Congress overrode the veto and the Freedmen's Bureau continued to operate for a number of years. |
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Pad both values to one bit greater than the number of bits in the minuend to accommodate the sign bit and to help avoid alignment mistakes. |
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For this purpose, a number of optical elements were applicably designed. |
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These trees will thrive, to a greater or lesser degree, in a number of climates. |
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When we arrived at customs we realized we had more than the permitted number of items. |
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A teacher compares the number of students wearing blue with the number of students wearing red. In this scenario, color is the independent variable with the difference in the number of students, categorized by color, being the dependent variable. |
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We can extrapolate the number of new students entering next year by looking at how many entered in previous years. |
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She has the difficult task of bringing together a number of discordant elements. |
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There have been a number of burglaries in the neighborhood in recent months. |
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With the passage of time, the number of children suffering with the disease has decreased dramatically. |
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They have had an inordinate number of problems with the schedule. |
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We have an uneven number of players, so we'll have to rotate. |
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The well diggers found a number of Native American artifacts. |
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On this occasion, an unknown number of fire engines were either wheeled or dragged through the streets, some from across the City. |
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There are a number of primary schools, both state and independent, in the town. |
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A number of ships were resting in their cradles in the shipyard. |
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Stricter speed limit enforcement has reduced the number of car accidents. |
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The governor has proposed a number of cost-cutting measures. |
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A recent poll shows a decrease in the number of teenagers who smoke. |
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The board has received a number of complaints about the new policy. |
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There's been rapid growth in the number of new businesses in the town. |
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Only a limited number of students will be allowed in the class. |
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The President's speech addressed a number of important issues. |
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The federal government is proposing to add a number of substances to a hotlist that will prevent them from being used in cosmetics. |
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The results of quality control checks and number of reports received hourwise for each synoptic hour for each WMO block are monitored. |
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In Canada, commercial bison farming began in the mid 1980s, concerning an unknown number of animals then. |
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Ice movement is dominated by the motion of glaciers, whose activity is determined by a number of processes. |
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In the 19th century a number of scientists noted puzzling geological and zoological similarities between widely separated areas. |
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The Corded Ware Culture shared a number of features with the Bell Beaker Culture, derived from their common ancestor the Yamna culture. |
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Many barrows surround it and an unusual number of 'rich' burials can be found nearby, such as the Amesbury Archer. |
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As for hugging, I'm a shameless hugaholic. Thankfully, I'm acquainted with a large number of other hugaholics, male and female. |
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They argue that this accounts for the high number of burials in the area and for the evidence of trauma deformity in some of the graves. |
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The human flea normally attacks man, but may be found on a number of other animals. |
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All modern camels are humpbacked creatures, but the number of humps depends on the species. |
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The large number of gold mines in France is thought to be a major reason why Caesar invaded. |
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Triplicity is a common theme in Celtic cosmology, and a number of deities were seen as threefold. |
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By this point, plebeians were already holding a significant number of magisterial offices. |
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The heavy infantry of the maniples were supported by a number of light infantry and cavalry troops, typically 300 horsemen per manipular legion. |
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Following various military conquests in the Greek East, Romans adapted a number of Greek educational precepts to their own fledgling system. |
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However, Caesar may have exaggerated the number of ships wrecked to magnify his own achievement in rescuing the situation. |
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After a number of unsuccessful engagements with Caesar's forces, he cut his losses and fled to Britain. |
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She seems to have passed her son off on his grandmother Livia for a number of years. |
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These were on a number of topics, everything from medical advice to moral judgments. |
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He also increased the number of Patricians by adding new families to the dwindling number of noble lines. |
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Following the successful suppression of Boudica's uprising, a number of new Roman governors continued the conquest by edging north. |
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For much of the history of Roman Britain, a large number of soldiers were garrisoned on the island. |
