Archaeologists were able to reconstruct most of the ancient village from their findings. |
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She was the leader for most of the race, but she eventually finished second. |
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She was a United States citizen but lived most of her life abroad. |
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Several large agribusinesses own most of the farms around here. |
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The toad has terrestrial habits, spending most of its time on shore. |
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The party drew most of its followers from among young people. |
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Third in line are the invitational tournaments, to which most of the highest ranked players are invited. |
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She worked as a peripatetic journalist for most of her life. |
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But for most of the Peninsular War, where he earned his fame, his troops lacked the numbers for an attack. |
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About 12 million, most of whom were Eastern Europeans, were employed in the German war economy as forced labourers. |
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The heavy fighting in the Battle of Britain had eaten up most of Fighter Command's resources, so there was little investment in night fighting. |
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The USSR allied with the UK and USA, and emerged as one of the victors of the war, occupying most of central and eastern Europe. |
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The Soviet Union emerged as a victor in World War II, and controlled most of central and eastern Europe. |
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Like turboprop engines, propfans generate most of their thrust from the propeller and not the exhaust jet. |
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As with most of Europe, prehistoric Britain and Ireland were covered with forest and swamp. |
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Ice covered almost all of what is now Scotland, most of Ireland and Wales, and the hills of northern England. |
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On its creation, most of the powers of the Welsh Office and Secretary of State for Wales were transferred to it. |
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There are currently 44 monarchies, and most of them are constitutional monarchies. |
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They did not regard England as their primary home until most of their continental domains were lost by John. |
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In the resulting conflagration both Houses of Parliament were destroyed, along with most of the other buildings in the palace complex. |
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Although most of the work had been carried out by 1860, construction was not finished until a decade afterwards. |
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If successful, the explosion would have destroyed the Palace, killing the King, his family and most of the aristocracy. |
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However, the plot was discovered and most of the conspirators were either arrested or killed while trying to evade capture. |
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There were local elections on the same day in most of England, with the exception of Greater London. |
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For most of 2006 and the first half of 2007, polls showed leads over Labour for the Conservatives. |
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The position in UK nationality law is that most of those born in Northern Ireland are UK nationals, whether or not they so choose. |
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Metro Cammell in Birmingham made most of the 1970s and 1980s LU underground trains. |
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Screwfix is in Yeovil and Clarks shoes is in Street, although most of its shoes are made in the Far East. |
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Peace with the Sasanian Empire, the traditional enemy of Rome, lasted throughout most of the 5th century. |
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At the Emperor's death, the Byzantines had control of most of Italy, North Africa, and a small foothold in southern Spain. |
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The reigns of most of the Angevin monarchs were marred by civil strife and conflicts between the monarch and the nobility. |
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The City, like most of central London, is well served by buses, including night buses. |
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It was an important harbour and shipping port for most of the 19th and 20th centuries. |
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Narrow alleys or 'chares', most of which can only be traversed by foot, still exist in abundance, particularly around the riverside. |
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There is no absolute speed limit on most of the Tideway downstream of Wandsworth Bridge, although boats are not allowed to create undue wash. |
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The Severn Estuary and most of the embayments around the channel are less than 10 m in depth. |
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During this time, the supercontinent Pannotia begins to break up, most of which later became the supercontinent Gondwana. |
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Towards the end of the era, the continents gathered together into a supercontinent called Pangaea, which included most of the Earth's land area. |
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Well dressing ceremonies are held in most of the villages during the spring and summer months, in a tradition said to date from pagan times. |
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It is usually warm most of the year with no pronounced rainy season, but slightly more rain in autumn and spring. |
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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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The rough Pennine terrain means that most of Northern England is difficult for growing crops. |
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However, letters patent have been issued for most of the affected cities to ensure the continuation or restoration of their status. |
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Most of Bradford is unparished, there are parish and town councils for most of the outlying towns and villages in the District. |
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For most of their history they have played their home games at Meadow Lane, which currently holds some 20,000 spectators, all seated. |
