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1 One Steiff teddy fetched £55,000 at auction a few years ago , although Stonegate 's reproduction of it is somewhat more sensible priced at £175 .
2 But friends continued to die : Jo Schlesser at Rouen a few months later .
3 Apparently he was involved in an accident at work a few days ago , went to his local casualty department who could n't actually detect any break and treated it as a severe sprain . ’
4 It 's not so bad in Division Four , and when the opportunity came up at Ards , I jumped at it , ’ said Armstrong , who captained and coached Bangor before going back to end his playing days at Collegians a few seasons ago .
5 And , finally , we received two more dead CV12 power packs from the FRG at Soltau a few hours ago . ’
6 The National Football League was nervous about London 's reaction to the first game at Wembley a few years ago , and whether it would be profitable .
7 He remembered how she had reluctantly sat down to play him and a couple of other men at poker a few years before .
8 At the time , what can hardly have failed to make a strong impact on the boy were the great ritual events , including the assemblies , which punctuated the life of the court , and which Charles presumably was brought out by his nurse from the women 's quarters to attend : the arrival of envoys from Constantinople at Compiègne in September 827 ; the public deposition from office of Hugh and Matfrid in February 828 ; the reception of the relics of SS Marcellinus and Petrus at Aachen a few weeks later .
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