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1 Meanwhile , Britain 's Sally Prosser was only two strokes off the lead after a 72 in the second round of the Republic of China Open , at Chang Gung , in Taipei yesterday .
2 Meanwhile , Britain 's Sally Prosser was only two strokes off the lead after a 72 in the second round of the Republic of China Open , at Chang Gung in Taipei yesterday .
3 Come the tournament he certainly putted well enough , and we were there after a 70 in the first round and a shot behind Jack Nicklaus after the second round .
4 JOSE-MARIA CANIZARES is poised to become the fourth Spanish golfer to pass the £1 million European prize winnings mark after a 69 in the wind-buffeted Rome Masters third round at Castelgandolfo .
5 The problem is more of income distribution than of a failing in the technical working of the credit market itself .
6 Top of the Red Rose bill was Gerry Sadowitz , a comedian who , if he played Leeds Town Centre , could expect , at £100 per F-word , to lose close to quarter of a million in the course of a routine .
7 Pompeii is the most popular archaeological site in Europe , currently attracting two and a half million people a year , and the present exhibition has already drawn an audience of nearly three-quarters of a million in the USA and Sweden .
8 AS GATES FORECASTS NT SALES OF A MILLION IN THE FIRST FOUR MONTHS
9 Fifty thousand went to America last year , the stricter regulations there have switched attention to Israel , which expects three quarters of a million in the next five years .
10 Even in the clothing district , wage earners reached almost 53 per cent in the villages of Cosford hundred , but since they fell short of a third in the rising manufacturing town of Hadleigh , it seems that vigorous industrial growth pushed up the level of earnings .
11 For some while , the trip has had uncomfortable similarities to the Soviet leader 's visit to China last May , when the presence of the man who incarnates reform in the Communist world served as a combustible in the ‘ Peking Spring ’ that was to be forcibly suppressed a fortnight later .
12 After the Second World War — during which time Fred served as a Special in the Metropolitan Police and later in the Royal Artillery — he put in another 111 League appearances and thus became the only Palace player to make a century of appearances on each side of the war .
13 Firstly there is the union meeting at which Gomez 's nomination for a permanent rather than a temporary position as a chargehand in the factory is to be considered .
14 Hugh began as a chargehand in the Teasing Department , where he returned to become foreman after a few years in the Dyed Wool Blending Department .
15 There was about a grand in the old account — my dad 's money came by standing order — but I would n't use it , and what I regarded as my own finances were judging from the tone of the bank 's increasingly frequent letters somewhere in the deep infrared and in serious danger of vanishing from the electromagnetic spectrum altogether .
16 Spring-loaded brakes were fitted to the trailers and acted mechanically through a plunger in the centre pivot of the turntable .
17 Jack faded out of it with a 76 in the third round , though , and then had that fantastic 65 in the last round — all too late .
18 Former Wales football manager Mike England ( Rhuddlan ) led the field after a morning round of 68 but he fell out of contention with a 76 in the afternoon .
19 The pickups are Jackson 's own , with a J92-C in the bridge and a J50-M in the neck .
20 It begins with a fluttering in the mould and rot of the leaf litter .
21 Steve Richardson also moved up with a 70 in the company of Jack Nicklaus , who beat him by a shot , the difference being at the 18th , which Richardson three-putted despite only a wedge for his second shot .
22 The purple patch continued for Andrew Murray immediately after his win at Walton Heath when he broke the course record at Ferndown with a 62 in the Alliss Manitou charity event .
23 He will end with a third in the final chord , even when he omits the fifth , and both he and Crecquillon anticipate Palestrina in the climactic use of great descending scales often in thirds , sixths , or tenths — as at the end of his ‘ Jerusalem surge ’ : or the end of Crecquillon 's ‘ Ingemuit Susanna ’ .
24 I am writing to offer you formally an appointment as an established in the Department of beginning .
25 ‘ They say you can tell all about a person from looking at his books , ’ said Constance , who had become addicted to book-collecting since she had acquired a car-load of secondhand volumes from a fair in the Midlands .
26 I 'd probably best to put it all in a all in the corner there .
27 If an increase in the claim ( or counter-claim ) results in an increased in the plaint fee this must be paid on filing .
28 Watson slipped to a 77 in the third round while Nowicki shot his record breaking 67 , but the lead going into the final round was shared by MacPherson and Cottrell , who added a 71 to his earlier rounds of 73–74 .
29 No matter the weather , one had to go out to a privy next to a coalshed in the backyard .
30 Today we went to a fair in the morning and Loz from Kingmaker won a goldfish in a plastic bag and Bobby Gillespie got thrown off the bumper cars for saying he was Marc Bolan in a Mini and Polly Harvey was a tree .
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