Sentences with holdup
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H h - What could have happened? A hold-up? There'd been no gunshot or scream.
- ...bureaucratic holdups and legal wrangles over the contract.
- The bank customer who was killed by a shotgun blast during the holdup 27 years ago while depositing her church collection.
- Now,what you're seeing is an armed holdup in progress, a knife-wielding 18- yearold terrifying a defenceless shop assistant.
- They arrived late due to a freeway holdup.
- The volume fraction of the dispersed phase, commonly known as the holdup, can be adjusted in a batch extractor by controlling the relative volumes of each liquid phase added.A high liquid holdup also can be advantageous if the reactions take place in the homogeneous liquid phase.Holdup is a type of measurement which shows the amount of a dispersed liquid per unit volume of a liquid-liquid contactor.
- Usc awaits NCAA ruling: What's the holdup ? By Gary Klein.
- There was a holdup in the construction of the bridge.