Two establishments stood nearby: a redbrick pub with pretty clumps of lavender growing in the window pots and, on the other side of the green, a luridly painted fish-and-chip van.

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Swansea equalised moments before half-time when Darren Pratley's chip picked out Cedric van der Gun to flick home.

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United gave possession to Lee Hendrie, who back-heeled the ball to Merson and his 20-yard chip was expertly touched away by Raimond van der Gouw.

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Uruguay looked exhausted and Robben could have added a fourth when he burst forward on to a Van Persie flick late on, but got his attempted chip all wrong.

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After months of e-mails, calls and in-person meetings, Van Tassell convinced Illumina that it was worth marketing a small gene chip that could keep track of 38, 000 tiny genetic differences in cows that his USDA researchers had discovered.

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The production tax credit given to wind, for example, has become a bargaining chip that results in an unhealthy stop-and-go economic system, says van Nispen.

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But van der Kamp thinks the market will be fine so long as the red-chip frenzy does not spill over into the rest of the bourse.

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And Eduardo's chip went in off Jody Craddock's head to make it 2-0 before Robin van Persie's exquisite touch set up Fabregas to score a classy third.

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They remained looking out on the meadow beyond the green, Hanwell Snr leaning against the van, despite his beliefs, with his sweaty cone of newspaper and chewing each chip a long time.

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Their only other opportunity in the first-half fell to Van Nistlerooy, but the Dutchman shot wildly over after Rooney had headed Roy Keane's dinked chip from the right into his path.

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