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  • "A valid alternative would be to create a single library or repository able to search databases around the world - just like an internet search engine, rather than having one vast library or pass data between each other, " a Home Office spokesman said.

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  • Some history: He is Fat Boy to some, Tough Guy to others and, to the vast majority of people who pass him by without so much as a glance, "that statue" on the corner of Queens Boulevard and Union Turnpike.

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  • This law has now been in place for about five years, but a federal investigation last July, in addition to the in-depth study from the Mayors Against Illegal Guns, found the vast majority of states fail to pass on mental health records to the federal system.

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  • There are well over enough Republican congressmen from the likes of Iowa, Colorado and the vast windy empire to vote with the Democratic minority and pass the credit.

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  • In the campaign headquarters of Moulod Hamrouche, one of the leading ex-candidates, adrenaline-charged campaign staff manned the phones and faxes beneath blank result-charts, working desperately to pass word of the pull-out to all the campaign offices across Algeria's vast desert hinterland.

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  • She has an eye for ephemera at the edge of a vast stage: that tear-gas canisters become more not less potent when they pass their expiry date, that in July last year a Saudi flag appeared in Tahrir Square, that the soldiers took possession of any US dollar bills they came across as evidence of demonstrators being foreign agents.

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  • Both use vast particle accelerators to speed up electrons, which spray out X-rays as they pass around the accelerators.

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  • On an afternoon when England's World Cup flops were booed by the vast majority of the 84, 623 inside Wembley, Wayne Rooney played a superb low pass for Antonio Valencia's opening goal.

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  • At length, the train begins to pass clusters of houses, building up gradually into the centre of Bergen, where it comes to rest under the vast cylindrical glass roof of the main railway station.

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