Whitmore puts them at the top of her list for their proclivity to rolling around the plate and often hard-to-pierce skin.

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Even though Alchemy has been handed Rover on a plate, it is hard to see the venture capitalists finding the huge sums needed for new models to make Longbridge viable.

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It is hard to imagine how faults on one continental plate might communicate with those on another that is hundreds of kilometres away.

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Ms Palmer said that there was no gold plate standard and that efficiency is hard to achieve in older properties, adding that there are already tighter standards of efficiency in Wales than in England.

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