The way that I studied this was to search through hundreds of local news accounts for credible estimates of the crowd sizes for each gathering.
There are often a number of big developments at each gathering, and half the reason to watch the show is to see the clothes, the jewels, the crystal and the characters' gorgeous surroundings, both inside and outside the ancestral home of Robert, Earl of Grantham.
It had begun slowly, tenderly, face-to-face, with long, lingering looks at each other, like devoted siblings at the start of a long absence taking their last leave of each other, gathering in all the details they had neglected to notice up to now.
They are taking care of each other, gathering food supplies, blankets, and clothes that can allow people to remain outdoors even as the weather gets wetter and colder.
Data on preoperative risk factors and on a set of intraoperative anaesthesia quality indicators are manually entered by the end of each anaesthetic, gathering the necessary information from medical records, from memory (e.g., problems with airway management), and by checking the electronic anaesthesia record for deviations of the vital parameters.
The poll found that the two men are locked in a tight race, with each gathering 46 percent of the support.
There is almost a frisson of naughtiness, of gathering in defiance of an overbearing state.
Think of each party or gathering as an opportunity to meet people with all sorts of intriguing histories, interests and passions.
With most citizens in communist Cuba earning no more than the equivalent of $20 each month, gathering to view the Classic in bars and restaurants is a difficult economic proposition.
The village has used a smothering blanket of police, checkpoints on Mamaroneck Avenue for cars and trucks, a barrage of traffic tickets and a sign ("This Is No Longer a Day Laborer Pickup Site") to make it abundantly clear to workers that after years of gathering each morning at an ad-hoc hiring site on the edges of the park, they were not welcome to assemble peaceably any more.
