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According to the Department of Business and Trade, 161 of the extant licences relate to military products.

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"So I placed the nematodes in the established collective group genus Vetus, which was established in 1935 for fossil nematodes that could not be placed in any known extant family."

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You could see details in saddles and costumes, and the building were still extant.

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"They are the first artefacts collected by the British from any part of Australia, that remain extant and documented," he said.

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Depicting extremes of human emotion, the oldest extant Western plays invited the citizens of ancient Greece to confront vital issues of contemporary justice.

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