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- If we want to find out how long it will take the second car to catch up with the first, there are three obvious "frames of reference" that we could choose.
- Rome's troubles following the assassination of Julius Caesar were soon to catch up with him.
- Starting in 2006, stations that televised "Guiding Light" at 9:00 am were also offered a same-day feed to catch up with the rest of the network.
- But the increasingly large mob in Cairo learned of this and seized another train, racing to catch up with the sheriff and James.
- There was another burst of global news channels launching in the late 2000s as part the developing world trying to catch up with the developed world in this area.
- Frustrated at his inability to catch up with his swift opponents, the Yongle Emperor fell into a deep depression and then into illness, possibly owing to a series of minor strokes.
- When schools have the resources and are able to provide separate classes for refugee students to develop their English skills, it can take the average refugee students only three months to catch up with their peers.
- By this time, years of high living were starting to catch up with him.
- At the early stages of WMA's development, a representative from RealNetworks claimed that WMA was a "clear and futile effort by Microsoft to catch up with RealAudio 8".
- Finally, the higher oil prices of the 1970s were starting to catch up with the Soviet Union.
- In the late 1950s, the leaders of the Soviet Union were determined to catch up with the United States and began to build a nuclear submarine fleet.
- 0 (1996) Microsoft was able to catch up with Netscape competitively, with IE Version 4.0 (1997) further improvement in terms of market share.
- When some local Berber tribesmen learned of Abd al-Rahman's intent to set sail for al-Andalus, they quickly rode to catch up with him on the coast.
- Münzer was generally apolitical, but politics began to catch up with him in 1933 in the form of the law that sought to dismiss Communists, "non-Aryans", and opponents of the Nazi Party.
- Thanks to rapid economic growth, Mayotte has begun to catch up with the rest of France in terms of standards of living.
- The emphasis on technological applications and engineering mathematics was coupled to an appeal to nationalism (France was well behind Italy, and needed to catch up with Germany).
- He pursued Dinuzulu, son of Cetshwayo, a Zulu king, for some time, but never managed to catch up with him.
- In his 2019 book, "Trinity: The Treachery and Pursuit of the Most Dangerous Spy in History", Frank Close asserts that "it was primarily Fuchs who enabled the Soviets to catch up with Americans" in the race for the nuclear bomb.
- It was later explained that the break is implemented so that the cast and crew have enough time to produce episodes to air throughout the rest of the year due to the small budget given to the programme; having the series not air during the summer allows for them to catch up with the pace of production.
- This small difference in the Sun's position against the stars causes any particular spot on Earth's surface to catch up with (and stand directly north or south of) the Sun about four minutes later each day than it would if Earth did not orbit; a day on Earth is therefore 24 hours long rather than the approximately 23-hour 56-minute sidereal day.
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