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  • She was now setting to work to deal with the offending animals – "It's like painting the Forth Bridge with this acreage and this quantity of moles".

    Country diary: North Derbyshire 2011

  • To experience a thrilling ride hundreds of feet above the Forth estuary, head to the Forth Bridge there is a secure and dedicated cycle path, a gentle 11-mile route from the centre of Edinburgh.

    Edinburgh festival: 10 of the best relaxing escapes between shows 2011

  • So it is never-ending, like painting the Forth Bridge.

    David Cameron's NHS reforms may leave him feeling sick | Jackie Ashley 2010

  • This sort of thing (such as ships in bottles in Trafalgar Square, or the Forth Bridge reproduced 1: 1 scale in matchsticks) is always fun.

    Best of the London Festival of Architecture 2010

  • Contrast this with the parsimonious response to funding a new Forth Bridge.

    Cooking and other stuff Jes 2009

  • He talked about the earliest air raids which came as the German planes swept up the river Forth trying to bomb the Forth Bridge.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Jes 2009

  • People talk about managing hedges, as if you had to be constantly working at them like the Forth Bridge.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Contrast this with the parsimonious response to funding a new Forth Bridge.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Jes 2009

  • People talk about managing hedges, as if you had to be constantly working at them like the Forth Bridge.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Of course, it's worth recalling that a fortune was spent on new Forth Bridge toll booths just before the tolls were abolished, but I think the infrastructure for that may have been left in place?

    In praise of David Maddox Jeff 2009

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