• We laugh in nervous staccato as the van fishtails on the gravel road.

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  • Then, from around a corner appeared an incongruous sight: wedged at the end of the gravel road was a gleaming new train station.

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  • You don't necessarily feel the magic right away as the gates to this exclusive Eden open onto a dusty gravel road.

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  • But in a few minutes he heard a car on the gravel road, looked down through the bubbled glass, and saw them.

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  • And all the while the bus rambles along the rough gravel road, the sense of community inside and our cheerful conversations a counterpoint to the echoing autumnal vastness of the tundra.

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  • Located 55km north of Graaff-Reinet along a gravel road through the Sneeuberg (Snow Mountains), the remote village of Nieu Bethesda has a spring-fed network of irrigation channels, giving it the appearance of a green oasis.

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  • Jim Conrad, a former New Hampshire State Police trooper who worked on the case, said Kathy was found in the woods not far from a small gravel road near a popular swimming hole in Franklin, New Hampshire.

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  • Microsoft started playing in 1998 when the Xbox division was set up in a skunkworks office away from the main Microsoft campus and across the road from a gravel pit at the end of the 520 freeway.

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  • Canaris was hurled off the road, into a gravel parking lot near the river.

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  • Some drivers even diverted from the carefully planned route to take gravel roads and a barely-cut road still under construction.

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  • Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete has promised that the section of the road through the Serengeti will be surfaced with gravel to minimize its impact on the reserve.

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  • Hirvonen and Loeb both slowed dramatically on the first day's final stage in order to avoid being the first cars on the road on Saturday, when they anticipated loose gravel on the surface would slow the leader relative to the chasing pack.

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  • After an hour, he left the wide state highway for a snaky blacktop road, and deep in the woods he made a left turn down a gravel lane that ran as straight as a railroad for ten miles.

    NEWYORKER: Idols

  • Coeur managers cut road exposure down to a 10-mile stretch by flying into and out of a desolate gravel landing strip, which they extended 700 feet and will soon pave.

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  • But Montagny then slid into a gravel trap at Mulsanne corner and, although he managed to restart the car after it was pushed into an exit road, the lost time ended their hopes.

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