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1 SUPERMAN Alan Shearer destroyed Watford in a personal tour de force as Blackburn coasted into their first League Cup quarter-final for 31 years .
2 Er , here the Policy and Resources Committee also consider that only brought on capital which again issue guidelines which will be reviewed , at the end of January for a final erm , proposal in February .
3 The evening 's highest price was the $440,000 paid by Geneva-based dealer Ali Abu Taam for a late eighteenth/early nineteenth dynasty blue faience inlay head of a king or god , a price far exceeding the upper estimate of $150,000 .
4 ENCAP Process of encapsulating an EVA in a firmer PU shell , hence providing a combination of cushioning and durability .
5 We overnight at Maria Alm in a comfortable gasthof .
6 Pierre Cornette de Saint Cyr sold an unusual interior scene , ‘ Le couronnement de la rosière ’ by the rarely found seventeenth-century French artist Jean Michelin for a mere FFr125,000 ( £12,700 ; $22,300 ) .
7 The bid comes nearly 13 years after Unigate made its first , unsuccessful , attempt to buy Clifford and follows the latter 's announcement in October of a 60 per cent drop in first-half profits to £1.03 million .
8 The Sonata in A minor K.310/300d ( 25 ) was written in the summer of 1778 , following his mother 's death and at a time when he was parted from Aloysia Weber .
9 The SSCM for a clean W{211} surface and RSCM for an oxygen chemisorbed W{211} surface are shown in Fig. 4 .
10 Labour won Langbaurgh with a 3.6 per cent swing from the Conservatives , in a campaign marred by alleged racial insinuations against the successful Labour candidate , Ashok Kumar .
11 In the US , the novel went to HarperCollins for a reported $ 600,000 .
12 UNDRO and the UNHCR appealed in early April for a further US$137,630,000 and $42,456,000 respectively , to aid refugees fleeing Iraq .
13 Even if you 've only got an XT with a paltry 640Kb of RAM you can use TrueType fonts
14 So even if you 've got an XT with a mere 640Kb of RAM you can now have TrueType fonts .
15 Normally , New Scientist heralds the beginning of April with a few jeux d'esprit , but this year it was subdued , predicting only that the world would come to an end on 5 April , a prophecy based on meat consumption figures , though it was hard to make up the mind about an item called ‘ What the woodlouse can teach us about marriage ’ .
16 Immediately adjacent to Sanga Sanga , LASMO is the operator of the large and relatively unexplored Runtu PSC with a 65.63 per cent interest .
17 And he now downgrades his own Maginot Line at Volx to a mere 8b± , after Patrick Edlinger discovered a toe-hook move to overcome the crux .
18 News broke in late June about a 50 per cent reduction in Japanese duty on imported spirits .
19 On the south side of the River Mersey the extension takes in the commercial heart of Birkenhead with a mixed housing/industrial dock hinterland and also housing and leisure areas in New Brighton .
20 Certainly she could not compete on anything like equal terms with Hilda Doolittle , the poet H.D. who , having mythologised her relations with Pound in a roman à clef many years ago , did it all over again just before her death in End to Torment , a supposed ‘ memoir ’ which people seem disposed to take literally , though in its scattiness it may well be as fictionalised as the novel had been .
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