However, at certain heights the air thinned drastically, and it took a trained lung to breathe in those areas. |
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If the woollybutts are also pruned early and the foster species thinned at mid rotation, interesting fat logs could be grown in medium rotations. |
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As they walked, the ground gradually began to level out and the trees thinned. |
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A ring of admirers had already formed around their table, and Nyrouya thinned her lips disapprovingly at those bystanders. |
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He draws arabesques with charcoal and thinned black acrylic, creating labyrinths of interconnected markings often structured by a loose grid. |
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It is hoped oak, birch and rowan, the dominant species found naturally in such local woodlands, will gradually seed in the areas thinned. |
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Oil paint can be thinned to a watery consistency or brushed on with thick luscious strokes. |
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After a few miles our path curved away from the river, the trees thinned out, and we came upon, wonder of wonders, a proper town. |
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Rows were thinned to provide an even plant spacing and each plant marked with a numbered stake. |
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Seven days after planting, the seedlings were thinned to one plant per pot. |
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Some of the trees have grown so fast that decisions need to be made as to whether they are to be thinned or allowed to develop into copses. |
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In all experiments, rows produced by paper-ribbon sowing were thinned to one plant per site immediately after seedling emergence. |
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The plants are best thinned to about 15 inches apart because of their spreading habit. |
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The plants were thinned 10-12 days after germination to give an average of 20 plants, uniformly distributed per pot. |
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The plants need to be thinned to about 150 mm apart, unless you want to grow them closer together for young and tender mini-leeks. |
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Pureed and thinned with a little stock syrup, it makes a coulis to accompany baked lemon cheesecake or a passionfruit mousse. |
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A side effect common to all anticoagulants is the risk of excessive bleeding, due to the blood being thinned. |
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Since 1978 Arctic sea ice area has shrunk by some 9 percent per decade, and thinned as well. |
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Over the past 40 years, the Arctic ice pack has thinned and shrunk significantly. |
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The lie was not great and the shot was slightly thinned, the ball finishing as much as 40 feet past the cup. |
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The ranks have thinned in this third instalment of the American Pie franchise, which sees Jim and Michelle taking the big nuptial leap. |
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As the birds accumulated the toxins in their fat reserves, the shells in their clutches thinned and broke easily, or never hatched. |
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What he did find at the workshops were hammer stones, blocked-out bifaces, thinned bifacial blanks, and bladelet cores and bladelets. |
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The weather is still glorious, the crowds have thinned out and prices have tumbled. |
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While the understory growth of bluejack and turkey oak may be thinned, layers and layers of avian understory abound in these airy halls. |
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The hemlocks thinned out, giving way to sunlight and open deciduous woods, with mountain laurels lining the brook. |
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To alleviate the flaking, I added about a tablespoon of white glue to a pint of slip and then thinned it to a slip consistency again with water. |
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Sealers are usually thinned varnishes which, when applied to wood, penetrate into the wood pores on the surface. |
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Three seeds were sown and plants thinned to one per pot when the first trifoliate leaf emerged. |
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Two seeds were sown into each pot and thinned down after emergence to standardize initial seedling size. |
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Four seeds were sown per pot and thinned to a single plant nearest the center. |
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As in red raspberries, surplus blackberry canes should be thinned out in the spring. |
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Using thinned glue and old paintbrushes, students apply tissue to a piece of white oaktag and create the collage. |
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I still wear my hair short and those chubby little cheeks haven't thinned out a bit. |
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She had grown a little and thinned out some although she was still slightly plump. |
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Much like the steady drop-off of band members over the years, the rotating talent pool of guest vocal chanteuses has irreparably thinned. |
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The cortex of the bone becomes thinned leading to pathologic fracturing and distortion of the bones in the face and skull. |
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The voices thinned down and receded slowly, the owl fluttered its wings and took off from the tamarind tree. |
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His lips thinned into a grimace, but she knew he would not be forsworn to his word. |
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Their bodies, thinned by rigorous fasting and scarred by the disciplines of self-mortification, were decently concealed by long dark robes. |
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Bligh and Madeleine watched for a while, then as the crowd thinned they approached a gowned priest and asked him what was happening. |
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One option would be to paint the wall with a lime wash thinned down to an almost watery consistency. |
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A demonstration is given on how to paint using black watercolor or slightly thinned tempera paint. |
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From each of the thinned strands take sufficient outside yarns to worm the rope and cut off the rest. |
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The path thinned out now as it wound past the private beach of a local five star hotel. |
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Lord Keel was covered in several large wounds in his chest and his skin had withered and thinned as if he had been dried like a mannequin. |
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Over the years, his muscles withered, his bones thinned, and he suffered repeated bouts of infection and life-threatening complications. |
