• The highest electromagnetic radiation reading it found was a seventh of the internationally agreed safe limit.

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  • Twenty-five years ago, the slice taken by financial firms was about a seventh of the whole.

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  • Germany accounts for less than a third of the company's production and a seventh of its sales.

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  • This is as much as the government now spends on all welfare and pension programmes, or a seventh of all state spending this year.

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  • Medicare, for example, might pay them a seventh of that.

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  • Comedy Central subsequently ordered a sixth season of 26 episodes, which aired in 2010-11, and a seventh season of 26 episodes, the first half of which debuted in 2012.

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  • Toni Elias moved another step closer to the Moto2 title with a seventh win of the season that earned a hug and a slap on the wrists from team manager Fausto Gresini.

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  • Along with the venomous groundstrokes, Nadal's ability to retrieve lost causes kept Djokovic under constant pressure and a seventh break of his serve enabled the defending champion to establish a 2-0 lead in the third set.

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  • The effect of the softer yen in Tokyo pushed the Nikkei up 2.6% to 12283.62 on Friday, a seventh day of gains and its highest close since Sept. 10, 2008, just before the collapse of Lehman Brothers during the height of the global financial crisis.

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  • Then they picked out a new surrogate, KT, a married woman with the Indian equivalent of a seventh-grade education who has two small boys of her own.

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  • Blackburn pressed for the winner to help pull clear of the bottom three, but instead Carroll rose to head home in added time to put Liverpool within a point of seventh-placed Merseyside rivals Everton ahead of this weekend's FA Cup semifinal clash.

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  • For Davies, who won the SAS Masters in Norway last month, it was a sixth second place in Europe this summer and means she has bolstered her hopes of clinching a record seventh New Star Order of Merit title.

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  • Captain Shivnarine Chanderpaul was lbw to Vaas in the third over of play without adding to his 69 and his dismissal ended a seventh wicket partnership of 81 with Banks.

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  • Saddlers boss Richard Money eventually gave Ince the nod for Saturday and the big stopper responded with clean sheet number seven of the season at the Bescot, which helped them secure a seventh home win of the season.

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  • Singh, who began the final round four shots off the lead, dropped shots at three of the opening four holes and finished with a 73 for a share of seventh at three under.

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  • Mr. Davis is a former employee of a deli at the corner of 49th Street and Seventh Avenue, and a manager there told investigators he recognized the man in a video released by police late Monday, the official said.

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  • The hosts initially looked like they lacked a spring in their step, but fears of further agony evaporated in the seventh minute with a goal of typical Arsenal quality.

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  • The Bruins became the first team to overcome a three-goal deficit in the third period of a seventh game and beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-4 on Bergeron's goal in overtime.

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  • Sweden's Johan Edfors is two behind with Colin Montgomerie is in a share of seventh place on nine under.

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  • Victory would have sealed a minimum of seventh spot for Everton, and it was not for want of chances that they left the West Midlands empty-handed.

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  • However, the lowest score of the day belonged to Ireland's Peter Lawrie, who carded a career-best 63 to climb 54 places to a share of seventh on nine under.

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  • On another dismal day for U.S. equities, a combination of bad economic data and riots in debt-ridden Greece have sent markets on a nose dive, as they approach a seventh consecutive week of declines.

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  • Colin McDonald tied the score at 2 at 9:56 of the second when he tapped in a rebound for his seventh of the season.

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  • In the seven years since Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook in his Harvard dormitory, Facebook has moved from a closed social networking service available to college students to a place where one seventh of the world's population logs in at least once a month.

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  • The Giants' Hunter Pence scored on a double-play groundout by Brandon Crawford to give the Giants a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the seventh and Pence hit a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the eighth to make it 2-0.

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  • Like the time we found The Princess Diaries on both the outbound and return trips of another cross-country flight, which would be fine for a plane full of seventh graders, but not for grown-ups travelling on business.

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  • That would just be a downpayment on the desirable budget cuts, as federal spending grew by one-seventh as a percent of GDP during the Bush years, and by another one-fourth already in the Obama years, less than half the time for the Bush increase.

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  • The body of a sixth Marine also has been recovered, and search teams are working to find the remains of a seventh Marine who was killed in the plane crash.

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  • It is a truth less than universally acknowledged that in addition to six beloved society novels, Jane Austen wrote part of a seventh.

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  • After placing his first cartoon (about a man who broke out of jail for the seventh time) in a local Swiss newspaper at the age of 20, he worked his way to America, where he was employed first by the New York Times as an illustrator, then by Newsweek, which hired him to write a comic strip.

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