| The Romanesco spoken during the Middle Ages was more like a southern Italian dialect, very close to the Neapolitan language in Campania. |
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| The notional earnings of the company were close to the actual ones. |
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| I am close to bhai and his wife Shaffo, whom I call aapa, who herself is a well-read person and a true soul-mate to her husband. |
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| New Venice was nothing close to hot or even warm, but outside was certainly airsome, and the atmosphere was as solid as a hall of mirrors. |
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| When living close to human habitations, the wildcat can be a serious poultry predator. |
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| The flora of the alpine tundra is characterized by dwarf shrubs close to the ground. |
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| One of the most famous is Pienza, close to Siena, a Renaissance city, also called The Ideal Town or Utopia Town. |
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| It was the first Ideal Worker's City in Italy, built close to the cotton factory. |
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| The project combines many skyscrapers with beautiful green areas, and it is close to a highway that connects it to the city center. |
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| You may find in the first few months that your budgeted estimates are only noddingly close to your actual expenses. |
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| A footbridge from the harbour area was constructed, although it had to be able to open and close to still allow the small pleasure craft to pass. |
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| It advocates more autonomy for the region and its positions are very close to the Socialist parties. |
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| The Renaissance architecture is almost absent in the region, apart in Upper Brittany, close to the border with France. |
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| Former player Willie Miller took over in 1992 and presided over two seasons where Aberdeen came close to winning the title. |
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| Stagecoach in Inverness run between the airport and Inverness city centre close to the railway station. |
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| The compact village centre is close to the harbour and railway station, with residential areas beyond to the south and east of the harbour. |
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| The target of the attack was shipping from the Rosyth naval base in the Forth, close to the bridge. |
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| Because of this, flowers or vegetable gardens should not be planted close to them. |
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| Ruabon's first school was the Endowed Grammar School, founded in the early 17th century close to the church. |
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| The architecture of Conwy has close to links to that found in the kingdom of Savoy in the same period. |
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| Gloucester was probably chosen because other abbeys had refused or been forbidden to take the King's body, and because it was close to Berkeley. |
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| Merthyr was close to reserves of iron ore, coal, limestone, lumber and water, making it an ideal site for ironworks. |
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| The second castle is Ynysygrug, located close to what is now Tonypandy town centre. |
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| It is situated close to a number of busy coastal towns such as Rhyl, Prestatyn, Abergele, Colwyn Bay and Llandudno. |
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| The key col and parent peak are often close to the subpeak but this is not always the case, especially when the key col is relatively low. |
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| When the key col for a peak is close to the peak itself, prominence is easily computed by hand using a topographic map. |
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| In 1485, the future Henry VII landed close to his birthplace in Mill Bay before marching on to England. |
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| Since chicks do not have the ability to fly nests close to sea provide easy access when leaving the colony. |
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| Money supply was still falling and short term interest rates remained close to zero. |
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| The bridge has portals close to Sudbrook, Monmouthshire on the Welsh side and Severn Beach in South Gloucestershire on the English side. |
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| From here onwards to Bangor, the route is close to the North Wales Coast railway. |
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| The long established Prestfelde School is an independent preparatory school, on London Road, close to the Lord Hill column. |
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| This route leaves the one we know today at Royal Wootton Bassett near Swindon rejoining it close to Patchway station. |
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| Cork's other main cricket club, Harlequins Cricket Club, play close to Cork Airport. |
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| De Grey also provided a large piece of land close to the castle known as Whitefriars. |
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| Whilst residential properties were at the castle end of the street, commercial properties were at the end close to St Peters Square. |
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| A final set of Welsh placenames are those for settlements in England which lie close to the modern border with Wales. |
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| The area is close to the busy Gabalfa Interchange, connecting it with the A48 and the M4 motorway. |
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| The tunnel connects Dublin Port and the M1 motorway close to Dublin Airport. |
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| Cardiff Metropolitan University has student accommodation available close to its campuses in Cyncoed and at Plas Gwyn. |
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| He and his wife moved to Bethesda in 1969, a village near Bangor and close to the Penrhyn Quarry. |
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| They have two children, both born in Salford and live in Worsley, Greater Manchester, close to where the player grew up. |
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| When finishing a piece, the final verse has to end on a perfect cadence that is close to the home key so that the ending of the song is clear. |
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| According to singer Bradfield the title was the last line of a suicide note left by the friend of someone close to the group. |
