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1 Indeed , only eight cases have been fully authenticated .
2 Section 226 policies have been abolished and are no longer available for purchase .
3 By March 1900 , 190,000 copies had been sold in England and there were special Welsh and American editions .
4 Creation stories from eight cultures had been distinguished — Egyptian , Norse , African , Oceanic , Greek , Mexican , Indian and the Genesis account — and these could be divided amongst the eight groups very happily , with the addition of timetabled periods of art and music-drama for double groups , in which basic techniques were linked to suitable themes ( for instance , shrine-building , rain-making ceremonies ) .
5 Since 1982 , 92 foreigners had been held hostage in Lebanon and at least 10 had died in captivity .
6 By the time De Lorean closed , more than 18,000 cars had been made but only 9,000 were sold , mainly to collectors .
7 Jan. 8 Suspension of airlifts as fighting worsens , over 460 foreigners having been evacuated by US and Italian aircraft on Jan. 5-6 .
8 In April 1983 , teachers reported that in some areas they had not been paid for four months and 828 schools had been closed down .
9 At the time of writing , a further 22 titles have been announced for autumn 1991 and spring 1992 .
10 This is another attempt to waste parliamentary time — already 280 hours has been wasted in this way in the past two decades . ’
11 At that time nearly 300 prisoners had been released by the mobs .
12 In late May 1991 it was reported that there had been a serious outbreak of dengue fever in the Cook Islands , with almost 800 cases having been reported since the beginning of the year .
13 It was almost 2215 , and 300 cases had been treated on the first day .
14 Meanwhile , since 1985 attempts have been made by the prosecution , against the most strenuous objections from Mr. Osman and the applicant , to take evidence in Malaysia pursuant to letters of request .
15 Justice Minister Prince Bola Ajibola confirmed that by Feb. 12 a total of 5,200 prisoners had been released under the amnesty .
16 It began among the casuals and spread rapidly to the inmates and staff , so that by mid-February 22 cases had been diagnosed and transferred to the smallpox hospital .
17 Furthermore , by UV-cross-linking experiments , a polypeptide of 85,000 daltons has been found to bind to this region , a molecular weight similar to that found in our experiments for the factor binding to oligonucleotide I ( see Fig. 6 ) .
18 Gradually the movement spread until by 1978 , it was able to assemble 5,000 people with a petition for which almost 1,300,000 signatures had been collected , but the petition received little attention from the authorities .
19 Refugees fleeing Iraq said on Feb. 13 that some 30 Jordanians had been killed in a recent missile attack on a civilian bus travelling on the Iraq-Kuwait border .
20 Over the past 10 months of this year , more than 5,600 homes have been burgled in Gloucestershire .
21 Since 1986 , 700 pesticides have been reviewed from which 350 active ingredients have been banned .
22 They point to how popular their Right to Buy legislation has proved almost 110,000 homes have been sold in the North-East and Cumbria since the laws were introduced in 1980 .
23 By Nov. 8 a total of 12 Iranians had been detained while crossing the Israeli-Egyptian border in the western Negev desert .
24 A well had been prepared and a brick-kiln built ; about 85,000 bricks had been burned .
25 An offer last August of 3% for 12 months had been followed by a lengthy period when voluntary severance had been negotiated with the Bank .
26 One of Britain 's most happening hip hop crews in the last 12 months has been Ronin , whose multi-media interests are now more fully embracing clothing .
27 Will he now answer the question why in the other 11 countries of the European Community the total rise in unemployment in the past 12 months has been 130,000 , while in this country , for which the right hon. Gentleman is responsible , unemployment has risen by nearly 800,000 ?
28 In Yeovil , in the constituency of the leader of the Liberal Democratic party , the number of patients waiting for more than 12 months has been reduced by 45 per cent. , and the total waiting list is down by 10 per cent .
29 In Kingston , for example , the list of those waiting more than 12 months has been reduced by 77 per cent .
30 The output from GIMMS consists of a list of the options specified together with informative messages to the effect that a data file with 42 zones and 2 variables has been created and saved to the file opened on unit 12 .
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