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  • Our interests are the same in this thing – only Ninian is our relative and he's nothing to you now.

    Miss Lulu Bett 1921

  • This might be Bede using the wrong terminology, erroneously assuming that because Whithorn was a bishopric in his own time it must have been a bishopric when founded, and calling Ninian a Bishop when he was nothing of the kind.

    A Bishop of Chester? Carla 2009

  • The tax rates on the North Sea were so high that, for instance, in one field, called Ninian, a drop in the oil price from $20 to $10 would cost the companies only 85 cents.

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • The tax rates on the North Sea were so high that, for instance, in one field, called Ninian, a drop in the oil price from $20 to $10 would cost the companies only 85 cents.

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • I asked you, and you began to say "Ninian", and then caught yourself up and changed it to a clownish echo of the question, before you got out "Benet".

    The Raven In The Foregate Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1986

  • "Ninian," said Hugh, correcting him almost absently.

    The Raven In The Foregate Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1986

  • "Ninian," he says, meaning Ninian W. Edwards, "was very much hurt at not being nominated, but he has become tolerably well reconciled.

    Abraham Lincoln: a History — Volume 01 John Hay 1870

  • Prof Diarmaid Ninian John MacCulloch, prof of the history of the church, Univ of Oxf, for serv scholarship.

    New Year honours: the full list 2011

  • Shamrock Rovers were beaten 3-1 on aggregate in the first round and NAC Breda of Holland were hammered 5-2 thanks to a 4-1 win at Ninian Park.

    Which teams from outside the top flight have gone furthest in Europe? 2011

  • Another trip to Germany, this time to Hamburg, awaited in the semi-finals, and a 1-1 draw in the first leg was followed by a dramatic tie at Ninian Park in front of over 43,000 fans.

    Which teams from outside the top flight have gone furthest in Europe? 2011

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