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There were too many special moments to count minute-long rain showers, sudden rainbows, roadways dusted with flower petals as though nature were rolling out a welcome mat.

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Humberside Police employs 1, 868 police officers, 1, 683 police staff, 286 Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) and 345 special constables (the head count was valid as of 31 July, 2012).

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Cigarette companies count with a special weapon: juicy dividends.

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It seems like whenever we have our back against the wall, whenever we are cornered, and whenever we look to be down for the count, a special class of citizens frees us from uncertainty and doubt.

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Police have said they would ask prosecutors to charge the actor with one count of murder with special circumstances and two counts of solicitation of murder in the killing of Bakley, his wife of six months.

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Our count is purely of noncombatants, except under special circumstances.

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We watch the count-down for the last minutes, for they can make those special limited time only deals so satisfying.

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Mr Ball, who was sworn in immediately after the election count on Friday, said he also hoped that by recruiting more volunteer special constables it would mean more officers available for the front line.

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Some Whitehall officials resent the army of special (ie, political) advisers to ministers: 70, including the unpaid ones, at the last count and rising.

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