Tom had led teams that had created an endless string of top-selling products.

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Australian-born Clive James, appointed a CBE for services to literature and media, is a published poet, novelist and author of a string of best-selling memoirs.

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The rhyming narrative of Julia Donaldson has made for a string of best-selling children's books, some of which have been adapted for the stage - the latest of which is Stick Man, which is at the New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich as part of a national tour.

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Kent now can boast a string of five best-selling CDs and an armful of awards, including the 2001 British Jazz Award and 2002 BBC Jazz Award for Best Vocalist.

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There was talk of selling the state's remaining stakes in a string of big corporations, of privatising lots of companies owned by local authorities and even of abolishing the ordini (self-regulating associations that keep a stranglehold on entry into the professions, often to the benefit of the offspring of existing professionals).

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Though most simply remember the 1987 Crash as one panicked selling day, Black Monday was just the largest drop in a string of bad days.

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