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1 The proliferation index was also calculated separately for each of five compartments of equal size into which each crypt column was divided .
2 For each of these components of primary education the investigator is concerned to improve the quality of initial training .
3 For each of these types of information a date is maintained in the relational database indicating when that information was last updated within LIFESPAN .
4 For each of these types of eye , stages corresponding to evolutionary intermediates exist as working eyes among other modern animals .
5 The most fundamental of these is for the field to be divided into quadrants by a central cross , and for each of these segments to be decorated with the same design .
6 In 1762 the Langdale bailiff for Lord Muncaster was paid on two small accounts , 3s. for 6 journeys to the copper mines , and 1s. for each of 3 visits to the mines .
7 A third problem is what Eisenberg refers to as that of positional conflicts of interest .
8 Sensitivity was defined as the ratio of true positives to true positives plus false negatives ; specificity as that of true negatives to true negatives plus false positives ; positive predictive value as that of true positives to true positives and false positives , and negative predictive value as that of true negatives to true negatives plus false negatives .
9 Sensitivity was defined as the ratio of true positives to true positives plus false negatives ; specificity as that of true negatives to true negatives plus false positives ; positive predictive value as that of true positives to true positives and false positives , and negative predictive value as that of true negatives to true negatives plus false negatives .
10 At top of field turn right on cross-track ( VW waymark ) , and after 100 yds turn left through right-hand of two fields alongside fence on left .
11 Perhaps we should conduct annual examinations from an early age to be sure that we do as little of this sort of damage as possible ?
12 About one-half of all farms in Britain now employ only one farm-worker and quite a few , in fact , employ none at all ( the work being done by family members ) .
13 She did n't know at the time about the pictures that had been taken or about some of those activities in which he did take part .
14 In terms of the Government 's general strategy on economic policy matters , it would be appropriate for some of those issues to be raised in Wednesday 's debate .
15 It was not until 1950 ( three years after a similar set had been commissioned in America ) that the BEA decided to go for some of these gains from larger scale by ordering an advanced 100MW set for 1955 .
16 The Bourdillon figure relates closely to other standards for public libraries , such as the IFLA recommendation for 1972 of 250 volumes per thousand population .
17 And , according to local stories , a MacLeod chief once dined his guests on Healabhal Bheag after tiring of endless stories of the splendour of the banqueting hall in Edinburgh 's Holyrood Palace .
18 BLACKBURN keeper Bobby Mimms makes sure Arsenal hit man Ian Wright gets the message after one of several skirmishes between the two in the Battle of Highbury Picture : ARNOLD SLATER
19 Until 1983 the District Audit Service carried out most of this work in England and Wales with the balance being audited by commercial auditors approved by the Secretary of State for the Environment .
20 But the atmosphere then was too cool for much of that sort of talk .
21 Daley Thompson apparently lies on his bed for much of two days before a decathlon thinking his way through each event , mentally rehearsing the self-discipline needed when confronted with two failures at his first high jump or pole vault .
22 Pilot tests have been carried out for much of this year with both the Choice loans package and direct access , but TSB Direct was formally established on November 1 .
23 It is in the nature of sea cliffs to remain largely hidden from view until you are more or less in contact with them , but for much of this side of Stennis this is not the case , for the gully descends to a non-tidal terrace descending beneath the cliff .
24 However , its closure , ordered under new legislation which insists that the best available technology be used to combat pollution , may set a precedent for hundreds of other incinerators across the country .
25 The station had to have yards large enough for hundreds of such vehicles to be marshalled , areas where the animals could be tethered or grazed , perhaps for days .
26 The tower must have been the last sight of land for hundreds of drowning mariners in peace and war .
27 My plan had been to climb for hundreds of beautiful feet on one of Lakeland 's fine mountain crags with one of Lakeland 's fine mountain climbers , but it did n't happen .
28 In the drought year of 1976 , for example , when the countryside became parched and brown , my garden had many unusual visitors , including single individuals of each of three species of clearwing moths and of four species of butterfly normally associated with more rural areas ( whiteletter hear-streak , silver-washed fritillary , marbled white , and hedge brown ) .
29 The general situation in respect of each of these groups on 21 May was as follows 1 .
30 On the one hand , the most obviously appropriate analyses of the incidences are comparisons of Seascale with the rest of Copeland plus Allerdale and of each of these areas with the rest of Cumbria , but such comparisons are based on comparatively small numbers .
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