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The book was written for professionals, but an intelligent layperson could understand most of it. |
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This process continued for most of the 1980s, with newer industries and the service sector enjoying significant growth. |
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The societas declined into obscurity in the time of the emperors, as most of their services were taken over by direct agents of the state. |
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The drug requires very expensive Phase I, II and III clinical trials, and most of them fail. |
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Jaguar Land Rover operations are split between several sites, most of which are used for work on both the Jaguar and Land Rover brands. |
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The British and Norwegian sections hold most of the remainder of the large oil reserves. |
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Being located on the south coast of England, Portsmouth has a mild oceanic climate, receiving more sunshine than most of the British Isles. |
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They land fresh fish and shellfish daily, most of which is sold at the quayside fish market. |
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At this phase, most of TCGs only allow players drawing card from a pack which is also called library or deck. |
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He wrote most of a second part, on natural selection, but it remained unpublished in his lifetime. |
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From September 1936 to July 1938, Turing spent most of his time studying under Church at Princeton University. |
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In these, gluons that bind quarks together confer most of the particle mass. |
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The GWR first painted its locomotives a dark holly green but this was changed to middle chrome or Brunswick green for most of its existence. |
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Watt did most of his work at his home in Harper's Hill in Birmingham, while Boulton worked at the Soho Manufactory. |
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Steam turbines were extensively applied for propulsion of large ships throughout most of the 20th century. |
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Mendel's laws of inheritance eventually supplanted most of Darwin's pangenesis theory. |
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The teaching of evolution in American secondary school biology classes was uncommon in most of the first half of the 20th century. |
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The fact that most of Hooke's private papers had been destroyed or have disappeared does not help to establish the truth. |
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European route E30 includes most of the M4, although it is not signed as such. |
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It recently acquired most of Limburg on December 2016 both bus and train systems. |
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The Chicago 'L' has most of its lines converging on The Loop, the main business, financial, and cultural area. |
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After the Gauges Act, most of the railway track laid in Great Britain was to standard gauge. |
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By the fifth day, however, the lochia was normal in most of the patients and in only 4 patients was it heavy. |
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The state and political parties subsidise most of the funding of these television stations. |
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Later, under the reforms of the dictator Sulla, Quaestors were made automatic members of the Senate, though most of his reforms did not survive. |
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Roman law continued, in a broader sense, to be applied throughout most of Europe until the end of the 17th century. |
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The Roman Empire conquered most of Britain in the 1st century, but did not conquer Ireland or the far north of Britain. |
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Since then, the Gaelic language has gradually diminished in most of Ireland and Scotland. |
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A resolution passed in 1948, the UN's General Assembly asked Pakistan to remove most of its troops as a plebiscite would then be held. |
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Black tea with milk and sugar is popular throughout Pakistan and is consumed daily by most of the population. |
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Vice President Khandaker Mushtaq Ahmed was sworn in as President, with most of Mujib's cabinet intact. |
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A warm and humid monsoon season lasts from June to October and supplies most of the country's rainfall. |
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As in most of the rest of northern Europe, England saw little of these developments until more than a century later. |
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Due to poor funding, however, the government rarely produces documents in most of the languages. |
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Nance's work became the basis of revived Cornish for most of the 20th century. |
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During the 18th century Cornish Anglicanism was very much in the same state as Anglicanism in most of England. |
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It is here that most of the county's large towns, and population, are to be found. |
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This is an important artery and the corridor is where most of Shropshire's modern commerce and industry is found, notably in Telford new town. |
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They are widely regarded as prestigious, and traditionally have produced most of France's scientists and executives. |
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This method is also highly used in Canada, wherein anglophone students spend all of most of their lessons learning the materials in French. |
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Old Urdu dictionaries also contain most of the Sanskrit words now present in Hindi. |
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This inclination, which is objectively disordered, constitutes for most of them a trial. |
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Although Honorius sent Felix to the East Angles, it appears that most of the impetus for conversion came from the East Anglian king. |
