It is an established fact that college students love to talk their way to intellectual discovery, though the kids in this crowd were more smartly dressed than your average twenty-something.

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Of course, the crowd must be fed: in an average year, nearly half a million roast chickens, a quarter million sausages, 45, 000 pig's knuckles, and over one hundred whole oxen, spit roasted on giant rotisseries, are consumed.

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In 1995-96, their most recent season in the top division, the premiership, City's average crowd was 27, 941.

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Blackpool - whose average home crowd of 8, 611 was the second-lowest in the Championship this season - will be the smallest club in the top flight since the formation of the Premier League in 1992.

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They know it, so attempts at major legislation have tended to crowd in the first two years hence stock returns on average have been more variable then. (For US stocks, but the pattern largely holds for global stocks.) There have been plenty of big double-digit positive years in years one and two, but the variability drags down the averages to 8% and 9% respectively.

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Earlier, Trescothick thrilled the 7, 000-strong Taunton crowd, making up for lost time in a competition which had previously seen him average less than 18.

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