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Rob Findlay, who runs NHS waiting times company Gooroo, pointed out that in St Georges, Kingston, Bath, Guy's & St Thomas', Sheffield and South London hospital trusts, there were "1,000 patients on waiting list for more than a year".
Number of NHS patients waiting more than 18 weeks has doubled, says report 2011
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[19] #32 Comment By The Gooroo @iBlogPlanet.com On August 18, 2009 @ 11: 03 am
Your Clutter is Killing Your Customers Harry 2009
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Lam Gooroo, is the prettiest bit of architecture I have yet seen.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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The long-expected _Gooroo_ arrived from Zanzibar, but no gorilla was there on board for Mr. Coriander; there was a skin of that celebrated animal, the beast himself having departed this life off the island of
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Shameless fellows, Brahmins though they be, of the sect of Vishnu, go about, without a blush, in thonged sandals, made of abominable skins; but Asirvadam, strict as a Gooroo when the eyes of his caste are on him, is immaculate in wooden clogs.
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Passed no villages, but passed a bridge erecting over the Deo Nuddee, at which place a Lam Gooroo or high Priest was employed: vegetation continued the same, and only two new plants occurred, a Stemodia with large yellow flowers, and a Begonia, with branched stems.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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Of the outrageous insolence of the Seven Penitents he omits nothing but their sincerity; of the enlightened simplicity of the anchoret philosophers he retains nothing but their selfishness; of the intellectual influence of the Gooroo pontiffs he covets nothing but their dissimulation.
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The Sikhs, although professing a religion of Brahmanical tenets and established by their great priest and prophet Govind Gooroo, drink to excess, eat opium and bangh (a species of wild hemp possessing narcotic and intoxicating qualities of the most enervating description), and regard the abstemious Hindoo and the sensual
The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. 1903
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The Gooroo himself undertakes to hatch the mare's egg, since his disciples have all other matters to attend to; but as they are carrying it through a jungle, it falls down and splits into pieces; just then a frightened hare runs before them; and they inform the Gooroo that, a fine young colt came out of the mare's egg, with very long ears, and ran off with the speed of the wind.
The Book of Noodles Stories of Simpletons; or, Fools and Their Follies William Alexander Clouston 1869
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Gooroo and reports that the river is still in a dangerous mood.
The Book of Noodles Stories of Simpletons; or, Fools and Their Follies William Alexander Clouston 1869
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