One had an accordion; another had a fiddle; a pair of their colleagues tossed axes back and forth.
On Tuesday he's there as a leader, joined by a pair of impressive colleagues, the bassist James Genus and the drummer Jeff Tain Wattsts.
It's a summer scene, gazing from the ground up at a workman looking down from a rooftop at a pair of chatting colleagues, distractedly holding one end of a rope he has apparently dropped for them.
Early one morning, a pair of black colleagues successfully goaded me into challenging the brilliant and deadly serious managing editor, Joseph Lelyveld – then the second-most-powerful person in the newsroom – over one story's description of Jackson as "flamboyant", which seemed to us gratuitously pejorative.
In a recorded conference call reported by The Times last summer, a pair of I.B.M. officials told colleagues around the world that the company needed to accelerate its efforts to move white-collar jobs overseas.
Very strong reporting can sometimes help us to delineate between these two paradigms, and there happens to be some very strong reporting in the case of Mr. Perry's decision, such as this pair of articles from my colleagues Nicholas Confessore and Katharine Q. Seelye.
In a recent pair of papers, my Canadian colleague Mark Kamstra at York University and I have proposed a solution.
To evaluate the resilience of challenge questions to informed guessing attack by friends and colleagues, we performed an abuse case scenario involving pairs of friends and colleagues from the existing participants.
Moore is seen as a trusted pair of hands by senior BBC colleagues.
It took time for London fashion to appreciate the virtuosity and craft of McQueen's tailoring: the way he could take a giant pair of scissors and, as his colleague Sarah Burton remarked, "create a dress on the spot, embroidery here, fabric there, chop this".