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| In 2015, close to half of all new wind power was added outside of the traditional markets in Europe and North America. |
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| There are anecdotal reports of negative health effects from noise on people who live very close to wind turbines. |
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| The Weibull factor is often close to 2 and therefore a Rayleigh distribution can be used as a less accurate, but simpler model. |
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| In the Solar System, ice is abundant and occurs naturally from as close to the Sun as Mercury to as far away as the Oort cloud objects. |
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| Around 1800, some maps show a small town centre along what is now Cumberland Street, close to the junction with York Road. |
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| Originally located close to Woodside Ferry Terminal, the site had been redeveloped as part of Cammell Lairds ship builders. |
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| In the aftermath of its successful attack against the ship, the Hunley also sank, possibly because it was too close to its own exploding torpedo. |
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| A salinity maximum zone is formed, and both riverine and oceanic water flow close to the surface towards this zone. |
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| Glittereyed, his rufous skull close to his greencapped desklamp sought the face, bearded amid darkgreener shadow, an ollav, holyeyed. |
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| A brain exists in the form of ganglia close to the antennae, and a collection of major ganglia is found below the gut. |
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| Young adults breeding for the first time usually return to their natal colony, and often nest close to where they hatched. |
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| The lined nest is built on the ground close to the sea, lakes or rivers, in woodland or tundra. |
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| As its name implies, it stays close to coastal areas or river estuaries, and as such, is the most familiar porpoise to whale watchers. |
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| Porpoises have a coastal distribution that potentially brings them close to sources of pollution. |
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| It is absent only from waters close to the ice pack at the poles and relatively small areas of water away from the open ocean. |
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| Records and confirmations close to Newfoundland, Iceland, and Cape Farewell are also excluded. |
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| Types B and C live close to the ice pack, and diatoms in these waters may be responsible for the yellowish coloring of both types. |
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| They are found worldwide in temperate and tropical waters, usually in deep waters rather, but close to land. |
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| The Baikal seal is the only freshwater species, though some ringed seals live in freshwater lakes in Russia close to the Baltic sea. |
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| A 1997 Ministry of Health report stated that children living close to Sellafield had twice as much. |
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| Since the beginning of civilization people have used stone and ceramics and, later, metals found on or close to the Earth's surface. |
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| The oceans have a tremendous amount of energy and are close to many if not most concentrated populations. |
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| As a result, the town's population has swollen from a few hundred inhabitants to close to twenty thousand over a period of 50 years. |
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| Intertidal zones, the areas that are close to the shore, are constantly being exposed and covered by the ocean's tides. |
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| If numbers are placed close to each other, it means that the terrain is steep. |
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| Years with increased strandings were associated with severe storms, which initiated cold water flows close to the coast. |
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| Staying close to its mother, the calf never strays more than a few feet, especially when it is very young. |
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| There are many minor islands and islets close to the larger islands, including Cabrera, Dragonera and S'Espalmador. |
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| The other motorways are rather short sections close to the biggest cities, often designed to be bypasses. |
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| All three of the northern locations are at low altitude and fairly close to the Baltic Sea. |
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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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| The littoral zone is the part of a sea, lake or river that is close to the shore. |
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| If the sea rises, many coasts that are developed with infrastructure along or close to the shoreline will be unable to accommodate erosion. |
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| The larvae are close to a settlement stage when dark eye spots and a foot develop. |
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| They result from seawater becoming heated after seeping through cracks to places where hot magma is close to the seabed. |
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| Since the nest is very close to the water, rising water may induce the birds to slowly move the nest upwards, over a meter. |
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| Lonchodytes was more certainly quite close to loons, but probably closer still to some of the loons' relatives. |
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| Females ovulate at the end of their lactation period, but remain close to their pups, ready to defend them if necessary. |
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| The island of Lindisfarne is located along the northeast coast of England, close to the border with Scotland. |
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| The British, appreciating this situation chose to adopt a strategy of patrolling the North Sea rather than waters close to Germany. |
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| But he knew his baiting mission was close to completion, as his force was rapidly closing with Scheer's main body. |
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| Von der Tann sighted the torpedo and was forced to steer sharply to starboard to avoid it as it passed close to her bows. |
