Owain Williams drove the three miles from the shop to the rafting centre to take the players' order, ready for their arrival at 1630 BST.

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Beesley opted to correct a long standing hip problem back in March in order to be ready for pre-season.

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They will continue working through fiendishly detailed analysis, including the environmental impact, in order to have the enabling legislation ready for next year's Queen's Speech.

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Searching for order in their lives, people seem ready to go back to religion.

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Apple's application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office describes a process for placing an order and then notifying customers when an order is ready to grab at a pick-up station.

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Aiming to improve the experience for men, Hointer added QR codes to their jeans so that customers could simply scan the code in order to get their desired size delivered to a changing room ready for them to try on.

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Even if you're ready to order now, you'll still have to wait about two months for delivery.

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Eventually a harried housewife or a busy executive will be able to order a ready-to-eat or ready-to-cook gourmet meal for delivery by dinner time (see box).

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Izhar Gafni, from Israel, spent 18 months just folding the material every-which-way in order to discover a strong enough design, and now he claims his technique is almost ready for mass production.

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