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  • Another thing that bothers us - when we are in Leys or Sorianas and notice packages of meat lying on shelves (not in the meat section) or in the checkstand areas apparently where someone has decided they don't want the meat they selected.

    The cost of "supers" 2005

  • Do you seriously suppose anyone in America even knows what Leys, which is where Hitchens went to school, is?

    Matthew Yglesias » Culture and Size and Scope of Government 2010

  • It was fairly handy, it flowed past a locality in which he was not likely to be recognized … you said yourself, Holmes, if you remember, that the people of the Leys are a race apart from the ordinary townsfolk … and, best of all, to his muddled way of thinking, the water would wash away the bloodstains.”

    The Rising of the Moon Mitchell, Gladys 1945

  • Film, under-14sLetters to Juliet by Sophy Leys Johnston, 12It is almost impossible to make a good movie from a bad script but it is all too possible to make a bad movie from a good script.

    Guardian young arts critic competition: 2010 winning entries 2011

  • He was a polemicist rather than an analyst or political thinker – his headmaster at the Leys School in Cambridge presciently forecast a future as a pamphleteer – and, like all the best polemicists, brought to his work outstanding skills of reporting and observation.

    Christopher Hitchens obituary 2011

  • Made Blackbird Leys and Didcot look positively attractive. on April 4, 2010 at 6: 33 pm Mg6b

    Locally Elected Police Chiefs, Yeah? « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • Properties on Leys Road in Leatherhead, Surrey, have an average price of £3.1m, the highest outside London, putting it at number 13 in the list.

    Holland Park square tops list of most expensive places to live in Britain 2011

  • Film, under-14sLetters to Juliet by Sophy Leys Johnston, 12It is almost impossible to make a good movie from a bad script but it is all too possible to make a bad movie from a good script.

    Guardian young arts critic competition: 2010 winning entries 2011

  • However it does explain how Safeway comes to own 49% of Leys.

    History of Ley supermarket family 2009

  • His parents scrimped and saved so that he could attend the independent Leys School in Cambridge, and later Balliol College, Oxford, because they were determined that he would receive a top-notch education.

    Christopher Hitchens Dead: Legendary Writer Dies At Age 62 The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

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