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1 An international commission ruled in Washington DC on Jan. 11 that the Chilean government should pay just over US$2,600,000 in compensation to the families of Orlando Letelier , a former Foreign and Defence Minister and ambassador to the United States under the 1970-73 Allende government , and his US associate , Ronni Moffit .
2 The total UUUC vote should have fallen in the less tense conditions .
3 The major trend of the total Permo-Triassic basin conforms with that of the ‘ Midland Valley ’ .
4 The UK is one of the major beneficiaries of ESF assistance , receiving between 15–20 per cent of the total ESF budget allocation in recent years .
5 We shall examine how they arrived at an indicator of relative need for non-psychiatric hospital in-patient services ( which accounts for over half of the total NHS budget ) .
6 The financial resources proposed by the secretary of state to support the strategy are intended to move over a 5 year period from 0.8% of the total NHS budget to a target of 1.5% .
7 Of the total NHS budget , as we can see from Figure 10.2 , a small part — less than 3 per cent — is taken by the central department to provide central administration , supply a few specialist services and give a few specific grants .
8 But most concern was expressed about nursing , which comprises 50 per cent of the total NHS workforce .
9 Of the total London University theses , 40 were from Imperial College .
10 The CAP budget , already two thirds of the total EEC budget , is again about to breach its strict guidelines .
11 In April 1991 Kaifu visited the USA for talks with Bush , and a multinational Import Board , established as a result of the SII talks , was inaugurated with the aim of reducing the US trade deficit with Japan which in 1990 had amounted to $41,000 million , almost half the total US deficit [ see p. 38148 ] .
12 But on the other hand a quarter of the total US TV audience tunes into it each week .
13 HIS products have increased their share of the total US market for sweeteners from 6 to 13.6 per cent in the past decade , mainly because of demand for diet drinks .
14 Under the terms of the SII agreement the USA and Japan had agreed to take measures to reduce the massive US trade deficit with Japan ( US$41,000 million in 1990 — almost half the total US trade deficit ) .
15 In the Larne-2 borehole ( Fig. 4 ) , the total Triassic salt amounted to 1309 ft .
16 This included a 100 per cent increase in the numbers following the Evening Degree Programme , which attracted a £100,000 grant from the Universities ' Funding Council — 10 per cent of the total UK funding .
17 ( This compares with the total UK electronics industry , which includes instruments , components and consumer electronics .
18 ‘ Bravo will distribute ‘ UK Ltd ’ worldwide , and give the travelling public access to the total UK product , ’ said Bravo spokesman John Roussel .
19 A staggering 17.9% of the total UK population of 7 to 10 year olds are expected to see it — and children are well known to have outstanding recall of cinema advertisements .
20 These two categories make up about 15% of the total UK population .
21 In February 1974 , for example , the Liberals , with 19.3 per cent of the vote , secured only fourteen seats , while the Ulster Unionists with only 1.3 per cent of the total UK vote won eleven seats .
22 In October 1974 the Liberals with 18.3 per cent of the vote won thirteen seats , while the Scottish National Party with only 2.9 per cent of the total UK vote secured eleven seats .
23 But it pointed out that the delays would have only a marginal impact on the total UK production profile and would help to sustain the mid-1990s production plateau beyond the turn of the century .
24 The total UK tax ‘ take ’ in 1991 was £1.6bn
25 The total UK repossession figure is now around the 70,000 mark .
26 In this section we consider the total UK employment impact arising from the production and distribution of Scotch Whisky .
27 According to the UK government , the total UK training market is worth some £33,000m , of which £400m is for information technology .
28 The current dip in farm spending as a proportion of the total EC budget merely reflects higher outlays on the Community 's regional and social programmes .
29 Despite this increase in size , and the fact that regional aid can contribute a significant input of resources to any particular area , it still remains the case that the extent of Community regional assistance is small , amounting to just 25 per cent of the total EC budget by 1992 .
30 Will Free Range Eggs be limited to about 15% of the total U.K. Egg Production ?
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