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1 This was still the practice by the 1830s when a tide of emigrants left Europe for Australia , New Zealand and California .
2 Devlin scored the second after a number of scrums , free kicks and penalties all close to the line , and in injury time John Paul Speirs touched down to ensure victory .
3 In the 1840s only a quarter of London 's newcomers ended up south of the Thames , but during the following three decades the proportion grew to a third .
4 It was worked by various tenants until the 1730s when a number of owners culminated with the well-known family of Painswick clothiers , the Packers .
5 The first of these , the statistical test controversy , arose in the 1950s when a group of American scholars vigorously attacked the use of such tests , pointing out the difficulty of surveys meeting the strict mathematical requirements demanded by the statistical theory , especially those to do with randomness .
6 In the 1950s only a quarter of the growth in sales of electricity to domestic consumers came from newly-connected homes and another quarter from the extended use of existing appliances , but as much as half came from newly-purchased appliances .
7 He added : ‘ Whereas in the previous downturn in the 1980s when a lot of cyclical companies were haemorraging cash , this time the pressure on profits has not been at the expense of their financial position . ’
8 Mr Cormack , however , shows that nearly half the Roman Catholic students entering higher education here ( 43pc ) come from working class homes , but only a little over a quarter of the Protestants do ( 27pc ) .
9 It 's no longer merely a handful of advocates who wonder why someone with such high-calibre material has n't made a bigger dent in the global public 's consciousness .
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