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Italian is also the everyday language used by most of those who work in the state. |
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Though most of the Radical Reformers were Anabaptist, some did not identify themselves with the mainstream Anabaptist tradition. |
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Some Protestant denominations are less accepting of other denominations, and the basic orthodoxy of some is questioned by most of the others. |
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Because most of the cathedral was built in only 38 years, it has a single consistent architectural style, Early English Gothic. |
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The Ambrosian Rite is celebrated in most of the Archdiocese of Milan, Italy and in parts of some neighbouring dioceses in Italy and Switzerland. |
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Robson expanded the form of the Covenant Service by replacing most of the exhortation with prayers of adoration, thanksgiving and confession. |
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The Church of England had been disestablished in the United States, where it had been the state church in most of the southern colonies. |
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James Fraser argues that Wilfrid's family were aristocrats from Deira, pointing out that most of Wilfrid's early contacts were from that area. |
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Guru Gobind Singh makes it clear that human birth is obtained with great fortune, therefore one needs to be able to make the most of this life. |
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In most of this area however, they are fused into a single unified form of Buddhism. |
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During World War II, Imperial Japan invaded most of the former western colonies. |
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By the end of the 1980s, all of the grammar schools in Wales and most of those in England had closed or converted. |
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Bachelor's degree programs cover most of the fields in Algerian universities, except some fields, such as Medicine and Pharmaceutical Science. |
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Perhaps most of all, the university is renowned for a long and distinguished tradition in mathematics and the sciences. |
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But with the home side likewise unable to make the most of a period of first-half ascendancy, Villa were swift to make amends on the restart. |
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Over a hundred examples of this standardized type have been found, most of them around the village of Laconi. |
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After most of the forts had been added, the Vallum was built on the southern side. |
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Seasonal temperature variation is less extreme than most of the United Kingdom because of the adjacent sea temperatures. |
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Opened in 1840, the castle still houses over 100 students, most of whom are in the keep. |
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The Lower Ward holds St George's Chapel and most of the buildings associated with the Order of the Garter. |
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Bagshot Heath stone was used for most of the work, and stone from Bedfordshire for the internal buildings. |
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He continued to spend most of his time at Fort Belvedere in the Great Park, where he had lived whilst Prince of Wales. |
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Due to its relatively small dimension, most of Portugal's are former royal residences. |
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Both Continental Scandinavia and Iceland have a scattering of mentions of elves in medical texts, most of them with Low German connections. |
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Bates had been present at most of the conspirators' meetings, and under interrogation he implicated Father Tesimond in the plot. |
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At what point during the war Teach joined the fighting is, in keeping with the record of most of his life before he became a pirate, unknown. |
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In most of Latin America, a few basic types of sausages are consumed, with slight regional variations on each recipe. |
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Although best known for his novels, Lawrence wrote almost 800 poems, most of them relatively short. |
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The glass is approximately 1 yard long, shaped with a bulb at the bottom, and a widening shaft which constitutes most of the height. |
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The early pages had marginal notes most of which were lost when rats nibbled away the manuscript edges. |
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Paris was the main centre of ivory workshops, and exported to most of northern Europe, though Italy also had a considerable production. |
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His paintings still exemplify the visual image of Elizabethan England, very different from that of most of Europe in the late sixteenth century. |
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However, for most of the series he left the whole printmaking work to specialists, who mostly engraved everything after his drawings. |
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Public speaking had great importance for educated Romans because most of them wanted successful political careers. |
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On 12 July 1389, Chaucer was appointed the clerk of the king's works, a sort of foreman organising most of the king's building projects. |
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A quarter of the tales in The Canterbury Tales parallel a tale in the Decameron, although most of them have closer parallels in other stories. |
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Some poems by Kyd exist, but it seems that most of his work is lost or unidentified. |
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The Restoration moderated most of the more strident sectarian writing, but radicalism persisted after the Restoration. |
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Paine lived in France for most of the 1790s, becoming deeply involved in the French Revolution. |
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Johnson's work on The Plays of William Shakespeare took up most of his time. |
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The Napoleonic Wars forced him to avoid most of Europe, and he instead turned to the Mediterranean. |
