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She's Tom's sister.

I'm looking forward to visiting my sister in Los Angeles.

Just between you and me, do you love my sister?

He pinned responsibility for the accident on his sister.

Apart from my sister, my family doesn't watch TV.

My mother likes tulips very much and so does my sister.

I'm going off to Vancouver next week to see my sister.

Compared with her sister, she isn't very punctual.

My younger sister has two sons, which means I have two nephews.

If you can't take it, give up and do what I, your older sister, asked of you.

I took my little sister by the hand when we crossed the street.

I discouraged my sister from going out with the leader of the pack.

I realize that this may sound crazy, but I think I've fallen in love with your younger sister.

My sister will have finished her homework before she goes to Hokkaido.

My sister is always in such a hurry that she often leaves things behind.

He's my brother.

After finishing his examinations, my brother is enjoying skiing to his heart's content.

My brother is so smart and witty that I can not beat him in an argument.

Every day, my brother borrows a new book from the library.

They had decided to put the wedding off until her brother came home from abroad.

My brother and sister get up about seven-thirty every morning.

Instead of going himself, he sent his brother in his place.

Tom doesn't understand Mary's reluctance to go out with his brother.

I spend as much time working in the garden in one day as my brother does in a week.

Mother bought my brother a yellow umbrella.

My brother told me that she was very beautiful, but I didn't think she would be that beautiful.

I have a brother and a sister. My brother lives in Tokyo and my sister lives in Nagano.

My brother usually calls me from Chicago on Tuesday evenings.

My little brother gets delirious when he's sleepy. He says the weirdest things.

If my brother were here, he would know what to do.

semi-skimmed milk

He lives in a house built in a semi foreign style.

The media talk rubbish.

The media got wind of a rumor about his engagement and came quickly.

Even though the media reports that she is a potential presidential candidate, does anyone really think that she is a potential president?

Just one part of what he said got picked up by the media and took on a life of its own.

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Media sells a trace of hatred at bargain prices.

Compare unidirectional mass media such as radio and television with bidirectional ones such as correspondence and the Internet.

In order to gain media recognition, sometimes AIDS patients have to push themselves into the public eye.

Basing his invention of public relations on his uncle Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory, Edward Bernays has left a lasting legacy on the media and how they interact with their audiences.

The job-seeking season is starting earlier each year and it's the mass media that are causing that trend by moving up their job interview schedule.

When I try to listen to music with media player there's an error and I can't play the file.

Once you get used to electronic media, you can no longer do without them.

Why don't you try out getting a new Windows Media Player skin and changing the player's look?

In the case of not agreeing to the conditions of the usage consent contract, promptly return the unopened media package to ABC for a full refund.

His behavior puzzled me.

What puzzled us was that he said he would not attend the meeting.

The man looked puzzled and hurt.

I would just say that I am puzzled by the resolution's insistence on proportionality.

Whereas watching a cinema and what have you, even though I would look at characters who appear to die in one scene and then later somehow they seem to have reincarnated or something, it always puzzled me.

I puzzled over the difficult math problem.

People frown when they are puzzled or anoyed.

The girl could not understand his behaviour at all, and looked at him with a puzzled expression.

the police is puzzled

Philosophers are puzzled by states of intentionality.

I must confess myself to be puzzled as well,

The police are puzzled by a mysterious crime.

Don’t look so puzzled – it’s perfectly simple.

Friends were puzzled by his decision to return.

She was puzzled, and she ran away from me.

Take the apple and divide it into halves.

They are like two halves of orange.

I'll never do anything by halves.

Cut a square in halves.

Don't do things by halves.

There's nothing worse than doing things by halves!!

Two and three halves to London, please.

At last Souichiro and Yukino decided to cut the orange into halves.

At last, John and Sue decided to cut the apple into halves.

Only time will tell.

This is a time of year when people get together with family and friends to observe Passover and to celebrate Easter.

I have to be honest. I was a little bit nervous the first time I had an MRI scan.

When the time is ripe, be bold and go for it! I'll stand by you.

It's because of you that we were able to complete this job on time.

Last year, I couldn't spend as much time with my children as I wanted to.

Time is more precious than anything else.

A boy is taking his sweet time pushing the cart toward the curb.

Spending time with your significant other should be high on your priority list.

I'd be grateful if you could take a look when you've got time sometime.

We don't have time to finish checking the figures now, but we can go over them after lunch.

Next time I visit San Francisco, I'd like to stay at that hotel.

Time passes by quickly.

As time went on, people grew less and less concerned about the matter.

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

one year

My year in Africa was a very educational experience in many ways.

No matter how hard you may study, you cannot master English in a year or two.

Car production in that year reached a record 10 million vehicles.

If the plant is completed next year, a new production manager will have to be hired.

Tom served five days in jail last year after pleading guilty to drunken driving.

This year unemployment will reach record levels.

Each year, twenty-seven million acres of the tropical rainforests are destroyed.

My friend has had three jobs in a year; he never sticks to anything for long.

Roger Miller's father died when he was only one year old and his mother became sick soon after, so he was sent to live with his uncle in Erick, Oklahoma.

Each year many children are kidnapped by members of their own families.

Hundreds of people marry each year who have known each other only a few days or weeks.

My twelve year old boy doesn't like to play baseball.

The nation's trade balance improved last year as exports were strong, while imports remained steady.

According to this magazine, the economic situation in Japan is getting worse year by year.

They compete for the yearly award for the best employee.

I usually go to the sea for my yearly holidays.

A yearly vacation is important for everyone.

Please submit a new project yearly.

We pay the taxes yearly.

yearly party

I worked on a yearly contract.

I visit the city yearly.

Prices have jumped.

A buyers' market is a market in which goods are plentiful, buyers have a wide range of choices, and prices are low.

Middle Eastern oil prices jumped by five dollars per barrel.

Our grocery bill soared last month because of higher vegetable prices.

Depression is a period marked by slackening of business activity, widespread unemployment, falling prices, and wages, etc.

Prices for land in Tokyo now are an arm and a leg for even the smallest place.

We would like to ask you to reduce the prices quoted for STL#3456 by 5%.

For some companies their treatment of their employees or clients at any given time could affect their share prices and so inevitably have a great influence on the company’s success or failure.

I have included the names and prices of a couple of hotels which are reasonably close to where I live.

When I had just arrived in Switzerland, I was completely taken aback by the prices.

I wasn't happy, but it seemed reasonable that his prices should go up like everything else, so I agreed.

The musical instruments and parts are completely professional quality! And yet the prices are lower than anywhere!

Wealthy immigrants from China are happy to pay stratospherical prices for homes in Vancouver.

Please let us know the prices and earliest delivery of your Steel Landscape Edgings #STL3456.

I panicked when I read that they expected big protests in Riyadh today, but then my wife reassured me, saying that she had just bought two bottles of olive oil, ensuring our living standard for months, even if oil prices were to explode.