And Murphy made calls to many who didn't, to gauge whether there might be a spot.

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"It would be most useful for countries where they don't have much rain gauge data or weather radar - in Africa for instance, they do have mobile phones, at least in areas where the population density is high enough, " he told BBC News.

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For this scene and a specific, the emergency room, they didn't have - like a child gauge chest(ph) tube, but they can't leave the child bleed in his chest till he dies so they use the adult-size chest tube.

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Cashman reached out to the two-time All Star to plant the seed and gauge Lee's thoughts and didn't rule out Lee joining the team.

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By another gauge, though, U.K. REITs aren't as pricey as you'd think: the stock price versus net asset value, which is the worth of a property portfolio after debt is taken out.

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The company hasn't released the results of any benchmark tests yet, making it difficult to gauge the company's claims about Crusoe's performance.

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To gauge the value of this man, as Sandy had rendered him, wasn't difficult.

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Perhaps, then, a better gauge of the Tory mood would be to speak to the people who weren't at this Spring Forum.

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