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Examples
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Cardiff Docks is really on the up and the last thing we need is some scuppered wreck getting in the way!
Jenny launched 2008
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(Applause) For instance, the former Mayor of the Town of Port Arthur, a major in the Canadian Militia, now holding the rank of LieutenantColonel in the Imperial Service and created as an Assistant Director of Docks, is in charge of the important port of Cherbourg, which is the most northerly channel point in the Cherbourg Duranteau lines of communication.
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There is £15bn of regeneration happening around the Olympics, the London Gateway, and the Royal Docks, which is expected to create 62,000 jobs and boost the population by 131,000.
Where else can I go? 2011
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Filming for Two Cops Down at the Docks, which is set in the port city of Le Havre.
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Possibly the parrots don't know, possibly they do, that Down by the Docks is the road to the
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Possibly the parrots don't know, possibly they do, that Down by the Docks is the road to the Pacific Ocean, with its lovely islands, where the savage girls plait flowers, and the savage boys carve cocoa-nut shells, and the grim blind idols muse in their shady groves to exactly the same purpose as the priests and chiefs.
The Uncommercial Traveller Charles Dickens 1841
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Having satisfied themselves by looking over these extensive works, Mr.M. informed them, that adjoining the Docks was a ship-building yard, formerly well known as Perry's Yard, but now the property of Sir Robert
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M&M Group, led by Matt Haines, proposes an arena along the Sacramento River, south of the Embassy Suites hotel, in what city planners call the Docks area.
SacBee -- Latest News Tony Bizjak 2010
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This is the place once known as the Docks, Cherry Street south of Lakeshore Drive on the Toronto waterfront.
www.blogalaxia.com Directorio y Buscador de Blogs Latinos 2009
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Article upon the "Docks," scarcely exhaustive enough to please me, so have been reading some other books upon the same subject.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 1, 1890 Various 1876
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