• Soon after, Coastline started renting the part of the yard and eventually took part of the premises and the illustrious name before floating on the stock exchange in 1997.

    BBC: Cammell Laird blow will end era

  • She said many of those who took part were of the generation who, for years, had sent money and goods back home to support family members in Ireland.

    BBC: Tony Gallagher

  • "I think Peter Cooper wanted this school to be a model for a level playing field for higher education, " said Joe Riley, 22, a senior in the arts school and a member of the Occupy Cooper movement that in December took over part of a building where Lincoln gave his "right makes might" speech.

    WSJ: Famed free NYC college may start charging tuition

  • His Jumex collection includes, for example, pieces by 29-year-old Minerva Cuevas, who recently took over part of a Mexican amusement park to create "Dodgem, " a mad display of bumper cars sporting oil company emblems, smashing into one another.

    FORBES: Mexican Medici

  • The Federal Reserve Bank of New York sold the last batch of securities it took on as part of the 2008 bailout American International Group Thursday, a symbolic accomplishment but hardly the final word on the U.S. rescue of the insurer.

    FORBES: AIG Bailout Closes A Chapter: NY Fed Sells Last Bit Of Maiden Lane Portfolio

  • The deal took place as part of a transaction in which Hayes took his company public by merging it into the already public Access Beyond, a small vendor of networking hardware.

    FORBES: Pact with the devil

  • Even with the help of some contract chemists, perfecting Spillinex took the better part of a year.

    FORBES: Wipe Up

  • Visitors of all ages took part in a range of activities including landscape drawing, photography, bug-hunting, dressing-up as Georgians and learning country dances.

    UNESCO: Record numbers celebrate World Heritage Day in Bath

  • Thousands of staff, including refuse collectors and social care staff, took part in months of industrial action which continued into the autumn of 2011.

    BBC: Southampton City Council to cut 'close to 300' jobs

  • Soon, a core group of six senators formed and met five times in the following weeks in the offices of Schumer and McCain, the source said, adding that Flake and Bennet also took part in some of the meetings and were the last to agree to the proposal.

    CNN: Possible compromise on immigration reform takes shape

  • The Scottish Borders was one of the parts of Scotland which took part in a pilot programme of free school meals in primaries.

    BBC: School meals 'task force' created

  • By contrast, the sharing of data among European astronomers who took part in the tracking of the 1680 comet looks surprisingly modern.

    BBC: A Point of View: Crowd-sourcing comets

  • The market is heavily reliant on London and the south-east: 47% of residential transactions took place in this part of the country in 2011.

    ECONOMIST: An era of frothiness is over

  • Deputies of Legislative chamber of Oliy Majlis, scholars, research officers of Institute of Geological sciences and geologic engineering, representatives of other scientific-educational institutions, international organizations, ecological movement of Uzbekistan and mass media took part in the work of the seminar.

    UNESCO: OFFICE IN TASHKENT

  • Pope Benedict XVI, speaking at an anniversary mass in St Peter's Square, attended by a tiny group of surviving clerics like himself who actually took part in the work of the Council, deplored what he called a "desertification" of spiritual life during the years that have elapsed since the end of the Council in 1965.

    BBC: Vatican II: Pope Benedict's unfinished business

  • She took part in some of the early consultation about the project and is enthusiastic.

    BBC: Big Society guru urges newly retired people to volunteer

  • The committee also took evidence as part of its inquiry into housing for adults with mental health needs.

    BBC: Public Accounts Committee

  • Tina Reisman-Boukes, a 56-year-old Dutch social worker and convert to Judaism, took part in one of the tours on the recommendation of her son.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • Of course, an hour and a half is still an impressive shift from years' past, when an upfront took the better part of three hours.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Even Russia took part in some of the discussions in Prague.

    ECONOMIST: George Bush��s call to arms | The

  • He was the scout and manager for all three Lord of the Rings films and for The Hobbit trilogy. (Scouting for The Hobbit alone, he said, took the better part of four years).

    BBC: The true life of a location scout

  • It took the better part of a decade for dangerous heart side effects to show up in Seldane, an antihistamine made by the company that became Aventis (nyse: AVE - news - people ).

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • "It's really yet to be determined, " said Amy Riker, director of high-school equivalency testing at ETS. An estimated 40 million American adults don't have high-school diplomas, and in 2011, about 723, 000 people took at least part of the GED test.

    WSJ: Revamped GED Faces First Big Challenge

  • Russia, in fact, was not at all pleased that President Bush decided to come here right from his trip to Moscow where he, again, took part in all of those celebrations marking 60 years since the end of World War II in Europe.

    NPR: President Bush Praises Democracy in Georgia

  • Hundreds of thousands of Yemenis took part in demonstrations on Friday to demand reform of the military.

    BBC: Yemen's Sanaa airport re-opens after pro-Saleh protest

  • Thousands of people took part in a peace march in the suburb of Brunswick in memory of Mrs Meagher.

    BBC: Jill Meagher's mother thanks Melbourne public for support

  • Thousands of people took part in a demonstration last month opposing the removal of children's heart surgery from the hospital.

    BBC: Legal fund to fight Leeds children heart surgery halt

  • Most of the regiments that took part are stationed at the home of the British Army in Aldershot, while some have long associations with Winchester.

    BBC: RELATED BBC SITES

  • Mr Miller's bill was helped on to the next stage by dozens of Labour backbenchers who took part in the debate, many of whom might normally have spent Friday in their constituencies.

    BBC: RELATED BBC SITES

  • The heads of state and government and thousands of World War II veterans took part in the ceremonies amid one of the biggest security operations staged on French soil.

    CNN: World leaders hail D-Day veterans

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