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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">Forgot to say earlier</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">Another key thing about this is that
available figures are likely to be numerical - i.e. number of bells cast. More
meaningful, yet harder still to establish, would be the figure for tonnage, i.e.
total weight of bells cast in a given period.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">Probably a tendency in recent years for
there to be more bells numerically but smaller ones - so an apparent increase in
activity may in fact mask a decline (or the decline is more serious than it
appears)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face="Comic Sans MS">CP</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>