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1 On reinfection with most species the larvae may remain arrested at L4 in nodules for up to one year ; however with Oe. venulosum nodules are absent while in Oe. dentatum they are barely visible .
2 Five quayside cranes of up to 10 tonne capacity serve the berth .
3 However , as the Democratic nominees left their convention and plunged immediately into an eight-state overland campaign tour through the Midwest , Clinton was recording opinion poll ratings of up to 30 percentage points ahead of Bush .
4 Throughout its production , prospective 46 owners have been offered varied combinations of up to five rig and keel options and three accommodation layouts , therefore ensuring the brokerage buyer tremendous choice in the specification of his pre-owned 46 .
5 Insurance companies raise premiums by up to 100 p.c. for holidays involving dangerous sports .
6 a survey of the writing habits and skills of up to 100 university social science research students , and
7 AN AGREEMENT offering creditors of Bank of Credit & Commerce International returns of up to 40 p.c. suffered a major setback yesterday when the High Court granted a four-week adjournment before considering whether to authorise the deal .
8 The Israeli authorities placed three prominent Palestinians under " administrative detention " for periods of up to one year on Nov. 13 .
9 Kenjo and Takahashi ( 1980 ) describe a printer character-wheel control which produces movements of up to 200 character positions in minimum The system learns the optimum point for deceleration initiation for each movement by making several attempts , which give successively better results .
10 There are three models — M92 with two CPUs , M94 with four and M98 with up to eight , the last coming with up to 4G-words of 64 bits , 32Gb , using 16M-bit memory chips with up to 17.1G-bytes-per-second memory bandwidth and 11.7G-bytes-per-second input-output throughput .
11 In the Netherlands , Wolters-Kluwer Bookshops are extending their range of book stocks with up to 100 CD-ROM titles and have appointed a new media adviser to help them plan future developments .
12 In order to catch suspect goods at the ports , customs officers have power to seize and detain goods for up to two working days in order to enable local trading standards officers to examine them to determine whether they infringe legal safety requirements , section 31 .
13 Independent mortgage broker John Charcol is offering a 10-year fixed rate for borrowers of 9.95 p.c. — equivalent to an annualised percentage rate ( APR ) of 12 p.c. — for loans of up to 95 p.c. of the value of the property .
14 During 1991 new forms were introduced which allowed details of up to 10 night visits to be claimed on a single form .
15 In January 1990 the paper 's director , editor and two other journalists had received prison sentences of up to one year on having been found guilty of spreading " false information " .
16 The measures include mandatory jail sentences of between one and twenty years and fines of up to 500,000 ringgit ( US$185,000 ) .
17 Under the new law electors found guilty of malpractice faced fines of up to 5,000 naira ( US$1=18.45 naira as at Sept. 7 , 1992 ) and two years ' imprisonment , while anyone who was banned from participating in the political process but who was found guilty of supporting or sponsoring a candidate was liable to a 10,000 naira fine and five years ' imprisonment .
18 Pocket sprung mattresses can cope with weight differences of up to four stone , but if you and your partner 's weight differs by more than four and a half stone ( 30kg ) your best bet is a pair of ‘ zip-and-link ’ mattresses .
19 For golfers , wearing the dress of the day , — tailored tweed jackets and trousers , leather boots , and carrying well-made bags of up to 30 heavy-weight clubs ( according to former 1920's caddy Charles Robins ) — the prospects of coping with certain of Henley 's holes must have been daunting without a caddie .
20 For such borrowers the use of syndicated loans enables the managing bank to obtain funds more quickly , in greater amounts and at a lower cost than would be the case in conducting separate negotiations with up to fifty lending banks .
21 Wellcome will provide services for up to one year to facilitate Roussel Uclaf 's effective running of the business .
22 David Dorn , a nuclear physicist working for the Commission , was quoted in New York on Jan. 15 as saying that it was possible that Iraq possessed enough components for up to 10,000 gas centrifuges .
23 On deposits of up to one year , interest is paid on the day of withdrawal .
24 Money market deposits ( MMDs ) are fixed-interest fixed-term deposits of up to one year with banks or discount houses .
25 The hepatitis B virus is capable of surviving on surfaces such as surgical instruments , chairs and work benches for up to one week at room temperature .
26 The combination of these pore types results in porosities of 15–30% and permeabilities of up to 100 mD , as demonstrated by core data from Aabenraa-1 ( Fig. 17 ) .
27 Cray Research Inc is expected to ship its first massively parallel processor , due in the second half of 1993 , in configurations with up to 1,024 Alpha processing nodes , hears Electronic News : indeed ‘ several thousand ’ processors could be supported at a customer 's request .
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