That marked the highest number of loans in at least a decade and a 46% jump from fiscal-year 2011.
Last year marked the highest number of background checks the FBI has run since starting the program - more than 19.5 million.
Requests for remarks were made in relation to 50, 257 test papers - about 3% of the total number marked and 3, 000 more than last year.
And remember that the trains marked with the number 7 within a diamond are the skip-stop express trains and the circle 7s are the locals.
That ties in with a marked increase in the number of very small companies, often one-person bands.
India says there was also a marked drop in the number of militants infiltrating from Pakistani-controlled Kashmir.
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As for the narcissists themselves, it often not until middle age that they notice their life has been marked by an unusual number of failed relationships.
Mozambique is marked by a great number of long-lasting challenges.
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But experts also point to a more fundamental change in French society, where there has been a marked drop in the number of elderly people living with the younger generation.
Roz Wilson, resident artist at The Forge, in Middle Street, Shere, which is on the edge of the road race route, said local people had noticed a marked increase in the number of cyclists.
"All of the updated data that we have collated supports the conclusion that claims management companies have had a marked effect on the number of small injury, whiplash-like claims, " said David Brown, chairman of the actuaries' professional body.
While the rest of the country, over the same twenty-year period, saw the growth in incarceration that led to our current astonishing numbers, New York, despite the Rockefeller drug laws, saw a marked decrease in its number of inmates.
The delegate list shows a "marked increase" in the number of front-line workers, migrant workers, farmers, professional and technical personnel and women.
In a report last month, the UNHCR noted "the general improvement of the security situation in Iraq, " including "a marked decrease" in the number of attacks on Palestinian neighborhoods and individuals.
He attended in a marked police car and was with a number of other officers when he was attacked.
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While the results were ahead of expectations, and the firm said the number of Mac computers shipped marked a record, the warning of lower sales concerned investors.
The first data results, published this month in Health Psychology, a journal of the American Psychological Association, found that the students given the tubes with the marked chips ate on average half the number of chips as the students given the unmarked tubes.
Overall, Ms Hinds' report shows a marked improvement across all trusts in cutting the number of patients waiting in excess of 12 hours.
In its most recent report, Audit Scotland said that, in a small number of cases patients were inappropriately marked as unavailable for treatment, but could not say whether these were deliberate because of a lack of information available.
"We have seen a marked increase in the last six months in the number of call outs that we have been asked to carry out when compared to previous years, " he said.
In its report on the wider status of waiting lists, Audit Scotland concluded that in a small number of cases patients had been inappropriately marked as unavailable for treatment, but it could not say whether these were deliberate.
Responses were mixed, with the largest number of respondents bracing for disappointing results, marked by declines in profits.
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Mark Makepeace, FTSE chief executive said the number of changes announced on Wednesday were in marked contrast to the review held a year ago when a record nine changes were made to the FTSE-100.
Phillips cited a number of factors for feeling that the great accumulation of wealth that marked the 1980s would not extend to the 1990s.
European stocks closed slightly lower in a choppy session marked by mixed economic data and after Moody's Investors Service downgraded a number of European sovereign-debt ratings, including Spain, Italy and Portugal, and cut its outlook on triple-A-rated France, the U.K. and Austria.
It was a marked improvement on last year, however, when she had the misfortune to draw world number one Dinara Safina in the first round and failed to win a game.
Though there has been a rise in the number of civil-society groups trying to pick up the pieces, progress is marked in baby-steps.
Windows Phone marked its second anniversary with a total of just 3.6 million units shipped worldwide, fewer than the total number of Symbian units shipped.
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