| They are experts in the quiet word in the ear which has been controlling players for decades and they must not have that power curtailed. |
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| After all, when the railroad nixed such a system nearly two decades ago, it seemed like a profitable idea. |
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| For the past six decades he has remained the most celebrated African-American painter, past or present. |
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| Hers was a career that spanned some seven decades and, most of all, a life well lived. |
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| So what if Wodehouse died almost three decades ago, his works still sell well. |
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| In Zambia we have had decades of the pro-market policies that are bolted on whenever free trade is mentioned. |
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| Romney's father, who was a Republican, too, but governor of Michigan, ran, if disastrously and abortively, for president almost four decades ago. |
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| Lansdowne was a Whig grandee and for decades Bowood in Wiltshire and Lansdowne House in London were headquarters of Whiggism. |
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| They can be found in reports, studies and other bureaucratic whatnots dating back decades that are gathering dust on City Hall shelves. |
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| For decades it has been acclaimed as pop music's lost masterpiece, the holy grail of rock and the best album never made. |
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| May 4, 1998 after decades of theoretical physics, a 2 qubit quantum computer capable of loading data and reading out a result is announced. |
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| The TV-stations have been wastelands for two decades and most newspapers never had any interesting in what was happening abroad. |
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| Several decades of time have passed by as quickly as the clouds have been blown away. |
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| Renee Geyer enjoys a career that's spanned three decades but it all began by accident. |
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| Since in vitro fertilization started, two decades ago, there has been an explosion of twins, triplets, quadruplets, even quintuplets. |
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| The biggest difference is that over the past two decades the United States has absorbed roughly 20 million immigrants. |
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| Although possibly still decades from fruition, a quantum computer would work much faster than today's computers. |
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| Its wharves and shipyards were busy throughout most of the Revolution, but were particularly active in the decades following the end of the war. |
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| He did that with more style, grace, brilliance and dominance than anyone I saw in more than four decades of talking to people in jocks. |
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| On the tape, we see Mike attempting over the decades to exploit the worlds of psychedelia, disco and rave. |
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| Two decades ago I achieved momentary fame for taping a promotion broadcast on our local public radio station. |
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| By then, three decades of systemic racism had helped fuel white flight to the suburbs. |
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| For decades the prevailing theories tell us that the roots of violence lie in deprived environments and abusive parents. |
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| In previous decades untold numbers of Jehovah's Witnesses loyally supported the bans on vaccines and organ transplants. |
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| The navy constructed this rectangular-shaped lake several decades ago to test its early torpedoes. |
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| Of course, Agassi is alive and well and has we hope a good many decades of health and happiness left. |
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| The next four decades saw periods of resurgence and quiescence in Soviet anti-Semitism. |
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| Chabot played decades before the advent of television, jet propulsion, and the Internet. |
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| Almost two decades after its fledgling, janky website went live, Amazon is now one of the most formidable corporations out there. |
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| This concept has been used by the military for decades primarily in wargaming. |
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| See, for example, the decades of blowback that have followed Roe v. Wade, or the school-desegregation rulings. |
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| But the bassist brushes off the lingering perception that the group released its best work decades ago. |
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| The snarling dog they kept in a pen for decades has just escaped and bitten their hand off. |
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| From Bob Hope to Whoopi Goldberg and Neil Patrick Harris, relive six decades of Academy Award openers. |
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| For decades now writers and journalists have been chipping away at the myth of Orwell to reveal some of the truth. |
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| Neary had held the rank of lieutenant since 1983 and received multiple commendations during nearly four decades on the job. |
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| The police state system that propped up dictators from Algiers to Islamabad for decades was unsustainable. |
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| The coldest weather in decades has begun its march across much of the eastern two-thirds of the country. |
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| Michaels says he had been trying for decades to persuade the comedienne to come on. |
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| An artist in New Mexico has spent decades chiseling out fantastical caves from the mountains, one pickaxe swing at a time. |
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| The CIA has conducted espionage operations inside Germany for decades without telling their counterparts. |
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| Researchers in subsequent decades have indeed documented the violence, sexual and otherwise, that these birds are capable of. |
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| That decision continues to baffle some law enforcement officials nearly two decades later. |
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| The incident sparked his belief in Santa, but he would have to wait nearly two decades before dressing up as Jolly St. Nick. |
