It also refers to the Delta Works, the network of dykes and dams that protect the Netherlands province of Zeeland from sea flooding. |
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In these areas of the Earth's crust, magmatic rocks lie only a short distance below the sea floor. |
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All explosives remain dangerous in sea water, as the metal casing corrodes and explosives become unstable. |
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Weeks later on June 4, the flotilla of ships put to sea sailed but rough weather forced Allied commanders to abandon the trip. |
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Because four years of mind-numbing lectures have dulled my mental reflexes, I momentarily floundered in a sea of possible replies. |
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Navy destroyers and corvettes patrolled the sea lanes and pursued enemy craft that aircraft could not engage. |
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A stealth corvette of the YS 2000 design has a detection range of 13 km in rough seas and 22 km in calm sea without jamming. |
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It's very safe to swim in because of the gentleness of the incline, and the total absence of urchins or other visible sea life. |
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They tend to gather in groups and take short flights out to sea and back in again, practising for their long journey back out onto the ocean. |
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Gem Casper mentally cursed the salty sea air for reducing her hair to lifeless fluff. |
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Now we're racing, gliding past the San Francisco waterfront with a sea lion porpoising alongside. |
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From here the view over the city, the old port and the old town, down to the sea are stupendous. |
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A short sea watch produced a flurry of activity, with 5 Great Skuas passing north in the space of a few minutes. |
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Water consumption was so heavy as to cause the infiltration of sea water into the groundwater. |
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The wildflowers will be out and so will the elk, deer, sea lions, seals, and sea birds. |
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Officers were forced to cut the string off with a knife, specifically designed for such incidents, after flushing the sea lion out of hiding. |
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Why do people bother coming to school when they have coughs that make them sound like sea lions? |
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This also includes such environments as deep sea diving, solo flying, and Antarctic overwintering. |
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The police helicopter and the air sea rescue helicopter both did fly-pasts. |
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It has the insignia of Prydyn, the sea foaming around the sword, along with a heart. |
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We surfaced to a flat-calm sea beneath one of the peculiar Victorian foghorns. |
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On the magazine's fold-out map, south of Australia, there is nothing but an uninterrupted sea of watercolour blue. |
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It's probably some sad Mexican folk singer who writes songs about how lonely the sea is. |
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These books together give a comprehensive picture of Elizabethan sea power. |
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During festivals, devotees carrying offerings parade to the shore and worship the sea as God. |
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I think the sea would be a far better place for all creatures if more people followed this approach. |
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There will also be an opportunity for the guests to fly kites, take a dip in the sea or the resort pool. |
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Add the courgettes, tomatoes, garlic, thyme leaves, sea salt and pepper and cook gently for 20 minutes until soft and tender, tossing often. |
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For a relaxing footbath combine 2 Oranges sliced in rings, a cup of baby oil and a cup of Epsom salt or sea salt. |
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I look at the baby he's saying is me, an infantile dot in a sea of cousinly humanity, on a farm I can't remember. |
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These islands, formed of old-reef and foraminiferous limestone, have experienced considerable uplift relative to sea level. |
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I could bear cowbells tinkling from the basalt villages of the Velay, 3000 feet above sea level. |
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The little forecourt in front of the whitewashed building is a sea of crinoline and tails as the actors pause between takes. |
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A Communist push from the highlands to the sea to cut South Vietnam in half and isolate Saigon appeared in the offing. |
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The seasoning was an Old Bay seasoning which, I believe, usually goes with crab and other sea food. |
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Opening the small cover of the wooden bowl, you can see a golden sea urchin covering a small stewed crab cake. |
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At sea it was extremely cold but as we got closer in it got a bit better but it never stopped raining till well into the forenoon. |
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In the last 20 years there's been a sea change in the criminal law because of forensics. |
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As a result, travelers to the sea are more likely to cross long foreshores, ample beaches and wide estuaries. |
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In the capital, Hilo, the area between the city and the sea front was forested to provide protection. |
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Divers recovered the body of a helicopter pilot yesterday after his aircraft crashed into the sea off the Brough of Birsay in the morning. |
