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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Growing alternative crops such as short rotation coppice as energy crops and fibre crops such as flax and hemp showed promise.
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It is the holder of prepared fleece or flax from which the spinner draws out strands.
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She agreed, and so they spun all the flax .
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She took the lazy girl to the castle and put her in three rooms filled with flax from floor to ceiling.
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The women spun the flax and were invited to the wedding as promised.
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They prospered and employed many poor in and near London to dress flax , until the Netherlanders brought in dressed flax.
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We lost the flax crop I wrote about a week ago.