• But the contactless payment system will not include daily price capping, which means if it is used several times in one day it will not stop charging once a passenger reaches the cost of daily travelcard.

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  • It is also scheduled for broadcast several times on the BBC News Channel during Saturday 12 and Sunday 13 January.

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  • It is understood the roofing contractor was shot several times at close range through the window of his jeep as he arrived home.

    BBC: News Online

  • "The radiation environment in deep space is several hundred times what it is on Earth, and that's even inside a shielded spacecraft, " Zeitlin said.

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  • Thus, in an age when we have come close to destroying ourselves several times over, is it reasonable to expect that extraterrestrial civilizations would persist over lifetimes of hundreds of thousands if not millions of years?

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  • For example, if a web scraper checks a site for changes several thousand times per second, it is functionally equivalent to a denial of service attack.

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  • If a manager leaves, the total cost of hiring a replacement (the head-hunter fees, the premium required to entice him and the time it takes him to settle into his job) is usually several times the outgoing person's salary.

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  • Grant's side have been charged by the FA several times this season but the Chelsea manager feels it is not justified.

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  • Because so many things can cause abnormal liver function, it may be necessary to start and stop a cholesterol-lowering drug several times while conducting the tests to see whether it is the cause of the problem.

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  • Although the overall dividend rate and yield remained relatively high throughout this period, it is also important to recognize that Vornado Realty Trust did cut their dividend several times as Funds From Operations modestly weakened.

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  • It is easy to see why: virtual advertising allows the same space to be sold several times (since different advertisements can be inserted for viewers in different regions, or different countries).

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  • It is the most feature rich on-board navigation application and a top-grossing app several times in 29 different App Stores around the globe.

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  • It is in everyone's interest to invest in modernisation, but the airlines are wary: several times in recent history they have bought expensive kit only to find they cannot use it because controllers have failed to upgrade their equipment to match.

    ECONOMIST: Aviation

  • The process is neither cheap nor easy (Mattel already has 60 of its people working on the programme, and the independent auditors will employ several times that number), but the company reckons that, as the largest toy maker, it is vulnerable to a Nike-like scandal.

    ECONOMIST: Business ethics

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