But at the end of 2011, there were more than 120 potential new treatments, including 16 in the final stage of clinical trials.
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In the final stage, farm-owners have to appear before the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board in Montpelier, the state capital, to answer questions.
After being selected as the UK potential venue, it competed against the likes of Moscow and Lausanne in Switzerland before facing Milan in the final stage.
Hence presumably reprocessing is involved in the final stage, since if the protactinium-233 is left in the reactor it will be at least partly converted to protactinium-234, which is not a useful fissile material.
Only with a stunning stage win Thursday in the final Alpine stage did Landis erase all but 30 seconds of that time deficit putting him in a prime position to win by outpacing the Spanish rider in the final time trial Saturday.
Then came his two goals against the Netherlands in the final group stage match that sent Portugal into the quarterfinal.
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Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi won an uncontested presidential election the following year, marking the final stage in the exit of Mr Saleh - the country's longest-serving leader in recent times.
But for five weeks in May and June on 22 different grounds (including Dublin and Amsterdam), many them already sold out, the emphasis will be on the weather, the state of the wickets, and whether England can qualify for the final six in the second stage of the cup.
But that was not enough to put the outcome in doubt going into the final stage at Margam Park, which was won by Solberg.
Wenger acknowledged his team had not made the progress he had desired in the competition following their exit at the quarter-final stage last season to Chelsea, who are in the draw for the quarter-finals on 18 March.
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With the 2008 champion losing at the quarter-final stage in the last two years at Melbourne Park, the Serb looked in determined mood and broke as early as the fourth game against Almagro to set him on the way to taking the opening set in 31 minutes.
Norway's Thor Hushovd, who also won the Tour prologue on July 1, won the final stage in a sprint ahead of the main pack, which included Landis and his closest rivals.
In Sydney she pulled up with a hamstring problem in the semi-final -- the same stage she reached in the 1988 Games.
He is among 12 foreign based players that will face the Super Eagles this weekend, in the final group match of the first round stage of the qualifiers.
However, chart history also shows that the final, accelerating stage of a major bull market run can see around 25% to 40% of the entire price move during the bull run occur in that shorter, final stage of the bull market.
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The British government's Welfare Reform Bill passed through its final stage in the House of Lords on 1 March.
That time deficit was a virtually impossible margin to overcome in the flat, short final stage because Landis and his team watched the Spaniard closely to make sure he didn't try to break away.
Only after this, does the bill enter its third and final stage where MSPs in the parliament vote to pass or reject it.
After being knocked out at the quarter-final stage of the competition in 2004, 2005 and 2006, the result marks a real achievement for Lyon and their coach Claude Puel.
Hirvonen and Loeb both slowed dramatically on the first day's final stage in order to avoid being the first cars on the road on Saturday, when they anticipated loose gravel on the surface would slow the leader relative to the chasing pack.
In addition to the defeat by United, the Gunners were knocked out of the FA Cup at the semi-final stage by Chelsea and are currently fourth in the Premier League.
France captain Raphael Ibanez was distraught after seeing England end his team's World Cup hopes at the semi-final stage for the second time in a row.
So far Cell Genesys and Dendreon are in the lead, with final-stage trials under way.
As it was only McEwen came close to catching him, their tussle coming down to the final stage in Paris.
The venerable Swiss drugmaker--once the world's largest, thanks in part to its invention of Valium--saw seven drugs fail in final-stage trials in the late 1990s.
Moreover, the number of proposed rules rose from 2, 044 in 2009 to 2, 439 last year, setting the stage for another increase in final regulations this year.
In qualifying for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the North Koreans have made it through to the final qualifying stage and recently drew with their neighbor South Korea -- a side which was a World Cup semi-finalist in 2002, and unlucky not to make the second round at the 2006 finals in Germany.
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Some of the biggest drug companies in the world are moving into final-stage trials of new anti-clotting drugs aiming to be safer and more convenient then existing remedies.
In contrast to space-based weapons like Brilliant Pebbles which, thanks to their ability to attack ballistic missiles early in flight trajectory and, thereby, to destroy multiple warheads with a single interceptor, have the potential to be more cost-effective than offensive forces stand-alone, ground-based defenses can only attack incoming warheads after they have been dispersed from the launching missile and in their final stage of flight.
Glaxo plans to bring the best one into final-stage trials in thousands of patients within a year, aiming to show that adding the compound to existing regimens can prevent far more heart attacks than cholesterol-lowering drugs alone.
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