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| Some of her calls for activism read as warmed-over tracts from decades ago. |
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| But as the decades passed, airplanes replaced steamboats and folks abandoned Old Bettles to live near the airstrip. |
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| This contribution is expected to increase as melting rates accelerate, though ultimately the added runoff is predicted to disappear as glaciers decline many decades from now. |
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| Homer, Marge, Lisa, Bart, and Maggie have all been accidental political players in their nearly three decades on the air. |
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| In countries such as Spain, governments have turned a blind eye to illegals for decades because they know the farmers need cheap wetback workers to work in the fields. |
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| For many decades now, the Queen has had heavy lead weights sewn into the hems of her skirts by her dress maker Angela Miller. |
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| Two decades on, there has not been another unrestricted election in Belarus. |
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| For example, though I had chicken pox decades ago, I still have antibody to chicken pox. |
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| It's all very madcap and zany, anarchic in a way familiar to any contemporary viewer of late-night TV made decades later. |
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| Three decades later, the EEGs of distance-separated twins were studied and tentatively found to correlate. |
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| In fact, Salinger spent his last, reclusive decades in his Cornish, N.H. living room, screening Lost Horizon and other classics. |
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| A wiry old man appeared, a bit shorter than average height, sporting a button-collar and sleeves over small pot-belly and mutton-chop whiskers from the decades past. |
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| Jump forward some decades and the number of ebook designers is comparably small. |
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| At 75 years old, the tribal leader agha has lived through decades of war and upheaval. |
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| Batman is a thought form dreamt up by Bob Kane, which has accreted beliefs and views over the decades to become the Batman we know today, independent of the original. |
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| This was only part of a much larger effort by the American ruling class, after decades of political instability, to settle accounts with radicalism and socialism. |
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| After all that, I've got through Easter with all my fingers and thumbs and I reckon there are only a few decades to go before I finish this accursed job. |
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| With over three decades in the public eye, Brinkley has faced her share of unforgiving comments. |
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| It's the story of Hanta, an old man who has worked for decades compacting waste paper, books especially, in his press, selecting a couple to take home with him and read. |
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| As the Attorney General's Office must be well aware, and the report confirms, the Church has been an accessory after the fact for decades and still is. |
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| Over the six decades of the lab's operation, radioactivity has leaked in unknown quantities into the water and vegetation surrounding the facility. |
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| After decades of drought, it seems it is raining democracy in this region. |
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| But in an economy ravaged by two decades of war, jobs are scarce. |
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| During the first two decades of the nineteenth century control of the Cape Colony passed to and fro between Afrikaners and British authorities but rested with the latter. |
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| Anaya recalled that decades ago certain New Mexico schools banned Bless Me, Ultima, whose protagonist is a curandera, or healer. |
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| Why shouldn't we open our highest office to those who have adopted this country as their own and have proved their patriotism through decades of devoted citizenship? |
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| After decades of empty rhetoric, that's the down payment that we need on energy independence. |
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| Although for several decades the company had a refinery at Shell Haven on the Thames, there is no evidence of this having provided the name. |
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| Zappa Plays Zappa Frank Zappa is another iconic figure of rock, who beguiled audiences for decades with his psychedelic jazz-rock sound. |
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| After nearly three decades a detailed understanding of the chronology of the eastern amphora types is only just being developed. |
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| In the decades after the discovery of general relativity, it was realized that general relativity is incompatible with quantum mechanics. |
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| It was two decades before he again returned to find out what happened to one of his wives and child in Damascus. |
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| He had bet on real estate for decades and been breathtakingly successful. |
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| Nine decades of Disney will be brought to life in the Windy City this autumn. |
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| After two decades of significant CAP reforms, farmers can now respond to market signals and increase production to react to the higher prices. |
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| After becoming an independent country two decades ago, Almaty began improving its status as the number one winter sport center in Eurasia. |
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| Evidence gathered over decades supports this view as ice caps retreat, seas acidify and Spring starts earlier. |
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| In the decades that followed, state insurance regulators approved similar requirements. |
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| For several decades around the turn of the 18th century, the islands became popular pirate hideouts. |
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| His policy of glasnost freed public access to information after decades of heavy government censorship. |
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| The Dutch launched several attacks on the Portuguese colony during the first four decades of the seventeenth century. |
