The Oxford English Dictionary's (OED) online version was relaunched on Tuesday a decade after it first appeared on the Internet. The new version contains 600,000 words, three million quotations and covers more than 1,000 years of the English language, organisers said. As well as providing words' meanings, the online dictionary allows readers to trace the
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The Statistical Service has announced that the number of building permits authorised by the municipal authorities and the district administration offices during September 2010 stood at 717. The total value of these permits reached EUR 215.8 million and the total area 209.9 thousand square metres. These building permits provided for the construction of 903 dwelling
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The Statistical Service has announced the Turnover Value Index for a range of services sectors in the period July – September 2010. Accommodation and Food Service Activities recorded an increase of 6.6% over the same period of 2009, while Information and Communication recorded an increase of 0.6%. An increase of 6.2% was recorded on the
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The Industrial Output Prices Index for October 2010 reached 125.2 (base 2005=100), recording an increase of 0.3% compared with September 2010. For the period January-October 2010 the index increased by 3.7% compared with the corresponding period of the previous year. For Manufacturing the index for October 2010 reached 119.4, recording an increase of 0.3% compared
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– EC expects Irish GDP to expand 0.9 percent next year – Ireland forecast GDP growth of 1.75 percent next year – Growth after banking crises is particularly tough The extension of Ireland's deadline for plugging its budgetary black hole has underlined just how optimistic its growth forecasts were and the threat of a prolonged
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Cyprus and China will sign an agreement on health matters, during a visit to the island by the Chinese Deputy Minister of Health Li Xi between November 29 and December 1. During his visit, the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Cyprus and the Ministry of Health of the People’s Republic of China will
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The annual World Congress of the International Real Estate Federation (FIABCI) is to take place in Cyprus, for the first time, between 16th and 21st May 2011. Speaking at a press conference on the subject here today, Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism Antonis Paschalides said that hosting such an important, financial and professional event
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After the negative record of 2009, when the GDP dropped 1.7%, the Cypriot economy returned to positive growth rates in 2010, which are expected to accelerate over the next two years and approach the average of the Eurozone countries. According to European Commission projections, Cyprus' GDP will rise by 0.5% in 2010, 1.5% in 2011
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Total sales of petroleum products recorded a decrease of 5.2% compared with the previous month in October 2010. The Statistical Service noted a “considerable decrease” in the sales of Heavy Fuel Oil, Unleaded Motor Gasoline and Gasoil for Marine use, while an increase was recorded in the sales of Asphalt and Gasoil. The total stocks
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More than half of women of childbearing age in Cyprus have given birth by Caesarean section, according to the Statistical Service ad-hoc report “Perinatal Health Survey 2007”. If you know your Shakespeare, that means that Macbeth would not last long in this modern age. The report found that 50.9% of childbearing women had undergone a
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