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It's just a dozen years since the first medicine to treat MS was licensed, and now there is a large number of these in development.

Usually sets up dry time for a few minutes to more than ten minutes, and a maximum of flexographic drying to a dozen or so hours.

When you are trying to coordinate a fix pack across a dozen different applications, hardware reliability is the least of your problems.

My sister Doris, though two years younger than I, had enough gumption for a dozen people.

A year ago, at a get-together of a dozen girlfriends from college, I saw my old friend, Therese Gibson.

The month-old thornback ray is just 12 centimetres long and is one of a dozen hatched from eggs known as "mermaid's purses" .

Billy is a bit of a lady's man -- every time we go out for drinks, he gets at least a dozen phone numbers from cute girls.

The next morning the barber found a dozen bibles at the door to his shop.

In most cases, half a dozen of both units is all that is required to overcome most obstacles.

It is ok if you subclass only a few controls but it's going to be a nightmare to subclass a dozen or so controls.

My girlfriend and I had been living together for a dozen years, and those findings seemed so clear to me that I went home and proposed.

He had come half a dozen times to call upon his sister.

Well, said the policeman, When we pulled her up she had two five-pound lobsters and a dozen good size Dungeoness crabs on her.

But competition is tough, with maybe four or five brokerages slugging it out for the big deals and up to a dozen on the mid-sized ones.

O'Connor said the Baby Gaga was just one of a dozen radical new flavors at the shop.

He dreamt of that man and half a dozen times he awakened just as he thought a kriss was being drawn across his throat.

But by the end of the hour I found I had learnt at least half a dozen signs, more than enough to get me going with Tom back at home.

I did not expect him to come here for training of 3 months to see the result is not his fight, a dozen were on the back.

He made his way to a burial ground planted neatly around with pines. There were a dozen grave mounds.

Miranda: You think a dozen roses and a card that says "Best wishes" qualifies as a grand gesture?

When I saw that little boy tonight, I knew what I could do for him, and I put together a dozen of my very best roses.

Men carried corpses in blankets away from the scene and a dozen others tried to turn over a car with two bodies beneath.

I did not particularly relish the long train journey and had brought along a dozen magazines to read and reread.

Aviation is one of a dozen or so areas of advanced technology, including renewable energy, in which China intends to become a global player.

After the boss left, the dramatist had a dozen buns for supper. Then he began to doze off.

Zhang Qian was captured by the Huns just as he left Han territory, and was held prisoner for a dozen years.

That shocked consumers, for whom a pound of coffee had been as standard a purchase unit as a dozen eggs or a six-pack of beer, he said.

Eventually, government officials say, up to a dozen other producers might be able to satisfy the new rules, but not for several months.

If she is lucky, doctors will be able to extract at least a dozen healthy eggs that will be kept frozen until she is ready to use them.

He does about a dozen hospital jobs a week, and he says they normally involve a wait of two to three hours.

A dozen or so trolls began to smash apart the chamber with their clubs, while hags glided about the place in search of children to eat.

Most of us come down with at least a couple of colds a year; children get up to a dozen.

Even if she had not walked this path a dozen times before, the whole island just was not big enough to get lost on.

Our military has put the terror training camps of Afghanistan out of business, yet camps still exist in at least a dozen countries.

Each of his fingers bears a blue chunk set in silver, and at least a dozen strands of blue and green beads hang from his neck.

The first year, he recalled, the class started out with about a dozen students, but all except for him dropped out by the end of the term.

"Glory to Hemingway, " she said in a simple ceremony watched by a handful of tourists and a dozen Cuban soldiers.

The main street of Hibiscus was not big. Paved with flagstones it was wedged between a dozen shops and a few scores of houses.

get out , " said the drummer , lightly . " he hasn t called more than half a dozen times since we ve been here .

Every new answer breeds a dozen new questions. What I know, compared with what I do not know, is like a grain of sand by the sea.

School districts in at least half a dozen other states have made similar decisions not to air the President's talk.

While you're struggling with a little bitch like that there may be a dozen cunts on the terrasse just dying to be laid. It's a fact.

