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1 Many examples of good rehabilitation practice have developed simply because medical teams have seen obvious need : cardiac rehabilitation , or the support given to people on long-term dialysis or those who have undergone organ transplants , are a few examples .
2 Leo Abse commented on the effects this legislation had on kinship ties when he recorded the support given by people in South Wales to his efforts to reform the divorce law during the 1960s : ‘ Welshmen who had endured the depression had no time for the unctuous pleas for the need at all costs to maintain the unity of family life ’ .
3 Elderly are warned on conmen builders Elderly people in Stockton have been warned about ‘ jobbing builder ’ conmen after a pensioner parted with £2,500 of his savings .
4 Beverley Allitt 's weight dropped from 13st to 7st before the start of her trial at Nottingham Crown Court and defence barrister James Hunt QC told the jury she is suffering from severe anorexia .
5 Beverley Allitt 's weight dropped from 13st to 7st before the start of her trial at Nottingham Crown Court and a defence barrister , James Hunt , QC , told the jury she was suffering from severe anorexia .
6 The tax break enjoyed by people with company cars distorts the market for new cars in Britain , putting private buyers at a disadvantage
7 In those years , the Communist vote dropped from 80% to less than 10% .
8 3 By replacing the new technology allowance with a personal allowance staff who are currently on GS1/2 have had their earning capability curtailed by £300 per year or £6 per week .
9 The Host of the Unforgiven Dead , also known as the Sluagh , is the term used by people from the Scottish Highlands to describe the spirit world .
10 The Great Eastern was again chosen as the laying vessel , work beginning in July 1865 , and the attempt got within 966km of the Newfoundland coast before the cable sheared again .
11 Mountain View , California-based , Clarity Software Inc , has cut a porting and distribution agreement with Sumisho Electronics Systems Inc in Japan , a deal valued at $500,000 in its first year : Sumisho , an affiliate of Sumitomo Corp , the giant trading company , will help Clarity translate Rapport — its Unix office automation software — into Japanese , then sell it locally .
12 According to one study based on data for 29 WFS countries ( Rutstein , 1983 , p.32 ) , among toddlers aged one year , this difference in spacing is associated with a 46 per cent higher mortality of those born less than 24 months after the earlier sibling .
13 Descriptive epidemiological study based on data from the Danish Cancer Registry .
14 Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp still out-invests the New Common Carriers by a considerable margin however : $16,480m total investment compared with $3,672m in total by all New Common Carriers .
15 The figure compared with 55pc in June .
16 And when Albert and Mister Johnny came in , she cut the pie and told them about the big fair that was held every Michaelmas in the Norfolk village where she had lived when she was a little girl about the gay gipsy carts and the fire eater , and the booth where you could have a tooth pulled for sixpence with a brass band to drown your screams ; about the two-headed calf and the Bearded Lady and the Toffee Woman .
17 As the original inhabitants leave these barracks , the estates become unwanted stock allocated to people in the greatest need with the least choice — usually poor households with small children .
18 They are all junior high school students , visiting Britain and Ireland through the ‘ Citizen Ambassador ’ programme run by People to People International .
19 From August 1982 to August 1984 , GKR 's turnover increased from £963000 to £2.5m. , and profits from £46000 to £439000 .
20 Turnover increased from £81.6m to £106.1m in the same period .
21 Total pancreatic DNA content per 100 g body weight increased by 34% at two weeks ( p<0.05 ) and by 82% at three weeks ( p<0.05 ) , while RNA content increased by 60% and 178% ( p<0.001 ) and protein content by 20% and 57% ( p<0.05 ) .
22 Turnover charged from £495m to £524m and earnings per share climbed from 3.5p to 5.1p .
23 In total numbers the army of officialdom increased from 1.3m to 1.7m between 1960 and 1975 [ Bacon and Eltis , 1974 ; Eltis , 1979 ] .
24 In these early days Highlander worked with people in what we would now term industrial relations and workers ' education .
25 Jim Cameron , National Communications Union , criticised the party for being slow to deal with the problems of crime and fear faced by people in council housing schemes .
26 Salivary contamination of the oesophagus accounted for 25% of all bicarbonate measured within the oesophagus and refluxed gastric bicarbonate accounted for 2.5% .
27 It was to be a monthly , the first issue announced , while the second qualified the assertion into a ‘ monthlyish periodical published for people with love ’ .
28 Car crime accounted for 28% of all recorded offences in the year to June 1992 .
29 Farm income slumped from 16% of national income in 1919 to 9% in 1929 .
30 Jewellery and photographic equipment limited to £200 in all .
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