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1 On July 30 , 12 lieutenant-generals were retired and eight of the nine leading national police commanders were dismissed .
2 The Miguelist forces entered Funchal , and some 146 people and twenty-one clergy were arrested and imprisoned , sent to Lisbon and deported for life to the Portuguese colonies .
3 The government easily quelled these revolts ; 4500 supporters were jailed and 1300 exiled in Dutch New Guinea .
4 Absorption of water and sodium from the rectum was similar in patients from whom V cholerae was isolated and those in whom this organism was not isolated .
5 In industrial protests in other regions six Civil Guards and eight miners were hurt and six miners were arrested on Feb. 7 during a demonstration in León , while a policeman and four workers from a shoe factory were injured in Valencia on the same day .
6 In violent protests against the visit in Athens on the night of July 18 , six banks were burned and six people were injured .
7 Slater and Fisher found that 4.1 items were consulted and 2.4 were considered useful .
8 Eye-witness reports suggested that at least 47 civilians were killed and 102 wounded when allied aircraft destroyed a bridge in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah on Feb. 4 .
9 During the great railroad strike of 1877 , for example , 45,000 militiamen were called up in eleven states and more than 100 strikers were killed and several hundred were wounded .
10 At present , six children are killed and 400 hurt in a year in crashes because they were not wearing a restraint .
11 Thirteen police were injured and 14 demonstrators arrested , of whom two were injured .
12 85 suspects were identified and 57 were charged with offences , but of these only 3 1 were charged with rape or attempted rape and only six were convicted .
13 Six policemen were killed and two were severely injured on Dec. 8 when the Basque separatist organization ETA detonated a car bomb alongside a minibus in the Catalonian town of Sabadell , about 20 km north of the city of Barcelona .
14 Three manufacturers were selected and one accountancy company :
15 In 1991 , 722,000 tonnes were exported and last year 668,000 , while imports rose from 55,896 to 93,000 tonnes .
16 After the first eight days of action — during which 19 of his 31 officers were killed and seven wounded , and the battalion was reduced to 40 per cent of its original strength — he himself was badly wounded leading a counter-attack .
17 Police say three men were involved and all wore baseball caps with dark glasses .
18 The commission concluded that the army 's Chief of Staff had personally ordered the raid , in which three women were raped and many students were severely beaten , and had recommended that action be taken against him .
19 Three soldiers were killed and six wounded , delaying Howard 's pursuit for another day .
20 Earlier , three policemen were killed and 25 people injured on Dec. 8 in an attack on a coach in Antalya , where two members of the People 's Labour Party ( HEP ) had been assassinated the previous week .
21 15 villagers including three minors were killed and 19 others , including several children , wounded when soldiers opened fire on a crowd of unarmed people on 2/12/90 .
22 On Feb. 8 , in another gun battle near the village of Brasheet , three guerrillas were killed and one Israeli soldier was wounded ; on Feb. 11 , guerrillas launched rocket attacks on SLA positions .
23 The foreign drivers are responsible for 4,892 traffic accidents in Bohemia and Moravia in 1990. 128 persons was killed and 224 heavy injured .
24 Five and a half thousand men were killed and twenty-six thousand wounded on the blackest day of the American Civil War .
25 Last year 365 patients were admitted and 13,971 casualties were assessed and treated .
26 Australia produced 360,000 tonnes of apples in 1989 of which 150,000 tonnes were processed and 20,000 tonnes exported .
27 Twelve areas were identified and ten were designated as national parks in England and Wales between 1950 and 1955 ( Bell 1975 ) .
28 The multicentre trial involving 63 patients was randomised and double blind with enemas given over four weeks ; clinical , sigmoidoscopic , and histological assessments were made .
29 All 1156 charts were reviewed and all cases in which a ‘ narrowing ’ or ‘ stricture ’ was noted radiologically ( x ray reports were reviewed ) , endoscopically , or at surgery were included in the study .
30 Of the 1,151439 enrolments in session 1990/91 , 740,832 resulted in full success , 147,034 resulted in part success , 227,863 results were withdrawn and 35,710 results were awaited .
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