There were pools of blood in the streets, and protesters carried at least a dozen wounded from the front line of the clashes.

Upon his request, the 35-pound dress made of a dozen thin-cut flank steaks was quickly transported to the meat freezer at a local deli.

Nearly a dozen smaller parties appeared to have managed to win only three seats between them.

A huge run-up in grain prices is enough to make bakers rethink their traditional definition of a dozen.

The computer is next to a square bowl, bowl with me a few days to bring back more than a dozen tablets almond.

In fact it was something of a sore point for me that I had not seen one after more than half a dozen trips to its range in Central America.

The electronics industry only had a dozen or so components, and look at the diversity that came out of that.

It was one of half a dozen such cases at schools across China in less than two months.

The next day, they dress me in Chinese uniform, give me a rifle and take a dozen more pictures.

Although no one seems to have perceived it, the era of ever increasing immigration restriction had come to an end a dozen years before.

Executives, accustomed to adding only a few new people a year, interviewed more than a dozen job candidates some days.

All but a dozen households agreed, in return for a share of the rent paid by the company.

In turn, Weber was the most famous of a dozen women directors who found a booster in Carl Laemmle, the head of Universal.

"I'm just so happy to be here, " she said ebulliently as she entered the rocket Monday, watched by about a dozen relatives.

In this manner she advanced a dozen paces, but the bucket was full; it was heavy; she was forced to set it on the ground once more.

And Boosaaso's main jail may be proof of that. The other day, a dozen pirates were hanging out in the yard under a basketball hoop.

Academic literature studies at least a dozen concurrency models important enough to go into production.

Qatari-owned Al Jazeera is the best known of the racier channels, but it is only one of a dozen 24-hour Arabic-language news providers.

On a whim, he decided to take a trip around the country to look up nearly a dozen old girlfriends.

Randall Dale Adams is released from a Texas prison, following a dozen years behind bars for a crime he did not commit.

Some students are also dozens of a dozen rounds, but I have not yet received the ball had already kick in. , submerged by the sea.

Any tourist could have written it-just a list of the usual show-places and half a dozen thumbnail portraits of local worthies .

It was the biggest vessel hijacked by the pirates so far, and joins at least a dozen others held in Somali ports waiting to be ransomed.

Detection of such a person to ask, before more than a dozen every year.

But on a recent Sunday morning the only living things to be seen were two stray dogs and a dozen soldiers hunkered down in an old bunker.

To someone who has seen a dozen people frown, scowl or turn their faces away, your smile is like the sun breaking through the clouds.

They actually do conduct a few investigations overseas -- about a dozen a year -- maybe 20 in a good year.

If I absolutely believed that (after hearing it a dozen times this postseason) I'd swear by them, too.

But Prof Cabral will not be the last: a dozen faculty members from the Spanish business school will move there over the next few years.

So, of course, he found a parking space right in front of the entrance, after a dozen times driving round and round the block.

The florist is happy and left. The next morning the barber finds a "Thank you" card and a dozen roses waiting at his shop door.

All day? When you could have been celebrating? I must have passed a dozen feasts and parties on my way here.

As the monarch of Great Britain, Queen Victoria's bed must have had at least a dozen mattresses.

At least a dozen women claimed or were reported to have had affairs with Mr.

On this visit, she performed transfusions to the child and a dozen more injured and diseased people and treated their wounds.

Remember a few years ago when cameras captured at least a dozen cars refusing to stop for an injured woman laying in the road?

Cai head smashed fade, a week living Hospital, linking the heads of a dozen needle, the hospital is still lying out.

Given the importance they claim, it's as if the British army consisted of half a dozen men and an officer.

It had a dozen or so links, and simply served to tell people what the World Wide Web was all about.

Researchers also found a similar connection in a dozen other patients, although not quite as dramatic as in the two featured cases.

So what to do with Mendocino County's "Bear Woman, " who remade her home into something of a luxury resort for more than a dozen bears?

And when companies do come to campus, instead of having a dozen positions to fill, they might have two or three.