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| In the first two decades of the 19th century, the Zulu people grew in power and expanded their territory under their leader, Shaka. |
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| Oceanic sharks are vulnerable because they don't produce many young, and the young can take decades to mature. |
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| There are the zeks, the survivors of the gulags, some honest about their experiences, others still deluded or traumatised decades later. |
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| In the last decades of the previous century, Afro-pessimism was very common. |
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| Their power was gradually ceded by conquest and treaty during the several decades that followed. |
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| Vehicles using leaded gasoline that contaminated cities' air decades ago have increased aggravated assault in urban areas, researchers say. |
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| Saudi Arabia is home to around 500,000 Afghans, who escaped their war-ridden nation decades ago and settled in the Kingdom. |
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| They'd grown up together, had seen a lot of life, and were mostly inseparable, through six decades of raven, starve-acre days. |
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| By the first decades of the 18th century, Amsterdam had become the world's leading commercial and financial centre for more than a century. |
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| Reports have also predicted that within a few decades the Arctic Ocean will be entirely free of ice in the summer. |
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| Steamboat traffic including passenger and freight business grew exponentially in the decades before the Civil War. |
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| Remembering the fate of Tome Pires decades earlier, Macau's leaders chose an elderly judge and Italian Jesuit to go in their place. |
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| In recent decades it has become the tradition for the monarch to abdicate. |
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| Immigrants to the UK in recent decades have brought many more languages to the country. |
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| In the Netherlands, the grey heron has established itself over the past decades in great numbers in urban environments. |
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| Most settlers in every colony were small farmers, but other industries developed within a few decades as varied as the settlements. |
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| The causes of World War I included many factors, including the conflicts and antagonisms of the four decades leading up to the war. |
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| Although, it began to change with the arising secularization in the last decades of the German Empire. |
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| Following confederation, Smallwood led Newfoundland for decades as the elected premier. |
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| Nodule regrowth takes decades to millions of years and that would make such mining an unsustainable and nonrenewable practice. |
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| In the decades preceding the civil war, the United States experienced a rapid natural increase of black population. |
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| The pervasive and ecologically devastating human encroachment of recent decades has critically endangered Indian wildlife. |
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| The tandem arrangement does not misuse Close, for he has gotten decades of acclaim for a tedious, workmanlike art. |
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| Independent Members of Parliament were numerous in the last decades of the 19th century but diminished as the party system solidified. |
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| In the last two decades several kite sailing sports have become popular, such as kite buggying, kite landboarding, kite boating and kite surfing. |
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| Several proglacial lakes have also formed in recent decades at the end of glaciers on the eastern side of New Zealand's Southern Alps. |
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| In 875, after enduring eight decades of repeated Viking raids, the monks fled Lindisfarne, carrying the relics of Saint Cuthbert with them. |
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| In this context, several aspects of the common market as in the EU have been implemented decades before the EU implemented them. |
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| In the last decades of his life he became reclusive and bellicose. |
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| In addition, the survey revealed that residents who had left the island over the past decades showed little interest in coming back. |
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| The American film industry has had a complex relationship with slavery and until recent decades often avoided the topic. |
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| For most African countries, the past two decades have been boom time. |
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| The site has been untouched by intensive farming methods for decades and is home to choughs, pied flycatchers, willow warblers and otters. |
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| For decades domestic water and sewer services in Northern Ireland have been provided without charges to customers. |
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| Its master patent was issued in December 1880, many decades before the photophone's principles came into popular use. |
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| This century-old Edward Steichen autochrome, probably of Charlotte Spaulding, has been discovered after decades in storage. |
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| There was so much cobalt oxide from Persia that the porcelain center Jingdezhen had a plentiful supply for decades after the voyages. |
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| The schools were closed by Ranavalona I in 1835 but reopened and expanded in the decades after her death. |
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| However, it started to serve also as a biomedical material for suture in surgeries decades ago. |
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| In recent decades gas exploration and production has become an increasingly important part of Shell's business. |
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| Arcosanti, the ecotopian town in the Arizona desert, was started three decades ago. |
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| This difference suggests that, in the few decades between the Ptolemaic map and the Tabula, the Sicambri were absorbed by the Franks. |
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| It would not be until decades later, culminating in the Parliament Act 1911, that Wellington's fears would come to pass. |
