1. One li is equal to half a kilometre.

2. Li Xiannian was inducted into the Politburo in 1956.

3. Li Bai was a great genius.

4. Xiao Li has made a pair of cottonpadded trousers for a retired worker.

5. Mr Li is a leading authority on Chinese food.

6. I finally popped that paper for Professor Li.

7. The lake is thirty li in circumference.

8. We rank Li Siguang as a great scientist.

9. Li Bai and Du Fu figure most prominently in the history of Chinese poetry.

10. Li blends right into the crowd of teenagers. Only his accent sets him apart.

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11. Li Shai Tung closed the file with a sigh.

12. Li Yuan grinned broadly, enjoying himself.

13. Li Jinjin, the union's legal adviser, was also released after serving a similar term of imprisonment without trial.

14. Li and Mao are retired, but their dismissal from the academy bars them from publishing and teaching.

15. Li Yuan's look of surprise as the Arab reared brought gasps as well as laughter from all round.

16. Li Yuan turned, moving out from the shadow of the craft into the mid-afternoon sunlight.

17. Li Yuan looked about him, puzzled, then stiffened, hearing a splash in the water close by.

18. Li Jing, hitherto deputy commander of the navy, was appointed as his deputy.

19. Hongkongers will not complain as long as the Li family shares continue to benefit from it.

20. Li Yuan ... How her heart ached to see him now; to have him hold her and comfort her.

21. Li Yuan turned from the cabinet, carrying a tray of drinks.

22. Or a person continue to lonely down, don't need anyone Li frets.

23. In inky darkness, the men made a forced march of 140 li.

24. One ant - hole may cause the collapse of a thousand - li dyke.

25. An old steed in the stable still aspires to gallop a thousand li.

26. It could only make for bad blood between the Li clan and himself and shatter the age-old ties between their families.

27. Heaven, its decree, and other related concepts, were reinterpreted as different aspects of li.

28. At Jiang's prompting, a decision was made to dismiss several liberal academics, including Li.

29. Precedent, however, suggests that his comments will offer only cold comfort to Mr Jiang and Mr Li.

30. The holds the body while the young red blood squirts out and slashes the base of the li in criss-cross patterns.