I did not know it at the time, but she was the last human person I was to encounter for more than a dozen years.

For about a year an average of a dozen people met each Tuesday morning, and Rose came just a handful of times.

But at least these filmmakers and a dozen others aren't afraid to put fresh spins on ancient movie formulas.

The next morning the barber found a dozen doughnuts at the door to his shop.

Throw The right hand flick the ball against a dozen, tennis straight at me, I a flying from my head bent, tennis quickly flew past.

Republicans picked up at least 60 House seats and, with more than a dozen races still too close to call, the number probably will rise.

Republicans picked up at least 60 House seats and, with more than a dozen races still too close to call, the number probably will rise.

She did not elaborate the 'Indian way' but it must include taking a holiday on half a dozen New Years Days!

The next morning the barber found a dozen lawyers waiting for a free haircut.

In the last month or two I've slowly been unfriending people on Facebook, a dozen or so at a time.

As a dozen bankers awaited an important meeting with him, he retired to his bedroom, lay in bed, and shot himself in the heart.

A dozen escape pods popped from her hull as the ship caught three of the four lances of fire.

All that Edmond had been able to do was to drag himself about a dozen paces forward to lean against a moss-grown rock.

If I send Cindy a dozen roses, do you think she'll get the message that I'm in love with her?

The last of a dozen buses filled with women and children departed around 2 p. m. for a more distant shelter in a crowded junior high school.

Greg Garland, a local narcotics cop, used to discover about a dozen houses a year that had been turned into marijuana factories.

In July 2009, Hussein was one of a dozen pants-wearing women arrested in a restaurant in Khartoum.

Newcomers from vineyards in a dozen countries trying to launch their finest wines on the world market come to London first for validation.

Mr Griffin talks about seriously contesting "at least a dozen" seats at the next general election.

On a bitterly cold night, he had to clamber to the top of a dozen rail tankers to check oil levels with a dipstick.

a worker daily repeat thousands of times of a few movements a dozen boot door, remove the work-piece, remove runner, close machine door.

One was an e-mail forwarded to me gleefully by a dozen different people around the world.

Becky had a dozen admirers in his place to be sure; and could cut her rival to pieces with her wit .

The same situation also occurred in the county side, large and small, a dozen self-employed persons, but did not form a joint force.

When lifting his head, Peak saw standing on the slope were a dozen or so Shaolin monks, all holding weapons in their hands.

It showed another house besides bin Laden's clearly in the blast radius and estimated that up to a dozen civilians could be killed.

Not only have I been asked by a dozen fan-girls if I know Edward Cullen, but I've had three people ask me to suck their blood.

The squeeze will get worse as a dozen top-selling drugs lose patent protection over the next two years.

At least a dozen relatives with smiles on their faces came to hear the lawyer read the will.

The tormentors could hammer at least a dozen wedges up and down the legs.

A dozen different things that he might say flashed through Digory's mind, but he had the sense to say nothing except the exact truth.

All this might explain why half a dozen financial and strategic buyers are said to be in early-stage talks.

Currently, most people with type 1 diabetes have to prick their fingers up to a dozen times a day to assess their blood sugar levels.

Perhaps a dozen times George Willard and the strange, shapeless man who lived at his father's hotel had been on the point of talking.

A dozen plots against New York have been thwarted or have failed since the attacks, including one to blow up the Brooklyn Bridge.

Shi is one of a dozen students at the university who volunteered to feed the stray cats on campus during the winter break.

Every night he walked a dozen miles, without which, he said, "I should just explode and perish. "

The Chongqing lender is one of a dozen urban commercial banks that have attracted foreign capital in recent years.

When IDA was invented in the 1960s, it was one of about a dozen donors in the average poor country. Now it jostles with over 30.

Despite the conviction, the site continued to operate, leading more than a dozen movie studios to sue to take the site offline.

Now, after 40 years of less powerful seismic activity, there have been a dozen earthquakes of 8. 0 magnitude or greater.

