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1 It was a matter of concern , she said , that no money was included in the council 's 1993/94 budget to continue the six units , at Bangor , Deganwy , Caernarfon , Llangefni , Pwllheli and Blaenau Ffestiniog , beyond August .
2 The drive shaft assembly PARTA can then be inserted into a convenient working drawing to allow the 12 increments of rotation to be observed ( see Figure 7.11 ) .
3 If England 's trip comes off it would follow 10 years after they played the last official Test against the Springboks at Johannesburg and would be the perfect dress-rehearsal if South Africa 's strong bid to stage the 1995 World Cup succeeds .
4 NICK FALDO is 7-2 favourite to win the Million Dollar Challenge , which begins in Sun City today .
5 When this is not the case there will almost certainly , however , be periodic attempts to reconcile the two sets of accounts , by comparing the profit shown in the financial accounts with that revealed in the cost accounts .
6 The college 's governing authority voted this afternoon to end the hundred and thirteen year old women-only tradition at Somerville College .
7 To a historian of the health services this decision to rationalize the two hospitals on to one site could be seen as rather disappointing .
8 ‘ We started from the Linn O'Dee and took 7.5 hours to walk the 20 miles through the mountains to Coylumbridge , ’ said Murray .
9 Anticipating the R4000 roll-out , Concurrent plans to upgrade the 7000 from 25Mhz to 33Mhz .
10 It 's expected to take just over 2 weeks to pick the 46 acres of hops grown at Withington Court Farm in Herefordshire .
11 Congress had granted him another amnesty to contest the 1992 election .
12 For poly ( methyl methacrylate ) samples , which were prepared under different conditions to give the three forms , resonances at τ = 8.78 , 8.95 and 9.09 were observed , which were assigned to the isotatic , heterotactic , and syndiotactic triads respectively .
13 The police managed on this occasion to whisk the two away to a more distant jail .
14 He woke in the early hours of this morning to find the 22 year old man engulfed in flames .
15 DOUG Scott , 50 this year , leaves for Nanga Parbat this month to attempt the eight mile Mazeno Ridge on the 8,125 peak .
16 Here , apart from the humorous touch of the Crown Jewels , there is adequate space to house the 2,518 pieces of the silver gadroon , thread and shell pattern dinner service for eighteen people .
17 It would take a brave man to predict the eleven who will take to the field at lunchtime on Wednesday .
18 I was over the moon — although this only lasted for about a year as I paid a visit with some friends to see the 1991 ‘ Sound Off Championships ’ at Wembley .
19 Other installations would be demolished , including the gates ' winding gear ( 'A' and ‘ F ’ ) which hauled the caissons aside to allow ships of up to 85,000 tons to enter the 1,148 feet ( 351m ) dock .
20 They could not even think of washing my hair until I had had this operation to put the two rods in my back . ’
21 As the launch and the bows of the sinking yacht were now almost level it took only a few seconds to transfer the six survivors — another had joined the group of five that Talbot had seen — aboard the launch .
22 He then waved us towards a table where large fluted glasses of champagne were already poured , and Toby 's experienced eye reckoned that there were sufficient reserves of his favourite tipple to get the three dozen or so visitors totally blotto several times over .
23 Both this option and the one derived from the existing design could come in three different sizes to fit the three different pockets envisaged .
24 One of the world 's largest wooden sailing ships is in Gloucester docks this weekend to mark the two hundredth birthday of the world 's first ship canal .
25 A more pressing issue for Europe is that no makeshift Italian government is likely to cut Italy 's public expenditure , let alone raise taxes , to reduce public debt to make the 1993 deadline set for European convergence at Maastricht .
26 He then watched to see how long it took another pair to occupy the two kinds of territory .
27 Alexei thought that it was on the whole foolish to remain where he was while there was an armed trooper to guard the two women .
28 After the breakdown last week of an attempt by the Industrial Relations Commission to settle the dispute by arbitration , Mr Hawke 's government has begun its controversial plan to compensate the three main domestic airlines — Ansett , jointly owned by the TNT transport empire and Rupert Murdoch 's News Corporation , East-West , an Ansett subsidiary , and the government-owned Australian Airlines .
29 , Your aircraft is cruising at a TAS of 120 knots and you find it takes 47 minutes to cover the eighty nautical mile leg from Bembridge to Lydd .
30 At a very gentle pace , it took me less than 7 minutes to cycle the 1.5 miles from Muirwood Rd. to Wester Hailes Shopping Centre — and 10 mins. to get back ( it 's uphill ) .
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