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More than threequarters of cases are resolved through early interventions.
Landlords to be given new powers to evict 'neighbours from hell' 2011
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Of those who stayed, threequarters caught the disease, and more than a thousand died between July and September.
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Last August on TV, Browner introduced a report by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, claiming that threequarters of the leaked crude oil in the Gulf had been cleaned up.
BP oil spill: White House rewrote drilling ban report Suzanne Goldenberg 2010
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He fired the more than 10,000 striking members of PATCO, about threequarters of the nation's air traffic controllers.
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More than threequarters of the arthritis patients achieved relief from pain and swelling, and all of the patients with muscular discomfort had pain relief.
The Best Alternative Medicine Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier 2000
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More than threequarters of the arthritis patients achieved relief from pain and swelling, and all of the patients with muscular discomfort had pain relief.
The Best Alternative Medicine Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier 2000
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There was a knock on the door of their compartment and the round-faced boy Harry had passed on platform nine and threequarters came in.
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Rowling, J. K. 1997
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The government, which ear threequarters of its dlrs 3 billion income from oil veh ged Soyo as a top military objective since the rebels overran it shortly after the Angolan war resumed in October, 1992.
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We cannot expect them to correct overnight threequarters of a century of repressive leadership, three-quarters of a century of totalitarian policy, or a whole national history in which there was no democracy.
Presidents Speech To Future European Leaders ITY National Archives 1994
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And takes threequarters of the money from the top six percent of the income earners in the country, or stick with literally what I talked about in the campaign and risk not being able to do enough to really get interest rates down and try to get the economy going again.
Presidents Remarks At Iowa Farm ITY National Archives 1993
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