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For most of the trip, he had a travelling companion in his friend John Cam Hobhouse. |
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For most of his life he was a vegetarian, and often lived for days on dry biscuits and white wine. |
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In 1788, aged 31, Blake experimented with relief etching, a method he used to produce most of his books, paintings, pamphlets and poems. |
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Hilaire Belloc grew up in England, and indeed spent most of his life there. |
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Some light huswife belike, that was dressed like a may lady, and as most of our gentlewomen are. |
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Political and social activism occupied much of Russell's time for most of his life. |
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Today, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is considered by most of the critics to be one of the first sustained feminist novels. |
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Emma sold well but the new edition of Mansfield Park did poorly, and this failure offset most of the income from Emma. |
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Working as an imperial policeman gave him considerable responsibility while most of his contemporaries were still at university in England. |
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Orwell had to spend some days in hospital with a poisoned hand and had most of his possessions stolen by the staff. |
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Peter Davison's publication of the Complete Works of George Orwell, completed in 2000, made most of the Orwell Archive accessible to the public. |
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Even though he lived most of the last ten years of his life abroad, his thoughts were often still on England. |
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Other stories followed, most of them illustrating her interest in spiritualism and the paranormal. |
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This was their main residence for the rest of their lives and the place where Christie did most of her writing. |
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Pratchett was well known for his penchant for wearing large, black fedora hats, as seen on the inside back covers of most of his books. |
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The Oxford plaque commemorates the residence where Tolkien wrote The Hobbit and most of The Lord of the Rings. |
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For most of these, the orchestra was the LSO, but the Variations were played by the Royal Albert Hall Orchestra. |
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Elgar's distinctive orchestration, as well as his melodic inspiration, lifts them to a higher level than most of their British predecessors. |
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For most of the rest of the twentieth century, it was generally agreed that Elgar's creative impulse ceased after his wife's death. |
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The performance was given on 29 September to an invited audience including Sir Henry Wood and most of the professional musicians in London. |
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By the early years of the 21st century most of the major and many of the minor orchestral and choral works had been issued on disc. |
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Page wrote most of Led Zeppelin's music, particularly early in their career, while Plant generally supplied the lyrics. |
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Stewart, who had been included in the group upon Baldry's insistence, ended up with most of the male vocal parts. |
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The new hippies, most of them, were just people who didn't buy into the rampant meism we were fed as children and teenagers. |
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Chaplin wrote, directed, produced, edited, starred in, and composed the music for most of his films. |
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Leigh was considered to be one of the most beautiful actresses of her day, and her directors emphasised this in most of her films. |
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However, even with access to both technologies, most of the Hollywood companies remained slow to produce talking features of their own. |
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During 1929, most of the major European filmmaking countries began joining Hollywood in the changeover to sound. |
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In that time Eon Productions has produced 24 films, most of them at Pinewood Studios. |
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When Elgar recorded his major works for HMV in the late 1920s and early 1930s, the LSO was chosen for most of the recordings. |
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Although the collections centre on Mesopotamia, most of the surrounding areas are well represented. |
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Despite the sport's full name of rugby union, it is known simply as rugby throughout most of the world. |
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For most of the 20th century, the backhand was performed with one hand, using either an eastern or a continental grip. |
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The club had to reorganize when most of its members moved away. |
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Adnate mushroom gills are broadly attached to the stalk slightly above the bottom of the gill, with most of the gill fused to the stem. |
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Appointed in 1780 to the position of agent-general of the clergy, he determined at once to make the most of the appointment. |
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Your identity as an ailurophile is confirmed by cat hair on your clothes, but that is a distinction that most of us will gladly forfeit. |
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A massive hangover with a life of its own kept Fess pinned to his bed most of Sunday. |
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Hence the popular belief that elderdom was most of all at home on Russian soil. |
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The greater amberjack is the largest of the jacks, the most important amberjack to anglers, and, like most of its brethren, a strong fighter. |
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Anabantids are a very popular group of fish from Asia and Africa, most of which are known as gouramis. |
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Joining a 'computer group' may sound incredibly anorakish but you'll probably find that most of the other members are bearably human! |
