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1 Alongside the Vauxhall car won by Drake for a year , and the £400 team manager 's prize collected by Graham Howell , Royal Berkshire were presented with a magnificent Vauxhall Indoor Trophy and a cheque for £2,500 .
2 In my compartment two Frenchmen and a Spaniard were losing their pay to a tiny Glaswegian who excelled at poker ; he had already won most of the hands and was trying to explain in broad Scottish that he was open to credit arrangements .
3 On the train to Stranraer and on the steamer to Larne two men and a woman shadowed their every movement .
4 A public meeting went ahead as planned in Leyburn last night and a petition to Parliament will still be handed to Mr Hague in the town today .
5 More than 100 MPs have already signed a Commons Motion asking the Government to reject proposals to change the present 999 system and a Day of Action has been organised for December 8 by the Union of Communication Workers .
6 Monday 's display ran like clockwork , opening and closing of course with Sally B , in between which a veritable pageant of flight took place , ranging from the Barnstorming Days with the Crunchie Stearman trio , Dragon Rapide G–AKIF and the Tiger Moth Diamond Nine team ( the latter operating eight Tigers and a Hornet Moth ) , Biplane Warplanes involved the Shuttleworth Collection 's Hawker Hind and Gloster Gladiator ( making first appearance at GWAD ) and recently — revitalised Swordfish LS326 of the Navy 's Historic Flight .
7 Mark 's effects are relatively straightforward , comprising : TC Electronics delay , an Alesis Quadraverb , a Boss CE-200 Chorus and a Zoom 9010 .
8 One recent study has also defined the types of hyperlipidaemia by ultracentrifugation and classified according to the Fredrickson types in a group of 86 Type 2 diabetics and a control group .
9 Trisha McCulloch , mother of Michael ( six weeks ) , says , ‘ A roomy , padded bag with little pockets either side and a flap over the top which becomes a mat is worth its weight in gold .
10 According to reports on Dec. 7 , the victim of the alleged rape , Farhana Hayat , had named Irfanullah Marwat Khan , a close adviser to the Sind provincial government and a son-in-law of President Ghulam Ishaq Khan , as responsible for instigating the attack against her .
11 Climbing quite slowly in total blackness , I eventually reached what I now think of as ‘ the landing ’ ( though it 's quite unlike the landing of my real home , which has a sash window one side and a row of pale blue banisters the other ; this one is barely shoulder width , and blind both sides ) .
12 Soon afterwards one of the tourists attempted to escape and in the ensuing battle one Israeli and a guerrilla died .
13 Caroline 's got chips hot dog and a chocolate milk shake .
14 WACC was directly involved in two activities at IAMCR 's recent conference : the MacBride Round Table and a consultation on Communication Ethics .
15 The sixty four feet hulls were constructed in GRP with a beam of sixteen feet four inches and a draft of four feet nine inches .
16 Of the first marriage there were three sons and four daughters ( one of whom died young ) and of the second marriage two daughters and a son .
17 This four-in-one sleeping system comprises a fleece liner , a Softie 3 Merlin sleeping bag , a Para-Tex bivvy bag and a compression stuff sack .
18 The traditional system of a class examination each term and a degree examination at end of session is still employed , but in most departments account is taken of work done in class .
19 The treated tissue is marketed as Fortress T which has a base weighing 0.05 kg/sq.m and a coating of 0.05 or 0.1 kg/sq.m .
20 A square vessel and parts of other domestic articles of wood were found about eight feet down in a peat moss at Strathmore , near Gruinart , and bones of a fifteen years old girl and a cow horn were turned up by the same peat diggers .
21 The company also launched a line of multimedia personal computers and a bubblejet printer .
22 The Barry Hills-trained seven-year-old was a model of consistency last season , winning this Group Three event and a trio of other contests over distances around two miles .
23 It is staffed by a team of community psychiatric nurses and a team of social workers together with psychiatrists approved under the Act .
24 Shilton , winner of a record 125 caps and a star of three World Cup campaigns , received the red card for slicing down an opponent in front of just 4,194 fans at humble Hull .
25 Yeah , that , that needs something if you actually set up a system and then a business meeting one month and a speaker the next , it puts a lot of pressure on one of us or some of us to , to , erm , this is true .
26 According to Jack Ladeveze chairman of engineering group Industrial Partners and a board member — the Halls have always run on a shoestring .
27 Do you have any of the peeler 's , they have a peeler one end and a knife the other , interchanging by the handle , I 've seen them here before .
28 POSTCARD FROM OVERSEAS : GRAHAM TEARSE IN PROVENCE Crazy drivers and a struggle for daily bread
29 With a riveter Two riveters and a holder-on , and then the boy got so much to the pound .
30 Lothian and Borders Police later said that an inquiry had been held into the actions of officers that night and a report sent to the procurator-fiscal .
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