Purchased at auction in 1970, they were donated to the museum in 1979 and have been on almost continuous display since.

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It is a gigantic corporation with three decades of almost continuous success.

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Two years is like a month in auditor time, especially on large audits where the presence of the engagement team is almost continuous.

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In the 1950s, when the first artificial satellites were being launched, first by the Russians then by the United States, Mr Pierce calculated that 25 of them, suitably placed, could provide almost continuous communication around the world by bouncing signals from continent to continent.

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The AK-47, for example, is widely available to private citizens around the U.S. as a semi-automatic version (firing one shot each time the trigger is pulled), but the military grade fully automatic (continuous fire while the trigger is depressed) model is illegal almost everywhere.

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That will almost certainly happen as the Internet reaches its full potential as a means of anywhere, always, continuous communication and computation.

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