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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Each Looe family would stock up, taking up to two thousand pilchards for the Winter.
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Hard times for the hake and pilchard , next on the U.S. shopping list.
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He had bought three large tins of pilchards.
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He tried two of the pilchard keys in the lock and put one away immediately.
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Local fishermen remember times when shoals of pilchards stretched for miles.
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October came and with it the hake, caught with the pilchard nets but some also on hook and line.
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Other pilchards were kept for home consumption.
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