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  • Oct. 1 – Flooding becomes full-blown crisis as water levels at key dams breaches capacity limits, forcing an accelerated release of water down-river toward central Thailand and Bangkok.

    Thailand Takes a Risk to Ease Flood Wilawan Watcharasakwet 2011

  • The tide is running with us and we make good speed down-river around the bend from Westminster and from there to the opposite shore of the river.

    Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011

  • The breaching of the levee in Missouri may end up adding to the dead zone "a small amount," he said, but the main cause is heavy spring rains this year, which have sent more nutrients down-river.

    Floods Raise Runoff Concerns Jeffrey Ball 2011

  • The tide is running with us and we make good speed down-river around the bend from Westminster and from there to the opposite shore of the river.

    Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011

  • By the time the sun set behind the cooling towers, the swarm had vanished, washed down-river.

    Country diary: Wenlock Edge 2011

  • The rules and regulations posted around the buildings make Mr. Dixon think of West Point, the military academy a few miles down-river.

    Two Years Before the Pans Moira Hodgson 2011

  • But the same current was now sweeping him past and on into the down-river wilderness.

    Chapter VIII 2010

  • The raft continued down-river for 15 minutes, before four more passengers said they felt unsafe and demanded the trip be halted.

    Turkish rafting guides still risking lives, says father of drowned schoolgirl Paul Lewis in Fethiye 2010

  • We later learned that the top floor of the bridge is actually a still-extant passage from one palace a few km down-river, to the major art museum, the Uffizi.

    Firenze surelars 2008

  • But only a few things are clear about our trip down-river - Thomson has left a pretty full account of it, if you're interested.

    Fiancée 2010

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