Indeed, Apple's monopoly over this particular sequence is total.

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By contrast, Jean Weissenbach and his colleagues at Genoscope in France made their estimate by comparing the raw human sequence now available (about 60% of the total when their paper was written) with that of a puffer fish.

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But a sequence of time-consuming partnerships kept Warwickshire on course for a big total.

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Ofcom tested the programme and found that for one sequence during Cole's performance, lasting just over five and a half seconds in total, nearly four seconds of non-compliant material was found.

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