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For centuries the peat from the bog was used as fuel, and it continued to be extracted until the 1980s, by which time the process had been mechanised.
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For the first time in centuries, the lake was a homogeneous body of water.
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For centuries, many philosophers and scientists supposed that extrasolar planets existed, but there was no way of knowing how common they were or how similar they might be to the planets of the Solar System.
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For example, in the area of Denmark where the Haraldskær Woman was recovered, salt air from the North Sea blows across the Jutland wetlands and provides an ideal environment for the growth of peat.
For example, some of the drainage ditches were filled which led to a considerable rise in the water levels of the former peat cuts.
For many centuries it was a peat bog which was dug for peat fuel ( which in the area was called " turf "); local law said that after digging peat the top living plant layer had to be lodged back to let more peat form afterwards.
For a time, he was editor of the Farmers Register and investigated at some length the possibility of using lime to raise pH in peat soils to improve agricultural productivity.
For example, sediment may determine the presence of aquatic plants, but aquatic plants may also trap sediment, and add to the sediment through peat.
For this purpose many canals were dug to remove the water and for ships to move out the peat.
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For less than a dozen miles from the unplowed land of the dead man lived another settler who had ignored the warnings that his existence might be foreclosed on -- a blatant and defiant rustler named Fred Powell.
For the family is the simplest example of just such a unit, composed of people, which gives us both some immunity from, and a way of dealing with, other people.
For Plato, `` imitation '' is twice removed from reality, being a poor copy of physical appearance, which in itself is a poor copy of ideal essence.
For this change is not a change from one positive position to another, but a change from order and truth to disorder and negation.
For the answer cannot be derived from any socially cohesive element in the disrupting community.
For paradigmatic history `` breaks '' rather than unfolds precisely when the movement is from order to disorder, and not from one order to a new order.
For this reason, he would banish indecent pictures and speeches from the stage ; ;
For this purpose we now draw upon data from sociological and psychological studies of students in American colleges and universities, and particularly from the Cornell Values Studies.
For example, he captured some persons from York County, who with teams were taking to Philadelphia the furniture of a man who had just been released from prison through the efforts of his wife, and who apparently was helpless to prevent the theft of his household goods.
For by now the original cause of the quarrel, Philip's seizure of Gascony, was only one strand in the spider web of French interests that overlay all western Europe and that had been so well and closely spun that the lightest movement could set it trembling from one end to the other.
For His mercy and His guidance to spare you from evil and eternal punishment in the Lake of Fire ''.
For the oyabun to make such a trip was either a sign of great weakness or an indication of equally great confidence, and from all the available information it was probably the latter.
For a moment she thought of answering with the truth but she knew there were men who shied away from virginity, who demanded some degree of education in body as well as mind.
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For many years a state tax on cities and towns was paid by the several municipalities to the state from the proceeds of the general property tax.
For years the United States had been trying to get these countries to exclude Castro's representative from secret military talks.
For grant to the Government of India under subsection ( E ) of Section 104 of the Act, the rupee equivalent of not more than $538 million for financing such projects to promote balanced economic development as may from time to time be mutually agreed.
For example, for the problem Af, 10 from 25 equals 15, then 6 from 15 equals 9.
For example, a Browning trap version of the Superposed over/under, the Broadway ( from $350 up, depending on grade ), differs from standard models in that it is equipped with a full beavertail fore end, a cushion recoil pad and a barrel-wide ventilated rib for fast sighting.
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