The repeated measurings of one monument result in a mean approximation to something actually existing, and this is an excellent definition of an average.

Right across western Canada, the house of commons is the biffey. Now that should tell you something about the way westerners feel about the goings-on in Ottawa.

He took her to lunch at the new restaurant, took her to the movies, and then took her home.

For suffering under a Muslimistic/Hinduistic/Buddhistic/ Jewishistic/ quasi Christianistic regime of primary spiritualistic essences, they might well ask: Where was my father when I needed him?