He has now won 11 world championship gold medals, having also won the kilometre time trial four times between 1998 and 2001 and the sprint in 2001.

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Pierluigi Gazzolo, the president of MTV Networks Latin America, said that his channels will show one of the new Switch PSAs once within a three-hour time frame at prime time, or between 50 and 75 times every week.

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The ESMT school in Germany, for example, claims that it is now devoting between five and eight times more time to coaching than its peers on the European continent.

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For National Guard and Reserve members, the time between deployments would have to be at least three times as long as the time spent in deployment.

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He then turned to journalism, dodging for a time between The Economist, the (then) Manchester Guardian and the Times, as leader writer and foreign correspondent.

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Ben - my son, Ben Taylor - said, Mom, I want to hear you - I want to hear you play these the way you did when you wrote them, and with any new thoughts and any new emotions that come into play now because, obviously, times have changed and years have gone on between the time that you first wrote them.

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Not for the first time, we're reminded that these extraordinary times have made the dividing line between Bank's "independent monetary policy" and the government's budget plans rather murky.

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It's also one of the busiest times of the year with tens of thousands of passengers with a lot of time to kill between flights.

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