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  • Boris's smoking forum is closed for re-furbishment at the moment, but idlex has uncovered some interesting information on the smoking ban thats worth a read when its back online.

    Labour Blame Publicans For Failing Pubs Newmania 2008

  • It's been sitting, awaiting re-furbishment while the two governments have haggled over costs.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Dave 2008

  • * Northern Cape - work at 18 of the 40 schools targeted for re - furbishment has been completed and about 50 percent of the work is already completed in the remaining schools.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • Plans for 2010 include the replacement of over a mile's worth of plastic running rail and the re-furbishment of a number of the horsewalks that access the gallops.

    Your Local Guardian | Sutton 2009

  • Plans for 2010 include the replacement of over a mile's worth of plastic running rail and the re-furbishment of a number of the horsewalks that access the gallops.

    Your Local Guardian | Wimbledon 2009

  • I've only been a Member here for a week so if the question of the Beehive has been sorted then I stand corrected, it is also possible that it closed down for re-furbishment after I left and then re-opened as you stated '65.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • Reaching the main deck in due season, I found I had contrived to miss the Chief Gunner's lecture on the great guns, whereupon who so agitated and bitterly apologetic as my Midshipmite, who there and then ushered me hastily down more awkward stairs and through narrow openings into a place of glistening, gleaming polish and furbishment where, beside the shining breech of a monster gun, muscular arm negligently leaning thereon, stood a round-headed, broad-shouldered man, he the presiding genius of this (as I afterwards found) most sacred place.

    Great Britain at War Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • [bold] This is a positive must in the east-end, if you look at the easterhouse re-furbishment then it proves this can really work.

    unknown title 2009

  • [bold] This is a positive must in the east-end, if you look at the easterhouse re-furbishment then it proves this can really work.

    unknown title 2009

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