The Spode works is in a conservation area and the council said each brick had to be carefully removed, numbered and stored so they could be reinstated at a later date.

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So this team is going to have to think, and the coach whose days may be numbered, long and hard about how they become patriotic.

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The Obama administration says al-Assad's days are numbered and a transition should be worked out to allow the Syrian people to choose their leaders.

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If mortgage losses go beyond already gloomy predictions, "they could succumb to more capital pressure, and their independent-company days may be numbered, " says David Hendler, an analyst at CreditSights.

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Bars and restaurants, once numbered in their dozens, have proliferated, but there is too much cheating: cocktails tend to be long on ice and short on alcohol.

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