| Colombia has also had constant rebellions and civil unrest for the last fifty years. |
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| Women make bark cloth that can reach fifty feet in length and fifteen feet in width. |
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| Dish antennas now receive more than fifty television channels via satellite signals. |
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| The book contains more than fifty examples of innovative solutions or approaches to problems or annoyances that impact our lives. |
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| He began fifty years ago as a Shakespeare scholar, with a learned and still necessary edition of The Tempest. |
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| In 1803 Napoleon exiled her to twenty leagues, roughly fifty miles, from Paris. |
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| A league was three standard miles, so fifty leagues was one hundred fifty miles. |
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| Nothing too frightening happened, except for the fact that he was relieved of fifty euro by two large gentlemen. |
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| Two hundred lakhs have been given to Kandy and two hundred and fifty lakhs to develop Kalutara and Ratnapura. |
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| In England, for example, there were some fifty religious houses in 1066 and perhaps 1,000 monks and nuns. |
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| Worryingly, Japanese investors would have to wait for close to fifty years to be completely sure of making inflation-beating profits. |
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| About fifty yards ahead there was a thrush sitting high and singing innocently in an ash tree that overhung the road. |
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| His father owned and worked a small farm of some fifty acres in County Derry in Northern Ireland. |
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| My customary answer is to count to fifty and then, after confirming that nobody knows or cares that I'm still on the line, I hang up. |
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| Over one hundred and fifty prophecies exist concerning the coming of a messiah and saviour. |
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| Imagine about a fifty metre span of wire inexpertly strung, sneaking through those coolibahs, wilgas and whitewoods. |
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| Foreigners unfamiliar with local customs often find themselves tied to a post and receiving fifty lashes. |
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| Women, as well as their accomplices, found guilty of this crime received fifty lashes. |
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| In the fresh wind the vibration of the shrouds as fifty men ran up the ratlines could be distinctly heard. |
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| After a few minutes of hard rowing, she was directly east of the whirlpool, but only fifty feet away. |
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| Her car had been found on the Yorkshire moors, whereas she'd reappeared about fifty miles from there. |
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| Rudyard Kipling coined the term, The Great Game, to describe one hundred and fifty years of intrigue, military adventurism, and espionage. |
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| In its third report, published in April 2000, the anti-corruption commission identified over fifty such cases for adjudication. |
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| Rush trained as a ship carver and operated an active workshop for more than fifty years. |
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| During my nearly fifty years with small boats I have not even once come to harm due to problems with weatherliness. |
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| There was only a fifty percent chance that they'd actually get quizzed on the material tomorrow, but she couldn't chance it. |
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| The sound of fifty plus guns being cocked ready to fire echoed throughout the enclosed hangar. |
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| Watch this space to see how the three hundred and fifty pound camera compares with the thirty quid webcam. |
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| It cost me fifty quid, or about seventy-five US dollars and I was happy to pay it. |
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| In nature, jawfish live in colonies of from fifty to several hundred extremely territorial individuals. |
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| His fifty five evocative studies on paper in charcoal, ink and watercolor show the artist's process leading to the completed 7 by 9 foot screen. |
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| But using a famously queeny actor to accomplish this task of reassurance makes the film interesting to us fifty years later. |
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| I yelled after them, but they didn't hear me on account of already being fifty metres away. |
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| This drive housed fifty 24-inch disks, had an access time of 600 milliseconds, and a capacity of 5.0 megabytes. |
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| Trail fifty or sixty yards of line behind the boat with no sinker, swivel or anything on the line. |
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| I fell short of genius category by a full fifty points, barely enough to qualify me to sharpen their pencils. |
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| I quickly left the midges behind but they were not about to give up and descending into Tarsaughaun, I could hear the hum at fifty yards. |
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| Now we see him together with a team of fifty people execute a plan and successfully separate the twin girls. |
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| About fifty years ago I was interested in the current polemic in the field of malariology the exoerythrocytic cycle of the malaria parasite. |
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| At the abandoned fort, the 54th destroyed more than fifty bales of cotton, a gristmill, and a sawmill. |
