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1 Graham 's team , beaten by a Dean Saunders penalty for Aston Villa , have slipped 10 points behind League leaders Norwich and virtually out of the title race .
2 Wilkinson headed over after two minutes and at the other end Stephen Pears punched out a Neil Webb free-kick for Denis Irwin to volley wide .
3 Equally disappointing is the latest stage adaptation of a Roald Dahl story for children at Christmas .
4 Under the Directive , European institutions will not need to be authorised by a UK FSA regulator for investment business in the UK .
5 I tell you this is one of the greatest days for me , as I 've been a Barbra Streisand fan for years .
6 Most impressive of Schimmel 's Iranian material was the fifth-century bronze mirror-back with two rampant lions ( est. $100–150,000 ) , sold to a New York collector for $145,000 .
7 Lot 144 , a large copper and niello inlaid Tiffany two-handled cup , for the 1893 World 's Columbian Exposition , bore an extremely low $8,000–12,000 estimate , and was sold to a New York dealer for $8,500 ( £6,000 ) .
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