The long bay was unruffled and grey to the horizon, like a sheet of unscored ice. |
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These installations, sometimes called toadstools, are small platforms, consisting of little more than a well bay, helipad and emergency shelter. |
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The commission was created in response to growing concern over the shrinking size of the bay. |
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Installing a barrage may change the shoreline within the bay or estuary, affecting a large ecosystem that depends on tidal flats. |
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However, all these effects are localized and do not affect the entire estuary or bay. |
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The eastern part of the concentric canal plan, covering the area between the Amstel river and the IJ bay, has never been implemented. |
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The weather in the bay is temperate by English standards, and far more temperate than many other places at a similar latitude. |
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During the Hundred Years War, King Edward III of England landed in the bay of La Hogue, and then came to the Church of Quettehou in Val de Saire. |
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Others say that ships routinely carried bands of soldiers to keep pirates at bay. |
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Conflans initially formed a line of battle and prepared to engage, but then changed his mind and his ships raced to take shelter in the bay. |
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However the British were starting to overtake the rear of the French fleet even as their van and centre made it to the safety of the bay. |
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His flagship, Soleil Royal, headed for the entrance to the bay just as Hawke was coming in on Royal George. |
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Steam powered tugboats and towboats started working in the San Francisco Bay soon after this to expedite shipping in and out of the bay. |
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Part of the bay is a nature reserve, with seashore habitats including mudflats and salt marsh with migrating waders and wildfowl. |
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Clarkson helped to tow Hammond despite his gearbox nearing the end of its life, and the two sabotaged May's engine bay with cheese. |
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The nephew and his mother had decided not to go on the voyage across the bay. |
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There eventually evolved an international balance of power that held at bay a great conflagration until years later. |
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Before Columbus and the rise of industrial oyster operations, oysters abounded in the bay. |
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De Ojeda managed to escape and ran to the bay where he told a passing expedition of the murderous natives. |
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The harvesting would reach its peak in the 1880s, with 20 million bushels being harvested from the bay each year. |
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In July 1821, the bay was the site of the Battle of Lake Maracaibo, an important battle in the Venezuelan War of Independence. |
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Compton bay and beach are popular with surfers due to waves that come across the Atlantic. |
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The bay contains Pergins Island, and the South Western railway line runs west to east on a causeway across the bay. |
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Compton Bay is a bay located on the southwest section of the Isle of Wight, England. |
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The eastern edge of the bay is formed from soft red and orange cretaceous rocks that are rapidly eroding. |
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Due to the lack of grazing on the cliffs above the bay, the native chalk ecosystem has thrived. |
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The Isle of Wight Coastal Path runs along the cliff edge for the entire extent of the bay. |
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Atop Afton Down, roughly halfway between Brook and Freshwater Bay, a small obelisk can be found overlooking the bay. |
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Alum Bay is a bay near the westernmost point of the Isle of Wight, England, within close sight of the Needles rock formation. |
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On a map of the area produced around 1590, the bay is named Whytfylde Chine. |
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Shanklin is the southernmost of three settlements which occupy the bay, and is close to Lake and Sandown. |
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Antony's fleet sailed through the bay of Actium on the western coast of Greece in a desperate attempt to break free of the naval blockade. |
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He repaired the northern defences and forged buffer alliances to keep the Mongols at bay in order to build an army. |
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His hostile action had raised the alarm among the populations around Bezeguiche bay. |
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Waterloo Bay, named after the first ship which unloaded cargo in the bay, served as a landing place for soldiers and supplies in the war. |
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The first captain arriving in a particular bay was in charge of allocating suitable shoreline sites for curing fish. |
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On reaching the coast of Brazil, they sailed south along the coast of South America to Rio de Janeiro's bay. |
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Acapulco is located on a deep, semicircular bay and has been a port since the early colonial period of Mexico's history. |
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The other states that the bay was discovered on December 13, 1526 by a small ship named the El Tepache Santiago captained by Santiago Guevara. |