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| A plank fifty feet long and eight inches thick could be sawn on both edges in less than five minutes! |
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| The so-called sarsen stones, each weighing as much as fifty tons, came from Marlborough Downs, twenty miles away. |
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| Meanwhile, you're standing fifty yards away with a sneer, a telephoto lens and a directional microphone. |
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| I don t know many men of fifty six who are as fit as you are and the whole community salutes you, the undisputed King of Booleigh! |
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| He then leapt fifty feet into the air to avoid the machine gun fire from the SWAT team. |
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| Her off-the-shoulder gown, which she disliked intensely, was made of fifty yards of ivory silk taffeta. |
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| One knows about St Anthony being tempted with luscious women, in visions which appeared precisely because there were no women for fifty miles. |
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| He became the first student from his local grammar school to go to Cambridge in fifty years, where he studied English and art history. |
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| During the fifty plus years of his working life he saw the reputation and value of the modern art he admired rise. |
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| Despite all the snow we were able to drive at speeds of around fifty mph without any problem. |
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| Bunyan's archetypal characters are dramatically illustrated through fifty masterful watercolor portraits by Barry Moser. |
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| For all its archaizing grotesqueness, or partly because of that, it was the only translation of many of Nietzsche's works for almost fifty years. |
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| Most medieval people lived out their short lifetimes within a radius of fifty miles of their birthplace. |
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| Adkins later noted that the top fifty rodeo riders make roughly a half a million dollars a year nowadays. |
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| Forty or fifty feet before it lay the broken remains of a section of stone wall that had been erected there, possibly as a target. |
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| I have to rewash about fifty percent of the dishes, and the ones I kept are not good and clean either. |
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| So, once we were finished cutting it together and before we took it to Sundance, I sold him a copy for fifty Bucks. |
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| Within three years, Powell's opus received some fifty performances under such maestros as Sir Donald Francis Tovey, Pierre Monteux and Walter Damrosch. |
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| We go off boozing a couple of times a summer, go to some fancy restaurant fifty miles away. |
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| The summer of 2012, the hottest ever recorded in the United States, coincided with the worst drought in fifty years. |
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| It was as if the five were charged with fifty counts of shoplifting, and one of strangling a grandmother. |
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| The largest country in Africa had emerged within the space of fifty years from a welter of bloodshed and anarchy to lie at peace with its neighbours and itself. |
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| It contains some three hundred bird species, ninety mammals, fifty species of fish big and small with one thousand seven hundred flowering plants. |
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| Over the past fifty years I have used dozens of fly fishing rods. |
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| For more than fifty years, women have been talking about what it means to be a woman. |
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| He was fined seventy quid and given fifty pounds costs against him. |
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| On the Spice tour you will learn about fifty different spices and fruit that grow on the island, from cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla, cloves, to jackfruit and sugarcane. |
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| There has been a considerable geographical shift in population over the last fifty years, disguised in part by the overall increase resulting from the baby boom. |
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| On the sports event side, more than fifty racing cars are enrolled. |
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| By 1788, debt service alone would absorb fifty percent of annual revenue. |
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| She had fifteen coppers, twelve silvers, and fifty gold pieces. |
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| The support they receive from the fans is incredible considering that the number of trophies they have won in the last fifty years can be counted on the fingers of one hand. |
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| For fifty years there was no economic progression and by the time that Latvia broke free from the Soviet Union in 1991 its economy was in tatters. |
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| Howard estimated he easily weighed three hundred and fifty kilos. |
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| Ten, twenty years ago a chief executive officer in an American company maybe made fifty to seventy times more than the lowest ranking employee in his firm. |
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| The Backbone was a half-mile of barren limestone only fifty feet in width with nearly vertical sides and a few boulders and a few clumps of pines dotting its top. |
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| A two-bedroom flat in bijou Holly Walk, not far from Hampstead Heath but not exactly in view of it either, was just fifty quid shy of a million pounds. |
