In Oxfordshire, Liverpool and Wolverhampton, about 90% of parents got the school they put first on their list of choices.

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When Petya DeVallance was in her first month of pregnancy, she put her daughter on the waiting list for a private infant-care program in a home in Astoria, Queens.

WSJ: It's Now a Grind For 2-Year-Olds

Only captain Aliou Cisse is still on the injured list, but Cisse did put his football boots on for the first time since injuring himself last Monday in training.

BBC: Senegal near full strength

What in fact happens is that the numbers of patients sent for their first hospital appointment by their general practitioners, and the proportion of these put on to the waiting list for operations by hospital consultants, are both affected by the size of the waiting list itself.

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