"This is an opportunity that only comes around once every hundred years, " says 19-year-old Yu Tingting.

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This kind of character, this kind of opportunity, would only happen once.

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"I think we have an opportunity to transform the economy, an opportunity such as we have only comes along once in a lifetime, " he says.

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And on paper it seemed they could not get an easier opportunity, with crisis club Pompey having won only once in eight matches, as well as attracting unwanted headlines for their financial difficulties and allegations about their manager Avram Grant's behaviour.

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Lord McCluskey opened his evidence session saying his review group had had no political interest but only a desire to take a "once in several decades opportunity" to correct problems within the Scotland Act 1998 .

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