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In this section, we turn to the problem of decoding BCH codes of length n i, contrived to correct up to r′t i errors.

Finally, eventually, Rice-Oxley and I contrived to meet.

And I'll be catching several buzzy acts who I contrived to miss last year – Ivo Graham, Ursula Burns, Trygve (Squidboy) Wakenshaw, Phil Wang, Paul Currie.

Within about three weeks I contrived to get a piece in the newspaper, and before too long I was given the chance to be chief sports writer.

Related: Will the British bird be a redbreast or a blue tit? | Letters A rose-tinted curse The hazards of the Kent countryside and health secretary Jeremy Hunt are well known, but giving a talk last week I was tripped up by "fecund", which I contrived to turn into a leading English swearword.

The second came when I contrived To get close to celebrities I told them I would take their cash And use it only for do-gooding You should have seen how they behaved It turned their brains into rice pudding I took cash from Steven Spielberg I took cash from Kevin Bacon I took even more from Zsa Zsa Gabor Do you understand how much I have taken?

And at the local computer club my friends and I contrived to bend these little machines to our will.

I didn't know how to step a mast, or tell the difference between a sandbar and a reef, but I knew that the Battle of Midway was fought somewhere in the same degree of longitude that had seen the end of Captain Ahab, and I contrived to picture myself as somehow engaged in mankind's age-old struggle with the mystery and power of the sea.

I could contrive to feel miserable in the Garden of Eden.

I could contrive to bump against him, or flash a smile.

A COUPLE of miles from my house there's a garden I usually contrive to drive by at this time of year.

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