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I have a question regarding article usage. I read the following line in the bible:
"So pilate gave sentence that it should be as they requested."
I looked up in the dictionary that the word "sentence" in this line is considered as a countable noun. My question why there is no article--a or an--in front of the word. Shouldn't there be an article in front of it?
Article Usage 
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