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| Old World folk customs have persisted for decades in North Dakota, with revival of techniques in weaving, silver crafting, and wood carving. |
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| In the latter part of the 14th century, the southern part of the region was for several decades part of Wallachia. |
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| A box-office bomb when it first came out, the film was a sleeper, becoming much more popular decades after being released. |
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| The country has lost nine out of ten water voles in recent decades due to habitat loss and predation by the introduced American mink. |
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| The constituency was held for two decades during the 20th century by Cyril Smith, first of the Liberal Party and then of the Liberal Democrats. |
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| The oil crisis sent a signal to the auto industry globally, which changed many aspects of production and usage for decades to come. |
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| Around the middle decades of the 19th century the Irish were concentrated in eight densely settled areas situated near the town centre. |
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| From the last decades of the 8th century Norwegians started expanding across the seas to the British Isles and later Iceland and Greenland. |
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| This occupation lasted from some decades in the North to more than five centuries in the South. |
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| The following decades saw a fluctuating economy and the rise of the labor movement. |
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| Following decades of decay there have been successful conversions to office and residential use. |
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| This stage may last for decades and supports a rich assemblage of species, averaging 185 per site. |
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| Despite decades of research, where these animals go for the rest of the year remains unknown. |
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| The long decades of peace came to an abrupt end during the Napoleonic Wars. |
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| In March 2008, a wall that had stood for decades at the boundary between the Republic of Cyprus and the UN buffer zone was demolished. |
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| As such, orcas are among the animals that undergo menopause and live for decades after they have finished breeding. |
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| In the first decades of the 20th century, some influential architecture in the modern style was built in Rotterdam. |
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| In the early decades of the 20th century the new Radical Party and the older Venstre Party shared government. |
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| Manufacturing has diminished in the last few decades and only a few sites are still in production in the town today. |
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| A full range of glassblowing techniques was developed within decades of its invention. |
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| Within a few decades it was used to describe vistas in poetry, and eventually as a term for real views. |
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| Over the past decades various organizations have been active in continuing that support of the local arts community and beyond. |
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| Throughout the 19th century and into the first decades of the 20th, the gas was manufactured by the gasification of coal. |
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| In recent decades there have been several Asian countries with high rates of economic growth driven by capital investment. |
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| Published posthumously, the work became a staple of both scientific and family libraries for several decades afterward. |
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| The British strategy for decades had been to create a buffer state to block American expansion. |
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| The last few decades of the 20th century saw a renewed interest in mass extinctions and their role in the evolution of life on Earth. |
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| I used to think that this militant atheism was merely a function of the Randianism out of which most modern libertarians emerged two decades ago. |
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| Historians in recent decades have been polarized over emphasizing or downplaying the importance of the Act. |
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| Anesthetics were not regularly used in medicine or dentistry until decades after Davy's death. |
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| Several European monarchies that have adopted such systems in the last few decades furnish practical examples. |
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| Free men of color had been members of the militia for decades under both Spanish and French control of the colony of Louisiana. |
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| Various scientific study findings conducted within the last few decades say that pain in dreams can occur in contrast to Locke's claim. |
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| During the decades that followed his death in around 624, East Anglia became increasingly dominated by the powerful kingdom of Mercia. |
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| The measure was slightly altered some decades later to improve its utility for meteorologists. |
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| Views of Elgar's stature have varied in the decades since his music came to prominence at the beginning of the twentieth century. |
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| For two decades prior to the impeachment, Parliament had dealt with the Indian issue. |
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| During the first decades of the 20th century, Atlanta experienced a period of unprecedented growth. |
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| But as grizzled as Chief Joyi often seemed, the decades fell off him when he spoke of the impis, or warriors, in the army of King Ngangelizwe. |
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| In recent decades more work has been done on developing the social mechanisms behind it. |
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| Those techniques have been developed over many decades and summarized in more than 640 patents. |
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| English settlers were given incentives to move to the walled garrison town, which for decades the Welsh were forbidden from entering. |
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| During the initial decades of the movement, Pentecostals thought it was sinful to take medicine or receive care from doctors. |
