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Now, twelve years after their marriage, Tom and Beth are divorcing.
The humor here is that the paterfamilias, James Mortmain (well played by Bill Nighy) is a dried up author who hasn't penned a word since a successful novel of twelve years past.
I have to give them credit it took them twelve years to make and a lot of effort!
This is twelve years later and the kid is still in high school.
When reading the novels by Alexandre Dumas as a twelve year old kid, the impression I got from The Three Musketeers was completely different from what I had seen on the movies.
Actually this shouldn't come as a great surprise since he was equally hilarious as Mickey in Snatch and also as Jeffrey in Twelve Monkeys but this time he's funny in a completely different way.
Kids may have some fun but anyone over the age of twelve probably won't.
I think Miss Stanwyck was a great actress, but when I look at the version of STELLA DALLAS that King Vidor directed her in twelve years after this silent version..... well, something always bothered me about it.
Unfortunately, only twelve people show up for dinner and the host dies before he can reveal the heir's identity.
The first part focuses primarily on the Mutual period when Chaplin made twelve films in sixteen months.
It is great for all ages, because I am twelve!
Twelve years later the mystery is discovered and the upper class family buys their kid back.
With once having sat through twelve hours of constipation, I have yet to sit through a dump that was more excruciatingly painful than watching this two hour film.
I mean even a twelve year old with his home PC could do better in special effects - I will not comment on the story since there isn't any but I think you could see this movie as some kind of messed up modern art what at least would explain why it was made.
Through a taped interview just prior to his death Red outlines the twelve lessons Jason must learn if he is to inherit anything.
With all of the problems confronting the global economy, we will be lucky if these strains do not begin to manifest themselves within the next twelve months.
If this preferred solution proves unacceptable, an alternative would be to strengthen Article II-52, to state clearly that the twelve "social rights" of Part II apply to the Union, but not to the member states, even when these are implementing Union directives.
Share prices rose 30% in 2013 alone, and house prices increased 13% in the same twelve months.
Greece has just decided to support the opening of negotiations for Turkey’s entry into the EU in the next twelve years.
Now, Iraq is demanding that American combat troops leave within twelve months, with all troops out in 2011.
Twelve months later, Russia drummed home the significance of that act by shutting off oil supplies to Belarus for three days, causing a ripple effect on shipments to Western Europe.
By contrast, the world’s other major economies will probably not begin performing up to potential in the next twelve months.
Twelve percent of global goods trade is already conducted in ecommerce channels.
Indeed, the end of US involvement in the Balkans is in sight: to assure political support for dispatching one third of IFOR troops, President Clinton agreed to total withdrawal of the US contingent within twelve months, no matter what.
Twelve years later, Poland's Prime Minister didn't need a belated call from his military to know that war was underway in Iraq.
In order to kill twelve Americans in an attack on the US Embassy in August 1998, Middle Eastern terrorists killed some two hundred Kenyans in Nairobi.
It’s hateful, needless, and futile: as Bush said himself, the US will never, could never, and should never deport twelve million people, illegal or not.
After twelve years of transition, the answer to the first question has blurred.
Twelve of the world’s 15 most water-scarce countries – Algeria, Libya, Tunisia, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Israel, and Palestine – are in the region, and in eight, available fresh water amounts annually to less than 250 cubic meters per person.
Emerging-market companies alone have hundreds of billions coming due in the next twelve months, far more than their governments’ reserves can cover if credit markets do not normalize.
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