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However, as more hotels were built in the south part of the bay, the old hotels of the 1950s lost their grandeur. |
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Over the years, a number of problems have developed here, especially in the bay and the older sections of the city. |
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The reason trash winds up in the bay is that it is common here to throw it in streets, rivers and the bay itself. |
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The most common items cleaned out of the bay are beer bottles and car tires. |
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She feared for her son and heir Pavel's safety so much that she made sure that large crowds were kept at bay and sought to isolate him. |
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In regards to wildlife, bottlenose dolphins and Florida manatees can be observed in the bay. |
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The British, during their occupation of Florida, called the bay Cape River, Dartmouth Sound, and Sandwich gulph. |
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The bay was known as Key Biscayne Bay in the 19th century, finally shrinking to Biscayne Bay late in the 19th century. |
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It is believed that it does moderate the effects of storm surges on the bay. |
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Spain went on the defensive against the French forces that invaded in May 1635 and successfully held them at bay. |
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The city of Banten was located in middle of the bay which is around three miles across. |
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The Bay of Fundy is a bay between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, with a small portion touching the state of Maine. |
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The upper part of the bay splits into Chignecto Bay in the northeast and the Minas Basin in the east. |
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The bay is home to several islands, the largest of which is Grand Manan at the boundary with the Gulf of Maine. |
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Other important islands on the north side of the bay include Campobello Island, Moose Island, and Deer Island in the Passamaquoddy Bay area. |
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Brier Island and Long Island can be found on the south side of the bay while Isle Haute is in the upper bay off Cape Chignecto. |
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The largest population centre on the bay is the New Brunswick city of Saint John. |
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He landed on the western shore the bay and claimed the territory for the Netherlands. |
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The fleet spent the next week in the islands, mostly anchored in Cuyler Harbor, a bay on the northeastern coast of San Miguel Island. |
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San Diego International Airport is also adjacent to the bay, across Harbor Drive from the Coast Guard Station. |
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An inlet of the bay was renamed America's Cup Harbor to commemorate that occasion. |
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The western border of the bay is protected from the Pacific Ocean by a long, narrow strip of land called the Silver Strand. |
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The shallow southern end of the bay is used for evaporation ponds to extract salt from the sea water. |
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The salt ponds, the Sweetwater Marsh, and other areas of the bay are included in the San Diego National Wildlife Refuge Complex. |
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The Port of San Diego manages the harbor and administers the public lands adjacent to the bay. |
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The treaty language ensured that the entirety of the bay would belong to the United States. |
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The bay is in Marin County, California, near Point Reyes, just north of the Golden Gate. |
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Hudson sailed into the upper bay on 11 September, and the following day began a journey up what is now known as the Hudson River. |
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English explorers and colonists named Hudson Bay after Sir Henry Hudson who explored the bay beginning August 2, 1610 on his ship Discovery. |
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Much of the landform has been shaped by the actions of glaciers and the shrinkage of the bay over long periods of time. |
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Some geologists disagree about what created the semicircular feature, known as the Nastapoka arc, of the bay. |
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Since contact with Europeans, the indigenous peoples along both shores of the bay were ethnically Cree peoples. |
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This would turn the bay into a freshwater lake, due to the numerous rivers that empty into it. |
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The company then built a new town for its workers on the other side of the bay. |
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Between 1849 and 1900, American whaleships hunted bowhead whales in the bay. |
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The islands are located in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay that lies between the mouths of the Po and the Piave Rivers. |
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The bay has fresher water at the surface and saltier water at the bottom, in between is the pycnocline. |
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West of the bay, the rock forms the renowned southern coast of Gower between Mumbles Head and Worms Head. |
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Victoria reached its maximum extent of 17 platforms in 1904 when the station was enlarged with extra bay platforms to the south. |
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Only the bay and Metrolink platforms are under the new roof, the through platforms 4, 5 and 6 are mostly covered by Manchester Arena. |
