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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All this at three o'clock in the morning in the middle of the most dangerous estuary in the country.
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First entering shallow equatorial seas, then estuaries and coastal oceans, the prehistoric cetaceans spread through the seas of the world.
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He directs us to a good campsite a half mile down the beach at the base of a fresh-water estuary .
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Hong Kong was just across the Pearl estuary , within clear broadcast range.
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I should like to see the rivers that flow into the estuary - and indeed the entire Bristol channel - cleaned.
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The noise of the incoming tide had interrupted their games on the sand further out in the estuary .
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The results confirm the importance of the estuary for shelduck and identify particularly sensitive areas for breeding.