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  • But the poll also shows a rise in thenumber of people who no longer care - and this is worrying.

    Hypocricy Jonathan 2005

  • But the poll also shows a rise in thenumber of people who no longer care - and this is worrying.

    Archive 2005-02-01 Jonathan 2005

  • With coming retirements, thenumber of MPsgoing at the next election will be 335 according to Sunday Times/Thrasher estimates, just over half of the total number of MPs.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

  • Thehugeportion of Americans whodo so are staggering: While thenumber of U.S. foreclosure filings climbedby more than 81% in 2008, thetotalis still sharply rising in 2009.

    OpEdNews - Diary: The Widening Gap In America's Two Tiered Society 2009

  • With coming retirements, thenumber of MPsgoing at the next election will be 335 according to Sunday Times/Thrasher estimates, just over half of the total number of MPs.

    A tempting way out 2009

  • But let's not get carried away - after a flurry during their first year, thenumber of civil partnerships halved last yearto just 8,728.

    Archive 2008-09-01 FIDO The Dog 2008

  • I suspect the Friday night chaos the BBC loves to show us has more to do with the scandalous fact that thenumber prosecuted for being drunk-and-disorderly has collapsed from 30,700 prosecutions to 16,400 each year between 2000 and 2006 as police chased other targets – and started imposing these daft £40 fines instead of taking people to the cells.

    A line of cocaine is now cheaper than half a pint of cider 2008

  • I suspect the Friday night chaos the BBC loves to show us has more to do with the scandalous fact that thenumber prosecuted for being drunk-and-disorderly has collapsed from 30,700 prosecutions to 16,400 each year between 2000 and 2006 as police chased other targets – and started imposing these daft £40 fines instead of taking people to the cells.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2008

  • In a few hours it would be the twenty-eighth, and Tolstoy had a superstitious regard for thenumber signified by this date.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • In a few hours it would be the twenty-eighth, and Tolstoy had a superstitious regard for thenumber signified by this date.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

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