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But given the difficulties predicting the ebbs and flows of migration, how did numbers become so fundamental to the whole immigration debate?

Arguably, the Cherries were at their all-time lowest ebb - 23rd in League Two after administration forced them to begin the season on minus 17 points.

By the end of February, as the furore around 6 January ebbed, he was ready to hold his first public event.

Acknowledging that growth needs to pick up to reach state goals, he said that “we also understand that any high-tech market has ebbs and flows.”

The industry ebbed and flowed over the next half-century.