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| Legendary Italian seducer Casanova is rumored to have eaten more than fifty oysters a day to boost his sexual prowess. |
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| Most of my winter chub fishing experience over the past fifty or more years has been gained mainly on small rivers or the upper reaches of the bigger rivers. |
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| When you get the kind of discharge I had, they give you a suit and fifty dollars. |
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| There are fifty known varieties of these dreaded creatures, all classified under the general title of Thanatophidia. |
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| The average is probably around three or four, but some tapespondents have more than fifty contacts. |
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| Jim will win fifty dollars in the office sweep if Japan wins the World Cup. |
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| Now on his son's birthday feast there came unto the king some five and fifty chosen men, schooled in the starlore of the Chaldaeans. |
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| A fifty yard runback of a punt by Jack Reed in the fourth period gave Bowdoin a 6-0 win over Williams today in a driving rain. |
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| After a gap of fifty years, on 3 November 1990, the RNLI reopened Teignmouth Lifeboat Station with an Atlantic 21 inshore lifeboat. |
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| There are generally three to five vertebrae with the sacrum, and anything up to fifty caudal vertebrae. |
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| The Lunar Society evolved through various degrees of organisation over a period of up to fifty years, but was only ever an informal group. |
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| The first legal steps taken to end the occurrence of child labour was enacted more than fifty years ago. |
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| In the next fifty years only a few small changes were made to the engine design. |
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| None of this would have been possible using the technology of Crompton's time, fifty years earlier. |
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| I reckoned above two hundred and fifty on the outside of the church. Joseph Addison. |
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| I read on. It will cost two hundred and fifty quid. I felt a quell of alarm, that's quite expensive. |
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| With almost ten million residents, Michigan is a large and influential state, ranking tenth in population among the fifty states. |
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| The fifty American states are separate sovereigns, with their own state constitutions, state governments, and state courts. |
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| The church mainly observes the fifty days before the period of Easter and Twenty five days before Christmas as fast days. |
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| It was a historic and a hefty battle when Myler and Percy were scheduled to don the gloves for the purse of fifty sovereigns. |
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| More than fifty million people cross the border between these two cities every year. |
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| What fifty men dared not have done, one woman did! a painted, patched, fucused, periwigged, bolstered, Charybdis, cannibal, Megaera, Lamia! |
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| Perhaps ten per cent of the population lived in one of fifty burghs that existed at the beginning of the period, mainly in the east and south. |
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| My father was talking to the World's Fair Commission yesterday, and they estimate it's going to cost a cool fifty million. |
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| With this once long lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset. |
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| Given the number of homes, it seems likely that no more than fifty people lived in Skara Brae at any given time. |
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| About fifty years later, in 1675, the Danish astronomer Ole Roemer had the genial idea of using astronomical rather than terrestrial distances. |
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| A geofence could be a mile or more around a store or it could be fifty feet from the front door, whatever the business decides. |
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| The fifty little brown musicians rendered difficult selections with marvelous accuracy and gingersome dash and artistic enjoyment of the work. |
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| One hundred fifty Gothics sold over 1.5 million copies a month last spring. |
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| There had been an historic use of Welsh in the WI, and with over two hundred and fifty branches in Wales this decision was unpopular. |
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| Up until 2008, the lion symbol was depicted behind Britannia on the British fifty pence coin and on the back of the British ten pence coin. |
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| Third, the definitive edition of Aristotle's texts seems to have been made in Athens some fifty years before Andronicus supposedly compiled his. |
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| By the 1590s Scotland was organized into about fifty presbyteries with about twenty ministers in each. |
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| Then, unable to walk, they would be slain by their own men, in order to avoid capture, so that a full fifty thousand died. |
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| The fifty Minnesotans were given the signs by event organizers, Thompson and Jackson explained. |
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| The average number of children in charge is about 90. One hundred and fifty could be accommodated. |
