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B is the second letter of the alphabet. "b" comes after "a" but before "c" In some schools, a B is a fairly high grade. Charles got a B in his maths test.

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(= barn) (physics) a unit of nuclear cross section; the effective circular area that one particle presents to another as a target for an encounter (= B) the 2nd letter of the Roman alphabet

B

(= bacillus) aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil the 2nd letter of the Roman alphabet the blood group whose red cells carry the B antigen (= Bel) a logarithmic unit of sound intensity equal to 10 decibels (= boron) a trivalent metalloid element; occurs both in a hard black crystal and in the form of a yellow or brown powder (= B vitamin) originally thought to be a single vitamin but now separated into several B vitamins

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Company A is trying to play us off against Company B in a severe price-war.
First came the Celts in 600 B.C.
And then the Romans came in 55 B. C.
In the alphabet, B comes after A.
How much time does it take to get from A to B?
A is 5 times as long as B.
What is the difference between A and B?
Draw a line from A to B.
I had to choose between A and B.
Some clarinetists use clarinets tuned to A instead of B flat in passages which would otherwise be written in unusual keys.
Section 214b, in my opinion one of the stranger provisions of the Land of Schleswig-Holstein's General Administrative Code, seems to imply that somebody who sees a pink elephant must give it a receipt.
So the first round goes to contestant A. But no worries, contestant B! There's still everything to play for.
In my language, the musical notes are c, d, e, f, g, a, and b.
A contains B and B includes A.
In 776 B.C., the first Olympic Games were held at the foot of Mount Olympus to honor the Greeks' chief god, Zeus.
Moreover, what's on the bottom of the memo isn't dirt but a. b-blood seal!?
Do we need a Plan B?
I got a B in physics.
What's the difference between A and B?
I got a B on my French test.
Cleopatra became the queen of Egypt in the year 51 B.C.
Tom got a B on today's math test.

Movie subtitles

One such planet, Corot 7B, orbits so close to its star that surface temperatures reach as high as 1,600 degrees Celsius.
Isn't that a quack B-list story book?
Let's see how it looks with some nice B-cup action in there.
Mr.B.!
Mr. B., Mr. B.!
My sewing club, now unionized, B-T-W, made us some sweet Bonnie and Clyde costumes.
B-but. Boss I figured y'all needed protection.
So we called in Division 2-B to handle the matter.
Section 2-B.
The Hofmeister affair would have turned into a catastrophe of the first order if not for the excellent work of Division 2-B.
Division 2-B.
We've been called in, as have Divisions 5 and 9. as well as Section 2-B.
Section 2-B?
No, you boys look on B Deck.
This is a map of B Deck.
Tell him to send B-14 to Lieutenant Alexis Rosanoff's at once.
That was B.B.
A 1923 feature picture directed by Roland West called The Unknown Purple has an inventor, played by Henry B Walthall, discovering a purple light that renders the user invisible.
Haha, b. but I'm the humble instrument that is humbly serving him.
Boy, will you page Mr. Otis B. Driftwood, please?
Mr. Otis B. Driftwood seems to think you have quite a voice.
General Headquarters, army of the Crimea. From His Excellency Field Marshall the Earl of Raglan, K.C.B. commanding.
To Major General Sir Benjamin Warrenton K.C.B. number 1174.
I want J. B. Allenbury.
Mr. J.B. Allenbury.
I'm sorry if I'm late, J.B., but I had to send a very important wire.
B - o - b.
A-deck to your left, B-deck to your right.
J.B. Rowland.
B-B-Bugs Dooley?
I want J. B. Allenbury. This is terrible, Haggerty.
So I says for him to shut up because we got a guy with T.B., so that makes us even.
Hiya, T.B. Come on, Dippy.
Hey, T.B., feel that bump.

