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Mad? Raised eyebrows and grinning lips there were, but one or two faces remained intent upon his calm grey-fringed face.

Martin Jol's side dominated possession and had the better of what chances there were but could not find a way past the Timisoara goalkeeper Costel Pantilimon.

I was at a drama school and had been trying to find out who the stars there were, but Kerry's name didn't come up.

Jen Holleran, Mr. Zuckerberg's representative on the foundation's board, would not say how many applicants there were, but said there were residents of Newark among them.

There are slightly fewer kidnappings than there were, but still more than 3,000 last year, according to Fundacion Pais Libre, an NGO.

Tarasenko said it was hard to say how many active members of Pravy Sektor there were, but noted that its page on the social network Vkontakte had more than 50,000 members.

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But there are buts.

There are but three.

That doesn't mean there weren't low moments and disappointments during my search -- of course there were -- but I felt differently about them.

Emerging markets have rallied even more than those in developed countries in recent weeks and Gait says there are fewer obvious bargains than there were - but there are still pockets of value, for example, in Russian consumer companies.

But there were some.

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