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In the years since the collapse of the Mythos CCG ( production ceased in 1997 ; see below ), the release of CoC books has been very sporadic with up to a year between releases.
The conflicts are known as the Wars of the Roses ( 1455 – 1485 ), and although the fighting was very sporadic and small, there was a general breakdown in the authority and power of the Crown.
Summer is not completely devoid of rain with sporadic rainfall in the form of short-lived thunderstorms, weak cold fronts and on very rare occasions decaying tropical cyclones from Western Australia's north-west which can bring significant falls.
However, by its very nature the guerrilla war was sporadic, poorly planned and with little overall objective in mind except to harass the British.
There are sporadic attestations of very short Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions in Canaan in the late Middle and Late Bronze Age, but the script was not widely used until the rise of new Semitic kingdoms in the 13th and 12th centuries BC.
This contrasts with the coasts of North West England or the south-east stretch of the English Channel which have only very sporadic stretches.
As of 2009, updates to it are very sporadic and small.
The usage at this stage is still very sporadic.
The term critical point of the system is used here in the sense of statistical physics and nonlinear dynamics, representing the point where a system undergoes a phase transition ; in this case the transition from a steady reliable grid with few cascading failures to a very sporadic unreliable grid with common cascading failures.
Although the existence of the islands and their inhabitants was long known to maritime powers and traders of the South – and Southeast – Asia region, contact with these peoples was highly sporadic and very often hostile ; as a result, almost nothing is recorded of them or their languages until the mid-18th century.
Since none of this was supported at the time by the Montenegrin ruling regime embodied in Democratic Party of Socialists of Montenegro ( DPS ), which during that period maintained close ties to Milošević's regime in Serbia, initial MOC's activities were very sporadic.
The population is sporadic in Indonesia and Malaysia with some areas harbouring large populations ( Borneo and Sumatra, for example ) and others with very small, at-risk populations ( e. g., Peninsular Malaysia ).
Expanding the range of DNA testing by looking at additional known genetic markers, such as CTNNB1, or by analyzing epigenetically methylated genes such as MLH1 which is very common in serrated polyps with microsatellite instability ( MSI ) and in proximal colon tumours that have poorer differentiation, does not appear to appreciably increase the sensitivity of the method because CTNNB1 mutations are infrequent in sporadic colorectal cancer, and because BAT26 alterations and lack of MLH1 expression show a high degree of overlap.
Her subsequent film work was steady through 1960, then very sporadic, and included such films as The Rose Tattoo, I'll Cry Tomorrow ( both 1955 ), The King and Four Queens ( 1956 ), Gunfight at the O. K.
Subsequent releases have been very sporadic, but include a merging of Public Enemy and Herb Alpert, Dizzee Rascal and Chas & Dave, Michael Jackson and 10cc, and Napalm Death versus Electric Six ( possibly the shortest mash up ever, lasting around half a second ).
Migration to North America from Finland continued throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, but it was very sporadic in nature and only a few individuals and groups dared make the move.
In North America, the disease is very sporadic.
Some findings suggest that LS can be initiated through scarring or radiation, although these findings were sporadic and very uncommon.
New releases of oven sets and mold packs have been sporadic, and seem to come very much at random.
Geologically very little is known of the first division which consists of rocks such as quartzites, marbles and various types of micaceous schists and gneisses which a few sporadic occurrences of garnet, graphite, iron, kynite, mica and vein quartz.
The band had their ups and downs on the charts throughout the 1980s, landing only sporadic Top 10 hits, however, they had accumulated enough hits for a Greatest Hits package by 1990, and were very successful on the touring circuit.
However, in stark contrast to the other districts of central Helsinki, development in Kamppi was sporadic and the very centre of Kamppi remained entirely undeveloped until 2002.
* Eric Burns of Websnark was one of the first and most prolific writers for Superguy, having contributed to the very first digest, and writing from 1989 through 1996 regularly, with sporadic entries following.
: A fixed resolution to avoid the very appearance of digression in these annals prevents my referring to various sporadic Irish combinations of the 18th century -- Whiteboys, Steelboys, Oakboys, Peep-o '- day Boys, Defenders -- some Catholic, some Protestant, some mixed ; but each representing an inarticulate protest against agrarian or ecclesiastical aggression.

very and third
The expectation is that first-level supervisors will be selected in approximately equal numbers from the second and third engineering level, with very few coming from the first level.
I come now to a third argument, which again is very simple.
To `` Monty '', the American people, who in two previous world wars were very reluctant to join the fight, `` now look like the nation most likely to lead us all into a third World War ''.
Ceratopsians and ornithomimids were also very common, together making up another third of the known fauna.
A third approach is found by starting out with two very simple assumptions.
During the third millennium BC, there developed a very intimate cultural symbiosis between the Sumerians and the Akkadians, which included widespread bilingualism.
Another son is named Mimas, who provides a link to the third Aeolus in a genealogy that seems very contrived.
The graphics are generated by a custom graphics chip called MARIA which is very different from other second and third generation consoles, and made it more difficult for game programmers to make the transition.
Convertible arbitrage consists of buying a convertible bond and hedging two of the three factors in order to gain exposure to the third factor at a very attractive price.
The destruction of cities by foreign invaders, and its resulting catastrophic suffering, unfortunately, was very common in the ancient Near East and, therefore, we can observe examples of the lament form / genre concerning destroyed cities and temples from extra-biblical sources, particularly from early Sumerian Literature dating to the late third and early second millennia BC.
Walker came very close to winning the Triple Crown that year, leading the league in home runs but finishing second to Tony Gwynn in batting average and third in RBI ( teammate Galarraga led the league.
Korea had a very large slave population, nobi, ranging from a third to half of the entire population for most of the millennium between the Silla period and the Joseon Dynasty.
The very first geometric proof in the Elements, shown in the figure above, is that any line segment is part of a triangle ; Euclid constructs this in the usual way, by drawing circles around both endpoints and taking their intersection as the third vertex.
If you listened very carefully, I have already stated to you what the third word is.
" The third word is a very common word, and you use it often.
During the third millennium BCE, there developed a very intimate cultural symbiosis between the Sumerians and the Akkadians, which included widespread bilingualism.
After four games she had two points, which was a fair result considering she was rated third from last in the very strong event.
He began auspiciously, winning the first race of the season, the South African Grand Prix, and then led the third race, the Monaco Grand Prix until the very last turn of the last lap.
The topography of the country is divided very clearly between the hilly Oesling of the northern third of the Grand Duchy and the flat Gutland, which occupies the southern two-thirds.
The background to the Mahabharata suggests the origin of the epic occurs at a time " after the very early Vedic period " and before " the first Indian ' empire ' was to rise in the third century B. C .".
Further encouraging this sentiment, the Brewers had hired former stars Yount ( bench coach ; resigned in November 2006 ) and Dale Sveum ( third base coach ), both very popular players for the Brewers in the ' 80s.
During the third millennium BC, there developed a very intimate cultural symbiosis between the Sumerians and the Akkadians, which included widespread bilingualism.
As for the 50 Tg case involving one third of current nuclear arsenals, they said that the simulation " produced climate responses very similar to those for the 150 Tg case, but with about half the amplitude ," but that " the time scale of response is about the same.
In early 2006, the third and fourth generation animals produced by the project were reported to look very much like the depictions and preserved specimens of the quagga.

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