They will be spoken about at length, withdrawn before a vote, reincarnated at report stage, debated at length again, and then voted on at snail's pace, and then revisited in a different form at third reading.

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She bounded on stage wearing a full-length lavender silk dress followed by her co-presenters who included Linda Barker and the show's handyman Handy Andy.

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Such models, which are widely used in the pharmaceutical industry, take inputs such as the costs of clinical trials, the length of each stage of drug development and the probability of success at each stage.

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In a stage event, swimmers can take on the entire length of the course or choose to do as few or as many stages as their wallet and stamina allow.

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He has won at every stage, maintaining that his inability to walk the entire length of a golf course should not bar him from professional competition.

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Collingwood was kept on after tea, his nagging length often proving as testing as anything else on offer at that stage.

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