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In the past fortnight six new sea lion pups have been born and two wolf cubs made their first public appearances. |
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As the Elf army pushed forward, a sea of blood, bodies and gore was left behind. |
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Recent excavations in the region have uncovered fossilised remains of sea dinosaurs and other creatures that once frequented these watery wastes. |
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Once fouled on the reefs, the nets go on fishing, killing sea turtles, fish, seabirds and other wildlife while destroying corals. |
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The moon was a bright crescent among the sea of stars, each one glowing brightly. |
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The building had a small chancel lit by a stained glass window, in memory of the officers and crew lost at sea on HMS Atalanta. |
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People who chase the elemental thrills of raw sea creatures probably know the feeling. |
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Meanwhile, two young boys, aged 8 and 13, had a lucky escape yesterday afternoon when they were carried out to sea on an inflatable dinghy. |
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Unfortunately, blue gropers and crayfish, both popular species for eating, prey on one such creature, sea urchins. |
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I've described St Ives as a sea of would-be artists dining out on a reputation the town gained and lost long ago. |
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Salt farms and gristmills dotted the coastline, their windmills tapping the sea breezes for energy. |
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The sun emitted dim rays of light and its reflection on the sea was moving constantly. |
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Over a quarter of the Netherlands lies below sea level, relying on a network of dykes, canals and pumps to stay dry. |
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This award-winning candlelit restaurant housed in a crofter's cottage looks out over the sea and towards the Outer Hebrides. |
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Contaminant fluxes associated with the process of frazil ice formation in the Kara sea are much smaller than worst-case estimates. |
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The grass on either side of me was blooming with flowers in its green sea of blades. |
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We were on the main freeway across town, held up in a sea of students and buses and cars driving home from school. |
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Other than the odd times during the winter when the rivers or lakes froze, the sea and rivers were an abundant source of regular fresh food. |
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Between July and mid-November, polar bears lounge on the shores of Hudson Bay, living off their own fat while they wait for the sea to freeze up. |
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It was like another person telling someone what it is like to jump off a forty-foot cliff into the freezing sea below. |
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The crown of thorns starfish, one of the largest of the sea star group, measures approximately 45 cm across its seven to seventeen arms. |
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Nudibranchs dotted the undersides of the coral and a spiny crown of thorns sea star moved slowly underneath a plate coral. |
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The sea always reminds me of a slumbering monster, waiting for a storm to whip it into a wild frenzy. |
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Crude oil has the ability to spread out on sea water, eventually to form a film which is only a few molecules thick. |
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Most commercial jetliners cruise somewhere between 30,000 and 45,000 feet above mean sea level. |
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The clouds and sea fret can make it just about any shade of orange, red, yellow, pink or purple you might care to imagine. |
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We woke to a thick sea fret which reduced visibility considerably, but gave a great atmosphere to the place. |
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The eerie skeleton of Dunstanburgh Castle seen through a sea fret is one of the spectacular sights of the Northumberland coast. |
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I remember sea frets, I remember walking down there at night, I remember sitting on the rocks with the waves crashing inches away. |
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With the sea fret and a keen northerly wind by then it was getting a little nippy. |
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After mooring and rigging for the night the sea fret closed in further limiting visibility to less than 100 yards. |
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Whilst visiting Bridlington today we stopped at the harbour and found that the sea fret was still covering most of it. |
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The sun had now more-or-less burned away the remains of the sea fret, and it was a very pleasant, not uncomfortably warm afternoon. |
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Consequently, coastal districts were often chilly, although sea frets, also frequently brought in from this direction, were thankfully scarce. |
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Another potential threat is a cruise missile, or even ICBM, launched from land and targeted at our larger ships at sea by satellites. |
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Toss with a dessertspoon of sea salt and pack into a colander pressed with a weighted plate for approx. 1 hour. |
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The Greenlander tribe speak of a time when water covered the continents, and that is when the sea creatures were entombed in the sediments. |
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The frigate bird waits on high and swoops when it spots a booby bird returning from sea with fish in its crop. |