Bin Laden was said to have married four times, the last time to a young Yemeni girl, and he had perhaps a dozen children.

An artificial archway connected it with the grotto, to which a stairway of a dozen steps led down.

In one night engagement, the Houthis are said to have tied torches to a dozen goats and herded them into range of a Yemeni army platoon.

DiCaprio required at least a dozen stitches and plastic surgery for the gashes to his face and neck.

After you've died and retried a dozen times and have the layout of the level memorized, you might be able to survive.

Allow, the company that paid Mr. Sequeira, is just one of nearly a dozen start-ups hoping to profit from the nascent privacy market.

Since the city's founding, the Duke has delegated a portion of his power to a dozen noble families.

now that he is sick , she was in and out of his room a dozen times.

The emergence of a dozen rivals after spending seven years alone on the market was one.

Considering your impetuousness and the number of your enemies, a dozen dozen more might be a good idea.

I did not particularlyrelishthe long train journey and had brought along a dozen magazines to read and reread. I looked about the train.

The marketplace is global, and the next competitor could come from any one of a dozen innovation hubs.

The next morning, a dozen FBI agents and local police officers showed up and dug up the entire garden without finding any guns .

She looked as she had a dozen years ago, before the disease had begun.

And in seminar or discussion sections, get used to being around a table with a dozen other humans, a few books and your ideas.

When he first met Ma, Son said, speaking in Japanese through a translator, Alibaba had zero revenue and only a dozen employees.

When a dozen customers are jostling at the till trying to buy the same packet of cornflakes it probably means the price is too low.

These narrow goals would hardly seem to merit flying more than a dozen U. S. cabinet members and agency heads crossing the Pacific.

and I met nearly half-a-dozen bullock-carts descending from the woods, each laden with a whole pine-tree for the winter's firing.

A dozen years ago, I could only earn 7, 000 yuan to 8, 000 yuan a year, but I could save more than half of the total.

For the last seven months, he and a dozen or so other coders have been building an e-invoicing company called Porta.

Spain's Socialists got over 40% of the vote and fell just a dozen votes short of a majority on their own.

Despite an earlier agreement in principle to disarm, he may already have enough fissile material for up to a dozen bombs.

The Riverbend Teahouse is a down-to-earth place, just a dozen or so tables on a wooden veranda outside a bookshop.

Of course, a real nihilist would not run six miles a day-or write a dozen novels and volumes of stories, as Mr Murakami has done.

If you aren't on a first-name basis with at least a dozen software reviewers, set a goal to make it so.

The kids had adopted nearly a dozen cats and dogs and these ran about with the same abandon as the children.

It has half-a-dozen branches of its own and a franchise serving multinationals.

I used to work at a methadone clinic with a dozen, embittered, bitchy, middle-aged social workers and nurses.

They also had establishments with at least half a dozen alien civilizations, and that the remaining Nazis remain on the moon to this day.

Even though an e-book is easier to carry than a dozen printed books, it is usually still heavier than a single paperback volume today.

Around a dozen other internet companies distribute its search results and advertising, but some of these have been pulling back.

Last summer, they had grown so many tomatoes that they were able to make a dozen bottles of tomato sauce to last most of the winter.

So I'm putting my best foot forward and sending her a dozen roses and a box of chocolates before I pick her up tomorrow.

The next morning when the barber goes to open his shop, there is a "Thank you" card and a dozen donuts waiting at his door.

By 1936, only a dozen states continued to hold presidential primaries.

Yeah, maybe about a dozen of the women in this office. They've been bombarding me with questions.

He estimated that at least a dozen smaller Indian companies would list on overseas stock markets in the next 12 months.

There used to only be a dozen big-name guys in the business, and I'm talking less than 10 years ago.

Mergers of the Hitachi-IBM variety have been a dime a dozen over recent decades.

Ernie is mopping the floor. He glances back and sees Warden Norton approach the cellblock with an entourage of a DOZEN GUARDS.

That said, there have been at least a dozen significant rallies in the Nikkei on its overall way down.

30 p. m. - Up the main street, visit the Principe Real square with a century-old cedar tree that hides a dozen benches in its mighty shade.

