It's called sevens because each team has seven players on the field at a time with seven-minute halves. From Wordnik.com. [Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines] Reference
The child is at her seventh birthday and has learned her multiplication table, the "sevens". From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
With players such as sevens sensation Mikaela Pesamino, who will join. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Lyle is quick to point out the merits of the "sevens" game, in contrast to the traditional. From Wordnik.com. [Las Vegas Sun Stories: All Sun Headlines] Reference
The sevens are the guest suite. From Wordnik.com. [The mission song]
To-night everything seemed to be at sixes and sevens. From Wordnik.com. [Betty Wales Senior] Reference
Everything is at sixes and sevens when Fannie is away. From Wordnik.com. [Working With the Working Woman] Reference
NGUYEN: Except for the fact that it's lucky sevens today. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 7, 2007] Reference
The establishment was, as it is said, at sixes and sevens. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843] Reference
The sevens ascend to kings, the sixes descend to aces (Rule). From Wordnik.com. [Lady Cadogan's Illustrated Games of Solitaire or Patience New Revised Edition, including American Games] Reference
The other picked up the dice and began rolling sevens absently. From Wordnik.com. [Police Your Planet] Reference
Triple sevens, a day like this comes along only once in a century. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 7, 2007] Reference
GREENFIELD: You have to mention the so-called five, two, sevens (ph). From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 2, 2004] Reference
And her father who lives in New York tried to make sevens the senseless. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 6, 2004] Reference
Your realm seems a little bit shaky; what mortals call "sixes and sevens"!. From Wordnik.com. [Punch Among the Planets] Reference
"I see the sevens," a fat-faced man across the table said around his cigar. From Wordnik.com. [Card Trick] Reference
Betting was light and he didn't push himself, just kept away from the sevens. From Wordnik.com. [Deathworld] Reference
Things have been at sixes and sevens in this house ever since the gloom came. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Robin] Reference
'Pears like wid a pair o' gallopin 'cubes you might throw some killin' sevens. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Luck] Reference
GREENWALD: I spent a year, sevens day a week, literally, working on this film. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2005] Reference
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The sevens are all chocolate with a blue cocoa butter on it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 7, 2007] Reference
Premiership rugby may not be sevens, but it is the sevens who will set the tone. From Wordnik.com. [Leicester remain the team to beat as Premiership gets ready to return] Reference
Once, a seven bloomed on her fingers, and she dialed sevens — got a busy signal. From Wordnik.com. [Her Own Music] Reference
Slot players win if they line up lucky eights, not sevens, per local superstitions. From Wordnik.com. [Managing Change: A Vegas-Size Bet On China] Reference
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The sevens are all chocolate with their blue cocoa butter on it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 6, 2007] Reference
Now the question, of course, is, one day later, who came up sevens, who crapped out?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 16, 2007] Reference
On this day of sevens, what better day to announce a new Seven Wonders of the World. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 7, 2007] Reference
NULTY: Seven forty-sevens has three or four guys on there under cover carrying weapons. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 18, 2001] Reference
For 3 of a kind of twos, threes, fours, fives, sixes, sevens or eights 2 points 4 points. From Wordnik.com. [Pung Chow The Game of a Hundred Intelligences. Also known as Mah-Diao, Mah-Jong, Mah-Cheuk, Mah-Juck and Pe-Ling] Reference
Withdraw from the pack all the sevens and all the sixes, and arrange them as in tableau. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Cadogan's Illustrated Games of Solitaire or Patience New Revised Edition, including American Games] Reference
For 4 of a kind of twos, threes, fours, fives, sixes, sevens or eights 8 points 16 points. From Wordnik.com. [Pung Chow The Game of a Hundred Intelligences. Also known as Mah-Diao, Mah-Jong, Mah-Cheuk, Mah-Juck and Pe-Ling] Reference
NGUYEN: On a day of sevens, what better day to announce a new Seven Wonders of the World. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 7, 2007] Reference
FOREMAN: Five twenty-sevens cannot directly coordinate their ads with candidates or parties. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 1, 2006] Reference
So any couple counting on those lucky sevens should take note, next week is Friday the 13th. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 6, 2007] Reference
The foundations consist of sixteen aces, ascending in sequence through sevens to kings (Rule I). From Wordnik.com. [Lady Cadogan's Illustrated Games of Solitaire or Patience New Revised Edition, including American Games] Reference
Magnitude sevens aren't as frequent, and they are certainly a cause for concern when they occur. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2005] Reference
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