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1 Since the tournament began , first in Delray Beach in 1985 and then for a couple of years in Boca Raton , the temporary , scaffolding-supported stands have gone with them .
2 Recently such movements have involved up to 960 birds in one spring , and movements of 100 or more in a day are almost annual events ; 488 flying east off Beachy Head on 19 April 1976 is the largest single movement noted so far .
3 Beyond the town quay the strength reaches force 4 to 7 and more during a session ; and it 's not so strong .
4 DBG Acquired by RBG in 1979 but still without a guidebook .
5 And since he was in his late thirties and apparently without a cent to show for it , the conclusion was obvious .
6 They usually play to 100,000 or so at a time , so it should be fun .
7 Echo sounding is also responsible for an erroneous impression given on chart traces , suggesting that the loch walls continue down for 1000 m or so beneath a filling of loose sediment .
8 The more moderate , responsible men and women began to leave in ones and twos and then in a landslide .
9 They were Gillian Stewart and Carl Mason , also round in 69 and also with a plan .
10 This fall in oil production jolted the process of economic management , particularly since the leadership had become accustomed to a high level of revenues after the OPEC price increases , first during the campaign to this end in the early 1970s and then as a by-product of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war .
11 Sun still believes the chip is a leapfrog in integration and will pay a huge dividend by taking the company through ‘ 93 and beyond on a price/performance basis .
12 So important is this factor in shaping the evolution of man that Freud , in a number of places in his works , 9 but principally in a footnote to Civilization and its Discontents , comments at length on the way in which the adoption of an erect posture in man produced what he termed an ‘ organic repression ’ which paved the way for civilization .
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