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1 He scored twice in the closing eight minutes to force a 4-4 draw , a result which helped the Paisley men increase their lead at the top of the table to two points .
2 Preliminary data analysis involved a summation of the initial 30 images to form a composite image outlining the arterial phase of tracer transit through the hepatobiliary system .
3 A fund-raising target of £3,000 initiated on 30 November to buy a specialised bed for the Douglas Macmillan Home was reached before the end of last year — and has since been significantly exceeded with money still coming in .
4 Following the formal request for a special prosecutor , Attorney General William Barr had up to 30 days to make a preliminary ruling .
5 2 Failure to develop a corporate-wide approach to quality which would align the relevant information and management systems and processes .
6 You should allow at least 12 weeks to obtain a British passport .
7 Data processing is achieved automatically : TableCurve can use all of its 221 equations to find a best fit , or the ‘ special function ’ equations can be omitted or ‘ simple ’ equations selected .
8 The Under 13 Clarkson Shield semi-finals ended all square after extra time , Stanfield ( Quinn 2 , Ruby 2 ) overcame a 3-0 deficit to force a 4-4 draw with Tramways ( Gill 2 , McDonald , Barton ) and Four Swallows ( Carroll , King ) had a 2-0 advantage but then missed a penalty allowing Athlone to hit back through Kennedy and Randalls to equalise .
9 Whereas computer-tomography devices in medicine use as many as 700 detectors to produce images in 3 seconds , the portable unit 's three sensors need up to 10 hours to make a respectable picture ( though spot checks for cracks and rottenness can be made much faster ) .
10 But whatever satisfaction Scott may have gained from the debate and the fact that he had been given six months to prepare a new design , it must have soon been dispelled by the public press and the action of some of his professional colleagues .
11 The afternoons were also good for going to the cinema ; they had all of the stuff that would take about six months to make a brief appearance in her home town and she could see it on decent-sized screens instead of one like the end of a shoebox .
12 It took him 10 months to find a suitable job , although he was fortunate enough to be able to find temporary work in between .
13 It took him 10 months to find a suitable job
14 And in his spare time , he has been on-call for the past six years to wear a yellow helmet as a Retained Leading Firefighter with D Division of Strathclyde Fire Brigade based at Ardrossan .
15 Nigel : But 40 leading scientists do say that carbon dioxide is made in producing uranium and building the reactors , and power stations are not the main source of greenhouse gases anyway ; and nuclear programmes divert money from energy-saving programmes , and it takes six years to build a nuclear power station and you can save that amount of carbon dioxide in six months by saving energy .
16 The assemblymen have precious few functions to perform for their $4,000-a-month salaries and free board and lodging ; they merely meet every six years to elect a new president and vice-president .
17 A 13-YEAR-OLD maths genius with a Mensa IQ just one short of the maximum 178 has beaten 30,000 rivals to win a glittering prize .
18 10 ways to enjoy a superb self catering holiday
19 The Australians , needing 196 from 47 overs to win a rain-affected contest , were led by man-of-the-match Mark Taylor with a patient 78 off 109 balls , which included just one boundary .
20 Years later it was divided into three houses to accommodate a growing family , and now the middle house and its crumbling neighbours belonged to Smallfry and Buddie .
21 Among variations on this generalized Pterygote plan may be mentioned the connection of the frontal ganglion with the protocerebrum by a median nervus connectivus , the regression of the hypocerebral ganglion and varying degrees of fusion between the hypocerebral ganglion , the corpora cardiaca and the corpora allata , culminating in the condition found in the larvae of Cyclorrhaphan Diptera where all three fuse to form a composite structure known as Weismann 's ring which encircles the aorta just behind the brain ( p. 278 ) .
22 He would allow himself another three hours to enjoy a private supper before going to the Duchess 's ball where , he knew , the food would be cold and inedible .
23 It takes about three hours to make a basic card , but can take weeks to produce the more exotic patterns .
24 Chris Lightfoot scored two in three minutes to overcome a seventh-minute deficit at Rochdale and put Chester City into the first round of the Leyland Daf Trophy .
25 It 's not a successful way forward , there are hundreds of orchestras able to do it now , it 's no longer a privilege of two or three orchestras to record a full CD after two sessions .
26 Defence Ministers of the Visegrad Three countries ( Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland ) met at Zruby in Slovakia on Sept. 25 , when Imrich Andrejcak of Czechoslovakia was quoted as saying that there were no plans for the three countries to sign a military pact or form a military union .
27 Because you 've got three weeks to do a fucking musical .
28 Customs then took three weeks to have a closer look at the booty ( oh yeah ) .
29 IT TOOK experts three days to restore a 300 year old building after Annie Lennox filmed her latest video there .
30 It takes three years to become a qualified craftsman , said Mr Rowney , who trains wall builders at Botton village , near Danby , in the Esk Valley .
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