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| Failing health reduced Hitchcock's output during the last two decades of his life. |
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| Only during the last few decades has empirical testing provided a scientific understanding of its remarkable durability. |
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| In recent decades the number of Welsh speakers in the town has increased dramatically. |
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| In 1894 the bishops drafted an address that brought to a head several decades of a very complex intradenominational struggle. |
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| In the following decades the Olympics became one of the ideological fronts of the Cold War. |
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| Wind turbines have been used for household electric power generation in conjunction with battery storage over many decades in remote areas. |
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| The network continued to expand over the next two decades before achieving a continuous service of up to 20 hours a day. |
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| In recent decades there has been a growth of charismatic worship among Anglicans. |
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| However doubts have been raised over many decades concerning the competition's viability, yet it still survives. |
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| For several decades this decision meant that women's football virtually ceased to exist. |
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| For decades after awareness that compression and radioactive materials may be heat sources, their contributions were specifically discounted. |
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| It was many decades before the war-ravaged country regained its industrial strength. |
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| However, for many decades it remained difficult if not impossible for golfers to earn a living from prize money alone. |
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| For the first time in decades the net migration rate was expected to be negative, and nine out of 10 emigrants were foreigners. |
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| During the four decades of the Cold War, the definition of East and West was rather simplified by the existence of the Eastern Bloc. |
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| In the last decades of the century this trend towards sobriety intensified. |
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| The decline in Arctic sea ice, both in extent and thickness, over the last several decades is further evidence for rapid climate change. |
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| In the last decades of the century, Hans Nielsen Hauge started the Haugean movement, which demanded the right to preach the word of God freely. |
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| For decades and possibly centuries, the tradition bearers idled, and the tradition itself hibernated. |
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| The City of Chicago was incorporated on Saturday, March 4, 1837 and for several decades was the world's fastest growing city. |
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| The Indian National Congress was unable to achieve electoral success in the first two decades after the State's incorporation into India. |
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| The end of the war, however, was to cause profound change in Bermuda, though some of those changes would take decades to crystallise. |
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| Cape Breton Island's population has been in decline for almost two decades with an increasing exodus in recent years due to economic conditions. |
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| Some decades later, the Salian Franks controlled the River Scheldt and were disrupting transport links to Britain in the English Channel. |
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| From 1850 to the early decades of the 20th century Windermere, in the English Lakes, was home to many elegant steam launches. |
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| However, that house too faced extinction in the male line less than two decades later. |
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| In the last decades of the 20th century, the Grand Prix Eddy Merckx was also held in Brussels. |
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| Now that decades of hostility are past, maybe it is time to reacknowledge the pervasive impact of this path-breaking development. |
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| The country's main objective in the following decades was the recovery of its lost provinces from Sweden. |
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| The model builds on the concept of continental drift, an idea developed during the first decades of the 20th century. |
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| In Central Europe it has become more abundant in recent decades due to a reduction in the incidence of rabies. |
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| After decades of being considered politically sacrosanct, why are homeowner mortgage write-offs suddenly on the chopping block? |
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| The Atlantic slave trade peaked in the last two decades of the 18th century, during and following the Kongo Civil War. |
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| A lot of what is available deals with the first few decades of the 5th century only. |
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| In the last few decades there have been a few signs indicating a beginning recovery. |
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| By 1921 the coal mines were employing 250,000 men, but this was the peak and in subsequent decades the overseas market began to shrink. |
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| In the decades immediately following the Second World War, most historical opinion was critical of the governments of the period. |
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| James Forbes came up with the essentially correct explanation in the 1840s, although it was several decades before it was fully accepted. |
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| This goal was widely shared among Esperanto speakers in the early decades of the movement. |
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| Six famines hit Egypt alone between 1687 and 1731 and the last famine to hit Anatolia was four decades later. |
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| Similarly, the Swedish clergyman Olaus Magnus wrote in 1505 that he saw in Oslo Cathedral two leather boats taken decades earlier. |
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| It still occurs from place to place but is invariably a reinstatement of a local custom that had lapsed decades earlier. |
