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1 The thinning of the ozone layer over Antarctica has been far worse than expected this year .
2 ONE of the worst storms of the century hit the east coast of the United States over the weekend , killing at least 98 people and forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes for emergency shelters .
3 Australians will be unable to go outdoors without protection by the year 2060 , unless the depletion of the ozone layer over the southern hemisphere is halted , according to skin cancer expert Bill McCarthy , who predicted that the growing danger of cancer would render Australia uninhabitable unless its populace lived in glass-domed cities and wore spacesuit style protective gear for ventures into the open air .
4 The depletion of the ozone layer over the northern hemisphere is to be the subject of a newly-launched European Arctic Stratosphere Experiment ( EASOE ) , involving 250 scientists from 17 countries over a five month period starting in November .
5 The depletion of the ozone layer over Europe and North America is set to reach a dangerous level in the forthcoming months , according to the results of separate atmospheric surveys by Nasa and the European Stratospheric Ozone Experiment .
6 Russia and Chile have announced the launch of a joint study on the depletion of the ozone layer over the South American republic .
7 Depletion of the ozone layer over the Antarctic has started earlier and is spreading faster than last year , according to US scientists .
8 As we noted at the beginning of this chapter , because there is no consensus either among or between the different sectors of the village population over the answers to these questions , any overall conclusion about ‘ loss of community ’ is impossible .
9 Second , and part of the power battle over the constitution of the Labour Party , there is a concern to secure a democracy in Britain different from that entrenched within the established liberal-democratic constitution and different from that envisaged by the Liberals and Social Democrats .
10 I made it clear that our policy was to use that money to reduce the level of the council tax over that period of time .
11 Would the hon. Lady have supported the resignation of the Home Secretary over the escapes from Brixton ?
12 Khalid Abdullah 's colt must be respected , as must the French filly Young Mother , winner of the Prix Vermeille over the Arc course and Brittain 's fancy .
13 Inset Left : Hazlehurst Aqueduct carries the Leek branch of the Caldon Canal over the main line which goes to Froghall .
14 The object is to look at the growth experience of the United Kingdom over the last 80 years or so as a whole — which strangely enough has not yet been examined .
15 Between 1911 and the 1980s the proportion of the UK population over the age of 65 had tripled from 5 per cent to 15 per cent .
16 Given the propensity of the Academy jury over the years to equate serious acting with stars ' willingness to make themselves unattractive , it is surprising that Dustin did not win hands down .
17 In two careful analyses of the survey evidence over the past four months , the Washington Post and the American Political Report , an influential newsletter , have come to broadly similar conclusions .
18 In our study , the combination of ranitidine and cisapride led to an increase of propagation velocity as calculated from the propagation of the pressure wave over the four sensors located 20 , 15 , 10 , and 5 cm above the lower oesophageal sphincter ( Table III ) .
19 One benefit of the Windows version over the DOS one is the ability to perform unattended scans .
20 This decision , coupled with Bank of Montreal v. Stuart [ 1911 ] A.C. 120 appears to apply an equitable principle that , in circumstances of influence or likely influence of the debtor husband over the surety wife , it is not enough for the creditor to show that the surety understood the import of the security document ; the surety must , in addition , have independent legal advice .
21 Davis has noted the unease as late as the mid-1820s of some members of the committee of the Anti-Slavery Society over Cropper 's desire to see public meetings addressed by travelling agents because of the association of such methods with other , divisive reform causes .
22 Herbert Tracey reflected that the ‘ defeatist ’ mood of the trade unions over the last few years had been transformed .
23 G. W. Lockwood described how the passage of the dust cloud over the observatory site on Kitt Peak ( latitude 32 N ) had disrupted astronomical observations .
24 Gough 's account of the changing ownership of the Balderton estate over the next 100 years shows how varied the fortunes and personalities of the parish gentry could be .
25 Coil movements produce angular movements of P , causing horizontal movements of the writing head over paper tape t .
26 She sat on the sofa still , pulling the folds of the silk wrap over her bare belly , her thighs .
27 Battling Dave Cannon sprayed a whole trailer-load of the cow muck over a council building after plans for his retirement bungalow were turned down for the fourth time .
28 The marketing of the share sale over the coming weeks is designed to attract the highest possible number of private investors .
29 In 1400 he was put on a commission to investigate the repair of the timber bridge over the Thames in Kingston , and in 1402 was entertained to supper by the warden of Winchester College .
30 The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation , a major lender to Bond but one which cut its exposure to about A$1billion earlier this year , said it would study the implications of the NAB action over the weekend .
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