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Even so, the number of buried hoards found from this period rises, suggesting continuing unrest. |
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During their occupation of Britain the Romans founded a number of important settlements, many of which still survive. |
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In 1974, Daniel Minoli and Robert Bear described a number of properties of hyperperfect numbers. |
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A number of locations have been suggested, including a site near Brampton Bryan. |
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Thus, processes of hypoaneuploidy could affect genomic stability producing this variation in number of loci. |
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Domes were introduced in a number of Roman building types such as temples, thermae, palaces, mausolea and later also churches. |
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In the colonia, Constantine's reign was a time of prosperity and a number of extensive stone town houses of the period have been excavated. |
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The high number of sarcophagi from Eboracum has provided a large number of these casts, in some cases with cloth surviving adhered to the gypsum. |
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This came after a number of other job losses in the city at Aviva, British Sugar and Terry's chocolate factory. |
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These two churches disagree on a number of administrative, liturgical and doctrinal issues, most notably papal primacy of jurisdiction. |
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There is no need to do this, as any number of rational scenarios already fit the circumstances. |
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With any large number of people being in close quarters there was a constant threat of disease. |
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Because of the number of the people requiring food, there were unique circumstances in the acquisition of food. |
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Because of the limited number of sources, there is no certainty about the date, location, or details of the fighting. |
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Arthur charges, but kills a mere 470, ten more than the number of Britons ambushed by Hengist near Salisbury. |
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Interestingly, oath breaking and the absence of just judgements for ordinary people were mentioned a number of times. |
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It includes a number of independent kingdoms and other smaller territories and assigns a number of hides to each one. |
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A number of Cerdic's alleged descendants also possessed Celtic names, including the 'Bretwalda' Ceawlin. |
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There are also a number of recorded cases of parts of animals being buried within such graves. |
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It lists a number of peoples, such as the Hwicce, who have now vanished, except for reminders in various placenames. |
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The cross has been incorporated into a number of coats of arms of Mercian towns, including Tamworth, Leek and Blaby. |
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There are a number of variations of the spelling of the names of the Kings listed above. |
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Despite this relative peace, the king was still forced to deal with a number of Danish raids and incursions. |
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After a number of successful operations elsewhere, he came to Northumbria and appears at some point to have set himself up as king. |
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It was the climax to a succession of Viking raids spread over a number of decades. |
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The first year of his reign was marked by the executions of a number of English noblemen whom he considered suspect. |
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Around 1975, both the proportion and absolute number of workers in industry peaked. |
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A single party generally does not have sufficient political power in terms of the number of seats to form a government on its own. |
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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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Fourteen incy-wincy pearl buttons that needed to be pushed through a presumably corresponding number of loops. By him. |
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Taking his immediate household and a small number of mercenaries, he left Normandy and landed in England, striking into Wiltshire. |
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A new penny, called the Short Cross, was introduced, and the number of mints reduced substantially to ten across the country. |
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It has been suggested, based solely on the number of signs, that the Indus script is logo-syllabic. |
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The number of the functionaries not subject to confirmation has grown greatly since the infaring of President Roosevelt. |
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It is evident that the greater the number of susceptibles, then the greater the increase in the number of infectives. |
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Philip went on to invade Normandy as far as Arques in May, taking a number of castles. |
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Finding the affairs of the realm in disorder, he purged the royal administration of a great number of ministers and judges. |
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In 1716, the Septennial Act was passed, which had a number of consequences. |
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Also present were a significant number of fishermen, administrators, professional men and craftsmen. |
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The Black Death may also have promoted the use of vernacular English, as the number of teachers proficient in French dwindled. |
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Mary's government took a number of steps towards reversing the inflation, budgetary deficits, poverty, and trade crisis of her kingdom. |
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She had a number of problems during her childhood, one of the main ones being after the execution of her mother, Anne Boleyn. |
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The number of international players in the National Basketball Association has increased 10 percent from one year ago, the league said on Monday. |
