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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As well as its own peat-cutting operations, the company is also encouraging local farmers to use mechanical excavators to exploit their own reserves.
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In this case it is clear that the original excavators included only those coins which they deemed of sufficient importance for publication.
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Many corpses, or rather fossils of corpses, were found by the excavators in the ash.
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Many different excavators, when digging up the airport, have encountered this odor.
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Now, with dynamite, the excavators were nibbling back each outcrop farther and farther away from the center.
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The excavator also recovered a blue shawl of loosely spaced plain weave with red stripes.
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The early excavators of Knossos found the large Horns of Consecration lying precisely in front of this doorway.
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The iron ore is easily extracted by quarrying with giant excavators.