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About fifty officers ’ commissions were given to Germans and Swiss, and none were allowed to rise above the rank of lieutenant-colonel.
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About one hundred and fifty such units of government existed.
About fifty years later, Sayf ibn Dhi Yazan asked for help from the Persians, so the Persians sent all of their criminals as an army to Yemen.
West has recorded over fifty audiobooks, among which are the Shakespeare plays All's Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing and Richard II, the Wind on Fire trilogy by William Nicholson ( The Wind Singer, Slaves of the Mastery and Firesong ), the Arthur trilogy by Kevin Crossley-Holland ( The Seeing Stone, At the Crossing Places and King of the Middle March ), five books by Sebastian Faulks ( Charlotte Gray, Birdsong, The Girl at the Lion d ' Or, Human Traces and A Possible Life ), four by Michael Ridpath ( Trading Reality, Final Venture, Free to Trade, and The Marketmaker ), two by George Orwell ( Nineteen Eighty-Four and Homage to Catalonia ), two by Mary Wesley ( An Imaginative Experience and Part of the Furniture ), two by Robert Goddard ( Closed Circle and In Pale Battalions ) and several compilations of poetry ( Realms of Gold: Letters and Poems of John Keats, Bright Star, The Collected Works of Shelley, Seven Ages, Great Narrative Poems of the Romantic Age and A Shropshire Lad ).
About fifty years ago, the houses were few in number, and principally situated on top of the hill, adjoining the churchyard, where is an ancient cross, and at a small distance the parsonage house, now gone much to decay and occupied by working people.
About fifty Protestants and religious reformers, known as the Marian martyrs, were executed here during the reign of Mary I.
About fifty, fearing punishment, fled to Sicily.
About fifty Marines and about 100 bluejacket U. S. Navy sailors landed unopposed and captured Monterey without incident.
About fifty years later, the Bulgars conquered much of the Balkan Peninsula and extended their domain to the lowlands of what is now central Albania. In general, the invaders destroyed or weakened Roman and Byzantine cultural centers in the lands that would become Albania.
About fifty computers at Stanford University, and also computers at the University of California at Santa Barbara, were amongst the zombie computers sending pings in DDoS attacks.
About six miles ( 9. 6 km ) from the fort the road dipped more than fifty feet ( 15 m ) into a marshy ravine where a stream about three feet ( 1 m ) wide meandered along the bottom.
About fifty percent of the surrounding land is in forest, but most of the remainder is under agriculture.
About fifty of the San Patricios were tried and hanged following their capture at Churubusco in August 1847.
About fifty Europeans and 250 Egyptians were killed.
About fifty years later the bones were removed, but the cages have remained into the 21st century.
About two hundred or two hundred fifty priests and nuns in training are in residence.
About fifty children's stores are read for the programme every year by the likes of Robyn Malcolm and Lloyd Scott.
About fifty manuscripts with rustic capitals survive, including four copies of works by Virgil ( including the Vergilius Vaticanus and the Vergilius Romanus ), one copy of a work by Terence, and one of a work by Prudentius.
Yukteswar heard him say, " About fifty years after my passing ," he said, " my life will be written because of a deep interest in yoga which the West will manifest.
About 300 Africans took part and the estimated death toll ranges from fifty to a hundred, although exact numbers are unknown.
About fifty shots were afterwards fired with little effect upon the solid walls.
About a third of its 24, 000 students are foreign students, from fifty countries.
About eighty years prior, when Jake was eighteen, he went with his father Captain Benjamin Sisko on the USS Defiant to observe the inversion of the Bajoran Wormhole, an event that only occurs every fifty years.
About fifty percent of the programs were in color and seventy percent were being recorded.
About a hundred and fifty members of the Royal County of Berkshire Real Tennis Club use the court.
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About half of the NCOs are sergeants, who serve as command links between officers and ranks.
About 5, 000 Reserve officers for the camps were affected, transferred to Civil Service and military ranks and titles were eliminated.
About 90 police officers were killed between 1920 and 1922 in what would become Northern Ireland.
About 100 senior officers and some civilians " of good social standing ", mainly passengers on captured ships and the wives of some officers, were given parole d ' honneur outside the prison, mainly in Peterborough although some as far away as Northampton, Plymouth, Melrose and Abergavenny.
About a hundred Canadian exchange officers, on exchange to American units, participated in the invasion of Iraq.
He told Honjō the message “ About 500 officers and soldiers of the regiment, unable to restrain themselves any longer, have decided to take direct action ” and a note “ More forces would participate ”.
About 50 Indian civilians ( some of whom were officers ' servants who tried to defend or conceal their employers ) were also killed by the sepoys.
About 20 officers observed the protest, which began at 8 pm, but no arrests were made.
About 400 police officers ( an eighth of the total in Belfast ) were there to ensure that the children could get to school.
She pursued her favorite subject-the female experience-in a number of films, including Street Corner ( 1953 ) about women police officers, Somerset Maugham's The Beachcomber ( 1954 ), with Glynis Johns as a resourceful missionary, and a series of comedies about the battle of the sexes, including The Passionate Stranger ( 1957 ), The Truth About Women ( 1958 ) and her final film, Rattle of a Simple Man ( 1964 ).
About 30 percent of the members of the staff were civilians, said to be selected usually from among close relatives of military officers.
About 50 fans clashed, resulting in two police officers getting injured and five fans being arrested.
About 100 soldiers and five officers were dispatched to the location at about 10 a. m.
About forty of the best mounted officers and men got far ahead of the main body of the force.
About 24, 000 officers, that is almost a quarter of police personnel, work within the Traffic Police ( Polizia Stradale ), Railroad Police ( Polizia Ferroviaria ), Postal and Telecommunications Police ( Polizia Postale e delle Telecomunicazioni ) and Border and Immigration Police.
About 3000 officers and their families escaped to Siam.
About 85 % of Kosovo Police officers are ethnic Albanians, 15 % are ethnic Serbs and other ethnic minorities.
About 1, 200 of them are directorate officers.
About a hundred Canadian exchange officers, on exchange to American units, participated in the invasion of Iraq.
About half the witnesses ' testimony concerned how Ferrar was aware of the crimes committed by his officers and friends, but failed to punish them.
About one-third of the Egyptian soldiers surrendered and were later freed, while all the officers were killed.
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