One of the first comprehensive lists of multiples was put together by William Ogburn and Dorothy Thomas, in 1922, and they found a hundred and forty-eight major scientific discoveries that fit the multiple pattern.

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About 100 staff work a multiple shift pattern, six days a week at the firm's print centre at Thorpe St Andrew.

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There are multiple reasons for this pattern.

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Unfortunately this pattern has been emerging in many other firms, in multiple industry sectors, over the past couple of years.

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The 1920s botanical pattern made up of stalks of cartoonlike leaves blends with "multiple patterns" of green already in the room, she says.

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