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Grand opening sale.
It is quite a grand view.
Could you take me to the Grand Hotel?
The Grand Canyon is one of the most popular places in the USA.
Please take me to the Grand Hotel.
The world is a grand ball in which everyone wears a mask.
It came to a grand total of 150,000 euros.
Have you heard about my new grand piano? Now you have to hear its sound.
Tom had a grand time.
I turned on the TV and the Grand Prix was being broadcasted.
Publishing poems is like throwing rose petals into the Grand Canyon and waiting for echoes.
Have you seen the Grand Canyon?
The Grand Canyon is a well-known tourist destination.
The power delivered by a one square metre solar panel is approximately one watt. Therefore it is currently difficult to harvest solar energy on a grand scale.
Since you sat on the stump, you should've given me a grand.
Tom and Mary are dancing in the grand ballroom.
What is the grand total?
I told him that those ten thousand oaks would look grand in thirty years.
We must think of our children and grand-children.
The French Formula 1 driver Jules Bianchi has died, nine months after his crash at the 2014 Japanese Grand Prix.
In 2015, Novak Djokovic of Serbia became the third man in the Open Era of tennis (starting in 1968), after Rod Laver and Roger Federer, to reach all four Grand Slam finals in a single year.
The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul is an explosion of colors.
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The Yangtze was part of a vast waterway known as the Grand Canal that linked Hangzhou with Beijing 1,000 miles to the north.
This is the Precious belt Bridge at Suzhou, with its 53 arches, one of the architectural marvels of the Grand canal.
The West's ascendancy was perfectly symbolised in June 1 842, when British ships sailed up the Yangtze to the Grand Canal in retaliation for the destruction of opium by a zealous Chinese official.
In the grand scope of the cosmos, we've considered ourselves pretty lucky to be at just the right spot and to have all the right ingredients for life to emerge.
That's something even the grand shamans don't find easy.
You want a grand jury?
I'm gonna get you a grand jury.
My father might be in prison. That doesn't change the fact that you owe us 600 grand.
The money will be collected at the home of the grand duchess, who will pay out a sum of 5,000 francs.
To launch the reward, the grand duchess was giving a grand masked-ball, which Fandor, skilled at edging his way into anywhere, had decided to attend.
The Grand Duchess Alexandra begs you to attend a masked-ball which she is giving in Hotel Parc des Princes, from 7pm onwards.
The grand duchess's ball is a success.
To her great relief, the grand duchess saw that the dead man was unknown to her.
That doesn't change the fact that you owe us 600 grand.
Tireless in the defense of a crumbling empire was the Grand Duke Sergius Alexander, cousin to the Czar and Commanding General of the Russian Armies.
Isn't life grand?
What a grand feeling, when your lips meet mine. That certain something comes stealing up and down my spine.
What a grand feeling, when your lips touch mine. That certain something comes stealing up and down my spine.
Ain't I got 20 grand tied up in it?
I got 10 grand planted here.
Then we'll go to the village and have a grand time, huh?
Grand, eh?
So ten grand was the amount you gave the gal?
The architecture has a little feeling of Missouri Gothic, and the furniture sort of leans toward Oklahoma Renaissance, with a tiny touch of Grand Rapids.
Wasn't that a grand party last night?
Isn't that grand?
Grand Hotel.
That's a grand idea.
That's grand.
And ever since then, Hamacher has been having a grand time.
It was grand.
And I'll cook you a grand dinner.
Mesa Grand, Arizona.
I'll send you back your grand and your cut. Okay.
You saw my dough yesterday, 10 grand.
Oh, about 10 grand.
He's a grand gentleman, always helping them what needs help.
YOU'RE, UH. YOU'RE THE BEAUTIFUL WIFE OF THAT RED-NOSED OLD GRAND DUKE ALEXIS.
News and current affairs
Such a grand project can be achieved if the political will exists and asserts itself.
Unfortunately, Merkel's campaign is off to a rocky start, and the recent entry of Oskar Lafontaine's extreme left-wing party into the fray may necessitate the formation of a grand coalition between the Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats.
And, when US forces overran Saddam Hussein's army in the spring of 2003, the encircled Iranians proposed a grand bargain that would put all contentious issues on the table, from the nuclear issue to Israel, from Hezbollah to Hamas.
Iran's mood changed by the time America's entire Middle East strategy had gone adrift, but the grand bargain remains the only viable way out of the impasse.
To him, Jews, Germans, Czechs, or Hungarians were all his subjects, wherever they lived, from the smallest Galician shtetl to the grand capitals of Budapest or Vienna.
But Obama has also struggled to define the terms of a possible grand bargain.
While international cooperation on regulatory reform is difficult to achieve on a piecemeal basis, it may be attainable in a grand bargain that rearranges the entire financial order.
But, without a degree of prudence based upon comprehension of the context, visions turn from grand to grandiose and undercut the values that they seek to promote.
They are also often more focused on the plight of actual people than on the promotion of grand principles, preferring concrete progress to abstract victory.
Japan's change of military doctrine for the first time since the start of the Cold War - a shift that implicitly makes China the greatest threat - suggests that the Chinese leadership needs to take a hard look at its regional grand strategy.
Yet China's international grand strategy does not appear to reflect this.
The euro was always a big gamble, a grand experiment.
But, rather than picking facts and stories to fit some grand narrative of decline or progress, we should try to compare across all areas of human existence to see if the world really is doing better or worse.
Imagine the scene: Bucharest, le petit Paris, a city of three million people with wide boulevards and grand bourgeois villas, stands now a city half in ruins.
In Egypt, Mubarak turned his back on the lofty rhetoric of Gamal Abdel-Nasser's revolution and its grand strategic designs.
Other players on the grand chessboard of Asian geopolitics also are seeking to formulate new equations, as they concurrently pursue strategies of hedging, balancing, and bandwagoning.
In other words, a China-centric Asian supply chain has made a big bet on the grand European experiment - a bet that now appears to be backfiring.
More importantly, October will mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Peoples' Republic of China, an occasion that the Party will commemorate in grand style.
But it is more likely to be perceived as a grand deception - remembered not for helping Syria's people, but mainly as a sign of America's growing international weakness.
For every dollar that the world spends on this grand plan, the avoided climate damage would only be worth two cents.
And it is Europe and America that are marching, alone and together, to the denouement of a grand debacle.
Numerous opinion polls show Park Geun-hye of the ruling Grand National Party (GNP) to be the leading candidate.