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This also accounts for the large number of dead in Dadlington parish, leading to the setting up of the battle chantry there. |
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Wealthy Tudor homes needed many rooms, where a large number of guests and servants could be accommodated, fed and entertained. |
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This legacy was continued by a number of expatriate Greek scholars, from Basilios Bessarion to Leo Allatius. |
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Despite a significant number of deaths among members of the ruling classes, the government of Florence continued to function during this period. |
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The growing number of Italian traders moving to Hungary, specially to Buda, helped this process. |
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The Royal Navy is also a key element of the British contribution to NATO, with a number of assets allocated to NATO tasks at any time. |
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The Royal Navy is currently deployed in many areas of the world, including a number of standing Royal Navy deployments. |
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A number of dissenting monks, including the first Carthusian Martyrs, were executed and many more pilloried. |
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Median, interquartiles and number of observations for each box are indicated. |
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It may take a diocesan bishop a number of years to reach the House of Lords, at which point he becomes a Lord Spiritual. |
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The number of Anglicans in the world is over 85 million as of 2011 The 11 provinces in Africa saw growth in the last two decades. |
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From his appearance I got the impression he wore his suits a number of times between ironings and didn't even bother to iron his shirts. |
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The success of these voyages led to the founding of a number of companies competing for the trade. |
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Forts from the colonial era, used for defense purposes, still line a number of major coastal cities across the archipelago. |
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Algeria was particularly problematic, due to the large number of Europeans who had settled there in the 125 years of French rule. |
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If the base be an irregular polygon of any number of sides, the prism is then called an irregular prism. |
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Buckland Abbey is now in the care of the National Trust and a number of mementos of his life are displayed there. |
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Record the number and location of jam-ups, the number of cans inspected and the number of metal fragments found. |
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Cromwell gained experience in a number of successful actions in East Anglia in 1643, notably at the Battle of Gainsborough on 28 July. |
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This policy led to a large number of very expensive campaigns which were largely paid for with Dutch funds. |
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The commissions conduct general reviews of electoral boundaries once every 8 to 12 years, and a number of interim reviews. |
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There was no formal limit on the number of Standing Committees, but usually only ten existed. |
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By 1852, the congestion at Somerset House had increased thanks to the growing number of Fellows. |
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A number of novel ideas about religion developed with the Enlightenment, including Deism and talk of atheism. |
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A number of Georgian buildings survive, including St Philip's Cathedral, Soho House, Perrott's Folly, the Town Hall and much of St Paul's Square. |
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Birmingham has 32,690 research students, also the highest number of any major city outside London. |
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However, there are a large number of voluntary aided schools within the state system. |
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In the Old regime there were a small number of heavily censored newspapers that needed a royal licence to operate. |
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After dissolving the Holy Roman Empire, he reduced the number of German states from 300 to less than 50, prior to the German Unification. |
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Hinchinbrook sailed from Port Royal on 5 October 1779 and, in company with other British ships, proceeded to capture a number of American prizes. |
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Nelson spent the rest of the war cruising in the West Indies, where he captured a number of French and Spanish prizes. |
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A number of small engagements were fought but to Nelson's dismay, he saw little action. |
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Nelson, having been reinforced with a number of ships from St Vincent, went in pursuit. |
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He attended court and was guest of honour at a number of banquets and balls. |
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A number of Scots gained wealth and fame in the times of Peter the Great and Catherine the Great. |
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In all modern democracies, the number of people who could vote has increased progressively with time. |
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During these negotiations Japan advanced a number of proposals which were dismissed by the Americans as inadequate. |
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Estimates for the total number of casualties in the war vary, because many deaths went unrecorded. |
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The Royal Air Force also conducted a large number of combined reconnaissance and propaganda leaflet flights over Germany. |
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That's roughly equivalent to the number of German citizens who died from Allied raids. |
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In subsequent months a steady number of German bombers would fall to night fighters. |
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A significant number of the aircraft not shot down after the resort to night bombing were wrecked during landings or crashed in bad weather. |
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Under Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations, a number of mandates were created. |
