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1 The remaining 17% occurred over the 10 seconds preceding the onset of the common cavity episode , being evenly distributed through this time .
2 The fry hatch on the fifth day and about 3mm long .
3 The debate started from agreement about the outcome to be explained — the kinds of data given in the previous section — and about the broad changes , also described in the last section , which had been involved .
4 For a £1 ‘ Each Way ’ bet , you stake £2. £1 of this goes on the same horse to win and the other £1 goes on the same horse to finish in the first three or four places , depending on how many runners there are in the race .
5 Other developments during the late 1940s included the Yak–14 assault glider and the Yak–15 , the first jet aircraft completed in the Soviet Union and derived from the Yak–3 .
6 Thus when faced with a specification such as the following for so-called ‘ executive information systems ’ , one wonders exactly how the system is expected to filter and compress critical data received from the external environment ! :
7 Light aircraft fly into the nearby airport full of commuters who make sophisticated value judgements on the place .
8 The pattern of hits and false alarms in the two studies is relatively similar , thus Table 5.6 shows the data grouped from the two studies to increase the number of observations in each cell .
9 Although HAI was capable of servicing every aircraft owned by the Greek government , it was also greedy for export business .
10 They cover , for example , economic data relating to the general business environment in a country .
11 Institutions were asked to return the questionnaire if possible by 30th September , 1985 , with data relating to the academic year 1984–85 .
12 Although data relating to the seasonal distribution of runoff are limited , there are indications that post-drought recharge rates of forest soils are reduced and that more rapid flood response is characteristic of all stages of the rotation cycle when compared with non-afforested catchments ( Binns 1986 ) .
13 While data relating to the known user population are important , they can not alone define the extent of total heroin use in a given community ( see Chapter 3 ) .
14 In addition , data presented at the second world congress of stroke in Washington , DC , last September showed efficacy of ganglioside treatment in acute stroke in two separate large multicentre studies .
15 So data written at the lower DD rate will not saturate the HD magnetic coating .
16 Often data written at the lower DD current ca n't overwrite previous data written on HD disks at the higher HD current rate .
17 The national archive of shallow seismic and sample information held by BGS mainly comprises data collected during the Regional Mapping Programme , but new data from a variety of sources are continually being acquired .
18 Three trainees were given instruction in geological map preparation and report writing using field data collected during the 1989–90 field season .
19 Such quantities are determined by standard tests on standard samples and the data collected in the relevant literature .
20 The methods used to achieve these aims involved both analysing data collected in the earlier projects ( 1985-87 ) , and investigations during the current project ( 1988 ) .
21 Thirdly , data collected by the Inner London Education Authority ( which published more detailed statistics than central government or other LEAs on differences between ethnic groups ) have shown Asian pupils as having distinctly higher average educational attainment than white or Afro-Caribbean pupils ( see , e.g. , ILEA Research and Statistics , 1987 ) .
22 Analysis of questionnaire and sickness absence data collected from the first phase of the Whitehall II study .
23 Check that the l.e.d.s connected to the lowest outputs flash first and that the display rapidly ‘ decays ’ when the sound stops .
24 SWEET AND TENDER HOOLIGAN Bob Mould In the '80s Bob Mould led the line in Hüsker Dü and frightened pop music to within an inch of its life .
25 Also the degree to which the firm is associated with any financial information or other data conveyed to the potential purchaser relating to the client should always be made clear in the information memorandum itself , in any subsequent information provided and in any transmittal letter sent with the information .
26 At this point it is sufficient to state that the estimates are based on high quality data supplied by The Scotch Whisky Association 's nine largest companies and they provide the first published attempt to quantify the wider economic significance of this important industry .
27 A heron scraiked below the steep slabs of stone that chuted down into the sea .
28 This aircraft sold at the last auction for $9,000 plus commission .
29 Geodemographics , explained Peter Mouncey of the AA , was a system of producing data drawn from the national census , developed during the '80s .
30 Many of these integrate with costing and management reporting systems using common data drawn from the basic data recording process .
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