Since many European typewriters placed the parentheses with 8 and 9, those corresponding positions were chosen for the parentheses.

Since independence, Botswana has had the highest average economic growth rate in the world, averaging about 9 % per year from 1966 to 1999.

* Since Big Brother 2, the UK series always opens with a twist which have included the public being able to choose the final housemate out of three possibilities ( Big Brother 2 ), the public voting for a housemate to leave during the first week and then the housemates choosing between the two housemates with the least number of votes ( Big Brother 3 ), First Night Nominations ( Big Brother 4 ), Suitcase Nominations ( Big Brother 5 ), Unlucky Housemate 13 ( Big Brother 6 ), Big Brother Hood ( Big Brother 7 ), an all-female House and the first inclusion of twins as contestants ( Big Brother 8 ), the first couple to enter as housemates and set a secret task to hide their real relationship ( Big Brother 9 ), all " housemates " really being " non-housemates " who had to earn their housemate status ( Big Brother 10 ), a mole entering the House with an " Impossible Task " ( Big Brother 11 ), Jackie Stallone entering a house containing her son's ex-wife ( Celebrity Big Brother 3 ), the entrance of a non-celebrity in a celebrity edition ( Celebrity Big Brother 4 ) and Jade Goody's family announced to be visiting.

Since the formation of the first Fianna Fáil government on 9 March 1932, the party has been in power for 61 of the last 79 years.

Since 1989, Brooks has released 19 records in all, which include ; 9 studio albums, 1 live album, 4 compilation albums, 3 Christmas albums and 2 box sets, along with 77 singles.

Since 1927 South Australia has permitted majority verdicts of 11: 1, and 10: 1 or 9: 1 where the jury has been reduced, in criminal trials if a unanimous verdict cannot be reached in four hours.

Since the pot lays 10: 1 ( 9. 1 %), Alice will on average lose money by calling if there is no future betting.

Since 9 July 2009, the Prefect is Cardinal Angelo Amato, while the current secretary ( appointed 29 December 2010 ) is Archbishop Marcello Bartolucci

Since probably the 5. 9 kiloyear event,

Since the Army XXI reform in 2004, the basic structure of the Land Forces has been reorganised in the following units: infantry brigades ( 2 and 5 ); mountain infantry brigades ( 9 and 12 ); armoured brigades ( 1 and 11 ).

Since then the Sloan Digital Sky Survey has found over 9, 000 white dwarfs, mostly new.

Since the magic packet is only scanned for the string above, and not actually parsed by a full protocol stack, it may be sent as any network-and transport-layer protocol, although it is typically sent as a UDP datagram to port 7 or 9, or directly over Ethernet as EtherType 0x0842.

Since becoming operational in Normandy on August 1, 1944 until May 9, 1945, the Third Army was in continuous combat for 281 days.

Since ( 9 / 8 ) / ( 10 / 9 ) = ( 81 / 80 )— the syntonic comma — the fundamental characteristics of meantone systems are that all intervals are generated from fifths, and the syntonic comma is tempered to a unison.

Since WMP 9 Series, the player features dynamically updated Auto Playlists based on criteria.

Since WMP 9 Series, 24 bit high-resolution CDs ( HDCDs ) are also supported, if capable audio hardware is present.

Since Windows Media Player 9 Series, the player supports crossfading, audio dynamic range ( Quiet Mode ) for WMA Pro and WMA Lossless, and auto volume leveling for certain media which includes volume level / gain information such as MP3 or Windows Media.

Since 2000 there has been only one centre in Belgium performing psychosurgery, carrying out about 8 or 9 operations a year ( some capsulotomies and some DBS ), mostly for OCD.

Since late July 2010, when Fox began to broadcast their sports programming with graphics optimized for 16: 9 displays rather than the 4: 3 safe area, the network has asked cable and satellite providers to comply and use the No. 10 Active Format Description code they now send out over Fox programming, which has 16: 9 content display in letterboxed mode on 4: 3 screens and has graphical elements optimized for the 16: 9 screen.

Since the events of September 11, 2001, American Muslims have participated in the Pilgrimage to promote and increase awareness of civil rights protections in the wake of widespread suspicions harbored against them in the post 9 / 11 world.

Since the bankruptcy, only seven additional satellites have been launched but an updated constellation of 66 satellites called Iridium NEXT is currently being developed and is planned for launch in 2015-2017 on SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch Vehicles from Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 3 in California.

Since 2002 the Victorian Industry has seen a significant decline in catches, with the total allowable catch ( TAC ) reduced from 1440 tonnes to 787 tonnes for the 2011 / 12 fishing year.

Since some modern scholars do detect subtle theological and historical differences between the texts, such scholars do not subscribe to the rough-draft / polished-draft theory.

Since 1990, AIX has served as the primary operating system for the RS / 6000 series ( later renamed IBM eServer pSeries, then IBM System p, and now IBM Power Systems ).

School ( 1904 ) Sanskriti ... The School ( 2004 ) and Sophia Girls ' School ( 1918 / 1935 ) & College ( 1942 ), Rashtriya Military School Ajmer ( Since 2010-Established in 1930 as King George ’ s Royal Indian Military School ), and the historic Ajmer Music College, founded in 1942, the first accredited institution in Rajputana for teaching Hindustani classical music.

Since 1961, only two new parties ( Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen and PDS / Die Linke ) have entered the Bundestag.

Since the runner would now have been at second anyway, the passed ball no longer has any impact on the earned / unearned calculation.