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Elegant frigate birds soar high overhead, sea lions bark from their crowded rock perches, and schools of angelfish swarm beneath your bow. |
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From sea turtles to fringeless white orchids, native species are declining at alarming rates as their natural habitats are lost or degraded. |
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From crabs and snails to frisky sea lions, this is one of the most diverse and active habitats on the planet. |
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A stronger greenhouse effect will probably warm the oceans and partially melt glaciers and other ice, increasing sea levels. |
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Apart from soft coral reefs, sea fans and frogfishes, one will see large sea creatures like sharks and turtles. |
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In drier areas one can expect to find wild angelicas, Iceland rush, cuckooflowers, red fescue, sea peas and many other species. |
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After that, the boat began drifting out to sea and it was then that desperation began to set in. |
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Bacteria accelerate silica dissolution in the sea by colonizing and enzymatically degrading the organic matrix of diatom frustules. |
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The cunjevoi is a sea squirt that is commonly found along the low tide mark on rocky shores. |
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Tautog, sea bass, and cunners share the feeding grounds of mussel beds and other small crustaceans. |
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In Sunset Nude with Matisse, the figure lounges at curvaceous length, her back to the sea and the sunset. |
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In spring and summer these become home to thousands of sea birds like guillemots, razorbills, puffins, fulmars and kittiwakes. |
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You can have sea bass, lobster, herring, turbot, sturgeon cusks, haddock, mullet, eels, crabs, oysters and mussels. |
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A sea funnel, taking the shape and appearance of an under-water tornado grew in size, swallowing up everything that came close enough to it. |
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The powerful tail is also fully furred, and is shorter in sea otters than other otter species. |
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Within a hundred years, industrial hunters and fishermen devastated the populations of sea otters, fur seals and whales. |
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Islanders boast that the farthest any fish travels from sea to plate is 100 yards. |
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Polar bears live in high-latitude environments characterized by cyclic variation in form and extent of sea ice. |
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Her eyes, which were now closing, were a beautiful sea green color, and a soft yellow fuzz already covered the top of her head. |
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The sea is glassy, frozen into blurry fuzz by time. I want to leave all this and play drums for some semi-famous group. |
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Huygens believed that a pendulum swinging in a large are would be more useful at sea and he invented the cycloidal pendulum with this in mind. |
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Surrounded by a sea of heavy overcoats and gabardines, he finally caught the eye of a barman. |
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At any rate, it's early days and I'm sure they'll improve as they get their sea legs. |
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Some community members express concern that modern gadgetry is replacing detailed knowledge of sea ice. |
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That day, I had flounders, sea trout, roach, dace, crabs, grey mullet, bream and bass out of the same swim. |
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Mind you, as long as you can stop them blowing away, you could enjoy these chips in anything from a refreshing sea breeze to a force-9 gale. |
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She submerged them desperately in the easeful waters of the sea where it licked at the mouth of the cave. |
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We set off to walk the cliff path to St Abbs Head, a rugged headland etched with sheer sea cliffs and dramatically deep gullies. |
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The galleys led the way, and in their van rode three of the four great galliasses, thrashing the sea to foam with three hundred oars apiece. |
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The list of things he has promised is a good list, but there is no time to dally, whether by land, sea or air. |
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There is a separate license for migratory game fish like salmon and sea trout but this also covers the species on my license. |
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Force Delta, which was the sea echelon of the second airborne battle group, left Germany on 26 July and closed on Beirut between 3 and 5 August. |
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Initial reports suggested the ferry, which had recently returned to sea after repairs, was dangerously overcrowded. |
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The air and sea were alive with graceful gannets, bumble-bee-like puffins and delicate shearwaters. |
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But the Crusaders were too few to garrison fortresses and hold ground in the great sea of opposition that now confronted them. |
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Eustasy is defined as a global sea level change when referenced to a fixed datum, for instance the center of the earth. |
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Despite its name, Eryngium Blue from DT Brown is not a sea holly but a bright-blue datura or jimson weed. |
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A dinosaur-era Davy Jones's locker of large, predatory sea reptiles has been discovered by fossil hunters on an Arctic island. |