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| Let us go on to the Rotunda, a hall of fifty feet diameter, with ten windows, richly intercolumniated, and a vaulted roof ornamented with stucco. |
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| The robbers had probably taken out one hundred dollars for present use, and fifty for the snare which was to intrap the captain of the yacht. |
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| By 1850, rates had fallen to a penny a ton mile for coal, at speeds of up to fifty miles an hour. |
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| At the forefront of politics for fifty years, he held many political and cabinet positions. |
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| All but three of the fifty nine constituencies in the country elected an SNP candidate. |
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| In 1986 they introduced the Index of Economic Freedom, which is based on some fifty variables. |
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| The assassins seized the castle and eventually their families and friends took refuge with them, about a hundred and fifty men in all. |
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| One hundred years ago, to have lit this theatre as brilliantly as it is now lighted would have cost, I suppose, fifty pounds. |
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| His views reflected a sentiment stated fifty two years earlier by Tom Rolt in his 1959 book Brunel. |
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| From 1710 Glasgow became the focus of an economic boom which lasted nearly fifty years. |
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| Voltaire wrote between fifty and sixty plays, including a few unfinished ones. |
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| Another was compiled about fifty years later by John of Salisbury at the behest of Thomas Becket. |
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| The lower half of a duplex apartment on a shabby Montreal street, dark as limbo, jerry-built fifty years ago and going off keel ever since. |
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| Over fifty such designations are available, many of them rare or no longer in use. |
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| In addition, pensions were introduced for blind persons aged fifty and above. |
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| There is little data on their life span, but it is believed to be at least fifty years, and some may live more than a century. |
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| On the other hand, scientists and conservationists push for stringent protection, warning that many stocks could be wiped out within fifty years. |
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| This new Hansa of the towns, aimed at protecting interests of the merchants and trade, was prominent for the next hundred and fifty years. |
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| You're entitled to bring a bag weighing fifty pounds onto the airplane, and will be charged extra for any overage. |
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| During the next fifty years, the Greeks commanded the Aegean, but not harmoniously. |
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| Clothing items were one example of this, greatcoats and boots being produced at up to fifty times the normal peacetime rates. |
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| At any one time there are about fifty societies and clubs in existence, catering for a wide range of interests and largely run by boys. |
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| Common toads can live for many years and have survived for fifty years in captivity. |
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| Near the crater deposits are over fifty metres, and even five kilometres away they are still ten metres thick. |
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| According to Gilje and data collected at the time of the American Revolution, the ages of pirates ranged from fourteen to fifty years old. |
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| This flowing or flamboyant tracery was introduced in the first quarter of the 14th century and lasted about fifty years. |
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| Penwith's population has remained broadly static for the last one hundred and fifty years. |
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| After a period of fifty years has passed, Beowulf defeats a dragon, but is fatally wounded in the battle. |
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| There are an estimated one hundred and fifty million tribal individuals worldwide, constituting around forty percent of indigenous individuals. |
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| It takes its name from the township of Canegrate where, in the 20th century, some fifty tombs with ceramics and metal objects were found. |
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| Around fifty structures were erected, restored or completed, achievements second only to those of Augustus. |
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| Traffic of one erlang refers to a single resource being in continuous use, or two channels being at fifty percent use, and so on, pro rata. |
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| A private limited company is a voluntary association comprising of at least two and at the most fifty members. |
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| A hundred and fifty soldiers of the Macedonian army will be trained as part of the European Union Battlegroup in Belgium and Luxembourg. |
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| As original work songs, shanties flourished during a period of about fifty years. |
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| After the fifty days had passed, Pizarro started preparations for the return to Hispaniola, when Enciso's ship arrived. |
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| Throughout the Ming dynasty, around fifty texts were published on the treatment of smallpox. |
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| Almost blind, and having lived in England for nearly fifty years, he died in 1759, a respected and rich man. |
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| Out of fifty people who said they would attend, we only had three no-shows. |