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The oil slick has now spread to cover the entire bay, critically endangering the sea life. |
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The wind had kicked up something fierce and the entire bay had transformed from placidity to slapping waves. |
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Never be a stinker, because if you are, though you may flourish for a time like a green bay tree, sooner or later retribution will overtake you. |
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The buoy bobbed between the crests and troughs of the waves moving across the bay. |
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It has been recorded that 34 wrecked vessels now lie, mostly undiscovered and undived, in the bay. |
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In that case the enemy himself could have occupied the defences of Corinth and held at bay all the Union troops that arrived. |
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Instead of mounted riders following a pack of hounds, it is envisaged that just two dogs will be used to locate a stag and hold it at bay. |
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I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. |
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Bert came hustling up, bumping his way through the kids with his bay window. |
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The boom-boom bass out in the truck bay wasn't quite loud enough to drown out the whoops and the hollers of the ladies. |
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When the soldiers were not lost among tattered skeins of fog, they could see far out into the cirque, as if it were a bay of black water. |
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The fattest clubman in London. He sits at one of the little club tables in the huge bay by the fire, stuffing. |
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We were now within the embrace of a broad bay flanked on either hand by a low promontory. |
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The English Irish Sea coast hosts two important geographic areas, Morecambe Bay, a large bay, and the Furness and Walney Island areas. |
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Early maps of the bay carefully show narrow shipping channels and mooring areas. |
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He observed that it was not one of the homely flys from the under-hill town, but apparently from the popular resort across the bay. |
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They went all out for his eightieth birthday party and chartered a tour boat on the bay. |
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Maritime traffic entering or leaving the Baltic through the two Belts must enter the bay. |
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The bay itself hosted the sailing events for the 1936 Summer Olympics mainly held in Berlin. |
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This part of the bay hosted the sailing competitions for the 1972 Summer Olympics held in mainly held Munich, Bavaria. |
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Holding both Church and Empire at bay, these city republics were devoted to notions of liberty. |
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The bay was formed from the drowned river valleys of the Susquehanna River and the James River. |
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He made landfall at the gloomy bay of San Julian, in what is now Argentina. |
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Hath not navigation discovered in these latter ages, whole nations at the bay of Soldania? |
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The 18 hole Wells Golf Club is on the outskirts of the city and also has a 24 bay driving range with optional grass tees. |
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That same afternoon we were lazying around in a boat among the water-lilies at the edge of the bay. |
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The large tidal bay of Langstone Harbour lies to the east of Portsea Island. |
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The passenger module is sized to fit in the payload bay, and can carry up to 24 passengers and 1 crew. |
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There are two ground entry doors that align with the doors on the side of the Skylon payload bay to allow easy ground access to the cabin. |
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His remains were reputed to have ended in the bay of Hailemouth near Padstow. |
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The Tudor arch, placed over the oriel window, or a bay window supported on a bracket or corbel, was a striking window design of the Tudor period. |
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The first detonation, codenamed Operation Hurricane, occurred on 3 October 1952, in a shallow bay on Trimouille Island. |
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The RUC used CS gas, armoured vehicles and water cannons, but were kept at bay by hundreds of nationalists. |
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Stonehaven lies adjacent to a deeply indented bay surrounded on three sides by higher land between Downie Point and Garron Point. |
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Beaumaris is a yachting centre, with many boats moored in the bay or off Gallows Point. |
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In addition, the Algeciras Heliport across the bay offers scheduled services to Ceuta. |
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Scottie tails Madeleine to Fort Point and, when she leaps into the bay, he rescues her. |
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Most serious was the almost total failure to sell any goods to the few passing traders who put into the bay. |
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Arriving on 9 March, siege operations did not begin until 24 March, owing to difficulties in bringing the ships into the bay. |
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Kisimul Castle at Castlebay is on a rock in the bay, giving the village its name. |
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It now only has two through platforms, the former bay platforms long disused. |