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| In the first few decades of the 20th century, several men's sides were formed, and in 1934 the Morris Ring was founded by six revival sides. |
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| Inventory above ground would satisfy many decades of industrial and even artisan uses at current prices. |
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| Nearly two decades later, he sailed to South America for Spain to repeat Ferdinand Magellan's voyage around the world. |
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| In the subsequent decades this simple distinction developed into the archaeological periods of today. |
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| It reflects changes in the variability or average state of the atmosphere over time scales ranging from decades to millions of years. |
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| In the early decades of the United States grand juries played a major role in public matters. |
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| Up until recent decades Easter Monday was celebrated as a holiday in rural Pennsylvania Dutchland. |
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| The earliest references to jazz performance using the violin as a solo instrument are documented during the first decades of the 20th century. |
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| However, doubts have been raised over many decades concerning viability, yet it still survives. |
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| Georgia remained a leading regional power until its collapse under the Mongol attacks within two decades after Tamar's death. |
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| For nearly two decades before the 1745 rising, many clansmen had been leaving the Highlands to live in the Americas. |
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| Today, the pink-washed versions of toys that had been marketed solely to boys for decades are touted as a shift toward gender-neutrality. |
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| It came up repeatedly over the succeeding decades until the grandsons of Charlemagne created distinct sovereign kingdoms. |
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| Several decades later, the poet Robert de Boron retold this material in his poem Merlin. |
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| Part of the Muslims' success was due to the exhaustion of the Byzantine empire in its decades long conflict with Persia. |
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| For decades after the Second World War, any national symbol or expression was a taboo. |
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| According to recent studies, the proportion of atheists has significantly decreased over the decades after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. |
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| Henry's position in Wales was strengthened during the first two decades of his personal rule. |
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| Finance businesses grew in the 1970s and expanded in the next two decades and are important employers. |
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| However, it took a few more decades until the new regulation was universally accepted. |
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| Scandinavian settlers brought Old Norse religion to Britain in the latter decades of the ninth century. |
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| In the first two decades of the 20th century, Romantic Nationalism as an idea was to have crucial influence on political events. |
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| Increasing awareness of global warming began in the 1980s, commencing decades of social and political debate. |
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| Hence, she dedicated the next two decades to the consolidation of her administration. |
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| Rebellions broke out in the later decades of the imperial era, such as India's Sepoy Rebellion. |
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| Asbestos litigations which have been ongoing for decades revolve around the issue of causation. |
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| The advent of official public prosecutors in the later decades of the 19th century largely displaced private prosecutions. |
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| Like other critics, he has compared the antisalt campaign to the campaign against fat that began several decades ago. |
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| Very little is known about the approximatibility of this problem despite decades of interest in it. |
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| The first major influx of border English and Lowland Scots into Ulster came in the first two decades of the 17th century. |
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| All of these deaths were very public events, and in the decades when Williams was in England, the witch hunts were increasing. |
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| The twelfth and thirteenth volumes of the reports were based on fragments of notes several decades old, not on Coke's original manuscript. |
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| Is that promise the reason my father planted the almond tree so many decades ago? |
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| Blackstone's Ratio is a maxim of English law, having been established as such within a few decades of Blackstone's work being published. |
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| Over the decades training has taken place in a number of locations such as Winterfield and Deer Park. |
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| States such as New Jersey and New York adopted gradual emancipation, which kept some people as slaves for more than two decades longer. |
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| Gaily-garbed Indians and an historical diamond-stacked locomotive, nearly nine decades young, featured a public program there. |
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| Much of the city was originally a wetland that was reclaimed over the decades to accommodate a burgeoning population. |
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| Many federal and state statutes have remained on the books for decades after they were ruled to be unconstitutional. |
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| Many African Americans were excluded from electoral politics in the decades following the end of Reconstruction. |
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| The number of Europeans has declined since independence, reduced from 68,430 in 1958 to 17,000 three decades later. |
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| All together, it took several decades until the ice age theory was fully accepted by scientists. |
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| Protestant denominations saw a rapid growth in their number of followers since the last decades of the 20th century. |
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| In past decades it has been shown that sound change does not necessarily affect all the words that in principle it could. |
