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1 Of 24,200 workers thrown on the dole last month , more than half were from the once prosperous region .
2 In one respect , however , the government 's stated intention was noticeably frustrated ; only 38 appointments to District General Manager ( DGM ) posts were made from outside the NHS , and many of these were from the armed forces rather than the private businesses the government wished to tap .
3 For their second book , they interviewed 700 mothers of four-year-old children , but only 275 of these were from the original sample ( Newson and Newson 1968 ) .
4 A total of 75% of the households moving into new owner-occupied dwellings were from the County of Tyne and Wear and the greater part of these were from the Newcastle and North Tyneside MDC areas .
5 These were from the room of Evelyn Bond .
6 Many were from the Polish part of Russia .
7 Both were from the same village as Mr Shahiduddin Postman ; both had managed to get educated and to break out of the village on to the lower rungs of academia .
8 Both were from the 16th Air Defence Regiment of the Royal Artillery .
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