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By 1851 the harbor was extended out into the bay by wharves while buildings were erected on piles among the ships. |
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Located in Gelliswick bay, it occupies a prominent position to the west of the town overlooking the Haven. |
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This is accomplished by driving a pod together with boats and usually into a bay or onto a beach. |
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Shipbuilding began to take place and the town increased in size with the construction of terraced housing up the slopes of the sheltered bay. |
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In Galway bay, and other sea inlets of Ireland, the hake is exceedingly abundant, and is taken in great numbers. |
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Beyond the bay the underlying rocks emerge from the sand to form the promontory of Porthcawl Point. |
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The whole bay is shut in by high hills and is thickly encircled with sands. |
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Beyond the Tawe the bay sweeps for six miles before reaching Mumbles Head, its most westerly point. |
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Major rivers flowing into the bay include the Afon Glaslyn, Teifi, Rheidol, Dyfi, Aeron, Dysynni, and Mawddach. |
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Much of the land around the bay is reclaimed, forming salt marshes used in agriculture. |
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The bay has rich cockle beds, which have been fished by locals for generations. |
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Discussions as to whether to build a road bridge over the bay have been ongoing for decades, particularly in the more isolated north of the bay. |
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A lease has been granted for developing two wind turbine sites in the bay, one at Walney Island and the other at Cleveleys. |
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It is predominantly influenced by the sea, though several rivers drain into the bay from the west. |
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While the bay is largely made up of intertidal flats, there is a significant area of salt marsh on the western shore. |
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Examples of contact soil layers include sand bottoms, rocky outcrops, coral, and bay mud. |
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When geological deposits of mud are formed in estuaries the resultant layers are termed bay muds. |
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A variety of sharks used to feed on rays, which are a main predator of bay scallops. |
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They remain in still waters until the tide rises, ascending and allowing it to sweep them back into the bay. |
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With unemployment falling, incomes rising, inflation at bay and shoppers crowding into stores, the economy is entering 1984 on a roll. |
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The boats then drive the pilot whales into a bay or to the bottom of a fjord. |
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In late spring and early summer a large fog triangle fills the southwestern half of the bay, covering just a few kilometres inland. |
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This is accomplished by driving a pod together with boats, usually into a bay or onto a beach. |
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Porto Pollo, north of Palau, is a bay often used by windsurfers and kitesurfers. |
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Mudflats may be viewed geologically as exposed layers of bay mud, resulting from deposition of estuarine silts, clays and marine animal detritus. |
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Most of the urban area is on or close to a fjord or bay, although the urban area has several mountains. |
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Because of the very low input of freshwater, it is classified as a bay rather than an estuary. |
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Two people fishing in the bay were killed, but another boat managed to ride the wave. |
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Larger lakes may have more than one pair, with each pair occupying a bay or section of the lake. |
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The outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea, at the south end of Jordan. |
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The disaster marked the rise of Amsterdam on the southwestern end of the bay, since seagoing traffic of the Baltic trade could now visit. |
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The home side grew in confidence after keeping the visitors at bay and took the lead after only nine minutes, from their first foray into the penalty area. |
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The bay first came to the attention of Europeans in 1610, when Henry Hudson entered it during his exploration of the larger bay that bears his name. |
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A dredged channel gives oceangoing vessels access to the bay. |
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In 1861, Mrs H Cooper inherited the property incorporating the bay windows, but it was the author Nicholas Size, who in 1920 extended and improved the building. |
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Sandown Bay is the name of the bay off the English Channel which both towns share, and it is notable for its long stretch of easily accessible golden sandy beach. |
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I'd got a fair bleeze going the night before so's to keep midges at bay. |
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On 20 June they saw the entrance of a large bay, later called Raudfjorden. |
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The entrance to the bay is a small inlet from the main harbour. |
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The Menai Strait heads north east to link the bay to Conwy Bay. |
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We'll be able to sail safely across the bay once the storm dies down. |
