Word: combien
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...show if she stops doing drugs." Meanwhile, the designer darts in and out of the sewing room, nipping a tuck here and pinning a fold there on a muslin pattern. Later, salesmen unload briefcases of fabrics. Kelly picks up a purple knit. He smells it. "Combien?" he inquires. The answer: 125 francs ($20) per meter. "Why so much?" Kelly challenges. The bargaining is serious: Kelly, whose dresses run from $395 to $2,200, builds his business on providing a less expensive alternative to other Paris-based designers...
...Cheese on the first three days of their week there. She will then traipse around Sunningdale, Walton Heath, Hoylake and Ranelagh, humbly admiring his niblick shots and vocabulary. That divides the misery, and on Sunday they will both be seasick crossing the Channel to drink Parisian champagne and reiterate, "Combien?" He would really have liked to play up in Scotland. She pined to see Italy and ride in a gondola. But they are an understanding couple. They compromise on Paris...
...appeared as "a statuet vender," and held up to view a statuet which those in the first ten rows pronounced to be an excellent likeness of herself. Mlle. Parisys announced loudly and stridently in argot that she would tell the world it was a good likeness: "Et maintenant, Messieurs! Combien pour moi (holding up the statuet)? How much for me?stiff like this...
...vous accusant reception de cette communication, je vous pria de bien vouloir faire connaitre au Conseil des Editeurs de ces journaux combien nous sommes sensibles a leur demarche et combien nous sommes prets a faire tour ca qui est en notro pouvoir pour favoriser le rapprochement des etudiants americains et des etudiants francais...
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