Qatar officials suggested they were more interested in relatively small stakes in a basket of a dozen or so different banks.

It was rolled up and as she opened it half-a-dozen condoms fell out. The laughter was uproarious, but Kate was not amused.

At any time, a dozen groups are operating covertly within the lawless Terminus Systems, sowing dissent among the various factions.

When I was in college, concerned only with a handful of classes and almost nothing else, managing a dozen accounts was no big deal.

Neil also didn't find learning easy and had to read and re-read things half a dozen times before he understood what was written on the page.

Throughout his career, Mr. Rosen has been a frequent technical speaker and author for conferences in more than a dozen countries.

I cannot boast of knowing more than half a dozen, in the whole range of my acquaintance, that are really accomplished.

When I saw that little boy tonight, I knew ho that voice was, and I put together a dozen of my very best roses.

A year's subscription to MarketFirst, launched last November, costs $90, 000, and WSI says it has already signed up a dozen customers.

As a software project, the SMS gateway is small: under a dozen engineer-weeks went into its design, implementation, and deployment.

Now the centre and a dozen other organisations have teamed up for a "National Teach-In" , starting on July 19th.

He says he set up the 'Kaifeng Israel School' to help Kaifeng Jews 'learn the Jewish lifestyle' and move to Israel, which about a dozen did.

Toward the beginning, I'd catch sight of some gray piece of matter on my shoulder and freak out, swiping my shoulder a dozen times.

His answers instantly were translated into a microphone and beamed to more than a dozen reporters' earphones as flashbulbs popped endlessly.

In any of those cases--and likely a dozen more--it's time for you to hire a manager.

And yet here it was in a New Yorker more than a dozen years my junior.

She clasped hands about knees, rocking back and forth broken-heartedly. She averred she would not go an inch, not for a dozen Charleses.

In a basket swung from his neck cowered a dozen very recent puppies of an indeterminate breed.

The child had spina bifida and had already endured a dozen operations in her short life.

There was no march whatsoever - a dozen or so pensioners stood by watching the hundreds of soldiers who had secured the square.

Andy showers with a dozen or more men. No modesty here. At least the water is good and hot, soothing his tortured muscles.

Typically attended by at least a dozen countries, Bold Quest provides an ideal venue for coalition interoperability testing.

Even though barely a dozen of the hundreds of favelas have been reclaimed so far, the drug lords are clearly already feeling the pinch.

Tell you what, you got a get up a dozen times in the night out there over them coyotes.

One day, they stick me in a trench, hand me a tommy gun and photograph me from a dozen different angles.

In 1954, there were only a dozen armed robberies in London but, by the 1990s, there were more than a hundred times as many.

If you're more of a traditionalist and want to splurge, shake things up a bit this Valentine's Day by sending a dozen red roses.

even though the fact is that they were interviewing up to a dozen employees who reported observing this. . .

But over the past week there have been a dozen arson attacks on buses, most of them ambushes by gangs.

Smoking is one of the leading causes of over a dozen cancers, including lung, oral, stomach, and liver cancer.

Closer by, at least a dozen soldiers in flak jackets and helmets marched down an adjacent side street, barring anyone from following them.

However, only a fraction of his work survives, and no more than half a dozen pieces are really distinguished .

Since the first case of anthrax infected found in US, in the past month it has left four dead an infected more than a dozen others in US.

I actually watched about a dozen people walk out of the theater half-way through. . . and it was a free screening.

Try to get a dozen or more matches on this map prior to attending a qualifier -- otherwise you may suffer some unpleasant surprises.

At least 21 explosions ripped through a dozen cities from north to south across the country on the morning of August 25th.

The Marriott name (or one of its sister brands) graces more than 3, 000 hotels worldwide, but the company owns only half a dozen.

Online notebooks are a dime a dozen, with Evernote at the head of the class and at least 17 other eager alternatives close behind.

He also had a customer seeking to sell half a dozen Buddha statues which he had thought were gold, but were in fact brass.

