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1. Today they are there are it is millions of people who speak English.
2. Some people study studies is studying English for special reasons.
3. They may need English for the job their job job .
4. Some of them need need to are needing speak to English people.
5. The majority of learners of English got have are having other needs.
6. Most users of English use it for talk to talk that they can talk to people who aren't English.
7. Most of The most Most people in the world have heard some English.
8. It is There is There are hardly any countries where English is never spoken.
9. Very few people haven't heard some the any English at all.
10. English is now the most the more a most widely used language in the world.
11. For some 40 years the Guinness Book of Records has been one of the most popular books of in under the UK.
12. It has been was is first published in 1954.
13. Since then it is was has been a regular bestseller.
14. Most of the records in it changed change have changed many times in recent years.
15. In 1954, while the first Guinness Book of Records was being compiled, the world mile record could be had was broken.
16. The year before that, in 1953, it had stood is standing used to stand at over four minutes.
17. But in 1954 the four-minute barrier could was to should be broken on several occasions.
18. Dr Roger Bannister's famous run was the first time anyone has had would run so fast.
19. If Dr Bannister have not had not would have not broken the record that day in Oxford, it would soon have been broken by someone else.
20. The record has since been held by a great deal number many of runners.
Friday, 6 May 1994 is a day which can could will well come to be seen as for like an important date in British history. For During Since many thousands of years, Britain was was being is an island, cut off from the rest of Europe by it which what appears on British maps as the English Channel. But since this that which day in May 1994, when the Channel Tunnel is has been was formally opened by the Queen of England and the President of France, Britain was has been is joined to 'Continental Europe' by a fixed link. Not everybody anybody somebody in Britain is pleased that Britain is no more not longer no longer an island. There remains a large number of people peoples persons who believe that the 20 miles of water outside between around Dover and Calais has been an important defence, not only against invasion, but too as well also against dangerous diseases like rabies, who which what can be spread by animals. Most of The most Most people, however, see the Channel Tunnel as a symbol of increasing European unity, another step of in on the road towards, if not a 'United States of Europe', then at least a European community between within about which travel would be much easy easiest easier . But whether one sees the Channel Tunnel as a good thing or a bad thing, it there one is no doubt that it represents one of the greatest engineering feats of this or any other other that century.
The desire to travel and to see other places is by no means new. History is full of accounts of people's travels. What is new is the sheer number of people involved. Increases in living standards over the last thirty years or so, together with more leisure time and the development of modern air transport, have led to ever greater numbers of people seeking to travel abroad.
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