to the individual athlete.

Hotels and restaurants are an________part of the city, without which the tourist industry could not exist.

Despite his parents' objection , he left home and quietly moved 800 km to a village, situated on the southwestern tip of a little island.

The artist spent years on his monumental painting, which covered the whole roof of the church, the biggest in the country.

The examiner failed some candidates, and 15 of them being students without work experience.

If they spend some time on Chinese history, they will be more able to predict China's future.

My company is Excellent Kitchenware Company, there nearby is a big market for kitchenware in our city.

Your usual teacher has lost his voice and________I am taking his place today.

The fact that most Americans live in urban areas does not mean that they reside in the center of large cities. In fact, more Americans live in the suburbs of large metropolitan areas than in the cities themselves. The Bureau of the Census regards any area with more than 2, 500 people as an urban area, and does not consider boundaries of cities and suburbs. According to the Bureau, the political boundaries are less significant than the social and economic relationships and the transportation and communication systems that integrate a locale. The term used by the Bureau for an integrated metropolis is an MSA, which stands for Metropolitan Statistical Area. In general, an MSA is any area that contains a city and its surrounding suburbs and has a total population of 50, 000 or more. At the present time, the Bureau reports more than 280 MSAs, which together account for 75 percent of the US population. In addition, the Bureau recognizes 18 megapolises, that is, continuous adjacent metropolitan areas. One of the most obvious megapolises includes a chain of hundreds of cities and suburbs across 10 states on the East Coast from Massachusetts to Virginia, including Boston, New York, and Washington, D. C. In the Eastern Corridor, as it is called, a population of 45 million inhabitants is concentrated. Another megapolis that is growing rapidly is the California coast from San Francisco through Los Angeles to San Diego.

We cannot see any possibility of business________your price is on the high side of the prevailing market trend.

No matter how hard you try, you can find no parallel existing between them.

An "epigram" is usually descried as a bright or witty thought that is tersely and ingeniously expressed.

We will ship the goods on Monday according to your order less we hear from you by Friday.

The jury gave a________of "not guilty".

Next door to a lunch counter advertising a grilled cheese special is a gallery where Van Gogh's "Irises" shares the walls with Monet landscapes and works from the Italian Renaissance. They are all fakes. They are all for sale. "A forger? Yes. We're expert forgers you could say. But we make no attempt to deceive. We don't pretend to sell original works. We have all the thrill of being a forger, but no risk. " With prices for original art rising into the tens of millions, some art lovers are turning to high-quality copies done by expert artists . In addition, some museums confronting skyrocketing insurance premiums are considering stashing the authentic pieces and displaying a reproduction. No major U. S. art museum is known to be displaying reproductions in place of originals. Such a practice would raise questions about why people visit museums in the first place. But museum security has become a growing concern. Bids for paintings have climbed at auction houses. But prices for fakes run only from about $ 1,000 to $ 10,000 for paintings of paintings, depending on the size and complexity of the original. In Europe where copying masterpieces is a centuries-old craft, painters often use pigments and brushes typical of the period of the original. The painting is placed in a frame closely resembling its era. Sometimes the gallery purchases 17th century furniture to use the wood for frames. The final step is the antiquing process using chemicals and heat and humidity. "We can make special types of cracks from little spider-web types to long splits."

Your silence implies countenancing his abject behavior; therefore please clarify your stand to him.

I'm rather concerned how he will take in his school.

Rain abates in the fall throughout most of the Appalachian Mountain region.