| There are plenty of bacteria, fungi, and other critters in a shovelful of soil or finished compost to get things cooking. |
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| Every shovelful of dirt taken from the floodway increases its capacity to carry excess water to the north. |
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| Peter takes a shovelful of the earth and holds it out to the mourners filing past, each taking a handful and dropping it in. |
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| But the burning ache in his arms got more intense with each shovelful, and he felt hot and sweaty and trembly. |
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| You can top the brown layers with a shovelful of manure or soil to help heat up the pile and speed composting. |
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| All she needed to do was dump a shovelful of dirt into the flat, pick it up and shake it over the row. |
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| I add a shovelful each of sand and peatmoss to each six shovelfuls of the first mixture. |
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| First shovelful of earth removed in building the Centre de Recherche Clinique. |
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| Immense new investments in infrastructure, industry, health care and education are spreading that wealth by the shovelful. |
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| We give it to the government by the shovelful and the barrelful. |
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| When the visitor pours a shovelful of sand, it creates a liquid screen, and a video film appears: long curly hair and a face looking down, as if emerging from the sand. |
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| Governments have been raking in this money by the shovelful. |
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| One of the comments made was that the first day of the end of a mine is the first day of operation, when the first shovelful is taken out, because the material mined is a non-renewable resource. |
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| Hours later, when the burning ceased, he went to shovel in the half-frozen excavated soil, but before he hurled the first shovelful he glanced down and saw the black arm bones crooked up, as if reaching for a helping hand. |
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| The buildings were sponsored by NYU asa part of what is called the Washington Square Southeast Urban Renewal Project, and Dr. James M. Hester, president of the university, turned the first shovelful of earth. |
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| When you remove a shovelful of earth, worms will wriggle out of it. |
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| He also wrote that the quality of the road would depend on how carefully the stones were spread on the surface over a sizeable space, one shovelful at a time. |
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