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There is an immense quiet here, 500 metres above sea level in what is almost the dead centre of France. |
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It continued towards me, floating across the floor with the ease of a little white sea bird gliding over the surface of the waves. |
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An owl glided nearby, wings whispering upon the darkness, huge eyes searching for slight movements in the sea of darkness. |
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Areas prone to flooding will suffer terribly as sea levels rise over the next century. |
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In it he almost obliterates the sky in a frenzy of thick white paint and the sea in a swirling foreground of creamy, hot-chocolate gloop. |
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All sea snakes have flattened compressed paddle-like tails for propulsion in water. |
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Both countries agreed to hold more talks on demarcating their sea boundaries as early as next month. |
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The October cover girl is looking all glowy and pouty among a sea of pink headlines. |
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The prototype device for dolphins will be tested by one of the two Scottish trawlers fishing for sea bass in the Channel this month. |
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They are also prey, when smaller, to other animals such as feral pigs, goannas, turtles, barramundi, sea eagles and even other crocodiles. |
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He works with a white headed vulture called Ethel, a white tailed sea eagle, a golden eagle, an American kestrel and a European eagle owl. |
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Today these are represented by the elephants, the sea cows, the elephant shrews, the golden moles, the tenrecs and the aardvark. |
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After all, we're an island nation on whom the sea exerts an irresistible pull. |
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Groups of friends lay semi supine, tufts of pubic hair stirring in the sea breeze. |
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Why, in all these years, have we not developed a way to desalinate our sea water, as, for example, they do in Dubai? |
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If more countries could afford to desalinate sea water, for example, the problem would be solved. |
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One of these patents has revolutionized the way we can better desalinate sea water for human consumption. |
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Reverse osmosis is best known for its use in desalination, the process of turning sea water into drinking water. |
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Arthur's Pass is 920 metres above sea level, and there is a steep descent to Otira in the west. |
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Mist on the mountain draws me back sun on the sea so grand steam trains puffing on the railroad track away in the Isle of Man. |
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Steam locomotives no longer puff their way along the 200-km line from Bangkok to the Thai royal sea resort of Hua Hin on the Gulf of Thailand. |
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Follow with a warm sea salt compress to remove crusting and clean out any infection. |
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A sea lion cruised by me as I breathed compressed air ten metres under the surface of the sea near Victoria. |
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The island's original inhabitants probably came across Bass Strait during a period of low sea level. |
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Aberystwyth and Aberdeen are typical of towns named after the rivers which disgorge their waters into the sea and which the towns grew around. |
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Although sea breezes kept the coast more comfortable, inland areas baked in 12 to 13 hours of unbroken sunshine. |
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It's a very romantic idea that early colonials had, that the interior of the country must have an inland sea or a body of water. |
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During times of increased rainfall, the sea exceeded its natural boundaries and encroached on land. |
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To cook the sea trout filets, heat a non-stick frying pan until hot and add the olive oil. |
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The Western system functions by allowing small islands of dissent in an overwhelming sea of conformist propaganda. |
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The main course was a fillet of veal done in the Barolo wine with cauliflower ganache and endives in red sea salt. |
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Elsewhere, various and sundry monsters, sea serpents, dragons and bare-breasted enchantresses were dealt with methodically. |
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He had felt strong and safe as he had breathed in deep gulps of cold, sea air. |
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Both of these types are plentiful on the Cape, as are sea ducks, such as scoters and eiders, viewable from many vantage points. |
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I gulped sea air, pressing hard on the acupressure points I'd learned to halt nausea. |
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Flying foxes also live here, plus sea turtles, monitor lizards, pythons, and bearded pigs. |
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It is known commercially to treat salmon suffering from infestation with sea lice by the use of the insecticide dichlorvos. |
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In the cuts, fine-grained layers were found, obviously brought to the sea with rivers, whose sources were situated in temperate latitudes. |
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The planetoid, believed to be half rock and half ice, is named after the Inuit goddess said to have created the sea creatures of the Arctic. |
