Indeed, Moscow s budget has lost about a quarter of its revenues.

To date some 500,000 old and obsolete mines had been destroyed.

But even if you toss a few numbers around, you're probably talking of an effective population of about 20,000 animals.

Of these, roughly 80 per cent have now been deactivated.

Alarabiya.net reported the story on Sunday and has since received nearly 100 comments.

This lasted until around 900 AD, when the Classic Maya civilization collapsed.

Indeed, historians have counted as many as 25 such cycles since the reign of Tsar Ivan III.

Alboin (530s June 28, 572) was king of the Lombards from about 560 until 572.

As of today, the official and private donations and contributions of Turkey are in the vicinity of 15 million.

Inflation in Iran is rising, perhaps to as high as 20 .

The maximum temperature of around 180 K was reached at the depth of about 3 km.

In the Islamic world and the West, all books were in manuscript until the introduction of movable type printing in about 1450.

A. kolomikta is the hardiest species (to about 40 ), and has distinctive white and pink variegated foliage even on wild plants, an unusual phenomenon.

As of this writing, about 20 of the Harvard graduating class have taken the oath.

The employees of the state owned enterprises still receive paychecks, even though about a third of their workplaces have been destroyed.

Through this control and manipulation of surplus resources, the elite's power continued to grow until about AD 950.

Cranial and caudal neuropores become progressively smaller until they close completely (by day 26) forming the neural tube.

I would give the boy probably about 30 seconds, which means, by the time he got to me, I was already saying things like, Why are you crying?

Inflation rate up to January 2008 was located about 1.14 , the highest recorded in the last year, according to the government.

In the developing world about 90 of children have been infected by age 10 and thus are immune by adulthood.

The aqueduct remained in use until about 260, when the city was first plundered by the German tribes.

According to incomplete statistics, approximately 2.5 billion Vietnamese dong nearly 200,000 have been raised to date, and the campaign is continuing.

OK. I taped my my aunt used to swim in the ocean every day of the year until she was about 85.

Agriculture in India accounts for about a quarter of GDP, but even wealthy farmers don't pay taxes.

Therefore, the number of Trial Chamber Sections is about six, even if they are not all sitting on a permanent basis.

Unfortunately, there's almost no good data on HIV prevalence in the general population in Africa until about 2003.

Some experts argue that it has already raised oil prices by about 15 per barrel.

So far, some 400 weapons, 49,062 rounds of ammunition and 389 pieces of unexploded ordnance have been collected.

Therefore, the number of Trial Chamber Sections is about six, even if they are not all sitting on a permanent basis.

They also organize themselves within women's groups, of which there are approximately four thousand (4000) to date throughout the country.

It costs them about 2,000 reais (about 1,000 US dollars).

The summer season, the driest in 84 years, has triggered a drought that has hit 70 cities so far, affecting the lives of 13.8 million people.

There was an important pearling industry from the 1860s until about 1970 when it collapsed in the face of competition from the plastics industry.

As the Council undoubtedly knows, the OSCE still does not have a budget for 2005, some 10 weeks into the year.

In average years frost starts on about 14 October and ends on about 18 April, with sustained extreme cold from about 19 December to about 23 February, a period of about 67 days.

It's around the same time, I think it was built around 1776.

There are about 5,000 animals representing nearly 500 species.

About six years ago, I bought one of these CNC mills, to just replace, kind of, young people cutting their fingers off all the time building models.

In Syria, Israel continues to occupy approximately 1,000 square kilometres of the Golan and refuses to withdraw to the 4 June 1967 borders. About half a million inhabitants of the Golan have been displaced.

At the beginning of the 1990s, Milan already had a population of foreign born residents of approximately 58,000 (or 4 of the then population), that rose rapidly to over 117,000 by the end of the decade (about 9 of the total).

I live in New York, and I've been working in advertising for ever since I left school, so about seven, eight years now, and it was draining.

Out of roughly 1 million casualties in all of Yugoslavia up until 1944, around 250,000 were citizens of Serbia of different ethnicities.

Yet, humans had colonised nearly all the ice free parts of the globe by the end of the Ice Age, some 12,000 years ago.

Old Egyptian remained a spoken language until about 2100 BC, when, during the beginning of the Middle Kingdom, it evolved into Middle Egyptian.

Prognosis Median survival is around 10 years, but the range is wide, from less than one year, to more than 20 years.