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1 A West German ship with a cargo of uranium concentrate bound from Antwerp to Genoa disappeared and its cargo later turned up in Israel .
2 After a meeting in Ljubljana between Markovic , Kucan and Peterle , the JNA agreed to withdraw from Slovenia on July 1 .
3 The JNA agreed to withdraw from Slovenia by Oct. 25 , and to hand over military hardware to the Slovenian authorities .
4 Stephen Tyler-Upfield wants to switch from conversions into building for the first-time buyers he believes are now increasing there .
5 During this period the number of book issues sampled from library authorities has grown from 3m to 10.6m .
6 But intake of other green vegetables has increased from 0.19oz to 0.50oz per week .
7 It is the second time Kemp has switched from Slough to Selhurst Park .
8 Preliminary data from a recent audit exercise have shown that uptake of immunisation has improved from 60% in 1986 to 90% in 1991 .
9 Subscription income has risen from £778,683 to £811,942 , an increase of 4.3% .
10 Only a few years after the war the arts became separated from ideology in a way that enabled both artistic practice and theory to gain so-called independence .
11 Pupils are losing out as the cost of arson attacks on schools has doubled from £60m to £120m .
12 There is no sign whatever that Labour has learnt from errors of the past .
13 In the space of only two weeks , the Slovak lawyer has moved from dissident to defendant to government minister .
14 This is not merely a little churlish ; it also explains why the cumulative effect of their evidence makes less — impact than it should , because it disguises the fact that the unholy alliance between the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry has tottered from crisis to crisis now for two decades — since the thalidomide tragedy .
15 Since his election Dr. Kumar has had regular battles with Mr Bates , who since his narrow defeat has moved from Gateshead to Marton .
16 Profit per employee has increased from £5,800 in 1989–90 to £11,800 in 1992–93 .
17 Sole has retired from rugby at the age of 30 , when prop forwards such as he should just be coming to their prime .
18 The sensationalist side of sports reporting has gone from strength to strength in the popular press since the advent of television .
19 Yet the downward trend has started ; and a Burmese economic expert reckons that last month the cost of living figure has fallen from 800% above pre-war level to 600% .
20 The number with saving goals has risen from 66% to 79% .
21 Like the overnight success of a movie star , health care reform in the United States has leapt from oblivion to notoriety .
22 The name of every decent practice gets used from time to time to justify something indecent .
23 But it was only when tourists and journalists began to return from Bucharest in the mid-later 1980s with photographs of the demolitions and stories about their effects on the local people that any organized criticism of the regime got under way in Western Europe .
24 Eight patients were ‘ reformed ’ drinkers having abstained from alcohol for a duration ranging from two months to several years and five of this group had biopsy proven cirrhosis .
25 She did n't seem to be concentrating on the performance because her eyes kept moving from side to side , although she sat very still .
26 That meant that Macedon had to flirt from time to time with Sparta or whoever looked the strongest counterweight to Athens after Persia had recoiled from the Aegean in the mid-fifth century .
27 Other teams in the 1993 contest had come from breweries including Whitbread , Fuller 's , Young 's and Courage and the event was held at Park Royal .
28 John Matthews , chairman of the CIA energy committee , said that a recent CIA investment survey had shown that although investment had dropped from £2000m in 1991 to £1600m–£1800m in 1992 , the amount invested in health , safety and the environment had gone up considerably and the amount invested in energy efficiency had remained level .
29 His eyes had gone from sapphire to a blue so dark it was almost black .
30 Behind the closed door the programme had changed from athletics to wrestling and once more the baby had begun to cry .
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