Beginning exactly a month ago, the Yankees have lost the last nine games in which their opponent started a left-handed pitcher.
Be very clear at the beginning exactly how much time you can donate, and stick to it.
Chairman Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution – a decade-long period of political and social turmoil – began exactly 50 years ago on Monday.
In fact, Ms. Hahn has already played there several times as a concerto soloist, beginning exactly six years earlier with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
A meditation on jazz's unpopularity sounds helpfully self-referential: "People wanted to be sure, when a tune began, exactly where it was going to end.
But they noted that American planes have been striking Taliban training bases and cave complexes south of Jalalabad almost since the bombing campaign began exactly seven weeks ago.
The process began exactly 50 years ago, on January 5 1953, when Godot was given its first performance in a 75-seat theatre in Paris.
The war had halted the apparently inexorable outward spread of London, and the countryside began exactly where it had in 1939, just round the corner from where we lived.
Fallows on the color question: Thought experiment: Suppose I wrote a column about Jackie Chan — or Cabinet members Steven Chu and Eric Shinseki, or Yo-Yo Ma, or new P.G.A. champion Y. E. Yang — that began exactly the way Ferguson's did.
Liberal Christianity begins exactly where Holmes says it does: In the faith's encounter with the challenges of modernity, and the quest for a ground for contemporary belief that doesn't just rely on rote appeals to the authority of scripture or tradition.
