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The bookmarker said football results in December and Donald Trump's surprise US election win had cost it about £40m in the final quarter of 2016.
From BBC • Jan. 23, 2017
I have at home,' the Bishop continued, 'an old bookmarker given me by my mother.
From A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds by Boreham, Frank
We knelt down; with trembling hands I pulled out the book; it opened of itself where a bookmarker had been placed at the fifteenth chapter of the Gospel of St. John.
From Selected Polish Tales by Busch, Marie
Thank goodness and confound it, whichever way you like to take it, the idiot at the shop had forgotten about the bookmarker and I shan't get it until to-morrow morning early.
From A Young Girl's Diary by Paul, Eden
Dr. Handley Moule, Bishop of Durham, made effective use of such a bookmarker when he visited West Stanley immediately after the terrible colliery disaster there.
From A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds by Boreham, Frank
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