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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Coral growth and the accretion of sediments in coastal mangroves will compensate.
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Erosion or accretion of sand by wind action is evident throughout and soil genesis is truncated by erosion or fossilised by deposition.
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The public sector continued to grow through a process of bureaucratic accretion financed by economic growth.
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The surface of the Moon is the result of accretion and of subsequent impacts and slow-acting erosional processes.
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This is perhaps because the later accretions are somewhat dwarfed amid the towering Gothic architecture.