The yield on 10-year Spanish government bonds jumped to 6.03%, the highest level in almost three weeks, according to electronic trading platform Tradeweb.

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The price of the standard basket of staples, the cesta basica, rose by almost 5% in the first three weeks of February.

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Their second child, born almost three years later in 1997, was 10 weeks premature after Carolyn developed life-threatening complications.

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Guinness Peat, which he chairs, has stated it will vote against the merger at September's meeting, and has increased its shareholding in the LSE to almost 1% over the past three weeks.

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Last year, the security forces took almost three weeks to regain control of La Planta prison in the capital, Caracas, after inmates rioted in protest at a planned transfer to another jail.

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He was scheduled to start at Winnipeg on Feb. 24 but shut himself down for almost three weeks because the injury was causing spasms and numbness in his shoulder and arm.

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As it turned out, for the two weeks we were in Liberia it rained almost every day, sometimes nonstop for two or three days.

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Of course in the U.S. most union and government workers get good stretches of time off, and in private industry three weeks of vacation after five or ten years of employment is so common as to be almost standard.

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