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At first glance , it's an unremarkable red brick warehouse, one of a handful on Chicago's west side that used to belong to Sears Roebuck, complete with roll-up aluminum doors.
You'd reckon, at first glance , that Rupert Murdoch's own game of thrones was well nigh over.
Calle Isaac Peral 1 Taberna la Manzanilla, Cádiz At first glance it looks like a farmacia … except that all the medicine in the dark old cabinets is manzanilla sherry.
So much as glance at any of them today and your aqueous humour will begin to bubble and spit inside your skull.
Incidentally, Crumb and his colleagues and backers aren't positioning their business as a way to speculate on gold prices, although even a casual glance at the company's stock price suggests that's precisely how some of their investors view it.
Here, we take a glance into the future to try and predict what treats might be in store by the time we reach 2016.
"It's about looking at the cost-effectiveness of an intervention [that academy governors must opt to pay for] – a breakfast club, say, which gives some children the only chance they may get to do their homework – which may not at first glance appear to be cost-effective".
Over the years I had begun to think of him as a demagogue who'd struck it lucky, but in that moment, the silky fluency of his tone, combined with the sharpness of the glance he gave me was like a snake striking: and suddenly, like a new insight, it hit me that here was a dangerous old man.
A glance at the cross-section of the city wall reveals that modern-day red bricks are being used to stuff the wall's core, instead of the rammed earth used in the original Ming-dynasty structure.
Updated at 3.24pm AEST Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 2.12pm AEST05:12 A glance at the national totals of votes highlights the obvious fact it was a very bad night for Labor, but not quite the ringing endorsement of Tony Abbott that some of this morning's headlines would have you believe, writes Oliver Milman.
Many parents would look at this fact with a wry sideways glance and an eyebrow raised, but I have held onto it for dear life.
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The primary grammatical function of "glance" is to describe a brief or quick look . It can function as both a verb (e.g., "She glanced at the clock") and a noun (e.g., "He gave a glance "). Ludwig AI confirms its correct usage in various contexts.
Expression frequency: Very common
