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1 I 'm going to be talking a bit more later in the presentation about back up and back up performance which is one of the key areas which erm organizations trying to support very large databases have come across as a as a as a major stumbling block or hurdle to get across .
2 Most of the resources for this work have come from within the Division 's normal programme of research .
3 ‘ From the first traces of their existence to this day , no example can be found of an interposition by the courts of Westminster Hall proceeding according to the general law of the land ; but the judges have acted as in a domestic forum .
4 Whatever the truth of the matter Eurotunnel 's costs have risen by at least 48% in the 22 months since construction began .
5 Casting a shadow over the CEGB 's last set of accounts in the state sector , the company announced yesterday that decommissioning costs have doubled to at least £600 million a station .
6 The cover for everyone with Buildings and Contents insurance has now been index-linked , a service which not all our policyholders have benefited from in the past .
7 The man who 's just won an election usually thinks things have gone from to better and the man who 's lost it thinks they have gone from bad to worse .
8 ‘ As far as the family are aware , the only place monkeys have gone to from Woburn is Longleat .
9 Er Now a lot of things in Lakehoff 's paper perhaps people have disagreed with since then such as the things about tag questions and hedges erm I mean some studies have said that if you look at the actual modality of tag questions , like we said before , the actual function of it
10 Erm , we all know the problems that some people have got into by opting out .
11 TWO very popular members of staff have retired from at Wells , Somerset .
12 Such an initiative would complement the United Nations arms register called for by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister , and such an international responsibility is one that I believe Japan would willingly accept , which is why I commend it to my right hon. and hon. Friends .
13 No club has a divine right to win the League year in , year out as the Glens and Blues have done down through the years .
14 On stage , short sight is a positive advantage and many are the flowery eulogies some of our more sensitive critics have launched into in praise of this or that actress 's misty gaze into the middle-distance , which could be more truthfully ascribed to her scarlet frames being confined to the dressing-room table , having failed to match her farthingale .
15 But with upheaval comes renewal , and an unrivalled opportunity to grasp the nettle nursing 's leaders have talked about for years : an opportunity to redefine and reshape the parameters of nursing itself .
16 The materials of rug making are considerably more perishable than those of other types of artefact and consequently very few examples have survived from before the 15th and 16th centuries .
17 And equivalent results have come from at least some studies using the conditioned suppression procedure ( e.g. Baker and Mercier ( 1982b ) , who compared intervals of 1 day and 5 days ; Hall and Minor ( 1984 ) , who compared 1 day and 8 days ; but see also Crowell and Anderson ( 1972 ) ) .
18 The effects of this pressure have emerged in at least one Modular Course evaluation study ( see Table 6.2 , Modular Course Management Structures ) , and a determined attempt has been made to configure the management system in such a way that Field Chairs participate in all Course development decisions , so that special needs are recognized and special difficulties can not be easily ignored .
19 The period of the 1940s and the 1950s was to produce what Samuel Beer has referred to as the welfare state and the managed economy , or what some commentators have referred to as the period of the social democratic consensus .
20 Once it has sprouted and the first few leaves have developed to about an inch , it should be removed and transplanted in the aquarium .
21 It is worth reflecting what a most remarkable contribution women have made to Save The Children throughout its seventy four years history .
22 The planning system invites intelligent use and foresight : it is surprising how many cases have got to within three or four weeks of a public inquiry with no serious thought having been given to what evidence should be presented in favour of the proposals .
23 Thus , it may be argued that , after all the potential policies have appeared in at least one vote , then the outcome of the last vote will be accepted .
24 Child care experts have gathered from throughout Scotland to discuss what can be done to improve the educational record of children in care .
25 No more : City rents have nearly halved from a £70 per sq ft peak in 1987 and capital values have fallen by at least 30 per cent .
26 It is too much to hope that EMI will raid its archives for Solomon 's Chopin , Debussy or Haydn but to keep the work of one of the greatest exponents of the Beethoven sonatas under wraps for so long ( the sonata recordings were last issued in 1972 ) is simply incredible ; especially considering the efforts EMI have gone to in issuing the Beethoven recordings of others .
27 ‘ Two of our employees have worked for over years at this location , Briege Mullan and Arlene Beckett .
28 Yes well , erm I think I mean I I did check with the various trustees last week and the current position is erm there was basically a four hundred and sixty million that er that was the original missing figure , to which now goes back over two years er recoveries have come to into over a hundred thousand now with the
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