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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Leicestershire for example, lost 89 percent of the vulnerable species in its lichen flora and 47 percent overall.
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Maybe I was on some damp lichen .
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Only a nearby ash tree, which had better buffered bark, retained the lichen .
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Subtleties in the texture of the grit, patches brushed clean of lichen , told him where to place his feet.
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The triumphant plant, a combination of lichen and cactus, certainly would look weird to the eyes of man.
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The walls are black and slimy with lichen and pigeon shit.
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Their route became a steep scramble between white boulders speckled with green and grey lichen .
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These majestic stones, flecked with orange and white lichen , are the last of thousands that once littered the prehistoric landscape.