• For someone like me, who uses his wife's laptop with battery support of not more than five minutes, there was no question of filing prospects in time to meet the deadline.

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  • The picture is not much rosier for college graduates, as more than five million of them enter the increasingly competitive job market every year.

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  • The fact he's fought only four times since beating Ricky Hatton more than five years ago and has not fought in a year leads some in boxing to believe he may have as much trouble with ring rust as he has with Guerrero.

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  • And more than three-quarters of adults did not consume the recommend five servings of fruits and vegetables each day.

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  • In addition, more than two in five employees who observed misconduct did not report what they saw.

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  • "Forest's financial position, while not being especially strong, is more stable than it has been over the past five years or so, " he said.

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  • The evidence was so complex that, had the documents not been digitised, it is estimated the courtroom would have been awash with more than five million sheets of paper.

    BBC: Uncovered: Trial of the oligarchs

  • That means advanced-life support ambulances with patients who are stable are referred to the next closest hospital, no more than five minutes away, Zich said, and transfers are not accepted from outside hospitals.

    CNN: Flu picks up steam across the U.S.

  • The stock climbed more than 47%, before a steep drop Friday, reaching levels not seen in five years.

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  • Apple, which has lost more than eight percent of its value over the last five days, does not seem to have endeared investors with these lawsuits.

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  • He weighed, Cynthia would guess, no more than four or five pounds, if that, and he was clearly not nearly as healthy as his sister, Mbabli, had been as an infant.

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  • The presidential candidates are grappling over the plight of the uninsured, yet you're five times more likely to die from visiting a hospital than from not having health insurance, according to the not-for-profit Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths.

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  • That's not always the case at Cannes, considered one the world's leading film festivals for more than five decades.

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  • Of course both Greenberg and Broad would have had their entire AIG stakes--worth more than most investors see in five lifetimes--wiped out had the government not stepped in.

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  • Yet the Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty, concluded in 1996 and since signed by more than 150 states (including all five official nuclear powers), has still not come into force.

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  • They have not lost more than two Tests in a row since 1998, when John Hart's team lost five in a row (three to Australia, two to South Africa).

    BBC: South Africa 31-19 New Zealand

  • Borders is working to cut costs and close stores as the second largest U.S. book retailer has not been profitable for four straight years and sales are more than one-third lower than they were five years ago.

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  • More than a third of physics teachers (around 2, 000 teachers), half of those teaching Spanish (around 3, 400), over half of information and communications technology (ICT) teachers (around 9, 200) and more than two in five religious education teachers (around 6, 500) do not hold a relevant qualification higher than an A-level.

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  • Jessica was not named in the will, which was dated March 30, 2004 and predated their marriage by more than five years.

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  • The DoH revealed that its officials had approved more than 400 severance payments in the last five years, but it said it did not know how much of the money may have been tied to so-called gagging clauses - the BBC Radio 4 Today programme's Andrew Hosken reported.

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  • Liu admits there are problems, such as not having enough recreational facilities on campus (five swimming pools and 400 computers) for its staff of more than 300, 000.

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  • Those who tested positive were more than five times as likely to alter their insurance arrangements after the test as those who did not.

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  • "Even though they're not sympathetic to what he did, they're sympathetic to the problem that he's been here more than five years without trial, " Lasry said.

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  • Recently, I met a man who had spent more than five years in isolation at a prison in the Boston suburb of Walpole, Massachusetts, not far from my home.

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  • South Africa's exports to China have more than doubled in five years, and increasingly they are raw materials such as coal and gold, not manufactures.

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  • One in five of those who did not bother with a survey later uncovered faults, according to research involving more than 1, 000 buyers conducted by ComRes for Rics.

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  • Meanwhile, Mr Anwar will not be campaigning for a long time: a jail term of more than a year disqualifies him from standing for parliament for five years after completion of the sentence.

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