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Radio 3, the longstanding BBC station that has broadcast classical music for many years, has not been replaced by this commercial parvenu, but it should be noted that Radio 3 broadcasts classical music, while the new station is engaged in a different enterprise.
Referring to Turkey's longstanding application for membership in the European Union, Birand said, "A special fund needs to be established to get the Turkish economy up and running, not under the leadership of the United States but this time with a campaign led by the EU.
One would also have to forgive the Indian subcontinent's most highly trained cardiologist for failing to recognize that It's me dickey ticker, doctor--which sounds as if the patient requires the services of a watch-repairer--is an allusion to longstanding heart disease.
Your gift of any amount will help the school and gallery continue its longstanding excellence in preparing the artists of tomorrow.
The longstanding interest in these candidate genes stems mainly from pharmacological evidence implicating dopamine and norepinephrine in attentional processes as well as biochemical studies that have related alleleic variants to differences in protein activity and expression levels.