• It is a richly illustrated and personal appreciation of the range of regional foods from India to Singapore to Japan as well as her take on a few dozen of the most noteworthy wine varietals.

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  • Though four percentage points less than last time, this still leaves the ANC in control of all but a few dozen of the country's 284 municipalities, as well as eight of its nine provinces and the national government.

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  • Mr. Blake derived a simple melody by playing a few dozen digits of pi using a C-major scale, with 3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9 translated to the notes E, C, F, C, G, D and so on.

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  • And, in order to sell those new Apple gadgets, a few dozen more of the company's retail stores can be expected.

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  • Growing demand may mean even more frequent dinner parties at her 110-sq-m apartment, which features a few dozen photos of her with vips like Ronald and Nancy Reagan.

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  • Wayne Holland, currently at the University of Hawaii at Hilo, and his colleagues, who have just published their results in Nature, looked at three stars: Vega (350m years old), Fomalhaut (200m years), and Beta Pictoris (between 10m and 100m years), all within a few dozen light years of the earth.

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  • The club also has a hardcore of a few dozen supporters, among their total 168, 000 followers, who tweet a vast amount of information and news about the club.

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  • Many of these trials involved only a few dozen patients or a few hundred, far smaller than drug trials that involve thousands of subjects.

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  • He then disappeared for a few minutes and reappeared with a dozen of his soldiers, including the six who had accompanied us to the temple.

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  • MediaZone's network transmits a video feed in 30-second chunks to a group of a few dozen viewers, who relay the feed in parts to other fans.

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  • Soirees in this storied piece of real estate are held in the classic ballroom which comes complete with chandeliers and a coat-check closet handy for keeping track of a few dozen mink coats or, say, 200 winter overcoats.

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  • Morningstar Principia lists nearly 2, 000 index funds but only a few dozen funds are truly of interest to a purely passive fund investor.

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  • Folks in the dowdy world of academia have to be watertight with their research if they want their results to be credible, which is why typical studies into happiness will only target a few dozen people with lots of questions.

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  • The premise of the Horizon festival is gathering car enthusiasts and a few dozen bands for the racing equivalent of Woodstock.

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  • The golden-headed langur of Vietnam and China's Hainan gibbon are down to a few dozen and the Horton Plains slender loris of Sri Lanka has been spotted only four times since 1937.

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  • The take: a few dozen Spanish doubloons and lots of fascinating, but essentially valueless, maritime esoterica.

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  • The puzzling finding in 1999 that the universe's expansion seems to be accelerating was based on observations of a few dozen supernovae.

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  • At Art Athina, the capital's international art fair, a few dozen volunteers perform a range of functions, including welcoming visitors and providing information about enigmatic paintings.

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  • "We have anecdotal information suggesting anywhere from a few dozen to a few hundred of them are missing, but we really don't know, " an immigration official told CNN.

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  • Researchers can rapidly prove their drug is hitting its intended target in trials of a few dozen people, then move into large and costly trials in more common diseases.

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  • The United States has begun providing money, equipment and training to the Philippine armed forces for their campaign against the Abu Sayyaf, a group of a few dozen armed Filipino Muslim kidnappers.

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  • Local church groups of a few dozen families determine congregational lifestyle rules and there is no single authority that brings together the 2, 056 churches located in 30 U.S. states and the Canadian province of Ontario.

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  • His daughter is one of only a few dozen youngsters left in town.

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  • So unlike the smartphone area, which is dominated by just a few players, there are at least a dozen platforms with different sets of apps, interfaces and features.

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  • It is made up of anything from a few dozen to a few hundred angry Serbs.

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  • That analysis may be right, to judge by a recent open-air assembly on the economy, with a few dozen participants squatting on the paving stones of Madrid's Plaza del Carmen.

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  • What's left is two intensely likable people trying urgently, through very few words and a baker's dozen of eloquent songs, to come to terms with love they've lost and collaborate on the future.

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  • Bulls view LL as one of the few remaining retail growth stories as management aims to open a few dozen stores annually for the next several years in a roughly equal mix of new and existing markets.

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  • The houses have no running water or electricity, except for the dwellings of the dozen or so hearty souls who have restored the interiors of a few structures, bringing in generators and water supplies.

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  • They were forced to conclude that a half-dozen of them had dropped in volume and were leaking anywhere from a few gallons to a few hundred gallons of radioactive material a year.

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