To reduce pollution, between July 20th and September 20th the city is aiming to halve the number of private vehicles on the roads by allowing those with odd-number licence plates to drive one day, and those with even-number plates the next.

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F. contingent, including forty-odd contractors supplied by DynCorp, a Virginia-based private military company, which has a number of large U.S. government contracts in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other parts of the world.

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"Thirty-odd cliff falls around the whole of the cliff path - not just Devon - is an unprecedented number and they still seem to be coming at the moment unfortunately, so it's all a bit alarming, " he told BBC News.

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Vehicles with number plates ending in an odd number can only fill up on odd-numbered dates, and the same for evens.

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Odd, I thought, that the toll-free number that had previously made it easy to order up a check had magically disappeared from my credit card statement.

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As Italian migrants arrived in number to Australia, prized stove-top coffee makers and the odd Gaggia were often stashed in their suitcases.

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The number of people taking their main holiday in Britain has fallen over the past 20-odd years: it was 27m in 1975, but only 16.5m in 1996.

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