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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Barring a handful for specialist duties, every locomotive was equipped with air brakes .
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However he never considered fitting air brakes to the tractor.
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The new vehicles built as replacements during the 1980s were generally of higher capacity, privately owned and fitted with air brakes .
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The silence was broken occasionally by a muffled gasp or a quivering sigh that was more like the hiss of air brakes .