Each year hoards of fans converge on Chippenham for the festival from as far afield as the USA and the Netherlands. |
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Players are given a laser gun and charged with protecting the planet from relentless hoards of alien invaders advancing down the screen. |
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She is not a type of person who hoards her money in the bank for her own sake. |
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Many apparently converted their money hoards or business activities to dollars. |
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Soon bands of hungry insurgents were ransacking strongpoints in the city for arms, powder, and hoards of flour. |
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Coin hoards have been found in Wales dating to the 9th, 10th, and 11th cents., but the coins were foreign, mainly English, Viking, or Arabic. |
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Please, please keep up the good work exposing the ever-increasing hoards of quacks and charlatans out there. |
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Coin hoards are a notable feature of the period, again perhaps indicating instability. |
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The high quality of the pottery, along with hoards of gold and silver found at Indus Valley sites, suggest great accumulation of wealth. |
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Armed with my home-printed boarding card, I head straight for security, bypassing the hoards of people queueing at the check-in desks. |
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Much of the surviving evidence comes from decoration applied to portable equipment as grave goods or treasure hoards. |
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At Langtoft in East Yorkshire, metal detectorists found two Roman coin hoards in pottery containers by the side of a former Roman road. |
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With fox hunting you have hoards of people following across country on foot, one way or another, for yards or miles. |
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At least the frugal Germans and their coin hoards will bring some joy to archaeologists in the fourth millennium. |
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Dating back 2,000 years, they are one of the first examples of Iron Age coin hoards to be seen in Britain. |
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In the U.S., auto companies have been enjoying record profits and have accumulated huge cash hoards. |
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There are numerous bags attached to his bicycle full of junk or garbage that he collects and hoards. |
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Carefully coded, to deceive hoards of information hungry pressmen waiting in Kathmandu, the two were charged with delivering the momentous breakthrough. |
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It would be tedious for police officers to look through hoards of archived video images for their investigations. |
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Thousands of arctic char pass through the river each season and often anglers just stand in awe as the silvery hoards pass through. |
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It won't be long now until it will be no longer safe to walk the streets, without hoards of mad students in tartan trousers and kaftans accosting you with home made fliers. |
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Populations, once citizens of their countries of origin, have joined the hoards of refugees and displaced persons. |
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To illustrate this: the world's large supermarket chains, for which hoards of professionals work, can hardly get any bigger than they now are. |
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If a man complains that his wife cleans too much, or that his son hoards newspapers, people may not take him seriously. |
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So it is not accurate to say that the federal government holds and hoards an unfair financial advantage. |
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As an overwhelmed Web site buckles under heavy demand, hoards of frustrated and angry customers are left in its wake. |
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Since I do not like the consequences that result if everyone hoards information, I am required to consider it wrong for one to do so. |
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Times: We recommend taking this tour in the morning to have better light and to avoid the hoards of afternoon tourists. |
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Times: We recommend you taking this audio tour in the early morning to avoid the hoards of tourists. |
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The c.d. Howe Institute offers a corrective to those worried about corporations' growing cash hoards. |
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If the spectacle of the vanity of the self makes us laugh, it makes us cry by the same token, because we are saddened by the great illusions of freedom that the self hoards. |
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They appear to have been a wealthy and powerful tribe in the 1st and 2nd cents. BC, for from their territory come the finest hoards of gold torcs found in Iron Age Britain. |
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This material consists of hoards of coins and silverware either looted from Britain or paid over to raiders, or potential raiders, as blood money. |
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And at least the brief excursion from the rigours of the Conference gives the stricken hoards a chance to regain some of their strength for the cut and thrust of the league. |
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In terrestrial environments, the storage of food in caches or hoards similarly results in valuable patches that can benefit the owner but potentially can be pilfered. |
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One of the most famous hoards of Roman coins is the Arras hoard. |
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High-class Roman artefacts and coin hoards north of the frontier have been interpreted as such diplomatic gifts or subsidies, but they are few in number. |
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Hacksilber objects in these Phoenician hoards have lead isotope ratios that match ores in Sardinia and Spain. |
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There are also gold and silver hoards in this section. |
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I am convinced that it is our responsibility to put the spotlight on the anonymous hoards of women involved in our society, without whom the world could not move forward. |
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Even so, the number of buried hoards found from this period rises, suggesting continuing unrest. |
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In April 2010, the Frome Hoard, one of the largest ever hoards of Roman coins discovered in Britain, was found by a metal detectorist. |
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Between 1243 and 1258, the King assembled two great hoards, or stockpiles, of gold. |
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In England hoards of Viking silver such as the Cuerdale Hoard and the Vale of York Hoard, offer good insight to this phenomenon. |
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Other hoards contain either broken or miscast objects that were probably intended for reuse by bronze smiths. |
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Metal grave gifts become rarer towards the end of the Urnfield culture, while the number of hoards increase. |
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Combined with the hoards deposited in rivers and swamps, it indicates religious beliefs connected with water. |
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Increasing numbers of hoards of buried coins in Britain at this time indicate that peace was not entirely achieved. |
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Some buried hoards of jewellery are interpreted as gifts to the earth gods. |
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Every time the tide of global capital flows shifts and emerging economies are caught short, it is those with the thinnest foreign-exchange reserve hoards that fare worst. But this is a recipe for trouble. |
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Cue the growing ranks of top universities and hoards of school teachers who freely share their resources, teaching and learning research and lesson ideas on the web. |
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In recent weeks, they have helped to uncover significant hoards of Roman coins in Wales and Devon, which are expected to yield valuable insights into the society of our erstwhile be-togaed conquistadors. |
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At nine years old Suan works everyday in the shadow of the hulkingly beautiful Angkor Wat ruins, selling bracelets and postcards to the hoards of tourists who descend relentlessly upon the site. |
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As the trash bags which he hoards carefully trigger the wrath of the co-owners led in their fight by the terrible concierge madame Trappenier, he will attempt to explain the reasons for his decision. |
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A twisted detour into an abattoir of mutilated bodies and pools of crimson also introduced manipulatable environmental hazards to abate the incoming hoards. |
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As Late Urnfield hoards often contain the same range of objects as earlier graves, some scholars interpret hoarding as a way to supply personal equipment for the hereafter. |
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Such hoards would necessitate a wealthy owner, and their supposed existence ignores the command structure of a pirate vessel, in which the crew often served by free suffrage. |
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Copper coins are very rare after 402, although minted silver and gold coins from hoards indicate they were still present in the province even if they were not being spent. |
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Variations in the size of the coin hoards show that there were phases of increased importation of coins and sometime decades during which very few coins were imported. |
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In many parts of the world, large hoards of bronze artefacts are found, suggesting that bronze also represented a store of value and an indicator of social status. |
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A unique concentration in Phoenicia of silver hoards dated between 1200 and 800 BC, however, contains hacksilver with lead isotope ratios matching ores in Sardinia and Spain. |
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If you were working at a RTA scene or involved, I suspect you would rather the road was closed to protect you, especially from the hoards of rubberneckers driving past. |
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