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| A deep sea spot in the Pacific Ocean close to the Philippines is named after the first Emden ship, and is therefore called Emdentief in German. |
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| In September 2013 remedial work was begun on the export cables close to shore as the cables were not buried sufficiently deeply. |
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| Popular alternative routes going to areas close to Le Havre include Newhaven to Dieppe, and Poole to Cherbourg. |
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| The population of workers is concentrated in the southern suburbs close to the port and the industrial zone. |
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| A Traffic Separation Scheme operates in the Little Minch, with northbound traffic proceeding close to Skye, and southbound close to Harris. |
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| In the middle Rhine region of the map, the word Francia is close to a misspelling of Bructeri. |
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| The installation of fish farms close to vulnerable and important habitats such as seagrass meadows is particularly concerning. |
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| In comparison, Britain had 99 ships of the line in active commission in 1814, and this was close to the maximum that could be supported. |
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| Germany, although bordering Wallonia and close to Voeren in Limburg, does not share a border with Flanders. |
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| In January 1940, Hitler came close to ordering the invasion but was prevented by bad weather. |
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| By dawn on 8 June, the panzers were close to Rouen and IX Corps on the Bresle was on the brink of being cut off. |
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| Carentan is close to the sites of the medieval Battle of Formigny of the Hundred Years' War. |
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| With close to 20,000 men and 150 tanks before the Normandy campaign, after Falaise it was reduced to 300 men and 10 tanks. |
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| He therefore proposed that the armoured formations be deployed close to the invasion beaches. |
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| Whitehawk play their games at The Enclosed Ground, beautifully set into the South Downs, close to Brighton Marina. |
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| Unless one is close to the Channel ports, it's unlikely to be financially beneficial. |
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| The current situation benefits individuals living close to the English south coast who retain an economic advantage by shopping in France. |
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| Being close to the coast, and in Southern England, sunshine compares favourably with most of the United Kingdom, at over 1700 hours a year. |
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| Leverets disperse during the day and come together in the evening close to where they were born. |
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| Hedgehogs are most abundant within the gardens, parks and amenity land close to or within human settlements. |
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| The subcutaneous vessels in the membrane very close to the surface allow for the diffusion of oxygen and carbon dioxide. |
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| Although at one time red deer were rare in parts of Europe, they were never close to extinction. |
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| This species breeds in colonies known as heronries, usually in high trees close to lakes, the seashore or other wetlands. |
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| It frequents scrubs and bushes with overhanging branches close to shallow open water in which it hunts. |
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| In lace monitors, the young hatch close to 300 days and the female returns to help them escape the termite mound were the eggs were laid. |
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| The roots of Norway maples grow very close to the ground surface, starving other plants of moisture. |
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| Antarctica is divided in two by the Transantarctic Mountains close to the neck between the Ross Sea and the Weddell Sea. |
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| Also, during Odysseus' journey, he encounters many beings that are close to the gods. |
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| During the Cretaceous the Caribbean acquired the shape close to that seen today. |
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| Since 2002, the Russians have also annually established a base, Barneo, close to the Pole. |
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| In contrast, close to the FTFZ the terrain is more rugged and adorned with short, oblique fault scarps. |
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| Also, wind waves modify the flow near the surface, and make observations close to the surface rather difficult. |
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| Icebergs are usually confined by winds and currents to move close to the coast. |
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| As World War II ended and the Cold War began, the Arctic became a place where countries that did not get along were close to each other. |
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| The fish lives close to the sea floor at depths of 15 to 40 m, but it sometimes enters estuaries, and may also be found under pack ice. |
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| Young between the ages of two and four years live close to the shore, moving into deeper waters as they grow older. |
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| It lives close to the bottom in muddy areas on the continental shelf and slope. |
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| Albatrosses are so well adapted to this lifestyle that their heart rates while flying are close to their basal heart rate when resting. |
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| Even if this were achieved, global average temperatures would remain close to their highest level for many centuries. |
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| The campsite is located close to the north end of the island overlooking both coasts. |
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| It is also close to the original abbey ruins, is near a fresh water pool and overlooks the sand dunes and beach at Carn Near. |
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| Once released from the tow near the target, they landed as close to the target as possible. |
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| The airport is close to Newquay, a major Cornish urban centre and resort, as well as attractions such as The Eden Project. |