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The pure-bred Eskimo would at first glance seem to most of us Europeans anything but beautiful. |
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Under the autopay rent collection system, most of the transactions are effected on the first working day of the month. |
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Thanks to autosave, I was able to recover most of my unsaved thesis after a power cut. |
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Some of the salt will rise up with the vapors, but most of it will be left in the pan when the water has boiled off. |
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Biarmosuchians include most of the ictidorhinids and the more derived burnetiamorphs. |
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Last night his car horn down at the head of the cove had sounded patiently, callingly, for most of an hour. |
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When the basket was full, she carried it back and emptied it next to the outdoor chula where she did most of her cooking. |
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There was a bright red tongue tattooed over most of her cooter and there was a thick, gold ring that had been pierced through her clit. |
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Mill's account of proper names as connotationless tags did not enjoy much support through most of the twentieth century. |
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Not long ago, as eternity flows, most of humanity felt earthbound, sin-bound, limitation-bound, deathbound, fear-bound, and guilt-bound. |
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In contrast, most of the defeminization and masculinization of the CNS is dependent on conversion of testosterone to estradiol. |
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To perform the repair it was necessary to disassemble most of the mechanism. |
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It's very disconcerning not being able to remember the people in my life, or most of the past events. |
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Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. |
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There were roots of some sort, also, baking like earthapples near the fire, and a basket of late berries, most of them bitter. I ate them anyway. |
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Most people most of the time experience themselves and others in one or another way that I shall call egoic. |
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In most of the fables the length of the epimyth ranges between six and twelve lines. |
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The advent of the computer and the modem means that an increasingly large number of fans indulge in most of their fanac online. |
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The pace was fast and furious most of the time, with new high records of prices constantly being established. |
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The favela is now the model for most of the world's cities, as vast numbers of people continue to migrate to them in order to survive. |
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In the twentieth century most of these vegetables were planted from seeds purchased from feedstores. |
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If you showed half the interest in school as most of the kids, you could get a full ride to any college in the country. |
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Mo was doing most of the talking and even though he's a good guy, once he gets going about Betty you can forget it for the rest of the night. |
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Smith was listed as the author of his autobiography, but a ghostwriter did most of the work. |
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To make the most of your golden years, study the points enumerated above and then resolve to do just the opposite. |
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From atop the banks I could see over most of the buildings along Main Street, gossamered with dark smoke. |
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And most of those grasseaters like horses, ox, camels, and llamas had shown early appearance on earth and since its early Cainozoic. |
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Earl, who has lobstered, scalloped, groundfished and run tugs most of his life, is half joking. |
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I was a hail fellow well met with all of the workmen at the factory, most of whom knew little and cared less about social distinctions. |
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Michelle worked with producer Harmony Samuels on most of the songs on the album. |
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Her Majesty's Prison Service, which reports to the Ministry of Justice, manages most of the prisons within England and Wales. |
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The Central Belt is where most of the main towns and cities are located, including Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Perth. |
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English is spoken by almost all people in Wales and is the main language in most of the country. |
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The Channel is of geologically recent origins, having been dry land for most of the Pleistocene period. |
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The new order oriented most of England and Scandinavia's trade south, toward the Mediterranean and the Orient. |
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Politically, the island is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and constitutes most of its territory. |
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During the LGM the Laurentide Ice Sheet covered most of northern North America while Beringia connected Siberia to Alaska. |
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The lease remained in his family until it expired for most of the Isles in 1920 when ownership reverted to the Duchy of Cornwall. |
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Caesar described some tribes more distinctly than others but generally considered most of them as being from Germanic stock. |
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He also notes that during times of peace, women did most of the work of managing the household. |
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Along with the children, they apparently did most of the household chores as well. |
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Kuchum still was strong and suddenly attacked Yermak in 1585 in the dead of night, killing most of his people. |
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However, without a wrongful death statute, most of them are extinguished upon death. |