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| He also sighted the Amazon River and ascended to a point about fifty miles from the sea. |
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| Even at the time of its downfall, the Medici bank was the biggest bank in Europe, with at least seven branches and over fifty factors. |
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| This Royal Commission recommended several measures that would affect the lives of Indian labourers during the next fifty years. |
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| There are some fifty elements of a comprehensive passage plan depending on the size and type of vessel. |
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| There will be more than two hundred beers and barley wines from fifty regional brewers. |
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| It covered 10 square kilometers and had a population of thirty to fifty thousand. |
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| The family of a certain papal official made and unmade popes for fifty years. |
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| Established with five hundred settlers, it was abandoned eight months later by one hundred and fifty survivors. |
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| Salvatore in Duisburg where a memorial was erected about fifty years after his death. |
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| Over the next fifty years, the central government responded to Cossack grievances with arrests, floggings, and exiles. |
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| The Stroganovs were also ordered to support this group with an additional fifty men upon their arrival in Perm. |
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| Over the next fifty years the Rhondda would grow to become the largest producer of coal of the age. |
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| Together with nearly twenty other Loyalist families, they settled before 1785 at Lac Maskinonge, nearly fifty miles northwest of Sorel. |
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| Over the last fifty years, dairy farming has become more intensive to increase the yield of milk produced by each cow. |
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| Esperanto is probably between the fifty languages which are most used internationally. |
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| If one studies fifty languages one may yet travel through a country and not know the language. |
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| He also worked in films throughout his career, playing more than fifty cinema roles. |
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| The friendship and professional association lasted for more than fifty years, until the end of Richardson's life. |
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| The fifty works that visit yielded, fifteen of which comprised this show, began as horticultural residua. |
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| He appeared in more than fifty more plays on television over the next four decades. |
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| Empire Cedric was the first vessel of the ASN fleet to hold a Passenger Certificate, and was allowed to carry fifty passengers. |
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| Swiftly banned by Paris police chief Jean Chiappe, it was unavailable for fifty years. |
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| The structure was approximately fifty feet high with the peak of the roof reaching almost seventy feet. |
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| Under orders from the tsar, the Stroganovs had contributed fifty cavalry to the reinforcement party. |
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| For the first fifty years of their existence, England played their home matches all around the country. |
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| In 331, Constantine I commissioned Eusebius to deliver fifty Bibles for the Church of Constantinople. |
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| It was healthy and magnificient because one room, above a mews, somewhere near the river, contained fifty excited, talkative, friendly people. |
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| For fifty years, Cornelius Rogge tried to tell the world this story. |
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| Regulations at the time required that a minimum of fifty cars be manufactured. |
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| Of the fifty yachtsmen who sent letters of intent to compete, only five eventually started. |
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| He sailed the last fifty miles with a tiny sailplan to keep the boat upright. |
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| Captain Andrew Gale stood up to Rankin with two sixes but he was caught on 40 and is still without a fifty this season. |
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| Whatever the results of the investigation, Mussolini insisted that the Greek government pay Italy fifty million lire in reparations. |
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| Sport Wales recognise over fifty governing bodies of sports in Wales, which represent their sports. |
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| The year of George's accession, 1714, marked the ascendancy of the Whigs who would remain in power for the next fifty years. |
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| In January 1943 Hitler signed a decree requiring all women under the age of fifty to report for work assignments to help the war effort. |
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| The role and power of the Prime Minister have been subject to much change in the last fifty years. |
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| Ordnance Survey maps remain in copyright for fifty years after their publication. |
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| This aircraft, which could also feature new engines, would accommodate an additional fifty passengers. |
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| There have been over fifty studies showing tendencies for violence to be more common in societies where income differences are larger. |
