The figure represented a slight decline from 129, 502 the previous week, mainly due to long liquidation as the number of total longs fell.

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This figure was in slight deficit in 2000-2001.

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The BDA estimates that about 570 dentists are needed across England and Wales to make a significant difference to NHS access problems - a slight increase on last year's figure.

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Indeed, over much of the Sahara, rainfall is so slight and irregular as to make any average figure almost meaningless.

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The figure in the 1991 census showed a slight growth in the number of speakers compared with 1981, reversing a pattern of decline which had existed through most of the 20th Century.

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The figure stands at around 13% and we expect slight gains going forward.

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There will be slight moderation after the expiration of the stimulus package, but growing entitlement costs will immediately resume pushing the figure back up.

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The employee, Kadir Anlayisli, said he recognized the slight man who walked into the nondescript Helin Spatkauf Internet Cafe on Monday, but he couldn't quite figure out why he did.

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