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The main alternative to the common law system is the civil law system, which is used in Continental Europe, and most of the rest of the world. |
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The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain and most of the important technological innovations were British. |
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In the introduction of his 1892 edition, Engels notes that most of the conditions he wrote about in 1844 had been greatly improved. |
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In high context cultures, most of the information is either in the physical context, or internalized in the person. |
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Nearby, Nitecrest is the UK's leading manufacturer of gift, payment, loyalty and phone cards, and exports most of its products. |
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In 2013 the 33rd Great North Run had 56,000 participants most of whom were raising money for charity. |
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The tribe controlled most of Northern England and more territory than any other Celtic tribe in England. |
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The area which this kingdom covered included most of Southern Northumbria, roughly equivalent to the borders of Yorkshire extending further West. |
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The Rhubarb Triangle is a location within Yorkshire which supplies most of the rhubarb to locals. |
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A few remnants of Normandy, including the Channel Islands, remained in John's possession, together with most of the Duchy of Aquitaine. |
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While some Irishmen held the post, most of the lords deputy were English noblemen. |
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When the Treaty of Amiens ended the war, Britain agreed to return most of the territories it had seized. |
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In practice, the Treaty offered most of the symbols and powers of independence. |
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Of these, Northumbria south of the Tyne, and most of Mercia, were overrun by the Vikings during the 9th century. |
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He continued to write for the rest of his life, eventually completing over 60 books, most of which have survived. |
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Historically, the term Lothian referred to a province encompassing most of what is now southeastern Scotland. |
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Old Latin had more diphthongs, but most of them changed into long vowels in Classical Latin. |
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Curiously enough, most of the Vindolanda tablets show spaces between words, but spaces were avoided in monumental inscriptions from that era. |
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Aristotle not only studied almost every subject possible at the time, but made significant contributions to most of them. |
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In fact, most of Aristotle's life was devoted to the study of the objects of natural science. |
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In other words, if something happens all or most of the time, we cannot say that it is by chance. |
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During the last glacial period, and up until about 9000 years ago, most of Ireland was covered with ice, most of the time. |
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It remained the dominant language of Ireland for most of those periods, having influences from Latin, Old Norse, French and English. |
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Descendants of these mammoths moved north and eventually covered most of Eurasia. |
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The peninsula is principally divided between Portugal and Spain, comprising most of their territory. |
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This cool and wet summer climate is replicated throughout most of the northern coastline. |
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In most of the areas of the mainland Boquique pottery falls into the latter stages of the Bell Beaker Complex as well. |
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During most of the Neolithic age of Eurasia, people lived in small tribes composed of multiple bands or lineages. |
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He then became involved in fighting the various tribes in Gaul, and by 55 BC had overrun most of Gaul. |
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Jackson, in The Problem of the Picts, who considered some of them to be Pritenic but had reservations about most of them. |
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There were fourteen cases of primary ovarian cancer, most of them associated with hydroperitoneum. |
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By the following century, it included North Africa, most of the Iberian Peninsula, and what is now southern France. |
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The two were soon elected, and quickly dismantled most of Sulla's constitution. |
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After assassinating the consuls and most of the senators, Catiline would be free to enact his reforms. |
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Cassivellaunus, a warlord from north of the Thames, had previously been at war with most of the British tribes. |
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Whatever the case, the result was the execution of Silius, Messalina, and most of her circle. |
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Roman law also denotes the legal system applied in most of Western Europe until the end of the 18th century. |
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Around AD 100, direct connections of homes to sewers began, and the Romans completed most of the sewer system infrastructure. |
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The Italian areas which had been compelled to support the Goths had most of their taxes remitted for several years. |
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An Eastern army landed in Italia, captured Joannes, cut his hand off, abused him in public, and killed him with most of his senior officials. |
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For most of Christianity's first thousand years, canonisations were done on the diocesan or regional level. |
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At its height, the Danelaw included London, all of East Anglia and most of the North of England. |
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In 1000, with the allegiance of Trondejarl, Eric of Lade, Sweyn ruled most of Norway. |
