Rather more than that stood up on the day - and I suspect a good part of their motivation was simply to assert their power to debate what they choose, and underline that they are no longer totally in thrall to the government.
The 'toner' used in the laser sintering process is rather more expensive than that found in a laser printer cartridge.
In turn, rather more than half of that was awarded in six-hectare lots to subsistence farmers from the semi-arido.
As the experience of the past ten years suggests, there is an even chance that the deficit will constrain growth even more than it does at present, rather than that growth will reduce the deficit.
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He played the publicity game with aplomb, convincing interviewers that he had been in rather more fistfights than he had, and that his hobby was knife-throwing. (It was painting.) He bought a horse farm in Vermont and a mansion in Bel-Air.
She said they ought to look at "really clear programmes that make a difference" rather than informal parenting lessons that "could do more harm than good".
"That's the kind of thing I should be focusing more on, rather than that my jeans come from the back of the rack rather than the front, " she said.
Why lock ourselves in to processes that will only get dirtier, riskier and more expensive over time rather than ones that will build sustainable equity and reduce long-term energy costs and environmental impacts.
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Rather than engaging both parents, CREFAL has reported from initial investigations that it is more often mothers rather than fathers who participate most actively in the school life of their children.
Even so, he seems to regard the legal system as part of the government bureaucracy that needs to be made more honest and efficient, rather than something that should be a power in its own right to rival the Kremlin.
It is that the credit will be provided to them against the security of pretty much any assets that the banks have, rather than the more narrowly defined and better quality assets that the Bank currently insists they provide.
But Mr Kerry's hold on the state may depend rather more than he would like on that hovering cloud of economic gloom.
The row over plans to cut the number of MPs from Wales by a quarter is as predictable as night following day, although the reaction to the new boundaries is rather more muted than some past predictions that the new map would destroy civilisation as we know it (I paraphrase).
What is more, it is only prudent to expect that, in the present environment, more rather than less sophisticated fiber optic and switching technology will be actually be utilized in any deal that goes forward.
The government was not overjoyed when the committee said that Scotland got more than its fair share of tax money, or that joining the euro was a rather more complicated matter than the chancellor likes to make out.
Thus the best entrepreneurs, and the best investors, spend more time trying to find information that refutes their beliefs, rather than more data which might support a bias.
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Nigerians are increasingly questioning the police and military response, one that relies more on labor-intensive check points rather than intelligence operations that could provide tips on weapons or the composition of the group.
My guess is, rather, that there was more than a little Teutonic calculation involve.
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He has spent most of his time and advertising budget talking about the economy, rather than the more polarising social issues that often arose in the primaries.
"I have been looking at how we can be more cost effective and rather than spend that much on cones, I would much rather give that to front-line policing, " he said.
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But I would expect them to tell him unequivocally whether it's in private session, probably rather more likely than the public one, that this just, they can't wear this, they cannot accept a president in their midst who's come back to power through this route.
Mr Segev is weaker when he ventures to make bigger historical judgments, such as the novel claim that it was the Arab revolt before the second world war, rather than that of the more powerful and more desperate Jews after it, which made Britain give up on Palestine.
But my ultimate fear is that CCM will be seen more as an optional doctrine rather than being seen as a doctrine that contains certain omnipresent obligations.
However, he said that the alliance's submission, backed by independent evidence, showed that rather than being a cruel practice, hunting was actually more favourable that other methods of culling foxes.
As we go into the fall, I think the American people recognize - those I hope that focus more on trying to get the job done rather than simply those that are politically spinning the issue.
Mr MacGregor argues that they have belonged to a unique collection for more than 200 years, in a museum that attracts more visitors than any other in the world, rather than just to one nation's history.
The answer is because they prefer to blame Israel rather than acknowledge that their positive assessments of the Palestinians are nothing more than fantasy.
But it has to be said that this is a rather more pleasant way of discovering that you need contact lenses than being caught in the face by an 85mph bouncer from Brett Lee.
They don't believe Washington has all the answers and they are nervous that more and more decisions that affect them are being made nationally rather than locally.
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