"In this context much activity including further detailed pre-construction engineering work will continue ahead of the later construction phase, " it said in a statement.

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Work should begin later this year with phase one complete before the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

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"The amusement city will be built on 50 acres (20ha) in the first phase but later will be extended to 500 acres, " Syed Aqil Shah, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's minister for tourism and sports told the AFP news agency.

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James Miller, Principal Deputy Under Secretary for Policy at the Department of Defence, later clarified that the final phase of the missile defence programme had been dropped.

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Aberdeen, Ayr, Inverness and Dundee are on the shortlist for second phase licences at a later date.

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On its recent Q4 conference call with analysts Pfizer confirmed the likely progression of its own Herceptin biosimilar program into Phase III clinical trials later this year.

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The talks are about the detail of pension reform - whether to increase contributions or decrease benefits, whether to move to average instead of final salary pensions, how to phase in a move to a later retirement age etc.

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The roofs on both the original and later market buildings would be replaced in an initial phase of work.

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Then the next phase is the acute phase, which develops 2-5 days later.

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