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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At first, the night watchman thought it was an avalanche .
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He was about a third of the way up -- 200 feet off the canyon floor -- when an avalanche began.
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News of the freebie started a credibility slide of avalanche proportions.
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Once an avalanche of bills has you buried, it seems impossible to dig your way out again.
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The original station in the open was destroyed by an avalanche with the loss of thirty-five lives in 1964.
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The wave had had its ropes cut and was erupting in an avalanche of fury that would bury everything in its path.
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This no-fat attitude worries me, because the avalanche of fat-free foods makes their goal nearly achievable.