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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.
Tony was fed up with being a teacher. He had started has started used to start his first teaching job in 1979 and had now been teaching for it which what seemed an eternity. Even so Even though When he had begun his working life with such enthusiasm, he now felt as if he was like as if being suffocated by a job that had proved in some ways be being to be just as boring as the holiday jobs he'd had while he has been being he was a student. If he knew Had he known If he's known what it had been will be was going to be like, he had never would never have should never have become a teacher in the first place. In fact now, as he sat was seating was seated in the corner of the staff room, looked to look looking at the same boring old faces, he wished he will would could find some way out. He knew he would have difficulty in finding difficulties to find difficulty to find another job, let alone leave alone no matter one in which he could use his qualifications and experience. For a couple of years he had told himself that he would just have to get used to it all, to being to have been to be stuck in the same class with the same kids day after day, and he had resigned himself to spend spending have spent 'at least the next year or so' where he was. But that was now quite a quite quite a long time ago, and he still hadn't succeeded to change to changing in changing anything. 'By the time September comes will come came ', he reflected sadly, ' I'm I'll I'll be have been in this job for longer as that than the time I spent I've spent I'd spent as a pupil myself. It really is time I did could do do something about against for it,' he concluded, and with out that it he got up and walked through out of from the school. He never has gone went will go back.
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