• In Harris County cases are resolved in an average of a few weeks, and the dismissal rate once a case reaches court is 10 percent to 15 percent, compared with a statewide average of 50 percent.

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  • In 2010, the European Food Safety Authority published a report outlining analysis of 612 rice samples from the EU, finding average levels of just a few tens of parts per billion.

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  • Once the player has a few levels, an average login could consist of questing for experience and gear, a few chance encounters, some player-vs-player arena battles, crafting, and some raiding.

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  • That would be welcome indeed for Volvo: Its customers are, on average, 47, a year older than the industry average and a few years older than buyers of rivals Saab , Audi , Acura and Volkswagen .

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  • U. make their own checklists for what they thought should be done each day improved the consistency of care to the point that, within a few weeks, the average length of patient stay in intensive care dropped by half.

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  • Rents in the logistics space have grown at about a nationwide average of 5% to 10% a year in the past few years, as increasing demand outpaces supply, said Colliers International Research.

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  • The disorder can set in within the first two to three days after giving birth, and up to a few months after (the average is a couple of weeks).

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  • Maybe it is preferable that British democracy be tempered by a few hundred unelected and average lords than cede hegemony to a bunch of professional pols.

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  • Product cycles are almost as limited in duration as the tenure of the average large-company CEO (a few years at most), after which all the investment and technology is written off.

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  • Amex's charge-offs of debt deemed unrecoverable have climbed in a few months from unusually low levels to well above the historic average of 4.8% of balances outstanding.

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  • The academics say that the average life of a growth stock is five years, with few exceptions.

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  • This has coincided with a quadrupling in top executives' pay, whereas company share prices as measured by the FTSE100 index have gone nowhere and average earnings for the rest of us have increased just a few percentage points a year.

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  • Paul Johnson was lecturing the David Hume Institute in Edinburgh on Tuesday, suggesting that the consequence of protecting health, schools and overseas aid in the Whitehall budget is that other budgets will face a squeeze of an average one third over very few years.

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  • The ALA analyzed particle pollution levels two ways: short-term particle pollution, or high spikes in the level of soot and other toxins in the air that last a few hours to a few weeks, and year-round particle pollution, or the annual average of particle pollution levels.

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  • Development aid is the wonkiest of wonk subjects, something the average person, at least until a few years ago, did not pay much attention to.

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  • Capital expenditure may have a pay-off in the long run but, given the ever-shortening career span of the average chief executive, few may be willing to take a chance that they will be around for the long term.

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  • Lundberg expects the national per-gallon average to fall a few more cents this week as long as the price of crude doesn't jump.

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  • And those who enter the NFL Promised Land stay only a few years on average without a real trade for the majority of their working lives.

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  • The low was accompanied by quite low average volume of just over 100 million shares (point 2), and just a few days before the lows, volume was just 57 million shares.

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  • The results, plotted as a graph, are a standard bell-shape: a few poor results at one end, a few excellent ones at the other and a bulge of average scores in the middle.

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  • But, with average gates double those of their nearest MLS cohorts, including LA Galaxy, Seattle clearly has a few other tricks up its sleeve.

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  • He added that most people would have at least one of the genes but it was the combination of a few that would increase a person's risk above the population average.

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  • For comparison, Apple has activated around 275, 000 iOS devices per day on average for the past 30 days with a peak of almost 300, 000 iOS devices per day on a few of those days.

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  • And they are flourishing in the dynamic markets of the emerging world, which have been growing at an average of 5.5% a year against the rich world's 1.6% over the past few years and are likely to account for half the world's GDP by 2020.

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  • Though these items may cost a mint, there are a few bespoke goodies owned by celebs that are at least plausibly within the range of the average person's budget.

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  • The Indiana study attempted to farm 9.7 million tweets posted over ten months in 2008 by 2.7 million twitter users, measured them using the GPOMS and a few other computer science methods, and checked the closing movement of the Dow Jones industrial average for each day.

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  • In a test of Enbrel on 19 psoriasis patients, on average half of the rash disappeared after three months, with few side effects.

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  • Though the rise in the number of jobless has slowed since September to an average of 10, 000 a month (compared with nearly 30, 000 a month over the preceding 12 months), few expect the number of jobs to grow until the second half of this year or even early next year--in time, perhaps, for a March election.

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