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10 Before a bill can become law it has to have the full ____ of both Houses of Parliament. r? NznNVU
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13 The government wants a 3% inflation rate,but is this a ___ objective? ur$
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14 She has still ___ by what happened in Bancelona,although she had left 20years earlier E9Np 0M<
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15 The hands on my alarm clock are____.So I can tell time in the dark 7\$qFF-y
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