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1 Despite the contemporary tone of much of Action for Cities , the programme 's heritage can be traced to the early 1960s studies which provided the basis for the 1965 Milner–Holland Report on housing and the 1967 Plowden Report on education , as a result of which general improvement areas and education priority areas were established .
2 At the Essex Forest Eyre in October 1634 , for example , the judges , after consulting with the Chief Justice of the King 's Bench and the Barons of the Exchequer , decided that there was no right of common of pasture for sheep on the forest wastes .
3 Learning to value the skills they have developed through running a home and family was just one of thousands of options for change being offered to women at Colchester Town Hall on an Education Day organised as part of this year 's Adult Learners ’ Week .
4 Since he started them and put so much effort and endless work in to running them , these events have raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for charity .
5 Sheila Harrod certainly is … born and bred in Swindon she 's founder and director of the Kentwood Choir , which has raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for charity , her efforts now rewarded with a British empire medal .
6 The Merseyside Police Charity Raft Race has become one of the most popular events in the Mersey River Festival , raising tens of thousands of pounds for charity .
7 ‘ The Tories , particularly , were keen to take tens of thousands of pounds for party funds .
8 A couple whose home was vandalised by squatters are now facing a bill of thousands of pounds for repairs .
9 The rheidity of ice is a few weeks , that of salt about a year , but igneous rocks will only exhibit rheid flow after a stress has been applied for hundreds of years , in the case of deeply buried rocks subject to elevated temperatures , or tens of thousands of years for rocks at the surface .
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