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Fields surrounded the entire village, surrounded in turn by forest, thinned by woodcutting and clearance for pastures. |
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The cars thinned out, leaving only white lines marking vacant spaces. |
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Her cinnamon hair has thinned and matted past a point of salvation. |
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All dead and yellowing growth should be cleared from marginal plants and water lilies, and submerged aquatics that are getting out of hand should be thinned out. |
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Although a higher proportion of fruitlets were thinned from the low-vigour vines after anthesis, these vines still carried higher crop loads relative to total leaf area. |
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Her natural eyebrows had thinned with age, but they were darkened and thickened with great black pencil lines which jutted down the sides of her face. |
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Over the course of the next hour or so, the press corps thinned out until, finally, to my surprise, I was alone. |
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Below the football players and dog-walkers of Marine Park is a culvert that, in theory, still carries the freshet which once thinned the salt water of the Stromme Kill. |
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Tectonic denudation and subaerial erosion thinned and locally eliminated the hanging-wall blocks, whose detritus was incorporated into the Tectono-Sedimentary Unit basin. |
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An oddly shaped white and yellow puddle of thinned pigment, its isolation heightened by an expanse of brushy, unmodulated blue, recalls Miro in its comic vulnerability. |
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The following day the ground rose up beneath us, and the fir trees thinned to larches, and there was more Sun and open glades with grass for our horses to graze upon. |
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Just brush the thinned paint on with a small filbert or flat. |
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The other important moment of his round came soon after noon, when first he mishit his five-iron on the 17th, then thinned the ensuing bunker shot. |
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He had thinned rimmed glasses resting on his nose to aid his grey eyes. |
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The serviceable track undulates and crosses many gullies, the trees are thinned, you can see out north over pretty fields, tightly bound by the curving wooded escarpment. |
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Although pruning isn't strictly necessary for deciduous berberis and cotoneaster, they can be thinned out by one third in February to keep then within bounds. |
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The gaggle thinned out as most of the flex wings also fell down. |
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Although modern marbling techniques employ acrylic paints thinned with specialized dispersants and floated on specially prepared water, the technique is relatively simple. |
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After germination, seedlings were thinned to five plants per pot. |
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The cephalic portion was thinned and placed in a precise subperiosteal pocket over the central nasal bones. |
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During rifting, as the crust is thinned, the Earth's surface subsides and the Moho becomes correspondingly raised. |
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At the same time, the mantle lithosphere becomes thinned, causing a rise of the top of the asthenosphere. |
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Due to divergent movement, the lithosphere is stretched and thinned, so that the hot asthenosphere rises and heats the overlying rift basin. |
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Second, as rifting progressed through Early and Middle Jurassic time, continental crust was stretched and thinned. |
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These areas often occur when the regional stress is extensional and the crust is thinned. |
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He had thinned shockingly, losing 100 pounds in the last month of his illness. |
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The skin becomes thinned and yellowishly discoloured at one point, gives way, and a large quantity of thick creamy pus escapes. |
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Eggs from song thrushes thinned 6 percent, mistle thrushes 4 percent, and ring ouzels 2 percent. |
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A Kerrison rongeur is used to remove the thinned lamina, carefully decompressing the spinal canal. |
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Initially, six seeds were sown per pot and later thinned to four plants when the first trifoliate leaves unfolded. |
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The baby carrots and the little rosebud beets which are being thinned out of the garden should be canned at the present time. |
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His pit bull parts thinned out his back end but gave him a Bluto disproportion in his front end. |
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Although the feigned flights did not break the lines, they probably thinned out the housecarls in the English shield wall. |
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Cut surface of specimen showed multiple loculi with varied appearance and thinned out wall at some places with intervening thickened areas at others. |
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Leeks can be bunched and harvested early when they are about the size of a finger or pencil, or they can be thinned and allowed to grow to a much larger mature size. |
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The patents are for a newly developed wafer demount gas distribution tool and for a wafer demount receptacle for separating the thinned wafer from the mounting carrier. |
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Below is a picture of Jerry Magera and his son Sam in the spring of 2001 standing in a recently thinned stand of mixed ponderosa pine, Douglas-fir, and tamarack. |
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Glover now abandoned his favourite medium of watercolour in favour of a hybrid technique using thinned oil painted on to a bright double-primed white lead ground. |
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The mantle lithosphere below the thinned and faulted continental oceanic transition cools, thickens, increases in density and thus begins to subside. |
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The Antonine Plague had severely thinned the senatorial ranks, and with capable men now in short supply, Severus' career advanced more steadily than it otherwise might have. |
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By the end of the Terror, the crowds had thinned drastically. |
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These limestones would have been deposited in shallow seas, assumed to be a stretched and thinned portion of the North American continental crust. |
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