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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Along with other rural areas, the villages have suffered a crime wave recently.
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He believes the police are overstretched and moves are urgently needed to tackle Darlington's crime wave .
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He was part of a crime wave that shot up a house, robbed some one and then killed some one else.
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On Wednesday, he said he will help Maskhadov fight a postwar crime wave .
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The crime wave that spurred them has been falling steadily in times of greater economic prosperity.
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The sheer scale of the crime wave was uncovered by the Labour Party from official figures.