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| In 2010, the company had close to 1,000 shareholders, around half of whom live on the Isles of Scilly. |
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| Penzance railway station is at the eastern end of Market Jew Street and close to the harbour. |
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| This cross stood in the Green Market until 1829 when it was removed to a house in North Street close to its original position. |
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| The priory was situated on rising ground on the outskirts of Carisbrooke close to Newport on the Isle of Wight. |
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| Though Charles Brandon came close to capturing Paris in 1523, there was little gained either against France or Scotland throughout the war. |
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| At times Prussia veered close to total collapse and was now heavily dependent on continued British financial assistance. |
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| This is because the single track road's position close to the cliff edge is considered dangerous for multiple car use. |
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| These rough timetables vary significantly for areas that are at higher elevations or close to the ocean. |
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| It is located close to the village of Niton and the point where the Back of the Wight changes to the Undercliff of Ventnor. |
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| Marden is in Sussex, north of Chichester, and interestingly close to Hambledon, which is just across the county boundary in Hampshire. |
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| The primary schools located close to the town centre are Newport C of E Primary and Nine Acres Community Primary. |
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| The Isle of Wight College is located to the north of the town centre close to St Mary's Roundabout and the large industrial estate. |
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| The hovercraft to Southsea is operated by Hovertravel near the Esplanade close to Ryde Esplanade railway station and the bus station. |
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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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| From the bus station by Ryde Pier, the path follows the Esplanade close to the beach. |
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| Her body was dumped at the rear of 13, Ashgrove under a pile of bricks, close to the university and her lodgings. |
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| The Dniester rises in Ukraine, near the city of Drohobych, close to the border with Poland, and flows toward the Black Sea. |
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| He was born at Ox Head, a small property on the Palatine Hill, very close to the Roman Forum. |
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| This marked the beginning of the Crisis of the Third Century, a time period in which the Roman empire came close to falling apart entirely. |
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| An inconspicuous rock mound marks the reburial site where close to 80 boxes of various sizes are buried. |
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| Nearby is the lush Villa Celimontana, close to the gardens surrounding the Baths of Caracalla. |
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| Finding a house close to work was an important consideration for them. |
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| Next month the Four Winds, an old cafe and the last basket house in the Village, will close to make way for a dress shop. |
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| Bears coming out of holes in the rocks at the last moment, when the beat is close to them. |
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| Light grey calves are virtually blubberless when expelled from the womb, but still weigh a ton. Mothers move in close to land for nursing. |
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| Two years and one month ago I broke my neck in a car accident. I made it through but just barely. I came real close to cashing in my chips. |
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| They were close to the promontory of the tombs, and had looked straight into the chhatri of the Rajah's father through an opening in the trees. |
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| Plantation surprised Palm Springs North early with a chip shot close to the net by Mike Noll. |
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| Several delessites and chloropals occurring in basalts have a composition very close to that of the glass. |
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| Una stood with a hulking man pressing as close to her side as he dared, and a dapper clerkling squeezed against her breast. |
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| This means, naturally, that a prosecutor anxious about tacking too close to the wind will disclose a favorable piece of evidence. |
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| Miriam's wordplay was steering fractionally too close to the wind for my liking. |
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| Time you want a real good friend is when you're gone just a bit close to the wind, and want to be set right again. |
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| The first thing to note is that S4 sounds dangerously close to conjunctivism. |
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| When deicing pads are located close to runways, they can also reduce the need for AAFs and repeated deicings. |
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| In this circuit when the diode is forward biased, the voltage across the diode remains fairly close to the diode's barrier potential. |
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| A powerful head can sometimes disempower the teaching staff, and create among them a sort of passivity that is close to inertia. |
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| There is a statue of Sherlock Holmes in Picardy Place, Edinburgh, close to the house where Doyle was born. |
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| These three are all early manuscripts, but are less useful than might be thought, since L and M are themselves so close to the original. |
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| Charlemagne had one such pillar chopped down in 772 close to the Eresburg stronghold. |
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| When held vertically close to your nose, the top left quadrant of the right thumb is the most distomedial quadrant. |
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| That pitcher doesn't like the hitters too close to the plate so every once in a while he'll dust off a batter. |
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| I had to keep close to the riverbank, under the edge of the jungle, with mosquitoes eating me alive. |