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| In addition, Doyle wrote over fifty short stories featuring the famous detective. |
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| Nearly fifty thousand devotees attended the annual Jagannath Rath Yatra held on Thursday in Mumbai. |
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| He has been based in Los Angeles since 1997 and has composed the scores to over fifty feature films. |
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| The flies lay their eggs at the end of June in the ground around the narcissi, a single female fly being able to lay up to fifty eggs. |
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| The National Assembly consists of fifty elected members, who are chosen in elections held every four years. |
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| Then, out of about one thousand seven hundred and fifty members, dangle a carrot of wealthiness to ten members. |
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| My land is uphand black loam, which I value at fifty dollars per acre, and three crops is the most I have grown consecutively on the same ground. |
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| The Huexotzinco Cacique remained in Sandoval's camp with fifty men. |
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| So what this boils down to is that you still owe me that fifty bucks. |
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| Plus, to be honest, the look on his face when he realized how very busted they were was worth far more than the fifty dollars I paid for their dinner. |
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| It is now reduced to one fanam, or fifty per cent per annum, and no person is to receive more, under penalty of fine, according to the circumstances of the case. |
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| In fifty cases out of a hundred, booksellers who make grangerizing a speciality find it pays far better to break up an illustrated book than to sell it intact. |
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| At the age of sixteen, boy it was hard yakka, pouring fifty ton of red hot molten gun metal from the big firebrick lined oil furnace almost every day of the working week. |
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| Ironic has been used vaguely at best for a good a hundred and fifty years. |
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| The population pyramid for Iron Age Britain would have been a classic pyramid in shape, with no significant number of people older than fifty years. |
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| For almost fifty years the vastly wealthy holders of this earldom, first Godwin and then his son Harold, were the most powerful men in English politics after the king. |
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| Augustine's Soliloquies, and the first fifty psalms of the Psalter. |
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| I have formed many intimacies and friendships here, but I am afraid they are all of too tender a construction to bear carriage a hundred and fifty miles. |
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| In 1664, Sir John Cutler settled an annual gratuity of fifty pounds on the Society for the founding of a Mechanick Lecture, and the Fellows appointed Hooke to this task. |
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| As of 2009, it is taught in fifty primary schools, although regular broadcast in Cornish is limited to a weekly bilingual programme on BBC Radio Cornwall. |
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| I couldn't believe my luck when I found a fifty dollar bill on the street. |
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| The Mahayana texts are inconsistent in their discussion of the Paramitas, and some texts include lists of two, others four, six, ten and fifty two. |
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| The OFT offered both Winchester College and Eton a fifty percent reduction in their penalties in return for their full cooperation with the investigation. |
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| Following the Great Fire of London, Wren rebuilt fifty three churches, where Baroque aesthetics are apparent primarily in dynamic structure and multiple changing views. |
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| And also, the sum of ten pounds per annum, during life, to every person now living, of the age of fifty years, and to all others as they shall arrive at that age. |
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| By the early 1950s she had reached the peak of her output, often publishing more than fifty books a year, and she remained extremely prolific throughout much of the decade. |
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| His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over nearly fifty years. |
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| Hitchcock directed more than fifty feature films in a career spanning six decades and is often regarded as one of the most influential directors in cinematic history. |
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| As of June 2009, there were players from nineteen countries in the top fifty of the men's world rankings, with England and Egypt leading with eleven each. |
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| Between 1992 and 2008, about fifty athletes emigrated to the United States to compete on the US Olympic team after having previously competed for another nation. |
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| Under the terms of the agreement, China was obliged to leave Hong Kong's economic status unchanged after the handover on 1 July 1997, for a period of at least fifty years. |
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| Operation Resolute Support, will involve 28 NATO nations, 14 partner nations, eleven thousand American troops, and eight hundred fifty German troops. |
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| At the start of May, a NATO aircraft attacked an Albanian refugee convoy, believing it was a Yugoslav military convoy, killing around fifty people. |
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| The 10 shilling note then in use was lasting only five months and it had been suggested that a coin, which could last fifty years, would be more economical. |
