Students are compared with a national sample, which means about 11% of kindergarten test-takers in the city received scores in the 99th percentile this year.

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The test for high risk HPV is done on the cervical screening sample, which means that women will not notice anything different when they have their regular cervical smear test.

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No light from a sample, therefore, means that that particular mutation is absent from it.

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That in turn means that a sample of a thousand people can represent 200 million.

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And by all means get a sample plan.

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Efficacy here means that of the sample of people who came to the doctor with a flu-like illness, 62% of those who had been vaccinated did not have influenza.

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This is by no means a definitive list but rather a representative sample.

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It takes four full images from different angles, which means scientists don't have to rotate the sample.

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This covers a large sample of completed sales which have gone through with a mortgage, which means cash sales are not included.

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What this means is rather than trying to catch every cheater you randomly sample for cheating and if you find incontrovertible proof then you impose a punishment so viciously harsh that fear of it deters all possible cheaters.

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