It remains theworld's largest, although India has been catching up in recent years.
It meant catching flies in your palm while the mullah droned on and a hot breeze brought with it the smell of shit from the outhouse across the schoolyard, churning dust around the lone rickety basketball hoop.
Now he can write that he had personal experience about jumping and catching.
After a while, a solitary figure appeared on the path behind her, pausing and stooping occasionally, yet catching up quickly.
By using offensive epithets such as "poetess with cerebral palsy" or "countrywoman who composes poems", media outlets have succeeded in catching the eyes of readers and viewers.
" And here you have 22 million Afro-American black people today catching more hell than Patrick Henry ever saw.
Frenchmen then spend the rest of their lives quoting Proust to one another, with hardly anyone else catching the references.
The little and large act met as people across the globe tried to break all manner of weird and wacky world records, including banging heads, catching spears and throwing thongs on Guiness World Records Day.
"Things are changing so quickly around LGBT prominence, respect and status in this county, (and) I suppose business is catching up," he says.
Laura Vanderkam's new book What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast gives plenty of concrete examples (and none of them involves catching up on Facebook).
Shen Tu did catching ahead while Yu Lei trussed the caught behind.
" Catching Mom's hand in hand, I blurted out how sorry I was for that night.
Although this model locomotive cut emissions and diesel fuel use by 80 percent and 16 percent, respectively, compared with conventional switchers, a problem with its batteries catching fire was its undoing.
Japan has been a late adopter when it comes to smartphones, but it's catching up quickly - already more than half the population owns one.
I love catching glimpses of every new facet you share with me.
◎ Episode 5: Catching Out（2008.
During the dinner we had an agreeable conversation — nothing extraordinary — but catching up on recent events of each other's life.
On the day before the bass season opened, he and his father were fishing early in the evening, catching sunfish and perch with worms.
During the dinner we had an agreeable conversation — nothing extraordinary — but catching up on recent events of each other's life.
My hands reached out, catching nothing but a raindrop, on a leaf that had withered.