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| With these acts, Bruce had successfully destroyed the power of the Comyns, which had controlled much of northern and southwestern Scotland for over a hundred and fifty years. |
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| This version of events was written in the north of England some fifty years later and has suspicious similarities with details about the Battle of Stirling Bridge in Scotland. |
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| Nowadays, the house mouse is the most commonly used laboratory rodent, and in 1979 it was estimated that fifty million were used annually worldwide. |
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| In 1721 the infamous pirate Captain Roberts was cornered off the coast of Africa by a Captain Ogle in the HMS Swallow, a powerful fifty gun warship. |
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| The whisky usually contains over fifty percent alcohol by volume in the maturing casks, while the commercial brands are diluted to 40 to 45 percent. |
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| During Roman times, flowers were sold for 100 denarii per pound, which was about the same as a month's wages for a farm laborer, or fifty haircuts from the local barber. |
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| These five were some of the fifty Germanic tribes at the time. |
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| In 561 Chlothar died and his realm was divided, in a replay of the events of fifty years prior, between his four sons, with the chief cities remaining the same. |
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| The monastery at Iona on the west coast was first raided in 794, and had to be abandoned some fifty years later after several devastating attacks. |
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| Tomatoes were grown in elite town and country gardens in the fifty years or so following their arrival in Europe and were only occasionally depicted in works of art. |
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| De Ojeda asked Pizarro to leave some men in the settlement for fifty days and, if no help arrived at the end of that time, to use all possible means to get back to Hispaniola. |
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| Francisco Pizarro was placed in charge of the fort and ordered to stay there for the fifty days that it would take for Ojeda to travel to and return from Santo Domingo. |
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| However, Ojeda never returned to San Sebastian and after the fifty days Pizarro decided to leave the colony in the two brigs along with the 70 colonists. |
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| When the Spaniards arrived in 1519, the territory was still home to a population of about 250,000 people living in fifty population centers and speaking four Totonac dialects. |
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| Science has made extraordinary progress in the last fifty years. |
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| Here he met the first Ainu and managed to kill fifty of them. |
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| Michigan is fifty percent forest land, much of it quite remote. |
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| Indeed, one of the great surprises of my editorial work has been to discover how few of the over fifty manuscripts that I collated actually follow the vulgate in key readings. |
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| South Korea has done much better by economic criteria than India over the past fifty years, though its success also has to do with effective state institutions. |
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| By the time of the 1831 general election, out of 406 elected members, 152 were chosen by fewer than 100 voters each, and 88 by fewer than fifty voters. |
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| The chemical industry has shown rapid growth for more than fifty years. |
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| We enter by one of several great doors, and find ourselves in a rotunda of fifty feet diameter, and the floor laid in mosaic work of blue and white marble. |
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| Arrived at the bottom, you find yourself in a rotunda corresponding to that you entered from the street, a round room, with marble floor, fifty feet in diameter. |
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| Gold at Nome was concentrated in three ancient beach lines, now inshore, above sea level, and buried under roughly fifty feet of permafrost overlain by two feet of tundra. |
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| After the Civil War, the company became the main supplier of railroad chronometers to various railroads in North America and more than fifty other countries. |
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| The documented remains include seven hut circles, five enclosures, two trackways, a field system, and some fifty cairns which probably represent field clearances. |
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| The centenary of Ruskin's birth was keenly celebrated in 1919, but his reputation was already in decline and sank further in the fifty years that followed. |
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| This remained the philosophy of the Commission for nearly fifty years. |
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| She began walking toward Seventh Avenue, carrying her valise, which now felt like it weighed about fifty pounds, and pulling the bedraggled rollerboard suitcase behind her. |
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| Some were storied weapons. With this once long lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset. |
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| The symphonious sound of fifty skilled musicians filled the concert hall. |
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| With today's fifty mile per hour winds, all the ski lifts are on windhold. |
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| We have treated more than fifty patients in the setting of autologous and allogenic stem cell transplantation for high-risk leukemia, lymphoma and multiple myeloma. |
