It is difficult to say how many licensed coin dealers are telling their customers they don't have what they need, but earlier this year, Ute Wartenberg-Kagan, executive director of the American Numismatic Society, said she was asked by an investor how one could buy 10, 000 coins (they are sold in ounce quantities and three fractional versions below that, at a price that is slightly above market value).

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Ltd. recalled Bindeez Beads on Tuesday after three children in Australia swallowed large quantities of the beads and were hospitalized.

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Mr Hawkins said that before the Birchgrove store closed, staff there saw people taking large quantities of clothes, carrying three or four bags at a time, to a nearby clothes bank where they would be paid by the weight for what they brought in.

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Three years ago the Bank of Cyprus also bought large quantities of Greek bonds, largely for reasons unconnected with their rate of return or risk, to help out Greece.

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The 64-year-old returned home to gather large quantities of jewellery and money before placing them in a red bag and meeting all three females at the corner of West Register Street.

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Delhi draws three-quarters of its drinking water from the Yamuna river, into which the city dumps quantities of sewage, almost all of it untreated, to join a cocktail of farm chemicals and industrial effluents, including arsenic.

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