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1 The decision came just eight hours before the deadline imposed by the British Olympic Association ( BOA ) for cities to be considered as the British nomination .
2 Can be booked from the Pegasus in advance by phone on ( 0865 ) 722851 — please pick up reserved tickets 45–30 minutes before the performance .
3 Ian Crook gave Norwich a 13th minute lead , but Peter Ndlovu equalised with a stunning solo goal eight minutes before the break .
4 Hadleigh 's winner came eight minutes before the end when Keys set up the chance for Smith to score his second with a shot on the run .
5 Kerr gave Vale the lead when he latched on to a perfectly weighted Slaven pass to shoot home deftly after 14 minutes and eight minutes before the interval Slaven strolled into the penalty area before finishing in style .
6 Giuseppe Gazzaniga 's Don Giovanni received its first performance in February 1787 during the Venice Carnival , a mere eight months before the Prague première of Mozart 's version .
7 Another , eight months before the murder , reads : ‘ I wish Alison could just disappear as if she never existed ’ .
8 Thus for a bond issued on 1 January , 1990 , the base for indexing would be given by the level of the RPI in April , 1989 ; the uplift for capital value in January of each subsequent year would depend on the change in the RPI to April of the preceding year and all sums paid in interest would depend on the level of the RPI eight months before the payment date .
9 Applications from Centres seeking HCIMA approval to offer programmes of study leading to the Association 's Professional Certificate and/or Professional Diploma , must be submitted to HCIMA at least eight months before the date on which it is proposed to start the programme .
10 Detective Superintendent Owen Taylor , who is leading the inquiry team , said yesterday that three people were spotted in an E-registration , black Nissan Micra car , near allotments close to the barracks at 8.15pm on 21 September , which was 12 hours before the bombing in which 10 bandsmen died .
11 MCLAREN 's problems appeared to intensify as the race approached , with the Austrian swapping cars 30 minutes before the start and then being forced to start from the pit-lane when he failed to make the parade lap .
12 The best results are obtained if insulin is administered at least 30 minutes before the meal ( Lean et al , 1985 ) .
13 RESERVED TICKETS WILL BE HELD UNTIL 30 MINUTES BEFORE THE PERFORMANCE .
14 Police said a warning given 30 minutes before the explosions identified Liverpool and not Warrington as the target .
15 Less than 30 minutes before the blasts , a Samaritans office on Merseyside received a coded message from a man with an Irish accent .
16 The police said that a telephone warning had been received about 30 minutes before the explosion but the caller had been " deliberately misleading " about the location of the bomb .
17 Preparation of the reservoir for endoscopy was performed with a phosphate enema 30 minutes before the examination .
18 It is recommended that LIFESPAN facilities are made unavailable for 30 minutes before the shutdown so that any outstanding transactions may be completed .
19 The protocol was performed in 16 rats from each dietary group that received indomethacin ( 5 mg/kg subcutaneously ) 30 minutes before the 100 µmol HCl pulse .
20 Doors will open 30 minutes before the advertised programme time and admission will only be possible up to 10 minutes before the programme .
21 The audience was sitting waiting , about forty-five minutes before the start .
22 It was forty minutes before the Wessex arrived .
23 Mike Fitzpatrick capsized 2 minutes before the start but managed to right himself in such a position that he was first away on the gun although he was to drop back to 30th .
24 The postponement of Lok Sabha and State Assembly elections in Punjab was announced on June 21 , less than 30 hours before the scheduled start of polling in the state .
25 Thus , the work of Fama et al on the significance of scrip issues indicated that the issues themselves did not tell the market anything it did not already know from its analysis of the company 's performance during the 30 months before the split .
26 An application will be accepted up to 2 months before the date the licence is required .
27 The second , by Smith found a small price fall of 1.4 per cent in the 2 months before the issue which was followed by a compensating rise in the 2 months after the issue .
28 This patient had a history of chest pain , although a negative exercise test had been recorded 7.5 months before the episode .
29 The LFS shows that a quarter of all persons who had been unemployed 12 months before the survey , but who were in work on the survey date , had temporary jobs , compared with just over three per cent who had been in work on both dates .
30 Churchill began his campaign on 12 December before the Royal Empire Society with an onslaught on Dominion Status as ‘ a hideous act of self-mutilation astounding to every nation in the world ’ ; continued it for a more general audience by personally hiring the Free Trade Hall in Manchester ; and moved inexorably towards his Shadow Cabinet resignation at the end of January .
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