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1 Occupations , ethnic and religious groups , and most importantly styles of life are accorded differing degrees of prestige or esteem by members of society .
2 So perhaps pride of place should go to his recording of the Violin Sonata with Jacques Thibaud , that rarefied distillation of Debussy 's genius , and a work where every phantom from his past seems to rise before him .
3 ‘ Slowly , but very deliberately , the brooding edifice of seduction , creaking and incongruous , came into being , a vast Heath Robinson mechanism , dually controlled by us and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness .
4 As a consequence of this policy loop ileostomy is now used in only 22% of operations .
5 In 1974 , in seven randomly sampled London practices , Heller and Rose found blood pressure recorded in only 10% of men and 18% of women aged 20–39 .
6 Choledocolithiasis is a relatively frequent problem arising in approximately 15% of patients with stones in the gall bladder .
7 Such complications occur in approximately 50% of patients with Barrett 's columnar lined lower oesophagus .
8 Stone recurrence after bile acid therapy occurs in approximately 50% of patients within five years of treatment and then reaches a plateau of 61% by the 11th year .
9 The Five Nations Championship is understandably the envy of the rest of the rugby world and what spice will be added to the coming encounters — notably when England travel once more to Murrayfield on the opening day and return to Paris in February ; when Ireland , so nearly conquerors of champions Australia , run out once more at Lansdowne Road , and Wales begin their brave attempt to rise like some Phoenix from the ashes .
10 For natural selection acts by either now adapting the various parts of each being to its conditions of life , or by having adapted them during long past periods of time ’ .
11 The sediment volume measured could have resulted from a long past phase of forest clearance in an upstream catchment — or a more recent event in a completely different location altogether .
12 So both lack of employment and low pay for those who are employed have contributed to the higher poverty rates .
13 The ministerial portfolio of Mines an Energy , held by Aimé Emmanyel Yoka , was upgraded to a Ministry in the Presidency , and Yoka ( hitherto also Minister of State Control ) additionally took over from Auxence Ickonga as Minister in the Presidency for State Control .
14 Just as there were variations within the Realist movement , so also differences of emphasis were to be found in Britain .
15 What will happen if schools fail to comply with the recommendations remains to be seen — so far introduction of reviews has resulted in substantial voluntary initiatives for change in all Dutch medical schools .
16 So far appreciation of other 's work had been his gift to us .
17 The winners of our Lilliput Lane cottage competition in the Inside Out supplement of March 25 were : David Whyman , Ravensdale Road , Darlington , and Mrs J.M. Russell , Durham Road , Framwellgate Moor .
18 With these lead systems , a non-thoractomy approach can be used successfully in about 75% of patients .
19 Fundal varices originate from the short gastric and epiploic veins in about 12% of patients and occasionally follow an isolated splenic vein thrombosis .
20 Sulphomucin expression has been seen in about 50% of reservoirs but these studies used only random biopsy tissues .
21 Repeated daily injections of the somatostatin analogue , octreotide ( SMS201–995 , Sandostatin ) are an effective treatment for acromegaly , but lead to gall stone formation in about 50% of cases during long term treatment .
22 A single waking interictal electroencephalogram will show epileptiform activity in about 50% of patients with epilepsy .
23 In summary , this studh shows that in about 50% of patients with H pylori negative DU their disease can be explained by NSAID use , underlying Zollinger-Ellison syndrome , or Crohn 's disease .
24 Yet it 's estimated that in about 90% of house burglaries , the thief entered with very little effort .
25 Interferon alfa is the most promising treatment for chronic viral hepatitis , suppressing viral replication in about 30% of patients with chronic hepatitis B or C. In patients with cirrhosis interferon alfa may improve the outcome of the disease and obviate the need for liver transplantation .
26 Previous studies on the distribution of parietal cells and G cells in normal adult stomachs have shown that in about 20% of specimens parietal cells extended to the pylorus .
27 A fact that becomes clear , however , was that the addition of heparin undoubtedly raised the incidence of bleeding ; those on no heparin had no severe bleeding , those who had subcutaneous heparin bled in about 0.5% of cases and those who received full heparin therapy bled in about 1% of cases .
28 If you fancy trying it yourself around harvest time in September , then gather together a few pounds of the bluey-black sloe berries , prick them all over with a fork , smother them in about 6oz of sugar and top up with a litre of gin .
29 I dropped a marker into the swim from the boat and fed in about 5lb of groundbait , three pints of casters and a pint of maggots .
30 Aphthoid ulcers and neoterminal ileitis develop in the early postoperative months in about 70% of patients .
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