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| And I stayed close to Velmer and Troy or everwho was walking with me. I always thought cars was exciting. |
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| The car was parked in close to the rustic fence, under the lime trees, and their sticky exudations had already stippled the windscreen. |
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| You need to provide fame-ish photos and music that sounds sufficiently close to famous music that it won't freak people out. |
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| For the second time since a toddler, Theodore again came close to filling his pants. |
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| Terry came close to doubling Chelsea's lead when his header from Lampard's mis-hit volley fizzed inches past the upright. |
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| Jim Morgan, who is about as close to Wall Street greedmeister Gordon Gekko as Murphy is to Manteo. |
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| European sailing had been primarily close to land cabotage, guided by portolan charts. |
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| The Sunderland cluster is close to the Nissan plant and includes Turbine Business Park. |
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| The western Pennines are served by the River Ribble which drains westwards into the Irish Sea close to Lytham St Annes. |
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| Its southern tip is very close to the northwest coast of Africa, separated from it by the Strait of Gibraltar and the Mediterranean Sea. |
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| I lifted one of the skins from the mortar and held it close to the candle. Even I could recognize it as that of the common hyla tree frog. |
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| The Romans were alerted to this when a particularly warlike tribe invaded two Etruscan towns close to Rome's sphere of influence. |
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| Although Albinus came close to victory, Severus's reinforcements won the day, and the British governor committed suicide. |
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| The Kennet valley, close to Silchester has also been suggested as a candidate site for the battle. |
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| In the East, Byzantine architecture developed new styles of churches, but most other buildings remained very close to Late Roman forms. |
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| According to Cato the Elder, every garden should be close to the house and should have flower beds and ornamental trees. |
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| Of the eleven ancient aqueducts serving Rome, eight of them entered Rome close to each other on the Esquiline Hill. |
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| There are two sailing clubs close to York, both of which sail dinghies on the River Ouse. |
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| A bronze statue of Alfred the Great stands at the eastern end of The Broadway, close to the site of Winchester's medieval East Gate. |
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| Huge burial cairns built close to the sea as far north as Harstad and also inland in the south are characteristic of this period. |
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| William was always described as close to his wife, and her death would have added to his problems. |
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| When close to complete victory, he was injured by an arrow during a siege and died ten days later. |
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| Richard first grew close to her at a tournament held in her native Navarre. |
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| As he was not close to the line of succession to the throne, Henry's date of birth was not officially documented. |
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| He moved further and further south, worryingly close to Paris, until he found the crossing at Poissy. |
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| The new site lies either side of the Fenn Lanes Roman road, close to Fenn Lane Farm and is some three kilometers to the southwest of Ambion Hill. |
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| He was baptised by Richard Fox, the Bishop of Exeter, at a church of the Observant Franciscans close to the palace. |
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| Many Spanish expeditions explored large parts of this vast region, especially those close to Spanish settlements. |
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| France generally had close to the slowest natural population growth in Europe, and emigration pressures were therefore quite small. |
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| I don't know if you've ever gotten close to a jagger bush, but those stickers can be pretty mean. |
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| He and his three brothers were educated at Felsted School in Essex close to their mother's family home. |
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| The Clerks sit at one end of the Table, close to the Speaker so that they may advise him or her on procedure when necessary. |
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| By 1857 a blast furnace had opened close to the Durham coalfield on the north side of the Tees. |
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| Nelson's mission to Corsica took on added significance, as it could provide the British a naval base close to the French coast. |
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| Abdullah has not yet revealed his choice for the No 2 post when he takes over as prime minister, preferring to keep his cards close to his chest. |
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| Although not encouraged by official policy, the use of mines and incendiaries, for tactical expediency, came close to indiscriminate bombing. |
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| Use of incendiaries, which were inherently inaccurate, indicated much less care was taken to avoid civilian property close to industrial sites. |
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| In elsewhere on Great Britain and on Ireland, high density of population is limited to areas around, or close to, a few large cities. |
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| Wolff radioed Dressler that the Russian had been driven from the first kill zone and was close to being driven from the second kill zone. |
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| The western Pennines are served by the River Ribble, which drains westwards into the Irish Sea close to Lytham St Annes. |
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| The geographical centre of England lies in Higham on the Hill in west Leicestershire, close to the boundary between the East and West Midlands. |
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| That evening, we laagered close to a large open area covered with elephant grass about six feet high. |
