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Examples
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A congested liver can cause back-pressure and excess amounts of blood to pool in the abdominal and pelvic regions.
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The back-pressure is going to get me, sooner or later.
Tuesday roadkill report jhetley 2006
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“With back-pressure like that, several million, with that much more ahead.”
The Will Reed Arvin 2000
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From the looks of that back-pressure, we could be sitting on the biggest ‘undiscovered’ gas field in the Midwest.
The Will Reed Arvin 2000
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“With back-pressure like that, several million, with that much more ahead.”
The Will Reed Arvin 2000
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From the looks of that back-pressure, we could be sitting on the biggest ‘undiscovered’ gas field in the Midwest.
The Will Reed Arvin 2000
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A thermal power station in which all the steam generated in the boilers passes to turbo-generators for electricity generation, but designed so that steam may be extracted at points on the turbine and/or from the turbine exhaust as back-pressure steam and used to supply heat, typically for industrial processes or district heating.
Chapter 12 2000
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Cowley said new evidence suggested mercury vapour entered the breathing lines as a result of what he described as back-pressure from a reactor containing metallic mercury.
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The size of the nozzle determines the back-pressure on the seed.
Chapter 9 1995
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There are also ground conditions (high watertable) in which rotational operation would be destructive to a lined secondary, due to back-pressure on the lining.
Chapter 11 1995
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