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Today thousands of students across North Wiltshire will open letters and scour noticeboards for the exam results which will change their lives.
In the process it swung in the tide and broke its back as it settled across its own previous scour in the seabed.
These underwater rock piles run perpendicular from shore toward the channel to divert water to help scour the channel.
This weekend's spring tides might help scour out the bank of sand and restore a semblance of tidal passage.
These have become eroded in places, truncating the reflectors and producing scour around obstructions.
Ice scour is a major structuring force in nearshore marine benthic Antarctic communities.
One baby site advises that you get down on the baby's level and scour the floor for anything he could see.
A plane has joined the search as police scour the thinly-wooded land for the gunman and for any sign of the missing tourist.
A rescue helicopter was scrambled to help search teams to scour the area, which is one of the sparsely populated places in Britain.
If necessary scour Europe for the best restoration brains to reverse this destruction.
Shake up your menu occasionally, and scour supermarket shelves for flavorful extras.
In addition, T-cells can create microphages and scavenger cells that scour the body looking for foreign substances in need of a smackdown.
I waited him out, biding my time until he sent all of his men away to scour the docks for any watchers.
The firm uses a fleet of bicycles, mopeds, vans and tow trucks to scour the streets for offenders.
I'd like to, I really would, but then I'd have to take a Brillo pad to my eyes to scour the sight from them and bring blessed relief.
If I was still ambitious enough to want to be a vice-chancellor, I'd scour every inch of the sits vac column.
Part of the joy of unemployment is, of course, that I can scour the Internet for the least relevant links ever.
Average depth of 33m makes the Warwick Deeping ideal for nitrox, though beware of the scour under the stern.
During intervening dry periods, winds scour the fan surfaces and sandblast exposed gravel clasts to produce smooth faceted ventifacts.
A team was sent to scour the city and the forest services were notified to search the woods.
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By means of ropes attached to these I proposed to scour the mountain along the line of the glissade.
Such food used for soiling without drying would be likely to scour an animal, and give it the cholic.
They judge that the tidal force is ample to scour away clean all the sand deposited both in and outside the reef.
Madariaga would always steal his grandson away, and then they would scour the plains together.
Scipio might be incapable of organization, but he certainly could scour and scrub.
As before remarked, the whipworm has been known to produce severe symptoms in man, and it occasions scour in the sheep.
The stainer of the sea-fowl's beak, resolved to scour the main, far distant shores connected by swift fleets.
But not as a son this time, only as a servant, to scour and scrub to the end of his life.
A fine instrument to scour the country with, when one has a girl on one's arm.
They were to scour the woods, hang like a storm cloud about the enemy's camps, and discover his every movement.
Half the regiments form bands and scour the countryside and put everything to fire and sword.
And her pleasure was to ride the young colts, and to scour the plains like Camilla.
The Big Valley sinks and boats such as the Maverick scour the icy walers for survivors.
They will scour the jungle for him when he is far away, and we and our children must run when the grass is set alight.
My department in the prodigious Enterprise already mentioned is to scour the United Kingdom in a gig, establishing Agencies everywhere.
Once we're out of here, I'm going to scour New York for him.
They were to scour the mountains upon opposite sides of the plain.
If I booked a cruise, she'd scour the shops for a designer lifebuoy.
In searching for MH370, the ship was tasked to scour areas including the Strait of Malacca, Sunda Strait, west of Indonesia and south of the Indian Ocean.
I read with interest all the letters about eggs for scours in livestock, and was reminded of Storey's Guide to Raising Dairy Goats and their scour and electrolyte recipes.
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