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of Occurrences 881%

The end of the cavern was still beyond the area of light.

in Occurrences 121%

They were ranged in such a manner as to form a wide circular area in the midst of them.

to Occurrences 32%

The Mesozoic continent must, I conceive, have lain to the east, about the shores of the North Pacific and Indian Oceans; and I am inclined to believe that it continued along the eastern side of the Pacific area to what is now the province of Austro-Columbia, the characteristic fauna of which is probably a remnant of the population of the latter part of this period.

for Occurrences 31%

She forced her way into the jammed rear platform, the sharp brim of the red sailor creating an area for her.

on Occurrences 20%

The area on which we stand has been first sea and then land, for at least four alternations; and has remained in each of these conditions for a period of great length.

with Occurrences 18%

The lorries were hurrying from the Jerusalem area with reinforcements.

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So far as the Dover exit was concerned we stated that the narrowness of the waters, with the consequent risk to the enemy from our mines and torpedoes, had so far acted as a deterrent to his capital ships; we had to depend on the light forces at Harwich and Dover to deal with any enemy surface craft attacking the southern area from German ports.

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It is necessary that the hunt for deserters in the area between the front and the line Jerusalem-Ramleh-Jaffa be formally organised under energetic management, that one or two squadrons exclusively for this service be detailed, and that a definite reward be paid for bringing in each deserter.

than Occurrences 13%

The Conqueror, as we know, greatly enlarged the old "royal hunting ground" here in Hampshire when he made the New Forest, and that act of his which brought an immensely larger area than of old under a new and incredibly harsher forest law gradually produced a legend of devastation and depopulation here which, as I have already said, can no longer be accepted as true.

over Occurrences 12%

It is clear that the enormous area of Polynesia is, on the whole, an area over which depression has taken place to an immense extent; consequently a great continent, or assemblage of subcontinental masses of land must have existed at some former time, and that at a recent period, geologically speaking, in the area of the Pacific.

under Occurrences 12%

of the area under cultivation, and there are vast uncultivated tracts which the Jews can and will reclaim, as their numbers growboth by further colonisation and by natural increase, for the first generation of colonists have already proved their ability to multiply in the Promised Land.

by Occurrences 10%

"Even hospital ships and ships carrying relief to the sorely bereaved and stricken people of Belgium, though the latter were provided with safe conduct through the proscribed area by the German government itself and were distinguished by unmistakable marks of identity, have been sunk with the same reckless lack of compassion or of principle.

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Hence, if a gradual shifting of the deep sea, which at present bars migration between the easternmost of these islands and America, took place to the westward, while the American side of the sea-bottom was gradually upheaved, the palaeontologist of the future would find, over the Pacific area, exactly such a change as I am supposing to have occurred in the North-Atlantic area at the close of the Mesozoic period.

within Occurrences 9%

Turkish suzerainty will be confined to the area within the Chatalja lines.

during Occurrences 9%

The evolutionist, therefore, is bound to grapple with the following problem whenever it is clearly put before him:Here are the Faunae of the same area during successive epochs.

per Occurrences 5%

Q.What are the ordinary dimensions of the flue in wagon boilers? A.In Boulton and Watt's 45 horse wagon boiler the area of flue is 18 square inches per horse power, but the area per horse power increases very rapidly as the size of the boiler becomes less, and amounts to about 80 square inches per horse power in a boiler of 2 horse power.

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As the weaker German Fleet not unnaturally refused decisive action and as its destruction had hitherto not been achieved, we had adopted a policy of guarding an area between our vital communications and the enemy's ports, and of guarding the areas through which the trade and transports passed; these were the only methods of frustrating attacks made either by surface vessels or by submarines which succeeded in reaching open waters.

like Occurrences 4%

Tall, nutritious grasses are specially abundant beneath them, growing over all the ground, in sunshine and shade, over extensive areas like a farmer's crop, and serving as pasture for the multitude of sheep that are driven from the arid plains every summer as soon as the snow is melted.

near Occurrences 4%

In the evening we went out to the College playground and also to the area near the College Boarding to make some observations.

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The climate of this section of the reserve is rather arid in summer, the rainfall being much more uncertain than in the more elevated areas about the San Francisco Mountains to the northwest and the White Mountains to the southeast.

as Occurrences 3%

The area of a sphere whose radius is equal to the earth's distance from the sun in aphelion being to the sun's area as 218.1² to 1, while the reflecter of the solar pyrometer intercepts a sunbeam of 3,130 square inches section, it follows that the reflector will receive the radiant heat developed by 3,130 / 218.1² = 0.0658 square inch of the solar surface.

into Occurrences 3%

The idea of the German imperialist, the idea of our own little band of noisy but influential imperialist vulgarians, is evidently a game of grab, a perilous cutting up of these areas into jostling protectorates and spheres of influence, from which either the Germans or the Allies (according to the side you are on) are to be viciously shut out.

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But this plea came in conflict with the determination of the Turks to keep a sufficient strategic area around Adrianople.

without Occurrences 2%

Absence of suitable food, and sometimes the presence of animals not agreeable to them, may have left certain areas without the sheep, but for the most part these animals no doubt existed from the eastern limit of their range clear to the Pacific.

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One after another the great men left the choir and came down into the area before the pulpits, that they might lose nothing.

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