When she first underwent IVF it was still a relatively new procedure.

她第一次接受体外受精时，那还是一个比较新的方法。

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Or, do you ever ask a co-worker about a policy or procedure without first attempting to remember it yourself or using your own ingenuity to find the answer?

又或者是你总是在需要了解一些政策或程序的时候不是首先想到去记住它或者是自己去找到答案而是询问你的同事？

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To initiate logging from a DB2 stored procedure, first call DB2.OPEN_LOG with two parameters.

要在 DB2 的存储过程中启用日志功能，首先要使用两个参数调用 DB2.OPEN_LOG。

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First,we'll put you to sleep when we do all this procedure.

首先会让你进入睡眠状态。

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The figures are taken from a larger survey of GP complaints which shows that 1, 701 members asked the MDU for help with complaints last year, three times as many as when the procedure was first introduced in 1996 when just 557 complaints were notified.

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Kinsley said the base was requesting each individual's full name, including middle initial, driver's license, and full social security number, in order for background checks to be performed before the race, compared with the standard procedure of first and last name and last four digits of one's social.

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Surgeons Moninder Bhabra and Mr Billing and their team underwent extensive training in Finland before the first procedure.

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