Other options cover a reduced number or more streamlined version of the existing system.
Consumer Focus said in a report that residential consumers might be willing to accept a reduced number of postal deliveries during the week.
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Professor Derek Gallen said that some medical specialties would in future be taught on a reduced number of sites in order to deliver the appropriate training.
The 120-space St Clement's Car Park in Oxford will remain open during the work but will operate with a reduced number of spaces, ranging from 14 to 69.
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Gwyn Howells, chief executive of Meat Promotion Wales, told BBC Radio 4's Farming Today he expected to see a reduced number of Welsh lambs going to market this year.
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"We agreed it was probably time to give up and we set out a goal of playing a reduced number of games over this season and I'm well on course to hit that, " he said.
In 1994 a referendum reduced the number of members of parliament from 313 to 105.
Long-term strategic buyers should use this period to slowly begin additional buy programs and to be prepared that the lack of historic trading practices may give the investor even more favorable prices, interspersed with extremely sharp price spikes as the natural sellers into a rally are reduced in number.
"As a result, a number of companies were denied the reduced withholding rate, " he said.
The legislature passed, and Kirchner quickly signed, 13 a new law that reduced the number of professional and academic members of the Council in charge of appointing judges.
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As a result, some operators say they have reduced the number of passengers on their boats, taking a toll on revenues.
In 2009, we filed an amicus brief in a case against the Florida High School Athletics Association, which had reduced the maximum number of competitions that a school could schedule while exempting 36, 000 boys who played football and only 4, 300 girls and 201 boys who participated in competitive cheerleading.
In fact, I have saved a number of homes, reduced debt loads, and allowed my clients to get the fresh starts that they needed.
An emergency meeting in December brought in a number of changes, including reduced opening hours, but the situation is still critical.
Producers and swap dealers remain net-short, but sharply reduced those positions by cutting a significant number of gross shorts and adding gross longs.
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Producers and swap dealers remain net-short, but sharply reduced that position by cutting a significant number of gross shorts and adding gross longs.
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But the number of submarines will be reduced as will the number of missiles per submarine, and a replacement for the Trident II missile is not scheduled until 2042.
The plant reduced the number of expatriates to a bare minimum on more than one occasion.
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First Great Western operated a reduced service, running about half the normal number of trains into and out of Paddington.
You launched a series of youth initiatives that have reduced the number of young people injured by guns by 40 percent -- 40 percent.
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The Small Fires Unit will be based in Bedworth and will support a project that is claimed to have reduced the number of deliberate small fires.
He said once countries publish their plans in the coming weeks it would become clear that "it is a major number of gigatonnes that are being reduced in carbon emissions".
As a result, he said, "a number of employees have had their contract terminated and compensation has been reduced for selected individuals".
At Orange Beach Elementary School, the number of students receiving a free or reduced-price breakfast and lunch increased by a third after Ivan.
The industry was deregulated in 1980, but since then mergers have reduced the number of big railway companies to a handful.
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Asquith's bill would have created a two chamber parliament in Dublin, and substantially reduced the number of Irish MPs sitting in Westminster.
Yet these measures have sharply reduced the number of smokers and led to a declining incidence of lung cancer, with little obvious downside and few complaints.
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Laser guiding has reduced the number of bombs required to destroy a target, from 500 in Vietnam to 15 in the first Iraq war to one in the current conflict.
Over the years Home Depot has added so many product categories--as well as installation services and professional businesses--that it's effectively reduced the number of households needed to support a store from 154, 000 in 1990 to 30, 000 today.
The three car makers each logged more than 20% sales growth in the month from the same month a year ago, when the Lunar New Year holidays reduced the number of operating days.
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