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To celebrate their anniversary, the couple ate out by the bay. |
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Parts of the continental shelf extend far into the bay, resulting in fairly shallow waters in many areas and thus the rough seas for which the region is known. |
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In the third fire bay he found Sawdon and Towers crouched down over a small fire made out of shredded sandbags and candle ends, coaxing the flames. |
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Large storms occur in the bay, especially during the winter months. |
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Whale Cove is not considered a usable bay by any size of vessel. |
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Uses of the bay include fishing, kayaking and small leisure craft. |
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It was obviously an Aspen Valley resident because she recognised the stabling in the background, but the tall dark bay horse in the foreshot didn't look familiar. |
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The alien gently manoeuvred the ship out of the gape-mouthed bay. |
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The heavens are bright with bright clouds, the air is sweet with perfume from tree and flower, the bay is gemmed with gardened isles and promontories. |
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A large marina known as Cobbs Quay is on the west side of the bay. |
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Sheridan managed to keep the graybacks at bay while he tore up the railroad, but he abandoned the plan to link up with Hunter, and the southerners soon repaired the railroad. |
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With the guard ship Shubrick gone, the commanding officer of Alcatraz assumed guard duty to make sure that no hostile foreign warships entered the bay. |
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Martins and Sackville as well as the Nova Scotia towns of Amherst, Parrsboro, Truro, Windsor, Wolfville, Annapolis Royal, and Digby are also on the bay. |
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Common bedding types include laminated sand, ripple bedding, and bay mud. |
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Dredge ship with barges on Neva bay in Saint Petersburg, Russia. |
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The sea area is a continuation of the Skagerrak and may be seen as a bay of the Baltic Sea or the North Sea or, as in traditional Scandinavian usage, neither of these. |
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A drainage basin or 'catchment area' is any area of land where precipitation collects and drains off into a common outlet, such as into a river, bay, or other body of water. |
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Many of Virginia's rivers flow into the Chesapeake Bay, including the Potomac, Rappahannock, York, and James, which create three peninsulas in the bay. |
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Other common trees and plants include red bay, wax myrtle, dwarf palmetto, tulip poplar, mountain laurel, milkweed, daisies, and many species of ferns. |
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In addition to sunbathing, the beaches around the bay offer a number of services, such as boat rentals, boat tours, horseback riding, scuba diving and other aquatic sports. |
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The Mi'kmaq fished in the Bay of Fundy and lived in communities around the bay for centuries before the first Europeans arrived and continue to live and work around the Bay. |
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In 1853, the Kingdom of Prussia bought a part of the western shore of the bay from Oldenburg, in order to use the harbour as a Prussian naval base, later called Wilhelmshaven. |
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In 1975, the bay was designated as a state aquatic preserve. |
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Pieces cut through the engine's fan case, engine bay, internal fuel tank and hydraulic and fuel lines before leaving through the aircraft's upper fuselage. |
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Each bay of the building is defined by a reinforced concrete framework over which lie wooden battens that support the roof, whilst the rear wall has a number of buttresses. |
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Murphy plays Tom Destry, the peace-loving son of a notorious gunslinger.... Though he prefers to talk rather than slap leather, Destry manages to keep the bad guys at bay. |
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Zostera often forms beds in bay mud in the estuarine setting. |
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Due to geological folding of the Alpine orogeny, the strata in the main section of the bay are near vertical, with younger rocks with progressively lower dips to the west. |
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This bay is approached from the choir by the first marble step which is in Frosterley, a marble with beautiful madrepores of light colour on a dark ground. |
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In the past, visitors to the bay could climb the foot of the cliffs and dig out the sand themselves, but are now discouraged from doing so due to the dangers of erosion. |
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The shears would then be moved along and an adjoining bay constructed. |
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They are most often bay, dark bay or brown, chestnut, black, or gray. |
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The bay had two inshore sand banks, the North Bull and the South Bull. |
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The chemically toughened glass panel in the roof has been replaced with carbon fibre to give the cabin a more enclosed, cocooned environment, as has the engine bay cover. |
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These installations, also known as satellite platforms, are small unmanned platforms consisting of little more than a well bay and a small process plant. |
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Sea ice is about three times the annual river flow into the bay, and its annual freezing and thawing significantly alters the salinity of the surface layer. |