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| In the last decades of the 18th century there was a great expansion of woollen production. |
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| The government hopes to create a strong culture of innovation in Quebec for the next decades and to create a sustainable economy. |
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| In recent decades Primates of the ACC have intermittently held a considerable place in public life. |
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| The last few decades have shown a renewed interest in analogy, most notably in cognitive science. |
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| It was not until 1971, nearly six decades after the fall of the Qing dynasty, that the last of the Qing Code was abolished in Hong Kong. |
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| The decades of Manchu conquest caused enormous loss of lives and the economic scale of China shrank drastically. |
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| They have multiple entrances and may have been in existence for many decades and used by many generations of foxes. |
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| It was cultivated in Spain just a few decades after Columbus's voyages and then spread to Italy, West Africa and elsewhere. |
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| This was only a few years before cession of California to the United States, which led to decades of confusion and boundary battles. |
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| Membership did not grow in the following decades as it was believed it would. |
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| Their concentrations in polar bear tissues continued to rise for decades after being banned as these chemicals spread through the food chain. |
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| The Southeast African trade reached its height in the early decades of the 1800s with up to 30,000 slaves sold per year. |
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| Sabaean influence is now thought to have been minor, limited to a few localities, and disappearing after a few decades or a century. |
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| These imports contributed to inflation in Spain and Europe from the last decades of the 16th century. |
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| In the last few decades of the 20th century, novices have for most communities been few and far between. |
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| Computers have made an entry into education in the past decades and have brought significant benefits to teachers and students alike. |
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| In the decades preceding the war, the Dutch became increasingly discontented with Habsburg rule. |
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| There is no historical source describing the decades that followed Agricola's recall. |
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| There is some speculation that the inscription was added by Claudius himself decades later, and that he originally did not appear at all. |
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| In the following decades there was a constant battle between the company lobby and the Parliament. |
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| In the decades that followed, England's relations with Scotland were turbulent. |
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| In the early decades of the 20th century the Whig school was the dominant theoretical view. |
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| The language has undergone a revival in recent decades and is considered to be an important part of Cornish identity, culture and heritage. |
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| European settlement increased through the early decades of the 19th century, with numerous trading stations established, especially in the North. |
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| The last decades of the 19th century saw concerted political campaigns for Irish home rule. |
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| In the first four decades after the invasion of 43, four legions were stationed in Britannia. |
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| France's constant warfare with the combined forces of the other major powers of Europe for over two decades finally took its toll. |
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| He states the book was meant to give a true picture of life in the community in the early decades of the 20th century. |
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| After decades of protest, the plant was closed in November 2008 due to unprofitability. |
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| Henry Tudor was hellbent on repairing the damage done by decades of war, and that meant increasing financial security. |
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| In recent decades there has been a growth in academic publishing in developing countries as they become more advanced in science and technology. |
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| The term 'Liberal Party' was first used officially in 1868, though it had been in use colloquially for decades beforehand. |
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| But after more than two decades in the FBI's secretive national-security division, she knows her way around terrorism. |
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| During the later decades of the fourteenth century English started to come back into official use. |
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| A few decades later most towns in Britain were lit by gas and most had their own gasworks. |
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| Mackintosh's designs gained in popularity in the decades following his death. |
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| A significant West Indian black community existed in the city since the first two decades of the 20th century. |
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| For the first seven decades or so of the sixteenth century, the name Labrador was some times also applied to what we know as Greenland. |
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| Elizabeth Colt dedicated her final decades to philanthropy and public works. |
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| Within a few decades of the development of the river and canal steamboat, the first steamships began to cross the Atlantic Ocean. |
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| Rugby expanded rapidly in the early decades of the 20th century as workers moved in. |
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| Historically, Manchester Airport was consistently the busiest airport after London Heathrow for a number of decades following the war. |
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| In the early decades of the church charismatic or ecstatic phenomena were commonplace. |
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