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The interaction between land and sea is not dealt with very well in any other game of which I know. |
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At the same time, many of us gullibly believe the sea will always heal itself, that it's so vast and self-renewing that we simply can't kill it. |
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They compare closely with oceanic flood basalts that make up many oceanic ridges, plateaux, and sea mounts. |
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Throughout the map, you'll discover heavily armed bunkers, guard towers and emplacements to fend off your foes' offensives from land, sea or air. |
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Over the next few days we cut holes in the sea ice and dived beneath it, which was strange but beautiful in an eerie sort of way. |
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Amidst floating human and animals corpses, only the sea waves break the eerie silence. |
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The sauce was thick, almost like a gravy, and bits of squid and various other fruits of the sea could be discerned in it. |
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Maury entered the US Navy in 1825, but an accident in 1839 partially disabled him, so he left active sea duty. |
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He would well know that a new import health standard for sea freight containers is out for consultation. |
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Concerns are that oil and diesel could leak from lorries at the container terminal and seep into the sea and wetlands. |
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For a true taste of Croatian Adriatic cuisine seek out the tiny tavernas where you can eat superb local fish and sea food. |
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The Himalayas, towering as high as 8,854 m above sea level, form the highest continental mountains in the world. |
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During ice ages long ago, sea levels plunged and the continental shelf off the shores of Vietnam turned into dry land. |
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The car park was bustling with local dog walkers and some youngsters were off to the sea with spades and fishing nets. |
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The Coast Guard is continuing the search for six missing crewmembers who plunged into the sea Wednesday during a rescue attempt. |
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The aircraft made several circles before suddenly plunging into the sea with its lights out. |
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It has navigation, communications, and recording systems and can obtain exact position fixes from beacons set in the sea bottom. |
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As much sea water as possible was removed from the samples and 4-5 volumes of cocktail fixative were added. |
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But, the sea of people converging on the floor may have engulfed them because I don't see them any more. |
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The sea is filled with small jellyfish, but we run in anyway for an invigorating swim. |
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Observing the sea of swords, spears, clubs, flails and axes, with interest, he nodded. |
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This luxurious property enjoys panoramic sea views and is presented with great style and flair. |
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Building a house just 100 metres away from the sea is a sure invitation to disaster waiting to happen! |
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Hill stations, majestically situated thousands of metres above sea level, are invitingly cool in December, a colourful new brochure reminds you. |
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These scandals are all part of the general social convulsions and sea changes of modernism-postmodernism. |
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For one thing, their slow motion doesn't startle sea life, such as the pods of whales that sometimes splash alongside. |
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It swung gently inwards and for a moment all was lost in a sea of white light. |
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Supplemented with some sea spinach harvested along the dunes, these went into a tasty flan I baked yesterday. |
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The Flandrian transgression is thought to have reached its climax about 6700 years ago with sea level a few metres above the present. |
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The beachfront, for example, is three quarters of a mile of dense, in-your-face, swelling sea along a flat, featureless bay. |
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The power plant also produces some 200 million liters of clean water as a result of desalinating sea water, which is used as a coolant. |
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Cleeve Hill is the highest point on the Cotswold hills at about 300 m. above sea level. |
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The cuttle fish were flash fried in olive oil with garlic, sea salt and black pepper. |
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It warns of adverse consequences such as the melting of glaciers and polar icecaps, leading to rising sea levels. |
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On land, giant reservoirs holding saline water could be built to offset the rise in sea levels caused by the melting of the polar ice-caps. |
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This spells bad news not only for Arctic peoples but for species like the polar bear, which hunts seals on the sea ice. |
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A polder is a piece of land that has been reclaimed from the sea or a lake through drainage. |
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It was named after the land gained from the sea which in Dutch is called a polder. |
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Much of the western part of the country is polders that have been reclaimed from the sea by dikes and dunes. |
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The huge harbor works which stretch 1.3km out to sea have also created a section of flat water perfect for small boat sailing. |
