As we picked our way down the dirty alley to her home, I passed two micro-bars, cramped shacks with stools for perhaps three or four customers.

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It will be harder to win approval for the vital next step: a three-, four- or perhaps fivefold increase in the fund so that it can protect Spain and Italy.

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Kallasvuo's predecessor, Jorma Ollila, visited U.S. network honchos perhaps once every three or four months.

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We've been forced by the pressure of events to come round to the fact that the Northern Alliance are going to be more important than perhaps we wanted three or four weeks ago.

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They have also hinted at a willingness to negotiate with the feeble transitional government in Baidoa, perhaps offering it three or four cabinet posts, including those previously held by the secular warlords sacked for their part in the recent fighting in Mogadishu.

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Preliminary calculations suggest that it could reduce the strength of cyclonic storms substantially, perhaps weakening a category five hurricane to a category four or three and thus preventing billions of dollars of damage and the cost of human lives lost.

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Cohabitation is common in other parts of Europe too, but in Britain couples who live together unmarried seem not to last: half split up after three or four years and a little less than half go on to marry (before perhaps divorcing later).

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The lawyer said that three, perhaps four, of eight alleged victims mentioned in the grand jury report have either maintained friendships with Sandusky or visited him.

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