For the last three days, I had faithfully shown up and sat in a chair next to a dozen other people.

There is plenty left to share, however, including a dozen raw oysters he would offer the president if he came to the restaurant.

A student was killed when this school bus collided with a dump truck. And a dozen others were hurt in the crash in northern Kentucky.

Now they use postage meters. Postal workers could stamp about a dozen letters in a minute with this machine.

Within a two-block radius of that porch in Soulsville, Wells Fargo holds mortgages on nearly a dozen foreclosures.

A dozen excavators pawed ponderously at the soil as if absently searching for something lost.

I do not know when, spring eyes appeared in a dozen teenager.

Up in the club, see me coming, dime a dozen so it don't mean nothing to me.

Sure, you've been told a dozen times to shop for a replacement card with a lower rate of interest.

At this point, your call's packets are being relayed via a dozen access points to the far end, which isn't very efficient.

"No one gets all the way through a textbook without a dozen questions, " he says. "Who's the T. A. ? Where's your study group? "

They have no qualms about bestowing their inner life on a dozen members of the next generation.

This trench up to 45 li, because valley is dotted with a dozen different forms of the cliff is named.

If I ran the Pulitzers, I'd hand out a dozen more every year to people working exclusively online.

The article described a group of a dozen or so bearded capuchin monkeys who were caring for a baby marmoset, another species of monkey.

Back then it was just me writing a dozen posts a day and reading and responding to all the email we received.

On the way to the cleaning shed, he ran into a second fisherman who had a stringer with a dozen baby minnows.

Interrupting our discussion, the abbot is called upon to induct half a dozen more, the first new batch of this year.

Around a dozen members of the city council appear to have been elected with the help of blocks of votes delivered by local strongmen.

Stoneking persuaded colleagues to help collect saliva from 10 volunteers each at a dozen locations around the world.

The concept of comprehensive home company services, provide you with all aspects of a dozen services.

At least a dozen coups or coup attempts in Africa were traced to his backing.

The next morning the barber finds a "Thank you" card and a dozen donuts waiting at his shop door.

Some of us find it daunting to kit out one with the right furniture. Imagine having to do that and undertake improvements for over a dozen.

It is certain that this is still widespread, and much more so than most observers would have believed a dozen years ago.

To date archaeologists and historians have located ruins of roughly a dozen royal estates built by at least six Inca kings.

They usually take a dozen vials, sometimes squeezing my arms to coax the fluid out of my reluctant veins.

Beginning of the dull, I had bought a dozen magazines do condiments, and with this "Dream of Red Mansions, " with the swallow.

Although objects style and porcelain is different, but all look so delicate and beautiful, just like them a dozen years of friendship.

Required for a cotton dress fabrics, falling prices are cheap for a few dollars to a dozen.

Once we came across a school of hippopotami, which rose, and bellowed dreadfully at us within ten or a dozen fathoms of the boat.

Government investigators posing as buyers were able to purchase a dozen prohibited military items on the popular online selling sites.

As they drew closer to the Black Wall and the crowded districts near the Long Bridge, they saw a dozen of them.

All of them were named Wei, and a dozen members of this extended clan left before dawn, hiking up the steep mountain behind the village.

The doctor's lawyers had planned to call a dozen witnesses, including another physician who had treated Mr.

Half a dozen policemen stood by as Ma, Zhou, and another dispossessed neighbor gathered to bash some tiles off the wall the other day.

We painted together every day. He presented me with half a dozen of his works, which are going to be in the exhibition.

Under this model, groups of about a dozen women collectively make monthly deposits into a local co-operative bank.

Clinical trials are ongoing for at least a dozen different vaginal microbicides, according to the Alliance for Microbicide Development.

I do not know more half a dozen women that are truly accomplished.

More than a dozen Chinese companies have been suspended from trading in the U. S. amid accusations of fraud and mismanagement.

"Mummy, " I am asked at least half a dozen times a day, "when can we go on the night train all the way back again? "

Well, I think everyone should commit to greeting at least half a dozen people a day with more than three sentences.