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There are a large number of different types of jet engines, all of which achieve forward thrust from the principle of jet propulsion. |
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A number of types of organisation are commissioned to provide NHS services, including NHS trusts and private sector companies. |
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Increased investment is insufficient to meet the rise in the number of cancer patients. |
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A number of sports are popular throughout the British Isles, the most prominent of which is association football. |
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The Commonwealth has adopted a number of symbols that represent the association of its members. |
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There are usually a small number of Independent politicians in parliament with no party allegiance. |
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The Scottish Green Party has 6 MSPs in the Scottish Parliament and a number of local councillors. |
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This period also saw the introduction of a franchise which limited the number of people who could vote in elections for the House of Commons. |
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The Long Parliament was characterised by the growing number of critics of the king who sat in it. |
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The wall surfaces to be covered being vast, a number of paintings were in fact done in oil on canvas. |
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Several doors lead out of the room, to the division lobbies of the House of Lords and to a number of important offices. |
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Accounts record the large number of wagons and barges which delivered the jointed timbers to Westminster for assembly. |
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Liberal Democrat plans were to reduce the number of MPs to 500, and for them to be elected using a proportional system. |
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Despite the increased number of seats and votes, it was still an incredibly disappointing result for supporters of the Labour party. |
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Tackling vested interests and opening up closed circles in British society were also themes he returned to a number of times. |
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There are usually a number of former prime ministers and former members of the European Commission. |
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It is conventional for countries acceding to the European Union to send a number of observers to Parliament in advance. |
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In 2008, Usherwood noted that UKIP relied heavily on a small number of major financial backers. |
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The commission would not look at reducing the number of MPs from the other three constituent countries or financing of the devolved institutions. |
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The Commission also proposed a number of changes to procedure, including allocating specific parliamentary time to proposals for England. |
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These support an exceptionally large number of plant species, including many species of orchids and carnivorous plants. |
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Louisiana contains a number of areas which are, in varying degrees, protected from human intervention. |
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Officials were aware of the risk of the small number of colonists in hostile territory. |
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A more limited number of parishes operate under home rule charters, electing various forms of government. |
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There are a number of smaller statutory jurisdictions, such as appeals from ecclesiastical and professional bodies. |
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As the number of petitions increased, the Committee gained the power to reject petitions itself. |
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There was, however, no provision whereby the number of Law Lords could be regulated. |
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In 1856, it was desired to increase the number of Law Lords by creating a life peerage. |
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Under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876, the Sovereign nominated a number of Lords of Appeal in Ordinary to sit in the House of Lords. |
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As of 2009 the number of prisons had increased to 131, including 11 privately owned prisons. |
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The number of prison staff is set to increase but will remain below 2010 levels. |
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In addition to uniformed officers carrying out security and custodial roles, a number of specialist functions exist within every prison. |
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At the highest level, all of England is divided into nine regions that are each made up of a number of counties and districts. |
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The number of seats is more favoured towards Labour than the geographic spread, with 34 Conservative seats and 25 Labour. |
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The number of summer storms from the Atlantic, such as the remnants of a tropical storm usually coincides with the location of the jet stream. |
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The region has the lowest number of people registered on higher education courses at FE colleges. |
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The RDAs worked together in a number of areas, with different RDAs taking the 'lead' role in varying policy areas. |
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Wages rose as landlords sought to entice the reduced number of available workers to their fields. |
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The 11th century saw England become more stable, despite a number of wars with the Danes, which resulted in a Danish monarchy for one generation. |
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It is ranked 4th in the world in the number of US dollar billionaires residing in the city. |
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Under local government reforms coming into effect in 2009, the number of such counties was reduced. |
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From 1 April 1974 the number of counties and county councils was reduced to eight in number. |
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A review undertaken between 1987 and 1992 led to a number of relatively small alterations in borough boundaries. |
