How much midnight oil did I burn with you…" Al Sakakini wrote these words shortly after Jewish soldiers swept through Jerusalem's affluent Arab neighbourhoods of Qatamon, Musrara and Baq'a, "collecting" 30,000 books, newspapers and documents.
"Kitne ka?" he said, recalling the Urdu phrase for "How much?" One afternoon in 2007, al-Bar was in Jeddah in a General Motors showroom, helping his son choose a car, when his phone rang.
"We wanted just to say how much we enjoyed last night," the taller of the women said, and the dumpy one added that wild horses wouldn't have stopped them from coming back to say it.
We lie about our qualifications; we lie about our jobs;for some reason, we lie about how much we drank last night, as if the fact we managed eight pints is really going to impress anyone over the age of 13.
The SNP refused to say last night how much of that £50,000 remained unspent, but said it would be detailed in the party's annual accounts.
Asked the next morning how much he meant to raise, Mr. Dickey gave no figure, but said, "Enormous amounts -- grotesque amounts".
You have no idea how much I needed this this morning," I said, grinning at her. "But you know you don't have to bring me coffee every morning.
I can tell you what our bank balances were this morning, how much line of credit I've used, how many people were in the recruiting class we're having two weeks from now.
As the trio of Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and Adam Scott tee off for the second round, Woods's thoughts on the greens on Friday: "It's unbelievable how much faster they were this morning.
Council officials said that for each dollar they restored to this year's budget, they cut a dollar from another area, but they could not say last night how much -- if any -- surplus the new plan would roll over into the next fiscal year.
