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Parliamentary Written Question 2756, asked by Louise Haigh on 16 June 2015, was "To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many GP surgeries in Sheffield, Heeley constituency will be affected by the phased withdrawal of the Minimum Practice Income Guarantee."

(The answer was 28, if anyone's interested.)
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HMAFV 2757 is a rescue motor launch built in Southampton in 1957 that can now be found in a museum in Hendon.
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United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2758, passed on October 25, 1971, recognized the People's Republic of China (PRC) as "the only legitimate representative of China to the United Nations". Previously the Chinese seat at the UN had been occupied by representatives from the Republic of China, otherwise known as Taiwan.
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2759 Idomeneus is a trojan asteroid

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2759_Idomeneus
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The decimal expansion of ((e + π)/9)^3 begins 0.2760... , so multiplied by 10000 it's slightly more than 2760.

You can easily check this with a calculator - but how did I find it out?
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2761 is the product number of this rather nice faucet

https://www.amazon.co.uk/General-faucet ... words=2761
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And as I'm sure you all know, arcsin (3/11) is approximately 0.2762, or 2762/10000. Source: A Dictionary of Real Numbers by Borwein and Borwein - a project even more bizarre than OEIS!
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Google claims to have 2763 staff working in Ireland, according to this article

http://www.thedrum.com/news/2016/11/05/ ... -last-year
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I'd forgotten what "glamping" was until I read this - a mixture of "glamour" and "camping". Mr Blue Sky (2764) in Cornwall is described as "a delightful shepherd's hut with views". Its picture window frames a beautiful garden vista, while in the distance you can see a panorama of the Atlantic ocean.
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2765 squared is 7645225 (has a 2,7,6,5 in it)
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Here's a rather arresting video called Future of the World 2766-3000. The person who created it clearly thinks there are going to be a lot of political changes around that time. Somehow it got over 56,000 views in three months!
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You can call the Rouge Restaurant in Calgary, Canada, on 403.531.2767
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According to bestwordlist.com, there are 2768 words containing H, M and Y.
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2769 x 50 = 138450

2769 and 138450 together contain all the digits.
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This from 2013 (extra funding will bring the total number of student teachers recruited to universities for 2013/14 to 2770.)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-21292867
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