• That was some years before her fateful meeting with the Prince of Wales at the University of St.

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  • However, much more research is needed, and it could be some years before doctors can prescribe them for patients.

    BBC: Q&A: Cannabis pain trial

  • The scientists believe that it will still take some years before a working drug can be provided for patients.

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  • He lived for 53 years in a chaste, sexless relationship with Howard Austen, but there had been a different, deeper love some years before.

    ECONOMIST: Gore Vidal

  • Entrepreneurship, as an ingredient in urban renewal that Nancy Cantor first described to me some years before she came to Syracuse, is a big part of the potential answer.

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  • As Apple started its applications for iPhone in 2006, they were denied because Gradiente had a very similar register for cell phones applied some years before the American company.

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  • If you plan ahead and consider your business structure some years before you want to sell, you can probably produce a far more efficient tax result later when you do sell.

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  • The coins were discovered by two amateur metal detector enthusiasts, Reg Mead and Richard Miles who began their hunt after a woman told them her father had found coins in a field some years before.

    BBC: Jersey

  • Even though many farmers recognized the potential of checkdams, it was not easy to build them because there were no handtools and it took some years before enough land could be created to grow enough cereals to make a substantial contribution to the family diet.

    UNESCO: Title

  • The MoD's director general of finance, Jon Thompson, told the committee it could be some years before the problem was resolved because of the scale of the MoD's "845, 000 lines of stock, spread across 78 IT systems, covering anywhere in the world we currently have bases".

    BBC: MPs alarmed by 'missing' ?6.3bn defence assets

  • The 787 is also set to enter service in 2008, some two years before Airbus's model.

    ECONOMIST: Cabin fever

  • He was on the run for some 20 years before being killed by police on 18 October 2004.

    BBC: Indian film on life of bandit Veerappan to be released

  • Veerappan was on the run for some 20 years before he was killed by police on 18 October 2004.

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  • Picower had experienced a smaller-scale fraud that operated in a similar fashion some 30 years before Madoff pleaded guilty on all counts.

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  • Alcatraz Island, in the San Francisco Bay, is known for a high-security prison that operated there for some 30 years before closing in 1963.

    CNN: Man dies during California triathlon

  • Although the first investigation involving geoforensics was at the start of the 20th Century, Doyle's famous detective was using the methods to solve crimes in London some 30 years before.

    BBC: NEWS | Entertainment | Solving it like Sherlock

  • But it had the characteristic pear, apple and honey flavors of his beloved Loire Chenin, and it was the first wine he'd tasted since his capture some two years before.

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  • Two hours later I was back at my starting point, taking a windsurfing lesson near the spot where Jesus had given his Sermon on the Mount some 2000 years before.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • True, writes Mr Cross, toys have long had an element of fantasy: for example, a Buck Rogers Rocket Pistol went on sale in 1934, some 500 years before Buck saved the earth.

    ECONOMIST: Toys

  • The Associated Press reported that while McCain has pushed for less regulation, he also supported a shorter leash for, and greater accountability on behalf of, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac some two years before the financial crisis began.

    NPR: Ferreting Out Fibs In The Second Debate

  • There has been a massive renewal of interest in the artist's work since a major retrospective of his work at the South African National Gallery two years ago -- the first time "Chinese Girl" had been seen in public since its sale some 60 years before.

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  • Not a large one, hollowed out by monster machinery, just a minor pit that a farmer must have made some money from years before.

    NEWYORKER: Gravel

  • It will take many months, in some cases years, before Pena Nieto's reform agenda becomes law and produces its first results, plenty of time for big promises to be derailed by special interests, institutional inertia and the PRI's old guard.

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  • The signals required vary from patient to patient and some people wait many years before an audiologist gets it right.

    ECONOMIST: Monitor

  • But the reality is, it's going to be many years and some areas before their fundamental way of life is improved significant.

    BBC: Programme transcript

  • The papal election resembles how decisions were made in Europe some 700 years ago, before elected monarchies were replaced by hereditary monarchies, says Bruce Bueno De Mesquita, professor of politics at New York University who uses a computer model based on game theory to predict the outcome of elections.

    NPR: Arcane Process Encourages Papal Horse Trading

  • The returns on equity of 20-25% that some banks made in the years before the financial crisis were abnormally high.

    ECONOMIST: Bank regulations

  • Mountains in the countries are the remains of a range that traversed part of the supercontinent of Pangaea some 300 million years ago, before it broke up.

    BBC: On the West Highland Way

  • While South Australia theoretically opened up politics to women in 1865, some 60 years were to pass before Nancy Buttfield became the first woman from the state to be elected to the federal Parliament.

    ECONOMIST: Roma Mitchell

  • Likewise, it remains indisputably true that his usurpation threw English politics, painstakingly restored to some order in the 12 years before his crime, into a turmoil from which it did not fully recover for another two decades.

    CNN: Richard still the criminal king

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