Not so many years ago I could proudly say that Richmond had the best soccer, track and other sports facilities in the Lower Mainland. |
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These languages include German, Dutch, Mainland Scandinavians, Icelandic, Yiddish, Old and Early Middle English, and Old French. |
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North Vancouver has one of the largest police dog squads on the Lower Mainland, with five handlers and their dogs. |
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Even back then, club members recognized the importance of having a second hovercraft on-call in the Lower Mainland. |
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The Orkney Vintage Club's Orkney Cavalcade 2005 saw a collection of old vehicles drive around the West Mainland. |
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This is the second year the collective put on the elaborate tap show that involves dancers and studios from all over the Lower Mainland. |
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This problem is exacerbated by a dearth of social housing projects in the Lower Mainland. |
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The overall champion of Saturday's East Mainland show was an Aberdeen Angus bull, Ebony of Burnside. |
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The Crew dropped anchor in the hope of keeping out of the tide race, which is very strong between the Isle of Eynhallow and Mainland. |
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Hundreds of people accidentally pocket dial for emergency help every year in B.C.'s Lower Mainland and Sea to Sky regions. |
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Drivers are being urged to take heed of the winter weather after a spate of road accidents in the West Mainland on Tuesday morning. |
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While they were here I made a one day visit to Seattle and then spent a few days tooling around the lower Mainland and the Island. |
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A few weeks ago I commented that many of our Lower Mainland lakes were being stocked with noticeably smaller allotments of rainbow trout. |
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Mainland bourses have started to clean up their act, from delisting chronic money-losers to penalizing stock manipulators. |
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We crossed over to Zhuhai in Mainland China and walked into a vast bargain basement mall. |
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Mainland is a subsidiary of contract labour operator ISO, which has been using non-union labour for years. |
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The redoubtable Mainland has kept a beady eye on proceedings at the George Street fringe venue for eight festivals, but feels it is about time to move on. |
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This approach, in which Mainland China makes the judgment and Hong Kong duteously follows, highlights the most dangerous aspect of the proposed law. |
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This, of course, does not factor any of the weapons seized by any of the other municipal police forces or any of the RCMP detachments in the Lower Mainland in the same period. |
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The attempts to censor news in Mainland China about the protests backfired. |
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Shoppers from Mainland China arrived in droves, and gained front row seats to civil disobedience in action. |
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The overall beef champion and also Champion of Champions at Saturday's East Mainland Show was a two-year-old heifer in calf, owned by John W. Hepburn of Burnside, Tankerness. |
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Mainland authorities are banking on consumer spending to provide a bulwark against weaker capital investment and to broaden the economy's base of growth. |
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Others also suspect civil groups with funding coming from Mainland China are sowing dissent. |
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Central and admiralty have some of the most expensive retail outlets in the world, and they are popular with the Mainland crowd. |
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The Chinese Mainland as a place, or Mainlander as a person is often portrayed negatively. |
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Mainland has a great deal of marine life surrounding it, especially seabirds. |
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Costa Head is a prominent headland on Eynhallow Sound on the northwestern coast of the Orkney Mainland, Scotland. |
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Flights from North Ronaldsay Airport link the island with Kirkwall on the Orkney Mainland, as does a weekly ferry operated by Orkney Ferries. |
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The Yell Sound Ferry sails from Ulsta on the island to Toft on the Shetland Mainland. |
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Malcolm only included the Mainland section and excluded the Maritime section in his definition of Southeast Asia. |
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Confucianism is found predominantly in Mainland China, South Korea, Taiwan and in overseas Chinese populations. |
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Mainland Aboriginal Australians' spirituality is known as the Dreamtime and it places a heavy emphasis on belonging to the land. |
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Mainland Oman is separated by a small strip of UAE territory from Musandam. |
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Macau is bordered by the city of Zhuhai in Mainland China to the north and the Pearl River Delta to the east and south. |
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Scattered across Tasmania are many vineyards, and Tasmanian beer brands such as Boags and Cascade are known and sold in Mainland Australia. |
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There exist two standardised forms of the language, namely Putonghua in Mainland China and Guoyu in Taiwan. |
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Mainland and migratory birds include the Eurasian wryneck, Rosy Starling, Common Starling, shrikes, Wheatears, eagles and falcons, among others. |
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At Birsay, a little island off Mainland, Orkney, there's a small sea stack just off the shore which sometimes has a colony of Arctic terns. |
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Taiwan's Kuomintang government had lost the war against the People's Liberation Army in 1949 and been driven from Mainland China. |
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This Limited Publication Study provides an in-depth understanding of the flame retardants chemicals market in Mainland China. |
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Scalar president and CEO Paul Kerr will be the chief executive of Scalar while Jason Born will continue to serve as president of Mainland. |
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The three main settlements on Mainland, in order of magnitude are Kirkwall and Stromness, both of which are burghs, and Finstown. |