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A painting of the sun setting over the sea in his book in 1921 was accompanied by the following message in very small copperplate writing. |
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Use a strongly flavoured drink, such as apple juice or fruit squash, so that you can easily distinguish it from sea water. |
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This time, he captained a fleet of four ships and was charged with finding a westward sea passage to East Asia. |
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Soluble fibers occur in guar gum, beans, apple and grapefruit pectin, and sea vegetables. |
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The copious guano deposition from sea birds may play a role in maintaining the present assemblage of vascular plants on both islands. |
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A week later, it was a functioning hospital, an island of cleanliness and sanity in a sea of decay and dirt. |
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Perhaps it's best not to think of the sea of grubs, flies and beetles there must be underfoot. |
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The last one-third stayed rather simple, with just added fleur de sel or French exquisite sea salt. |
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I also like to add a few flecks of fleur de sel, the very good sea salt from Brittany. |
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He locates it on the edge of a pool where the river flows into the sea and vice versa in a ceaselessly eddying whirlpool. |
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The sea around Mafia is a tropical Marine Park ranging from coral reefs, sea-grass beds, mangroves and inter-tidal flats. |
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Jostling for room, sea anemones, corals and sponges vividly span the floor of an ocean forest. |
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There's sea water where you could explore starfish and various other corals. |
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Sponges and corals grew on rises in this sea, forming reefs that divided up parts of this sea into isolated lagoons. |
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And organisms such as corals and sea anemones, which simply stay still and grow, have no need of eyes. |
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Visit any coastal area and you will see defence features such as groynes, sea walls and banks. |
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Grand sea fans enliven a reef inhabited by leaf fish, lionfish, and a polychromatic array of nudibranchs. |
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Changes in relative sea level driven by glacial isostasy may have provided an additional mechanism for deglaciation. |
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Fish on offer include sea bass, grouper, pomfret, butter fish, snow fish, red snapper and tub tim. |
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These are followed by eight seafood items and covers salmon, lobster, snow fish, snapper, pomfret and sea bass. |
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After floating near the surface for a few days, the raft sinks to the sea floor and the eggs hatch far away from their parents. |
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His body was discovered on April 22 floating in the sea near Bournemouth pier. |
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Sherman tanks could be launched at sea because they were made buoyant by a flotation collar fitted around them. |
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One of the beauties of the shorter Hebridean systems is the focus on the outflows and sea pools of the rivers. |
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Much of New Orleans is below sea level, so floodwaters will have to be pumped out. |
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It is a sea mountain, blasted by volcanic forces more than a mile up from the ocean floor, and stretching underwater for nine miles. |
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Plastic bags that sink to the sea floor can also suffocate and kill sea grasses. |
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This permits the craft to explore about 99 percent of sea floors in the oceans of the world. |
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They pop open the cartridges and begin to paint with brushes, tossing spent containers to drift and litter the sea floor. |
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Instead of just cycling for 10 days, ecotourists are buying into combinations of mountain biking, hiking and sea kayaking. |
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When the high water ebbs and the water in the lagoon and the sea reach the same level, the gates are filled once again with water until they return to their original position. |
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The weather seems to be either glorious, or absolutely appalling, and sea frets regularly come sailing in over the horizon from the nearby Solent. |
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In one case, a sea captain followed his urge to change his ship's course, even though this caused him to deviate from the most direct route to his port. |
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My dad, a steak and kidney pie connoisseur, was impressed with his dish, which consisted of thick chunks of beef in a sea of gravy, covered with a layer of flaky pastry. |
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It is a solitary creature, living in a crevice in the rocks or in a house fashioned for itself from an old pot or tyre or other piece of debris on the sea floor. |
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Naturalists with sturdy sea legs can take a trip out to the gannetry at Bass Rock or stay on land and observe it from North Berwick's Sea Life Centre. |
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I'm supposed to play football tomorrow, because unlike baseball, the weather is not a factor with the pigskin, or else, Wisconsin wouldn't be a sea of green and yellow. |
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Shopping centres that nudge the sky-scraping hotels nearly into the sea are neatly divided into designer-label chic and markets full of tourist tat. |
