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  <&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One</&>
  <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies</&>
  <&>Victoria University of Wellington</&>

  <&>side two</&>
  <&>10:50</&>
  

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      will go to germany in a fortnight's time just eighteen points
      behind the driver's championship leader ayrton senna

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      kiwi golfer greg turner has qualified comfortably to play
      <&>11:00</&> in this week's british open

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      turner produced a solid one under par seventy in treacherous
      conditions at southport to finish second top qualifier in his
      section

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      he joins fellow <?>touring</?> pro frank nobilo in the open
      field after nobilo qualified automatically because of his top
      forty european ranking

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      after just one practice round u s open golf champion payne
      stewart has given the thumbs up to the royal birkdale course the
      venue for the open

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      the players have been greeted with gale force winds and rain so
      far this week

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      but stewart says the course and the difficult conditions are to
      his liking <&>11:36</&> <&>section not transcribed</&>
      <&>11:48</&>

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      stewart says if the conditions stay the same then an even par
      score could be a winning one <,>

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      kiwi rugby league coach bob bailey says they've lost nothing by
      moving dave watson into <&>12:00</&> standoff for the second
      test against the aussies

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      bailey says watson was one of the best at standoff in the
      british competition and he'll play his heart out <&>12:08</&>
      <&>section not transcribed</&> <&>12:20</&>

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      and bailey says that's another reason why they're not worried
      that mark guy has been brought into the aussie line up <,>

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      aussie phil anderson won this morning's tenth stage of the tour
      de france

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      but the big story today on the world's greatest cycle race was
      the mystery virus that hit the p d m team

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      greg lamont is the leader

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      the dutch man eric <?>bukink</?> dropped to third overall with
      four of his team from the b d p team having to <.>dr</.>
      withdraw from the race through illness

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      the all blacks arrive home from argentina tomorrow with thoughts
      turning very quickly to the bledisloe cup series with australia

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      all black selector john hart says a tough couple of tests are
      looming

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      and he's picking the team for the world cup

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      and it won't be far away <&>13:00</&> <&>section not transcribed</&>
      <&>13:13</&>

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      hart says there's no doubt in his mind that australia will be
      their biggest threat to the all blacks holding on to the trophy

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      the north otago rugby team's first match of the season against
      otago subunions in ranfurly tomorrow has been cancelled because
      of the ground conditions in central otago

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      most grounds in central otago are <.>u</.> unplayable and that's
      due to the severe cold snap

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      and it wasn't possible to transfer the match to oamaru because
      of the distance many of the sub union players would have to
      travel <,>

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      palmerston north's byron reid has become new zealand's top rated
      breast stroke swimmer <?>in</?> recording the sixth fastest time
      in his event at the world student games in sheffield

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      reid finished third in the b final in one minute four point nine
      seconds in a time that would have given him sixth place in the
      <&>14:00</&> main final <,>

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      in addition new zealand has had early success in the men's
      tennis with glen wilson thrashing his uganda opponent and andrew
      <?>baitney</?> gets a bye in the second round world

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      women's tennis number one monica seles will be under pressure to
      explain her absence from wimbledon in the next week

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      seles is due to return to top tennis either in new jersey later
      this week or at the federation cup in england next week

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      seles was fined for pulling out of wimbledon without a
      satisfactory explanation leading to speculation that she was
      badly injured burnt out or even pregnant <,>

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      and that is sport <&>14:36</&> <&>end of sample</&>
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