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The Museum of London is based there, as are a number of other services provided by the Corporation. |
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The number of Commoners a ward sends to the Common Council varies from two to ten, depending on the number of electors in each ward. |
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There are a number of private gardens and open spaces, often within courtyards of the larger commercial developments. |
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It is the smallest territorial police force in England and Wales, in both geographic area and the number of police officers. |
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A growing number of tall buildings and skyscrapers are principally used by the financial sector. |
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In a limited number of cases a parish might include a whole city where city status has been granted by the Monarch. |
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As the number of ratepayers of some parishes grew, it became increasingly difficult to convene meetings as an open vestry. |
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The number of councillors varies roughly in proportion to the population of the parish. |
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The legislation provides that the number of elected members of a parish council shall not be less than five. |
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Salusbury Road has an increasing number of shops, pubs, cafes and restaurants. |
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There have been a number of operators interested in running trains through the tunnel and along High Speed 1 to London. |
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For example, in the canton of Uri, the villagers elected a Landammann each year, yet only a limited number of families supplied candidates. |
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There are a large number of people with connections to the town who have made themselves important in one sphere or another. |
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In 2007, the city celebrated the 800th anniversary of the founding of the borough of Liverpool, for which a number of events were planned. |
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The new venue was headlined by The Futureheads on the opening night and known as the Carling Academy for a number of years. |
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Along the course of the river a number of smaller private companies also offer river trips at Oxford, Wallingford, Reading and Hampton Court. |
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The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated. |
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Mr. Johnston gives the total number of active volcanos as 270, which is probably the best approximation. |
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There are a number of issues external to the institution that can influence the fiscal management of student affairs. |
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The number of folks who have taken to dining al desko is causing some new problems in the workplace. |
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Alleygating has been shown to work. A number of criminal or anti-social acts can be curtailed or eliminated if security gates are installed. |
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Those ideals are casuistically the best whose realisations lead to least number of other ideals sacrificed. |
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They comprised a number of Greeks from Istanbul, and a number of grecicized Romanians. |
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To annualise net profit, divide the year-to-date net profit by the number of completed months, and multiply by twelve. |
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As the number of autocracies in the world began to decline in the late 1980s, the number of anocracies began to increase. |
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A Butterworth filter with an odd number of elements is symmetric while one with an even number of elements is antimetric. |
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Most neurologists would start a patient like the chief justice on one of a number of antiseizure drugs, Dr. Miller said. |
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Prior to the U.S. Civil War, there were a number of northern periodicals devoted to publishing antislavery content. |
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There is decimal arithmetic and binary arithmetic. In fact, there are an infinite number of arithmetics of different bases. |
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She was at a loss for words when she saw the number of people who had come to grieve for her husband. |
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If the column be composed of a considerable number of battalions, the commander can march it at ease, as a column of route. |
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In some sporting competitions, the number of away goals is taken into account when deciding the winner. |
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Comparisons were made between the home and away team's number of fouls and violations. |
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There are any number of variants on the classic bavaroise, the most elegant of chilled puddings. |
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Jane mentioned a number of braggables in her college application, including her term as senior class president. |
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When they made him, they broke the mold. lt was a cliche that had been spoken about any number of men, for any number of different reasons. |
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A good bricklayer should be able to calculate the number of bricks needed to build a wall. |
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His plan, in broad strokes, was to outfit a small fleet of cars with a number of miniature directional microphones. |
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The woman had displayed a number of bulimic symptoms, prompting her family to stage an intervention. |
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Many homes, a great deal of property and a number of lives were lost as a result of the bushfires in this country. |
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Only a small number of Trungpa Rinpoche's calligraphies have been reproduced heretofore, some in very limited editions. |
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That very year they received an order from Gustaf II Adolf of Sweden for a large number of tapestries and four caparisons. |
