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1 El Segundo , California-based systems integrator , Computer Sciences Corp , and Sun Microsystems Inc are teaming to offer client/server solutions to aeroplane builders — the two expect to win $80m of business over the next 18 months : CSC won the $3bn , 10-year outsourcing contract with General Dynamics in 1991 .
2 Similarly , responses to us in writing within six weeks of referral rose from 25% of cases in the first audit to 60% in the second .
3 For example while Denmark had saved 30% and France 25% of energy in the industrial and housing sectors the UK had managed only 17% .
4 He said a petition containing 500 names over 95pc of households in the village had been sent to the Welsh Office calling for a second public meeting .
5 Because saliva contains relatively high concentrations of alkali , accounting for about 3% of bicarbonate within the oesophagus , it is important that amylase concentrations measured in oesophageal fluid accurately reflect salivary contamination .
6 Constipation represents a common problem in children , accounting for 3% of visits to the Pediatric Outpatient Clinic at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics as well as to a large general paediatric clinic in Boston , but little is known about longterm outcome in young children .
7 As well as allowing us to buy priority tickets and get away tickets , you get a quite nice yearbook ( 3.5 quids worth ) , 10% of goods from the shop and discounts from home games .
8 Extrahepatic disorders unrelated to cirrhosis in portal hypertension occur with greater frequency in the elderly : in our experience more than 10% of patients over the age of 65 years with variceal haemorrhage have glucose intolerance requiring treatment with either insulin or oral hypoglycaemic agents .
9 The frequency of agents found in our patients was similar to those reported in earlier studies from Western Europe and the USA , except for cryptosporidium which was detected in 5% of our patients , ina bout 10% of patients in the USA , but in more than 20% of patients in Great Britain and France .
10 This enables the labour market model to be estimated in both quarterly form and also provides data of interest in the field .
11 Mr McCartney said a survey revealed that 40pc of households in the estate had no car and 60pc could not afford an annual holiday .
12 It is an international trade association whose members include distributors , importers , processors , UK and overseas manufacturers , and UK agents ; and it currently represents over 90% of suppliers to the UK market .
13 That would have given it around 90% of seats in the lower house and , since the opposition would never accept that prospect , the bill seemed destined for the dustbin .
14 Oki Electric Industry Co Ltd will suspend operations at two factories in Takasaki and Tomioka , east Japan , for a total of three days in May and August because of falling capital investment by banks : for those three days , Oki will pay 90% of wages to the 3,100 employees ; the Tomioka plant produces computer systems and equipment for financial institutions while Takasaki makes general information and communications equipment and printers .
15 Only 13% of antral tumours were surrounded by histologically normal mucosa compared with over 50% of tumours in the cardia .
16 Over a quarter of these were handled by the Big Four , who dominated the top end of the market , being responsible for over 50% of searches for the $100 000 + positions .
17 An estimated 50% of women in the world who want to stop having children are able to fulfil that wish by these means .
18 Well over 50% of restaurants in the UK now include English wines on their lists .
19 The project is contained in a Scottish Office consultation document proposing £200m-plus of improvements to the trunk road system south of Edinburgh .
20 This means that an average serving would contribute more than 16g of fibre to the diet , which is more than half the quantity that the average Briton consumes in a day on his fibre-depleted diet .
21 A balance can be achieved by exposing the eggs for a moderate time ; for example , a 4 h in vivo exposure accumulates analysable metaphases in 50 80% of embryos at the early morula to early blastocyst stage .
22 20% of farms receiving 80% of support from the E.C .
23 Something more than emergency rations are required in a country where 80% of children under the age of five suffer from malnutrition .
24 For Gavarnie is the old headquarters of mountaineering in the Pyrenees , a centre not only for excursionists but for the hard men , aiming for dangerous ascents of the rocks .
25 In a related move Union Carbide will sell £500m of assets in the next 18 to 24 months to reduce its debt ratio .
26 With back titration , swallowed saliva accounted for a median 17% of alkali within the oesophagus whereas refluxed gastric alkali contributed 1.0% .
27 The predicted group membership corresponded to the actual group in 100% of cases in the basal condition , 80% in the 100 mg/day gliadin microchallenge group ( 10% were misclassified in the other groups ) , 80% in the 500 mg/day gliadin microchallenge ( 20% were misclassified in the 100 mg/day group ) .
28 Nevertheless , there remains a high risk of fetal damage in offspring of women with the disease , and the possibility that the diets themselves may be harmful can not be excluded .
29 Five sub-species of salmon from the Columbia river and its tributary , the Snake , are likely to join US official lists as endangered species .
30 68% of respondents in the first survey thought televising would ‘ make MPs improve their behaviour ’ , but this declined to 48% after three months of the experiment .
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