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The exhibit offers a glimpse into the marine life with the moray eel, which resembles a tiger, lobster, sea horse, porcupine fish and squirrelfish being displayed. |
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We stopped for gas at Stovepipe Wells, a minimal town boasting an elevation of five feet above sea level, and a mandatory T-shirt purchase location. |
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The thick sedimentary deposits beneath the world's continental shelves respond to one of the Earth's fundamental cyclic processes, the rise and fall of global sea level. |
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I like to sail and am currently training up my three children to crew, so that I can relax, just sit back and listen to the sea lapping at the boat. |
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And the baked potatoes were fluffy beneath a sea of sour cream and butter. |
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If scuba diving appeals, you'll find the Adriatic sea floor is littered with wrecks where exotic fish swim in coral reefs and colourful underwater gardens and grottoes. |
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You leave the cliffs and promontories and blue sea gulfs behind, and corkscrew inland, past the roadside shrines with their solitary icons and flickering candles. |
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And in a sea of mass production and cookie-cutter sequels, handmade films are an assertion of the importance of the small, the unique and the individual. |
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California sea lions porpoised through the waves to circle our boats. |
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The bodies are prepared by a local funeral director, wrapped in a heavy shroud, weighted and carried to a designated site miles out to sea where the ceremony takes place. |
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According to the military report, Blanco was killed on September 13 and his body thrown into the sea on the same day 10 miles from the port of San Antonio. |
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It offers a glimpse of blue sea through the propshaft tunnel, but getting there involves a twisting, winding dive down collapsed walkways and sagging decks. |
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She returned in triumph to show us the sea bass cooked, sitting on a still smouldering bed, before taking it away again to be divided into portions. |
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Normally, property is all about location on presumptuously called The World, the location changes from day to day, and the sea views change by the hour. |
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The most striking of adaptations in polar sea animals is to the cold. |
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Utes, trucks, forklifts, cranes, sea containers, demountable site buildings, various tools, office furniture, computers and building stock were among the items up for sale. |
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When Proto-Indo-European was spoken, the sea level was still recovering from the low point it had reached during the Ice Age, about 100 metres lower than the present level. |
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Most populations rely on terrestrial habitats for maternity denning and some take refuge on land in areas where the sea ice melts completely during summer. |
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Last week, too, environmentalists were incensed by go-aheads for logging in protected forests and oil-drilling on a beach with a colony of rare sea turtles. |
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The results could be catastrophic for polar people and animals, while low-lying lands as far away as Florida could be inundated by rising sea levels. |
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In the East, in the West, in the South, as far as the eye reaches, a sea of houses, towers and buildings, an endlessness of roofs, chimneys and fronts. |
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Deep sea denizens such as the feather star inhabit caves in the wall. |
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The pattern of Ashgill brachiopod provincialism can be traced back to the early Caradoc during the major global sea level rise and marine transgression. |
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The menu says the property dates back to the 15th century and once belonged to a sea captain, hence the prow from a ship that surmounts the entrance door. |
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He said the problems were compounded by large salt deposits washed up from the sea which would leave a trail on the windows of homes and businesses in the wake of the storm. |
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Type 23 frigate HMS St Albans, damaged by a ferry in gales in the autumn, is back at sea today, well on course to resume her programme of trials and training. |
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There were at least two lots of these sea frets yesterday too. |
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The sea boiled and on every side ships were stripped of their funnels and superstructure by the blast wave that hit the shoreline a split-second later. |
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The sort of rod that you'd use for sea trout or grilse should suffice. |
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Ash often spent her days at sea sunbaking on the flying bridge awning during Specials or just simply lazing about eating garlic bread and pickled sardines. |
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Fly orchid and a sea of marsh hellebores were among the 21 species seen. |
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But if the Tories are really serious about power they must win back seats like Cambridge, an island of Liberal Democrat yellow in a surrounding sea of East Anglian blue. |
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I can hear a siren when the air is still, and the sea fret comes in. |
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Their father was descended from three generations of sea captains. |