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A number of trial fillings and catchweights may be necessary to obtain the desired degree of accuracy. |
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I am not able to unfold, how this cautelous enterprise of licencing can be exempted from the number of vain and impossible attempts. |
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But there were a number of flowerless, champagneless tables and at least three of them were occupied by unaffiliated diners. |
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The digital channelizer, which is used to split the received signal into a number of sub-channels, plays an important role in SDR systems. |
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Not many people in France bought the little five-chaptered book, but a number of copies were sold in Germany. |
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First, a number of languages do not have a single negation morpheme but have a circumfixal morpheme. |
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Their extreme necessity is attested by the countless number of old, unused cisterns with which the Holy Land is literally honeycombed. |
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Up above however, and at close quarters, they afford the clamberer a surprising number of secret joys. |
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And yet, slowly but surely, the physical energies do seem to be taking their place in the clinology of an increasing number of disorders. |
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The codestream obtained after compression of an image with JPEG 2000 is scalable in nature, meaning that it can be decoded in a number of ways. |
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Since 1965, an index live-count method has been used to annually estimate the number of coho salmon in the escapement to the Skagit River. |
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When taking note of the patient's sexual history, the age of first intercourse and the number of sexual partners must be established. |
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There are a number of Congresscritters who'd like nothing better than to convert the Shuttle into benefits for their own districts. |
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For the last year, the entire covenstead had noticed an increase in the number of outsiders on their properties. |
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Consider, for instance, the number of freak-show images that occur in this suite, sourced from a global underground of crackpotitude. |
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The cruel folly which crimps a number of ignorant and innocent peasants, dresses them up in uniform..and sends them off to kill and be killed. |
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In 1910, a number of coal miners in the Rhondda Valley began what has come to be known as the Tonypandy Riot. |
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Cume persons represent a radio station's cumulative audience, or the estimated number of individuals reached by a radio station. |
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A number of studies have charted the use of cybermedia in political campaigns and government in the United States and elsewhere. |
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Nokia, Palm, Research in Motion and a number of other hand-set makers are fashioning ever more datacentric phones. |
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Analyses all required a planar mathematical discretization of a region containing a prescribed number of cells with prescribed orientations. |
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With some exceptions, doorknocking is likely to elicit a large number of small donations but relatively few large donations. |
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Common belief has been that in the future the number of middle managers will downfall due to empowerment and team-building. |
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The Dandelion has a number of common names in Newfoundland. These include Dumbledore, Faceclock, and Piss-a-beds. |
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There was a heavy table in one corner of the dungeonesque place, on which were a number of books and papers. |
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The presence of a large number of people ensured that vendors selling eatables made brisk business. |
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It maintains a number of echomail areas, including 40 recently added that cover areas rainging from animal rights to robotics. |
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If inflation lasted much longer than the minimum number of required efolds, our bound relaxes to coincide with the usual bound. |
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There are also a number of examples of endoclitics whereby clitics appear followed by affixes. |
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A number of algal species live epizootically on the branchiopod crustaceans found in temporary ponds. |
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A polygon or polyhedron's Euler characteristic is just the number of corners minus the number of edges plus the number of faces. |
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After the completion of copulation, the number of eupyrene sperm bundles in a spermatophore gradually decreased. |
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But a number of Europeanisms have appeared in writing, though not yet in speech, in recent decades. |
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With the number of drunken revellers on the streets it could hardly fail to be an eventful night. |
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But every known algorithm for this problem requires a number of steps that increases exponentially as n increases. |
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Dietrich and Lenya lacked a number of singerly virtues, but their strengths lay in a kind of extramusical quality of feeling and experience. |
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The advent of the computer and the modem means that an increasingly large number of fans indulge in most of their fanac online. |
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The fanout of a logic gate output is the number of gate inputs to which it is connected. |
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The more advanced the disease, the larger the number of follicles affected by fibro-adenia, but it is rare to find. |
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Their contents would have made the weariest Fletcherite drool at the mouth and forget his number of chews. |
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The outcome of the forthcoming election is still unclear due to the large number of floating voters. |
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A number of wandering and flockless preachers hawked challenges from town to town. |