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Joanna of Castile and Philip immediately added to their titles the kingdoms of Indies, Islands and Mainland of the Ocean Sea. |
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The economy of the Lower Mainland, like other urban areas in Canada, is service-driven and the IT sector has done well. |
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However, in Mainland China the official language is Mandarin and Simplified Chinese is used as the standard writing system. |
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In Mainland Southeast Asia, Burma, Cambodia and Thailand retained the Theravada form of Buddhism, brought to them from Sri Lanka. |
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Residents of the Mainland do not automatically receive the Right of Abode, and many may not enter the territory freely. |
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Similarly, four Orkney islands are joined to the Orkney Mainland by a series of causeways known as the Churchill Barriers. |
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The Mainland contains the remnants of numerous Neolithic, Pictish and Viking constructions. |
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The other islands in the group are classified as north or south of the Mainland. |
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Rousay, Egilsay and Gairsay lie north of the west Mainland across the Eynhallow Sound. |
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Graemsay and Flotta are both linked by ferry to the Mainland and Hoy, and the latter is known for its large oil terminal. |
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South Ronaldsay, Burray, Glims Holm, and Lamb Holm are connected by road to the Mainland by the Churchill Barriers. |
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The later Rousay flagstone formation is found throughout much of the North and South Isles and East Mainland. |
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Middle Devonian basaltic volcanic rocks are found on western Hoy, on Deerness in eastern Mainland and on Shapinsay. |
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East and West Burra, Muckle Roe, Papa Stour, Trondra and Vaila are smaller islands to the west of Mainland. |
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Public bus services are operated on Mainland, Whalsay, Burra, Unst and Yell. |
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The houses at Skara Brae on the Mainland of the Orkney Islands are very similar, but are grouped into a village linked by low passageways. |
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Mainland Australia currently contains no glaciers, although a small glacier on Mount Kosciuszko was present in the last glacial period. |
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Many artists from the Mainland and Taiwan have learned Cantonese to break into the market. |
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There are four road border crossing points between Hong Kong and Mainland China. |
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Mainland Spain is a mountainous country, dominated by high plateaus and mountain chains. |
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Hoy is part of the Hoy and West Mainland National Scenic Area, one of 40 in Scotland. |
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Mainland effectively provides the core of the Orkney Islands, linking the northern members of the archipelago with the southern ones. |
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The western part of the island is part of the Hoy and West Mainland National Scenic Area, one of 40 in Scotland. |
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The other islands in the Orkney Islands are generally classified as north or south of the Mainland. |
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Two services also connect Caithness, with South Ronaldsay, which is in turn connected to Mainland by road. |
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According to Leung, Stock Connect consolidated Hong Kong's position in the internationalisation of the Renminbi while opening up opportunities for Mainland investors. |
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Mason had served with the Royal Navy in the Orkney Islands where the chief island is called Mainland, a possible name derivation for these English sailors. |
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Mainland Nova Scotia came under British rule with the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht, and Canada and most of New France came under British rule in 1763 after the Seven Years' War. |
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Taoism is found mainly in Mainland China, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore. |
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Common pheasants are native to Asia, their original range extending from between the Black and Caspian Seas to Manchuria, Siberia, Korea, Mainland China, and Taiwan. |
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Eday can be reached by both sea and air from the Orkney Mainland. |
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The A968 runs from Ulsta in the south west of the island to Gutcher in the north east, linking the ferry to and from Mainland, Shetland, with those going to Unst and Fetlar. |
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They link the south of Mainland in the north to the island of South Ronaldsay via Burray and the two smaller islands of Lamb Holm and Glimps Holm. |
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There are six hundred recorded species of plant on the Orkney Mainland. |
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The name Mainland is a corruption of the Old Norse Meginland. |
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Mainland Portugal is split by its main river, the Tagus, that flows from Spain and disgorges in Tagus Estuary, in Lisbon, before escaping into the Atlantic. |
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As Mainland China is made up of many distinct provinces each with their own unique cuisine, breakfast in China can vary significantly from province to province. |
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Mainland initiatives in southern Scotland and the north of England also rely upon grey squirrel control as the cornerstone of red squirrel conservation strategy. |
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The northern group of islands is the most extensive and consists of a large number of moderately sized islands, linked to the Mainland by ferries and by air services. |
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The Mainland is split into areas called East and West Mainland. |
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In addition to the Mainland, most of the islands are in two groups, the North and South Isles, all of which have an underlying geological base of Old Red Sandstone. |
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St Ninian's Isle is connected to Mainland Shetland by a tombolo. |
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The only other swingspans in the Lower Mainland straddle the Pitt River, the Fraser River at Annacis Island, and the middle arm of the Fraser River in Richmond. |
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