The title of Jones's second novel refers at once to the guerrilla fighting that divided Greek and Turkish Cypriots in the 1950s and the tensions among British military men and their families during the island's waning colonial days.
I'm interested in the way a sentence like "[T]he author… encounters a problem with his tense" can refer at once to an event internal to the fiction ("the author" is trying to tell a bedtime story to his nephews) and the composition of the fiction (my trying to figure out how to manage a change in tense as I wrote "The Golden Vanity").
The number of patients that had been referred at least once over the period January 2008 until 20th Oct 2008 was 25,077.
Percentage of patients who were referred at least once to a specific specialist during the twelve-month period before baseline and during the 1 1/2 years prospective follow-up.
The second noted challenge was in choosing whether or not to refer at all, once a mental health disorder has been detected.
"All the problems were there," he once explained, referring at least to the atomic bomb, and probably to McCarthy, "but it was somehow glossed over.
Fantasy film adaptations aside, the fascinating thing about the Whitstable Continental hotel brouhaha is that it was not referred to once (at least, not in the hearing of any of my network of poorly paid informers) by anyone on the podium over the next couple of days.
(She'll be releasing the new album through her own imprint, MonarC. The name refers to three things at once: her own initials, her status as pop royalty and her infatuation with butterflies).
Ms. Palin said little about Mr. McAdams on Thursday, referring to him once in a dig at Ms. Murkowski.
"They basically have the Maxwell House of soup," said John McMillan, an analyst at Prudential Securities, referring to the once-dominant brand of coffee that fell victim to changing preferences and chains like Starbucks that spare consumers the bother of brewing their own.