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The Londoners chose his son Edmund as their king, while most of the nobles met at Southampton and swore fealty to Cnut. |
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Thus, even while revolution swept over most of the countries of Europe in 1848, Norway was largely unaffected by revolts that year. |
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In recent years, immigration has accounted for most of Norway's population growth. |
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Separation of church and state happened significantly later in Norway than in most of Europe and is not yet complete. |
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Deserted by most of his followers, he withdrew to Scotland, where he spent the summer recruiting fresh forces. |
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By the end of William's reign most of the officials of government and the royal household were Normans. |
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The last claimant was William of Normandy, against whose anticipated invasion King Harold Godwinson made most of his preparations. |
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Ralph was at least part Breton and had spent most of his life prior to 1066 in Brittany, where he still had lands. |
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In 1643 the Royalist forces won at Adwalton Moor, and gained control of most of Yorkshire. |
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William spent most of his time in England between the Battle of Hastings and 1072, and after that he spent the majority of his time in Normandy. |
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The barons, under Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, captured most of southeast England in the Second Barons' War. |
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Meanwhile, William Wallace rose in Balliol's name and recovered most of Scotland. |
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The Breton dukes held little power across most of the duchy, which was mostly controlled by local lords. |
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While most of the marks are simple and of a universal nature, a few were later used as signs in the Indus script. |
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By the end of John's expedition on 26 October 1206, most of Aquitaine was secure. |
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The city's residents fled to the north, most of them dying during the journey, but the infection had been spread to the people of Asia Minor. |
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London was reached in the autumn of 1348, before most of the surrounding countryside. |
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She spends most of her time in-servicing teachers in helping struggling students. |
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Edward and his army won a decisive victory, and the Lancastrians were routed, with most of their leaders slain. |
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Henry kept most of his force together and placed it under the command of the experienced Earl of Oxford. |
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For most of Edward's reign, Mary remained on her own estates and rarely attended court. |
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Castile provided the Spanish crown with most of its revenues and its best troops. |
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The war ended with most of the Spanish Netherlands under French occupation, including the important cities of Ghent and Luxembourg. |
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This isolated pocket of advanced economic development stood in stark contrast to the relative backwardness of most of the country. |
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Tiger sailed through Ocracoke Inlet on June 26, but it struck a shoal, ruining most of the food supplies. |
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The city itself also have retained most of its old street layout and architecture, which is part of the world's UNESCO heritage. |
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In January 1866, King Gojong and his father, the regent, ordered the execution of most of the French priests, and ten thousand converts. |
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Many of the men were near death from disease, as the conditions were very cramped and most of the ships ran out of food and water. |
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When David returned from exile in 1341 to rule in his own right, Edward lost most of his support. |
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Ireland had known continuous war since the rebellion of 1641, with most of the island controlled by the Irish Confederates. |
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By Charles's death, there were an estimated 1760 paintings, most of which were sold and dispersed by Parliament. |
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When he departed Ireland, they occupied most of the eastern and northern parts of the country. |
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It threatened but did not reach the aristocratic district of Westminster, Charles II's Palace of Whitehall, and most of the suburban slums. |
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It consumed 13,200 houses, 87 parish churches, St Paul's Cathedral, and most of the buildings of the City authorities. |
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And it wasn't his suit that worried the people on the green tram, even though most of the other men wore flowing jellabas. |
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These persons following according to the usual custom of most of them, met together at Gresham College to hear Mr Wren's lecture, viz. |
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It is in these records that most of Wren's known scientific works are recorded. |
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The merchants dealing in this lucrative business became the wealthy tobacco lords, who dominated the city for most of the eighteenth century. |
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Britain quickly invaded and occupied most of Germany's overseas colonies in Africa. |
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The poor state of most of the roads meant that they could often become unusable after heavy rain. |
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Like most of the UK, the Manchester area was mobilised extensively during the Second World War. |
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The French armies defeated the Austrians at the Battle of Jemappes on 6 November, and had soon taken over most of the Austrian Netherlands. |
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It conquered Switzerland and most of Italy, setting up a series of puppet states. |
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