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There are a good number of Democrats who are unhappy with John Kerry, thinking he folded his tent without a fight. |
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I heard many footfalls, as if a large number of persons were rushing down the steps. |
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Crude oil is fractionated in a refinery to produce a number of different petroleum products. |
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The Frobenius number of 2 and 5 is 3, since 3 cannot be formed as a sum of twos and fives while every larger integer can. |
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Among a number of unidentified specimens...was one of an unusually well-defined, almost perfect frond of a fucoid. |
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She delivered herself of a great number of original reflections. It was the most charming garrulity he had ever heard. |
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The number of men, divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship. |
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Although invented in 1974, the number of moves required to solve any state of Rubik's Cube is yet to be determined after 30 years. |
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He collected a number of injuries that stopped him jousting, and then in middle age became stout, eventually gross. |
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After all, a number of players were disgruntled, and a few more were gruntled. |
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I remarked to the guardienne about the number of lizards running everywhere in the ruins. |
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Asia estimated that by June 2006 the number of deaths attributed to guolaosi in China had reached six hundred thousand per year. |
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It would be important to keep the total number of cattle handfed on property to a minimum. |
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The largest airport is London Heathrow, which is the world's busiest airport measured by number of international passengers. |
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After the war, the United Kingdom received the League of Nations mandate over a number of former German and Ottoman colonies. |
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The number of schoolchildren being taught through Welsh, Scottish Gaelic and Irish is increasing. |
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When the storm cleared, local villagers found the outline of a village, consisting of a number of small houses without roofs. |
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This was despite continual warfare with England, the increasing division between Highlands and Lowlands, and a large number of royal minorities. |
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The Scottish Reform Act 1832 increased the number of Scottish MPs and widened the franchise to include more of the middle classes. |
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Although the number of native vascular plants is low by world standards, Scotland's substantial bryophyte flora is of global importance. |
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The reasons given were that, in Scotland, births were outnumbering the number of deaths, and immigrants were moving to Scotland from overseas. |
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The Crusaders meant to wrest Jerusalem from heathendom, but they managed to pillage a number of lands in Christendom along the way. |
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A number of illuminated manuscripts from Wales survive, of which the 8th century Hereford Gospels and Lichfield Gospels are the most notable. |
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A number of independent radio stations broadcast to the Welsh regions, predominantly in English. |
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The Welsh Folk Song Society has published a number of collections of songs and tunes. |
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In the estuaries, where the bed is more sandy or muddy, the number of species is smaller but the size of their populations is larger. |
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The North Sea receives freshwater from a number of European continental watersheds, as well as the British Isles. |
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Though rare, the North Sea has been the site of a number of historically documented tsunamis. |
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World War I also brought the first extensive use of submarine warfare, and a number of submarine actions occurred in the North Sea. |
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The number of ferry routes crossing the Strait of Dover has reduced since the Channel Tunnel opened. |
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The number of swims conducted under and ratified by the Channel Swimming Association to 2005 was 982 by 665 people. |
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Even in good conditions, it includes a number of significant obstacles such as the Needles and the overfalls at St Catherine's Point. |
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The island is also covered by a number of local stations on the mainland, including the BBC station BBC Radio Solent broadcast from Southampton. |
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Columbus's first voyage in 1492 spurred maritime exploration and, from 1497, a number of explorers headed west. |
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In the Americas the Spanish found a number of empires that were as large and populous as those in Europe. |
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English is probably the third largest language by number of native speakers, after Mandarin and Spanish. |
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A working knowledge of English has become a requirement in a number of occupations and professions such as medicine and computing. |
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Our findings revealed that the expression levels of a large number of genes were modulated by the PUAs decadienal, heptadienal and octadienal. |
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California and a number of other Western states, however, have retained the concept of community property derived from civil law. |
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Each Parliament comes to an end, after a number of sessions, in anticipation of a general election. |
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In 2006, a number of MPs attempted to revive the custom, having signed a motion for the impeachment of Tony Blair, but this was unsuccessful. |
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