Following the heavy pollution of the beach, the local population of this starfish fell from more than a hundred and fifty to just thirteen, pushing this particular colony to the edge of extinction.

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Obama sent in more than fifty thousand additional troops, and, for thirteen months, Petraeus himself led the effort.

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In 1932, Yale received thirteen hundred and thirty applications, and it admitted nine hundred and fifty-nine an acceptance rate of seventy-two per cent.

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Thirteen hundred an ounce, of which only a hundred to a hundred and fifty dollars is the actual production value.

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