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31 In 1921 the employers won back the 5 per cent concession made in 1920 to the woollen workers and successfully reduced the cost of jiving addition to wages , paid since the First World War , over the next four years .
32 On Sept. 17 , Polish inspectors in the Netherlands carried out the first inspection of a NATO member state by a unit from a Warsaw Pact country .
33 Alistair MacDonald , the director , has seen the play germinate over the last 18 months from roots in the Gaelic Youth Theatre summer school in 1991 and an experimental workshop production at the Mod Fringe in Dingwall the same year .
34 By two o'clock , I had walked fifteen miles and was sitting on the wheelbarrow forking out the last sardine , when Mick and Paddy arrived .
35 All the leaves that fall into the pond congregate around the loosened wire for me to collect up in a simple once daily netting session .
36 ERROR_RETURN_DETAIL/ — is a return parameter providing a report of the errors encountered during the attempt to read out the requested modules .
37 ERROR_RETURN_DETAIL/ — is a return parameter providing a report of the errors encountered during the attempt to read out the requested modules .
38 The second section shows the action taken on the particular version of the module , and the name of the LIFESPAN user who carried out the action .
39 What arrogance that is , that they allowed the schools to take on the full role when over fifty percent of em were already willing and anxious to do so .
40 When the divers went over the side to swim down the seventy feet to the pipe , however , they immediately discovered how hazardous it really was .
41 Outside , the snow blotted out the last irregularities in the flowerbed , making it one with the lawn .
42 Crosby is determined to buy this week to halt the Roker slide down the First Division table .
43 You can feel the G-force by just watching the cars roar up the famous Prescott Hill .
44 The DJ fills out the early evening playing the most obvious indie-dance records , as he will finish the evening .
45 The DJ took up the same line when he came on for the broadcast quiz interview , ’ she went on .
46 The Waverley puttered down the still narrow river like a little terrier keen to get to the open fields of the Firth and the sea beyond .
47 Swales , the target for much of the fans anger over the past few weeks , is likely to resist Lee 's offer .
48 Joyce joined the advertising department as secretary in 1979 and moved to special projects eight years later to work in the department setting up the in-store coffee shops .
49 The wind whipped down the narrow side-streets and alleys , whistling in the wide estuaries .
50 The dismantlers get inside the car to take out the interior trim , seats , dashboard and steering wheel which are all segregated into bins for different plastics and materials .
51 The Mail keeps up the relentless post-election good news : ‘ Birds are nesting .
52 As all the voices hammer out the same syllables together , the accentuation is at its sharpest ( Example 64 , overleaf ) .
53 It was the only Italian name I could think of in a hurry and I did n't have the nerve to put on the right accent to go with it . ’
54 I kept on down to the river and stood for a while to watch the coal-barges slide along the black , shiny water .
55 The client may feel the deal has been negotiated and merely wants the lawyer to tie up the loose ends .
56 By the kindest count , seven catches were grassed at Auckland , and six more chances were spilled on this opening day , with Gooch missed twice off Cairns before reaching double figures , after a 90-minute delay while the groundstaff mopped up the previous day 's heavy rain .
57 She tried to sound playful , but somehow the words came out the wrong way .
58 The darker ‘ skunk-stripe ’ of walnut in the back of the neck covered up the rear installation of the truss rod .
59 The plan clears up the legal wrangles set off by the federal government 's decision in 1988 to sue the state government over water quality in the Everglades , but leaves unclear many of the details of the clean-up .
60 In seeking to make these aims operational , the plan set out the general characteristics of the proposed polytechnic : it was to be a ‘ broadly-based institution catering for a wide range of higher education for the over-18 age groups ’ , giving priority to sandwich courses , but providing courses other than degree courses for those able to benefit from ‘ advanced courses of a specialist nature ’ .
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