News and current affairs

E. B. Wilson, the proverbial giant of cell biology, had the last word, concluding in a brief paper following Rashevsky's presentation that mathematics may be helpful in studying the growth of populations, but not individuals.
Early biotechnology--the application of biological systems to technical or industrial processes--dates to 6000 B.C., when the Babylonians used specialized microorganisms in fermentation to brew alcoholic beverages.
And there would be money left over to help develop an HIV vaccine, deliver drugs to treat heart attacks, provide a Hepatitis B vaccine to the developing world, and prevent 31 million children from starving each year.
The US, prompted by its allies' anger, dispatched two B-52 bombers into the ADIZ.
If this seemingly inexorable process is to be arrested and reversed, both Greece and the eurozone must urgently adopt a Plan B. A Greek default may be inevitable, but it need not be disorderly.
Generating the political will would require a Plan B for the EU itself.
The four main culprits are hepatitis B and C (hepB and hepC), human papillomavirus (HPV), and Helicobacter pylori, which are collectively responsible for 1.9 million cases of liver, cervical, and gastric cancer annually.
What Is Plan B for Greece?
Throughout rural China, the spread of infectious diseases - particularly hepatitis B, which affects millions - reflects a lack of hygiene education.
He began by defining three terms: the genetic relatedness between individuals (labeled r), the cost of an act of goodness (c), and the benefit that a recipient obtained when someone was nice to him or her (b).
Even the notion that this is about protecting foreign firms is a ruse: companies based in country A can set up a subsidiary in country B to sue country A's government.
On the assumption that faster growth will neutralize any threat to debt sustainability, the second arrow receives a B.
If A is legally bound to return B's cow when she strays onto his land, and then C's cow strays onto B's land in relevantly similar circumstances, B must also be bound to return C's cow.
Should we ban private cars wherever public transport is available to move us from A to B with fewer CO2 emissions?
SYDNEY - Pada bulan November 1965, Presiden Amerika Serikat Lyndon B. Johnson menerima laporan pemerintah pertama yang memperingatkan bahaya yang diakibatkan oleh pembakaran bahan bakar fosil dalam jumlah besar.
Relatively prosperous Europeans tend not to purchase a car merely to get from point A to point B, shoes to keep their feet dry, a watch just to tell the time, or a bottle of water only to quench their thirst.
Fruits and vegetables are sources of numerous micronutrients, and some, including b-carotene (a precursor of vitamin A), vitamin C, vitamin E, and selenium, have potential as antioxidants.
Instead, the government could well end up with no plan B in case plan A - massively front-loaded austerity - leads to a double-dip recession.
Whenever most kinds of particles move from point A to point B, they continually bump into Higgs particles, slowing their motion.
While a big US rating agency gave European companies, on average, only a triple-B rating in recent years, CDOs based on MBSs easily obtained triple A-ratings.
Most people trade a small reduction in the chance of survival for a large reduction in the chance of adverse effects; in other words, they would opt for drug B.
Though B Corps are expected to act in the public interest, they cannot be forced to do so; if they look beyond the bottom line, they do so voluntarily.
One solution might be to create a variant of the B Corp - call it the E Corp - that could transform the for-profit education sector.
Nkrumah invited W.E.B. Du Bois, the most important black intellectual of the twentieth century, to Ghana in 1961.
Commemorating the 30th anniversary of China's membership, World Bank President Robert B. Zoellick proposed to the country's leaders a joint effort to identify and analyze China's medium-term development challenges.
As early as the third century B.C., Buddhism spread peacefully from India to Sri Lanka and to large parts of Southeast Asia.
Lyndon B. Johnson had the common touch of rural Texas.
Assuming that the Bush administration is serious in its current efforts, the US must have a Plan B in case the talks fail.
The transition in my country, Slovakia B and, indeed, across Central and Eastern Europe B has turned out to be a more complicated, complex, and longer process than originally expected.
He would be well advised to shelve the commission he appointed as a false start, listen to the participants in B-92's conference and then start again.
There is also the awful cyclical situation B a harsh recession following a year of no growth.
A vaccine against hepatitis B virus is proving to be effective in reducing the incidence of liver cancer.
But I don't claim that America and the West necessarily had much effect on this outcome B beyond doing what they do best: thriving domestically, and thus making others want to become free market democrats.