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| This time of year around Bimini, fifty miles east of Miami in Bahamian waters, tens of thousands of yellowtail and mangrove snappers are preparing to spawn. |
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| Thomas and Robinson Jeffers were contemporaries for almost fifty years. |
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| She said that Radio Pakistan is working on a strategy to enhance its revenue by two hundred percent while listenership by fifty percent during next one year. |
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| She could have been any age between thirty and fifty, and was not someone to mess with. |
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| Some of you will die at age fifty, some at age sixty-five, and some at age ninety. |
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| But at any rate, what taboos will cinema breach after the next twenty-five years, the next fifty? |
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| Fifty years after that first, fateful visit to Recreation Park, he saw silverware raised aloft. |
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| Fifty years of dreaming about stardom and fame, and suddenly I wake up and I'm in Bolton. |
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| Fifty government vehicles had followed Nitish's carcade from Patna to Nalanda. |
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| Fifty years from now the doctors will be inoculating for every conceivable disease. |
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| It was like the worst thunder storm in the world timesed by fifty! |
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| Fifty percent of all households rely on the Local Authority for their housing needs. |
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| Fifty years ago, an epidemic swept across this nation affecting millions of people and lasting for many years. |
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| Fifty years ago, Ben Chapman went to Hollywood to hitch his wagon to a star and ended up as just another guy in a rubber suit. |
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| Fifty years of heartache is over for a former Rochdale man who has finally found the sister he has never met. |
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| Fifty years ago, the chances were you would court and marry someone you met at school or at a local dance. |
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| Fifty feet below, the cabin squats near the tumbledown outcropping of rock like a demonic toad. |
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| Fifty years from now, the biological intelligence of humanity will still be at that same order of magnitude. |
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| Fifty bucks buys excellent widescreen transfers, English and Cantonese soundtracks, subtitles and commentary by the director. |
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| Fifty years ago, as a schoolboy, I was present at a lecture by a senior staffer from the London Times. |
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| Fifty years ago, almost all gay men and women were closeted, and often they felt guilty and depressed and suicidal. |
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| Fifty nine pupils at the school were reported as having mumps, of which 20 cases were confirmed virologically. |
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| Fifty years ago on October 26 black clouds swirled over the mouth of the Firth of Tay as the east coast of Scotland was buffeted by fierce winds. |
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| Fifty feet or less from this intersection was a line of riot cops plugging a ragged breach in the hated wall. |
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| Fifty microliters were placed into a 5 mm BTX fusion chamber consisting of a microscope slide and two platinum wires. |
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| Fifty per cent of the world's buffaloes and 20 per cent of the cattle are found in India, most of which are milch cows and milch buffaloes. |
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| Fifty semipalmated plovers settled beside the Sherwood Island jetty and became invisible among the rocks. |
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| Fifty yards off the beach a boat swerves in, cuts its outboard and prepares to beach itself in front of us. |
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| Fifty Labour councillors last night held a secret ballot and voted to end his 15-year hold on power. |
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| Fifty years ago, marriage-guidance counsellors were generally regarded with suspicion. |
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| Fifty researchers telephoned for a loan or credit card with each of these four lenders, making a total of 200 calls. |
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| Fifty minutes of the interview have elapsed and Eddie Jordan has pushed back his chair and jumped to his feet. |
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| Fifty microliters of sarcosine were added and the cells were incubated on ice for an additional 15 min. |
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| Fifty thousand devotees praying to the lingam and weeping passionately with hands clasped around their necks were massacred in cold blood. |
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| Fifty years of civil war, a republic led by Oliver Cromwell, and the restoration of the monarchy. |
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| Fifty three years ago India shook off the yoke of British imperialism and became independent. |
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| Fifty some coppers met her questing fingers, seven more added once her count was complete. |
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| Fifty members of the group turned up to show just how the jive should be danced. |
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| Fifty workers using five crawler cranes will be at the site six days a week. |
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| Fifty years after his death, his shock of white hair and droopy mustache still symbolise genius. |
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