Huge 80-metre-long turbine blades, made in a single span, for vast wind farms out at sea.

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Impressionists favor the clear light of midafternoon, and instead of focusing on panoramic views, they concentrate on the quality of natural light reflected on specific surfaces a single copse of trees, a short span of running river, a group of village houses and rooftops.

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Although for PE 2011 was lackluster overall, last year was a tale of two halves, with PE experiencing both boom and bust compressed into a single 12-month span.

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The team's work offers such a sharp picture of the past that it is possible to trace the histories even of individual communities, such as one in Essex whose inhabitants built, used and then abandoned an enclosure within the span of a single generation.

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The Barlow train shed with its single span roof, a marvellous feat of Victorian engineering, is being restored.

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Williams, Macrowikinomics, although until now, it has not been in a single space where you can see his wide span of ideas.

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But the right circumstances depend on what is happening in the lipid layers because, by itself, a single gramicidin channel is not long enough to span the membrane and thus let any sodium ions through.

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Limits the time span of records that may be included in a single integral file block for declassification purposes.

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