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| The northern part of Gloucestershire, near Chipping Campden, is as close to the Scottish border as it is to the tip of Cornwall. |
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| In the same diagram a compact galaxy, 3C 371, and a Seyfert, 3C 120, lie very close to the Lacertids. |
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| Near junction 16 of the M4, close to Freshbrook, are Synergy Health and RWE npower. |
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| The assembly was established in 2000 and meets at City Hall on the south bank of the River Thames, close to Tower Bridge. |
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| Kent's regional development would benefit from the tunnel, but being so close to London restricts the benefits. |
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| Hanley grew up close to the docks and much of his early writing is about seamen. |
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| The UK's first biotechnology village, the Centre for Life is located in the city centre close to the Central railway station. |
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| At Lower Parting, close to Gloucester, it splits in two to pass either side of Alney Island. |
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| If anyone can restore dignity to a franchise that has been close to a laughing stock in the last few years, it's Gibbs. |
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| Calcaerous woodland occurs on thin soils where chalk is close to the surface. |
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| The strong winds are caused by deep depressions across or close to the British Isles. |
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| Northern parts of Norway lie close to the Arctic zone, most of which is covered with ice and snow in winter. |
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| A Britonnic presence within the Sheffield area is evidenced by two settlements called Wales and Waleswood close to Sheffield. |
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| A Curzon Cinemas complex has also recently opened in the city centre, close to the existing Odeon complex. |
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| Conversely, category 2 products tend to trade close to the currency exchange rate. |
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| The Exchange was founded in 1801 and its current premises are situated in Paternoster Square close to St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London. |
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| It has close to 12,000 employees and is one of the major players in the British aerospace industry. |
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| Some buildings have been taken over and now make the old part of Enfield Industrial Estate close to the town centre on Hewell Road. |
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| By June 2014, Dassault claimed it was close to signing a contract with Qatar for 72 Rafales. |
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| It is located on the banks of the River Ribble, close to its entry into the Irish Sea. |
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| During the Roman period, Roman roads passed close to what is now the centre of Preston. |
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| Being relatively close to the Irish sea, this is more pronounced than areas to the south and east of Preston. |
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| This will require redesign of the aircraft, which is already very close to the ultimate weight limit. |
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| The city's main station, Portsmouth and Southsea railway station, is located in the city centre, close to the Guildhall and the Civic Offices. |
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| The modern attributes place it close to European early modern humans among Late Pleistocene samples. |
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| While they stood there close to the old linhay a bird came flying round them in wide circles, uttering shrill cries. |
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| Depending on the placement of the reel, these mowers often cannot cut grass very close to lawn obstacles, like trees, driveways, edging, etc. |
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| In 1901, Edgar Purnell Hooley was walking in Denby, Derbyshire when he noticed a smooth stretch of road close to an ironworks. |
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| In the postwar years, Rugby became well served by the motorway network, with the M1 and M6 merging close to the town. |
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| In 1995 there was a proposal to widen the section close to Heathrow Airport to fourteen lanes. |
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| As soon as it opened, the motorway got close to its projected maximum volume on significant sections. |
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| The cause of the crash, which took place in wet foggy conditions close to a firework display, was investigated. |
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| The imperial city of Rome was the largest urban center in the empire, with a population variously estimated from 450,000 to close to one million. |
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| The names of several villages close to the border are of Welsh origin, such as Gobowen and Selattyn. |
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| Wilberforce was buried in the north transept, close to his friend, the former Prime Minister, William Pitt. |
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| Neither are regarded as magic, but as signs of Allah at the hands of those close to Him that occur by His will and His alone. |
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| The Royal Crescent is close to Victoria Park and linked via Brock Street to The Circus which had been designed by John Wood, the Elder. |
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| There is a village in West Yorkshire called Robin Hood, on the A61 between Leeds and Wakefield and close to Rothwell and Lofthouse. |
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| The Westwood Academy, which is a Technology College, is close to the University of Warwick. |
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| Despite being very sick and close to death, he questioned the reliability of Spotswood's witnesses. |
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| A geophysical survey of the field in which the hoard was found discovered what could be a ditch close to the find. |
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| Queen of Night is as close to black as a flower gets, though in fact it is a dark and glossy maroonish purple. |
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| The poem is known only from a single manuscript, which is estimated to date from close to AD 1000, in which it appears with other works. |
