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AmericanUsage
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Example Sentences
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"Life in Britain, indeed life in our world, is very different from life in the 1970s when RE began to include other world religious and beliefs besides Christianity," says Dr Hall.
From BBC
“When Re/Max came along and offered agents 100 percent commission and charged them a fee for a desk and advertising, we eventually offered that, too,” Foster said.
From Washington Post
“Listen, I heard you’re the new Captain. When’re you holding trials?”
From Literature
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Sometimes his mother asks him about it: “When’re you going to bring over a young lady?”
From Washington Post
When’re you going to let me go?
From The New Yorker
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