Airbone lidars can achieve much better precision, but these maps are necessarily regional in extent - they will cover only relatively small areas.

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The intelligence review earlier Friday had focused to a large extent on regional militant connections the men have had in Russia or Central Asia.

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This individual doctor has galvanised the regional hospital to such an extent that last year they had the equivalent of 74 donors per million population, double the already high Spanish national level.

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It also is one in which the regional partners have interests and to some extent stakes.

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To achieve this, the Circular states that policies to protect and sustain World Heritage Sites, including any buffer zone and setting, should be incorporated in regional and local plans as well as maps showing the extent of the World Heritage Site and any buffer zone.

UNESCO: UK National Commission for UNESCO :: New Circular on the Protection of World Heritage Sites published

Today, the chitalishte network, coordinated by the Regional Cultural Policy Directorate with the Ministry of Culture, ensures to a large extent the transmission of knowledge and skills in the area of the intangible cultural heritage.

UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage

Thanks to data collected and disseminated by the Arctic Regional Ocean Observing System (Arctic ROOS) and by national observing efforts, information about the extent of the Arctic sea ice is reported every few days, providing an early warning of changing conditions in the Arctic Ocean.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

The extent to which the work they do in research and teaching and developing and strengthening the regional economy goes across all universities or can be done in a smaller number of universities or whatever.

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