New School Manchester has 102 classrooms , and the school captures 1,975 students , the school mascot is the Jaguar .
New Manchester holds 102 classrooms , and the school has 1,975 students . The school mascot is the Jaguar .

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yes

A new directive was adopted by the European Parliament in July 2008 and approved by the Council in October 2008 .
In July 2008 , a new directive was adopted by the European Parliament and adopted by the Council in October 2008 .

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yes

For example , the COBOL programming language supports a total of five numeric formats with zones , each encoding the decimal sign in a different way :
The COBOL programming language , for example , supports a total of five zoned decimal formats , each one encoding the numeric sign in a different way :

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no

Although discovered in 1888 by Samuel Alejandro Lafone Quevedo , the ruins were first studied in 1897 by the archaeologist Juan Bautista Ambrosetti .
Although the ruins were examined in 1888 by Samuel Alejandro Lafone Quevedo , they were first discovered in 1897 by the archaeologist Juan Bautista Ambrosetti .

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no