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  • 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.

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  • After all, it took the company the better part of a year to release the CloudMobile.

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  • 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.

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  • 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).

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  • 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 ).

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

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  • 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.

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  • It took the United States the better part of two hundred years to give all its citizens the right to vote and full protection under the law.

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  • To wit: the idea to have Bono participate took no convincing on the part of Antoine to his father.

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  • Eleven of the 12 surviving members of the team took part Friday, with Jackson getting cheers in what he thought was his first time at Madison Square Garden without being involved in a game since 1986.

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  • Jesse Livermore knew this and it took me the better part of 14 years to learn and respect this.

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  • In all of our many conversations that took place over the better part of the past decade, I never asked Prof.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • During the 4th annual UN Alliance of Civilizations Forum, specialists from UNESCO took part in the discussions on freedom of expression, where the focus was on journalism education and youth communication, and also on the role of education in sustainable development, which explored the relevance of education to sustainable development as well as the promotion of cultural diversity and intercultural understanding.

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  • The European Central Bank and the Bank of England both took part in the coordinated action Wednesday, which also included the U.S. Federal Reserve, the Bank of Canada, the Swiss National Bank and the Swedish Riksbank.

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  • He said Mozambique had photographic evidence to prove that some of the Guineans were part of the side that took part in the same tournament in 1995.

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  • 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.

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  • In the second part of the committee MSPs took evidence on a petition calling for a ban on the use of wild animals.

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  • The Hungarian government alleged that Mr Zentai took part in the fatal beating of Peter Balazs for not wearing a Star of David to identify him as Jewish.

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