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The Metrolink platforms are parallel to, and south of the bay platforms. |
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Calmer waters may also allow better recreation in the bay or estuary. |
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From Europe, the Spanish brought saffron, parsley, thyme, marjoram, bay laurel, and cilantro as well Asian spices such as cloves, cinnamon, and black pepper. |
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From this bay to the sea, a new canal was dug through the dunes at Velsen. |
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After a quarter of a century of holding the British at bay, the Dervishes were finally defeated in 1920 as a direct consequence of Britain's new policy of aerial bombardment. |
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With its orange paint and panoramic views of the bay, this highway bridge is a popular tourist attraction and also accommodates pedestrians and bicyclists. |
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But to do nothing, he added, was no better since prolonged contact with the natives would erode the fears of Spanish supernaturality that kept them at bay. |
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Projects include new tourism projects along the bay, a modern business district called Tangier City Center, a new airport terminal and a new football stadium. |
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A whaling station was set up around the bay, which they called Butus, now named Red Bay after the red terracotta roof tiles they brought with them. |
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The subspecies jordansi, reyi, cretensis, and the European and North African populations of lybica represent transitional forms between the forest and bay wildcat groups. |
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When courting, dominant males will keep subordinate ones at bay. |
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When the deposition is in an estuary, the sediments are known as bay mud. |
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Ashton also includes a conjectural map of Cantre'r Gwaelod within the bay. |
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The Veneti inhabited southern Armorica, along the Morbihan bay. |
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The peninsula embraces a bay and a natural harbour in the southwest. |
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The most terrible evils are just kept at bay by incessant efforts. |
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The Coast Guard Air Station San Diego is across the bay from NAS North Island and the Federal Communications Commission maintains a monitoring station on the Silver Strand. |
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Garlic, cumin, oregano, and bay leaves are the dominant spices. |
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They are used in other sort of dishes such as rices or soups or commonly eaten canned in a pickling brine made of oil, vinegar, peppercorns, bay leaves and paprika. |
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St Malo and Cherbourg were protected by 17 Squadron and 501 Squadron from the aerodrome at Dinard across the bay from St Malo, then later from the Channel Islands. |
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Since the Irish immigration to America, the hake has followed in the wake of their masters, as it is now found in New York bay, in the waters around Boston, and off Cape Cod. |
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German bombers attacked the bay but were only able to damage Franconia. |
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During both World War I and II the bay was filled with neutral ships at anchor waiting to be searched for materials that might be useful to the enemy. |
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Human presence along the shores of the bay can be traced back to the retreat of the glaciers at the end of the last ice age around 8,150 years ago. |
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Pegwell Bay is a shallow inlet in the English Channel coast astride the estuary of the River Stour north of Sandwich bay, between Ramsgate and Sandwich in Kent. |
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The rivers Leven, Kent, Keer, Lune, Wyre river ribble drain into the Bay, with their various estuaries making a number of peninsulas within the bay. |
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Only one other Spanish soldier survived the battle and he and Ojeda fled back to the coast where they were rescued by the ships anchored in the bay. |
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The bay size in a mill was defined by the positioning of machines. |
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This skirts the edge of the bay, crossing the various estuaries. |
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After waiting here in vain for the rest of the fleet, they sailed south to another bay, where they stayed for five months, building a fort and loading logwood. |
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The territory of the former Federal District became its own state, Guanabara, after the bay that borders it to the east, encompassing just the city of Rio de Janeiro. |
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The Minas Channel connects the Minas Basin with the main body of the bay. |
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In the northwest corner of the bay, the Castletown River cuts through the intertidal zone and the smaller River Fane flows into the southeast corner. |
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There are two stories about how Acapulco bay was discovered by Europeans. |
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The catchment around the bay is of mixed agriculture and urban land use. |
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The bay is rather shallow with many sandbanks and rocky outcrops, and was notorious in the past for shipwrecks, especially when the wind was from the east. |
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The proposed infill, which has been vehemently opposed by residents, politicians, environmentalists and others around the bay for over 20 years, was refused on one point. |
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