• Sitting behind a desk for 10 hours a day, in addition to an average hour and a half round trip commute leaves little time for other important things, exercise and proper food preparation included.

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  • This time they sprung the scrum-half round the front of a line-out and although he was halted by Luke Arscott, the 18 stone Buxton came thundering up in support before battering through a couple of despairing tackles to score from 10 metres out.

    BBC: Gloucester 39-10 Bristol

  • Mr Winner half gets round this point by arguing that in total football, it is far more important to play beautifully than to win.

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  • It has been said over centuries that rumour gets half way round the world before truth can put its shoes on - and that was way before the internet, and the ability to send rumour sprinting at the click of a mouse.

    BBC: No smoke without fire

  • The two-and-a-half hour regular round-trip Jim makes to help coach at the club was not lost on the four-strong judging panel.

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  • Brazilian striker Jo, on a season-long loan from Manchester City, was a second-half substitute and Round hopes everyone at the club will see what he can offer this season.

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  • Historically, No. 10 and No. 12 seeds that pull first-round upsets also win in the second round nearly half the time.

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  • And Wigan stretched 12-4 nine minutes into the second half when Richards swept round Steve Tyrer's poor tackle to score in the corner before tagging on the conversion.

    BBC: Salford City Reds 4-18 Wigan Warriors

  • And while a rejuvenated Bristol are breathing the rarefied air of the Premiership, Evans could be rattling round a half-empty Stoop, a fallen squire cursing the cruel realities of the modern game.

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  • He also secured his place at next week's World Tour Championship in Dubai after closing the tournament on 17-under, despite a blip half way through his round when he fell back to level pegging with his South African challenger.

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  • Dublin Literary Pub Crawl, the only tour that "simultaneously replaces brain cells as it drowns them", running for more than 20 years, takes you on a half-mile amble round some of the atmospheric old bars immortalised by Dublin writers, with a drink at every stop.

    BBC: Dublin's underground literary scene

  • Some players after the first round cited a half dozen shots or more affected by mud.

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  • Referee Nigel Owens awarded a penalty try after replacement Kings scrum-half Josh Fowles illegally came round to disrupt it on the Lions side, and O'Gara's conversion made it 20-3.

    BBC: Southern Kings 8-20 Lions

  • The Apprentice host Donald Trump comes in at No. 3, while The Office's Steve Carell and Two and a Half Men's Charlie Sheen round out the top five.

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  • There was no doubt that Germany had had the better of an absorbing first half, but Wales had shown a Millennium Stadium crowd enough to earn a warm round of applause as they left the field at half-time.

    BBC: Wales 0-2 Germany

  • The ECB allocated nearly a half-trillion euros through the first round two months ago.

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  • Tovey converted to round off an excellent first half for Paul Turner's side who went in with a 21-10 lead.

    BBC: Dragons 28-20 Ospreys

  • He averaged 29.6 putts a round in 2004, over half a stoke more than in 2003 and his worst return since joining the Tour.

    BBC: SPORT | Golf | European Tour stats attack

  • The goal appeared set to round off a satisfactory first half for the Irish but there was a shock in store before the break as Martinez struck in a superb half-volley to the net after the home defence appeared to switch off.

    BBC: Republic of Ireland 3-1 Andorra

  • Lee Wallace created Hearts' only good chance of the first half when his left-foot strike tipped round the post by Graeme Smith.

    BBC: Hearts 2-1 Motherwell

  • They asked students to imagine they were running a five-kilometre race against 50 people and then against 500 (or, in half of the cases, the other way round).

    ECONOMIST: The fewer the competitors, the harder they try

  • Morsi won just 5 million votes in the first round of presidential elections, half as many as in the parliamentary election, one of every four votes, and just one in 10 eligible voters.

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  • And, although they flirted with relegation last season, Ruddock has helped the Warriors get off to a sound start this time round to stand in the top half of the table with two home wins from their first four Guinness Premiership games.

    BBC: Ruddock extends Warriors contract

  • There is the false concept of the football student-athlete that the NCAA endlessly tries to sell, when any major college player will tell you that the demands of the game, a year-round commitment, makes the student half of the equation secondary and superfluous.

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  • With almost voyeuristic minuteness he has found out that when a body is deprived of water, the lips shrink as if amputated, the gums blacken, the nose withers to half its length, and the skin so contracts round the eyes as to prevent blinking.

    ECONOMIST: The cannibalism of the sea

  • Overall, he has averaged 29.0 a round during the season, his best by half a stroke since the stats were first compiled seven years ago.

    BBC: SPORT | Golf | McGinley masterclass

  • Markets are tumbling at record speeds, and half the experts expect the Federal Reserve to announce another round of quantitative easing (QE3) today in order to thwart recessionary trends.

    FORBES: Top 10 Industries: Growing Margins in Growing Uncertainty

  • Its year-round sunny climate makes it ideally suited to a half-term or Christmas break.

    BBC: Five family-friendly adventures

  • But the visitors effectively secured their passage to the next round with Babel's fine strike just before half-time.

    BBC: Unirea 1-3 Liverpool (agg 1-4)

  • Frank Lampard put Chelsea ahead in the fourth-round replay with a low strike in the first half of extra time.

    BBC: Chelsea 1-1 Everton (aet)

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