Since the bigger 1 / 4 " tapioca pearls are separately sold as " black pearls " ( 黑珍珠 ) in markets, this name was the logical first choice and is more popular with the consumers of the drink.

Since the early 20th century it has been commonly accepted that Old Irish Bel ( l ) taine is derived from a Common Celtic * belo-te ( p ) niâ, meaning " bright fire " ( where the element * belo-might be cognate with the English word bale in ' bale-fire ' meaning ' white ' or ' shining '; compare Anglo-Saxon bael, and Lithuanian / Latvian baltas / balts, found in the name of the Baltic ; in Slavic languages byelo or beloye also means ' white ', as in Беларусь ( White Russia or Belarus ) or Бе ́ лое мо ́ ре Sea ).

Since the 1960s / 1970s, Blissymbols have become popular as a method to teach disabled or handicapped people to communicate.

Since 1990, the ACR and the Czech Armed Forces have contributed to numerous peacekeeping and humanitarian operations, including IFOR, SFOR, and EUFOR Althea in Bosnia, Desert Shield / Desert Storm, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Albania, Turkey, Pakistan and with the Coalition forces in Iraq.

Since the late 1990s, Orange has also been working in conjunction with singer / songwriter Craig Deanto, and they have released an album titled Who Hears the Cries.

Since the map d restricts to 0 on I < sub > x </ sub >< sup > 2 </ sup > ( the reader should verify this ), d descends to a map from I < sub > x </ sub > / I < sub > x </ sub >< sup > 2 </ sup > to the dual of the tangent space, ( T < sub > x </ sub > M )< sup >*</ sup >.

Since we know that over 70 percent of children of intermarried couples are not being raised as Jews ... we want to encourage the Jewish partner to maintain his / her Jewish identity, and raise their children as Jews.

Since being able to choose any resource type allows more building power, gold rivers are either marked with number token of only 2 or 3 dots and / or are far away from starting positions to offset this.

Since its unification with Pakistan, the East Pakistan Army had consisted of only one infantry brigade, which was made up of two battalions, the 1st East Bengal Regiment and the 1 / 14 or 3 / 8 Punjab Regiment in 1948.

Since the early years of the twentieth century, absolute dating methods, such as radiometric dating ( including potassium / argon, argon / argon, uranium series, and, for very recent fossils, radiocarbon dating ) have been used to verify the relative ages obtained by fossils and to provide absolute ages for many fossils.

Since the inverse DFT is the same as the DFT, but with the opposite sign in the exponent and a 1 / N factor, any FFT algorithm can easily be adapted for it.

Since English, German and Dutch have many of the same etymological origins, there actually are a great number of words in both languages that are very similar and do have the same meaning ( e. g. word / Wort / woord, book / Buch / boek, house / Haus / huis, water / Wasser / water ...).

Since 1892 ears of red, yellow, purple and white corn have annually been nailed to 11 big picture panels to create huge `` paintings ''.

Since then and during the first decade, the results were given to newspapers for publication at 11 pm on the night of the awards.

Since the 2002 civil war in Côte d ' Ivoire, relations between it and Burkina Faso have been filled with accusations of Burkinabé support for rebels on one side and claims of mistreatment of Burkinabé workers on the other .< ref > Blaise Campaoré :<< La crise ivoirienne inquiète le Burkina >>, Le Figaro, December 11, 2005 </ ref > Côte d ' Ivoire remains Burkina Faso's largest regional trading partner in spite of their disputes and tens of thousands of Burkinabés continue to work in the Ivory Coast.

Since September 11, 2001, the island is guarded by patrols of the United States Park Police Marine Patrol Unit.

Since 1891, the modern Japanese ' shaku ' is approximately equal to a foot ( 11. 93 inches ), calibrated with the meter to equal exactly 10 meters per 33 shaku ( 30. 30 cm ).

Since Lithuania declared independence on March 11, 1990, it kept strong democratic traditions.

Since M-theory is thought to operate in 11 dimensions this problem then becomes very difficult.

Since 1989, the director of NIST has been a Schedule-C Presidential appointee and is confirmed by the United States Senate, and since that year the average tenure of NIST directors has fallen from 11 years to 2 years in duration.

Since the Licensing Act 2003 premises in England and Wales may apply to extend their opening hours beyond 11 pm, allowing round-the-clock drinking and removing much of the need for lock-ins.

Since slow teleprinter keyboards were used at the time ( 11 characters per second maximum ), users often could not wait for each other to finish.

Since the September 11, 2001 attacks, the roads and grounds around the Capitol have undergone dramatic changes.

Since the September 11, 2001 attacks, airport security has dramatically increased.

Since the generator polynomial is of degree 4, this code has 11 data bits and 4 checksum bits.

Since its sale in 1982, UPI has changed ownership several times and was twice in Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization.

Since September 11, 2001, Mount Weather has seen a dramatic increase in staffing and support.

Since the ill-fated flight of Soyuz 11 to Salyut 1, all manned spaceflight duration records have been set aboard space stations.

Since the 9 / 11 attacks the fear of terrorist groups using dirty bombs has increased significantly, which has been frequently reported in the media.

Since Medicare began, this solvency projection has ranged from two to 28 years, with an average of 11. 3 years.

Since 9 / 11, TFRs have been routinely used to restrict airspace for 30 nautical miles around the President, with a radius no-fly zone for non-scheduled flights.