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1 However , on Jan. 11 , 1990 , the United States announced that it was to cut its 1990 contribution to FAO from $70,000,000 to $18,000,000 and would consider withdrawing from the organization altogether .
2 ‘ Are ye leaving so soon , Master English Clerk ? ’ she asked suggestively , her eyes boldly studying Corbett from head to toe .
3 He no longer drives a two-tone Rolls , no longer smokes or drinks , and he 's changed the colours of his Victorian house in Primrose Hill from black to white .
4 He 'd come to our house in Delaporte from time to time .
5 She examined Frankie from head to toe with prying eyes and searching , penetrating fingers ; and she found him lacking .
6 ‘ The new material culture will mean McDonalds from Sicily to Scotland . ’
7 The B.C. Electric Co. sponsored a broadcast series of symphony concerts making use of famous conductors who visited Vancouver from time to time .
8 A major route between the eastern and western empires , the Via Egnatia , involved a ferry crossing of the Adriatic from Brindisi to Durazzo .
9 Isvik had been built in the Canadian Maritimes for an American millionaire who wanted to emulate Staff Sergeant Henry Larsen of the Royal Canadian Mounties who , in the years 1940 — 42 , had sailed the schooner St Roch from west to east through the North-West Passage .
10 REGIONAL THEATRE / West of the West End : Paul Arnott tracks Shadowlands from Plymouth to London
11 The Secretary of State may not increase the NNDR from year to year by more than the increase in the Retail Price Index .
12 PLR 's annual budget will rise in February from £4.75m to £5m .
13 The measures already taken in preceding weeks towards economic liberalization had led to unrest and strikes , which spread in February from journalists to mill and construction workers and doctors , and to oil workers .
14 From Scotrail outlining the present position of services from Curriehill station and the introduction of new electric services on 11th May from Kirknewton to Waverley .
15 From Scotrail outlining the present position of services from Curriehill station and the introduction of new electric services on 11th May from Kirknewton to Waverley .
16 He rejoined Edward in Gascony in the autumn and attended the general council at Lyons from May to July of 1274 , returning to England for Edward 's coronation on 19 August .
17 Earlier this month it announced the £48.8 million acquisition of Clifford Foods , which delivers milk across five counties in the south of England from Kent to Cornwall .
18 The rest are mainly either inter-urban routes like Portsmouth-Bristol , quite busy branch lines like the Cornish branches or the South Wales branches ; or they are former main lines from which InterCity has progressively withdrawn — like the Settle & Carlisle , the former Glasgow & South Western Glasgow route , Newport-Crewe , the trans-Pennine lines and some cross-country routes crossing England from east to west .
19 The Rover ambled across England from east to west .
20 This was North Down , a relative haven of tranquillity in a troubled land , hugging the prosperous southern coastline of Belfast Lough from Holywood to Bangor and inland to the housing estates of Dundonald .
21 If any body governed Athens from day to day , it was the council of 500 , which met on about 300 days in the year , and which had , among other duties , the task of preparing the agenda for meetings of the assembly .
22 It is also the meeting of the cultured city dweller , who led Odysseus from undergrowth to city palace , with the savage Cyclops who wished to eat the hero in a cave .
23 In the 1530s , there were pockets of Lutheranism in various parts of the country , notably in Ayrshire , and in eastern Scotland from Lothian to Aberdeenshire ; Edinburgh itself witnessed ‘ a great abjuration of the favourers of Martin Luther ’ at Holyrood Abbey in 1532 , and the burning of five heretics in 1539 .
24 Lynch moved the headquarters of boxing in Scotland from Edinburgh to Glasgow , and made practicable the use of football stadiums for open-air boxing shows .
25 Ainslie settled in Parliament Square in the midst of the Old Town of Edinburgh from where he published on 1 March 1778 a map of eastern Scotland from Moffat to Arbroath .
26 The latest Chart from Imray Laurie Norie & Wilson covers not only the east coast of Scotland from Helmsdale to St Abbs Head but also the Caledonian Canal to Fort William plus enlargements of Fraserburgh , Helmsdale and the Inverness Firth .
27 When Edward delayed his consent to the election , Clement , whose own preference was for Walter Langton , reserved the see , but in October 1313 translated Walter Reynolds from Worcester to Canterbury where he remained until his death in November 1327 .
28 ‘ We hear from Denmark from time to time , ’ Eochaid said .
29 On Lan 's other side Tam shot an accusing look at Kim from time to time as if to make unmistakably clear to his father that he had done everything possible to dissuade Kim from his folly .
30 In an escalation of the confrontation , the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet voted in closed session on May 21 to rescind the 1954 decree ceding the Crimea from Russia to Ukraine [ see p. 13507 ] .
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