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The sea outside is moderate, but with the geo to funnel the waves in and the caves funnelling further, there is a powerful surge between the narrow walls. |
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On the way out to sea for exercises they clattered past lines of battleships and cruisers, from whose sparkling decks immaculate officers looked down on them with disdain. |
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The initial form of sea ice is a slurry of ice crystals called frazil ice, which under various conditions grow together to form many different and complex ice forms. |
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The success of destroying all microorganisms capable of growing in canned food is based on the temperature obtained in pure steam, free of air, at sea level. |
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While it makes little difference in calm waters, in any sort of sea condition other than calm, the more freeboard you have, the better off you are. |
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In 1979 he successfully piloted the same helicopter on an open sea rescue mission in gale force winds, for which he was awarded the Air Force Cross for his skill and bravery. |
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The big storm last week caused some damage, especially near Coles Corner, where the giant waves gouged a hole in the sea wall and washed out some of the pavement. |
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We wondered had Sligo detached itself from the rest of Ireland and become an island or had the sea managed to force a new inlet in between Sligo and Mayo? |
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The school appeared to swim upstream with the rising tide each day and went back out to sea on the ebb tide where they could be seen about a mile off the land. |
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Several trials demonstrate that acupuncture can help, and some hospitals give patients Sea Bands, elasticated wrist bands originally aimed at preventing sea sickness. |
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When he was aged 17, he went to sea as a steward on a luxury cruise ship. |
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The impact of the sea and the inner harbour create an unusually calm harmony within the seemingly endless development of condominiums taking place along the waterfront. |
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The next morning was spent fishing quickly down the stunning River Corran through heather and gorse, the Paps in the background and the sea to the east. |
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He was thrown into the water, and on the instant the sea grew calm. |
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To speed up the beauty part of the process, invest in a body exfoliator or pour a dessertspoon of olive oil over a handful of sea salt granules and apply to the skin, daily. |
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Lapping against the ship's immense, rust-coloured flanks is a rippling sea of undulating hills covered with callitris pines and guttered by creeks lined with river red gums. |
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After two years the fry have reached about 5 inches long, only then do they finally take the shape of a conger eel and begin their residence on the sea bed. |
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Marine life includes sea lemons, lingcod, kelp greenlings, silvery pile perch, wolf eels and even decorated warbonnets with spikes on their heads. |
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Male California sea lions are polygamous, mating with many females. |
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Internet cafes, pizzerias and music clubs are tucked behind colonial portals that were already old when Captain Cook was still finding his sea legs. |
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Avian swimmers such as penguins and puffins and ducks and cormorants, as well as sea turtles and other water-dwelling reptiles, must also come up for air. |
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Considered the most aggressive of sharks, the great white may be drawn to this region because of the presence of the sea lions, on which it feeds. |
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Although it is widely regarded as a coastal and sea bird, the cormorant can now be found in ever-increasing numbers at lakes and gravel pits in Britain. |
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Sitting on concrete piles and a sea of polystyrene that keeps it from sinking into the bog, the track is another triumph in a resurgent era for the Chinese people. |
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The polyzoan colonies were kept in running sea water in total darkness. |
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From their conning towers, just above sea level, naval officers flash lights to guide the flotillas of minesweepers clearing passages toward the beaches. |
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I noticed the hook of the flying gaff still unused in the corner, and knew that if he plunged that 10 in spike into her, the lady of the sea was dead. |
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They had their foremasts removed and their hulls reinforced with massive oak timbers to accommodate one or two powerful sea mortars of either 10-inch or 13-inch caliber. |
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He tingled all over, experiencing the feeling of floating in sea with one's eyes on the water-level, when life above water and under water would interchange every second. |
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America's disadvantages included few trained generals or troops, a weak central authority unable to provide finance, intercolonial rivalries, and lack of sea power. |
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Thereafter final Allied victory was only a matter of time, as sea and air forces interdicted German supply lines and Allied materiel poured in at astonishing rates. |
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Differences in abiotic factors such as differential effects of glaciation and sea-level changes on land and in the sea may also greatly influence biogeographic patterns. |
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