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| John Gielgud's 1935 version kept very close to Shakespeare's text and used Elizabethan costumes and staging to enhance the drama. |
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| In addition to Reynolds, Johnson was close to Bennet Langton and Arthur Murphy. |
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| His monetary view was close to the fundamental concepts employed in his model of utilitarian decision making. |
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| In 1700, his family moved to a small estate at Popeswood in Binfield, Berkshire, close to the royal Windsor Forest. |
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| This much we can realise, even though we are so close to it, the old safe instinct saves us from triumph and exultation. |
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| Tolkien completed The Lord of the Rings in 1948, close to a decade after the first sketches. |
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| Aged nine, Rowling moved to Church Cottage in the Gloucestershire village of Tutshill, close to Chepstow, Wales. |
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| She hid her thoughts and led Arinbjorn onward. It was close to mealtide at the hall when she let him go. |
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| The Borough, set on the Suffolk coast close to Britten's homeland, awakened in him such longings for England that he knew he must return. |
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| In May 1934, when Delius was close to death, Fenby played him Toye's In a Summer Garden, the last music, Fenby says, that Delius ever heard. |
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| Holst and his family moved to a house in Brook Green, very close to the school. |
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| His ashes were interred at Chichester Cathedral in Sussex, close to the memorial to Thomas Weelkes, his favourite Tudor composer. |
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| It doesn't come close to describing the love that I have for David, and he for me. |
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| Queen was a wonderful vehicle and a wonderful, magical combination, but I think it came close to destroying us all. |
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| Even if it were working perfectly, the stimulus would not come close to stemming the cascade of joblessness unleashed by this megarecession. |
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| After her retirement she spent all her time in Panama, and was close to her husband and his children from an earlier marriage. |
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| One recent acquisition, in late 2011, was the Harmondsworth Barn in west London, close to Heathrow airport. |
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| In both cases, the bowl is rolled as close to the jack as possible, unless tactics demand otherwise. |
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| Metasternum with yellowish-brown pubescence, laterally and close to metacoxae more yellowish. |
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| Thomas's ashes are buried close to the door of St John's Church, Porthmadog, Gwynedd. |
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| In the early morning of 2 March, Bob Arum stated that the date of the fight was not close to being set with Khan's representatives. |
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| Haye came close to knocking out Valuev in the final round with a hard left hand, which made Valuev stumble. |
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| Those that do in the modern era are most usually talented young riders who are often close to turning professional. |
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| Doctors told him he had been perilously close to quadriplegia, that he would be confined for six months and would never drive again. |
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| Button junior failed his first driving test for getting too close to a parked vehicle. |
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| Regazzoni came close to taking the team's first win but finished second, less than a second behind race winner Jody Scheckter. |
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| Webber came close to victory at the Japanese Grand Prix, but he was involved in a crash with Sebastian Vettel. |
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| Religious observance of St George's day changes when it is too close to Easter. |
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| East Anglia was ideally suited to airfield construction as it comprises large areas of open, level terrain and is close to mainland Europe. |
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| The country has a market income inequality close to the OECD average, but after public cash transfers the income inequality is very low. |
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| Whales frequently pass very close to Greenlandic shores in the late summer and early autumn. |
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| They usually lived close to and even in the same townlands as the settlers and the land they had farmed previously. |
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| He was close to his sister, and on affectionate but more distant terms with his surviving brothers. |
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| Although wine is becoming more popular in many parts of Germany, especially close to German wine regions, the national alcoholic drink is beer. |
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| Since a submarine's bridge was very close to the water, their range of visual detection was quite limited. |
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| He requested that the mobile reserves, especially tanks, be stationed as close to the coast as possible. |
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| Army Special Forces, landed by helicopter and attacked three houses close to a known enemy stronghold in Pakistan. |
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| The area which would become Scotland was at this time close to the south pole. |
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| Industrial workers were housed in cottages and terraced houses close to the mines and foundries in which they worked. |
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| Spoil from the mine workings was piled on the hills close to the village which grew nearby. |
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| Areas close to the border with Cheshire can have Scouse accents of English, and along the coast Manchester accents are common. |
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| Other parks include Cwmdonkin Park, where Dylan Thomas played as a child, and Victoria Park which is close to the promenade on the seafront. |
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| The Alliance came close to Labour in terms of votes, but had only a fraction of its seats. |
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