• Bearded men, squatting together in the pale afternoon sun, stare impassively as the FC goes by.

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  • The postcards showed the facades of churches, stone fountains, crowded piazzas, terra-cotta rooftops mellowed by late afternoon sun.

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  • In the Bolivian Andes, ice-blue glaciers crown amphitheatres of peaks, llamas graze quietly in the afternoon sun and the evening light fades into frigid mountain nights.

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  • Ninety minutes later we were back at Cristina's grandmother's restaurant looking out a window across the valley at Corvara, now bathed by the afternoon sun.

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  • Even in the afternoon sun though, a short walk can easily lead you into perennial mist forest and over the trickle of a mountain stream.

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  • We cooled off with a quick dip in the rock pool's icy waters and the blistering afternoon sun was quick to warm our shivering bodies when we emerged.

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  • Then, seemingly tired, she squints at the afternoon sun, hesitating before cracking her jaws in the yawning attitude of a passenger in a plane clearing her ears of accumulated air pressure.

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  • Board a green flag boat, ignoring those with orange, yellow or no flags, and try to get a seat on the right (starboard) side to avoid the glare of the afternoon sun.

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  • My lunch companion and I raised our glass to friendship, to France, even to hard work, and finally to the singular beauty of a crystal flute of Champagne glowing from afternoon sun that poured through the window.

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  • On the way to the Holiday Inn, which was the main gathering place for the international press corps during the siege, both sides of the street were crowded with families walking under a warm afternoon sun.

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  • The late-afternoon sun slanted across the room.

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  • But two muffed fly balls by Wilson in center field--this was long before night World Series games, meaning that late-afternoon sun could be a big factor--contributed to a furious A's rally that didn't let up until 10 runs had crossed the plate.

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  • But today, we are alone and as the late afternoon sun turns the dull brown mountains a richer, deeper shade of ochre it is time to head down and start the long drive back to Erbil and the complexities of modern Iraq.

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  • Denis's solidly constructed studies of clouds and hilly Italian landscapes washed in dusty light are irresistible, as are his "View on the Quirinal Hill, Rome" (1800) and "Fortified Wall, Italy" (c. 1786-1806), with their geometric architecture, bathed in afternoon sun, played against sky and foliage.

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  • On a recent afternoon the sun shone brightly on Blue Springs, a town in the state's north-east thick with scrub trees and kudzu vines.

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  • You can stay well past closing time for Sky Kitchen, which typically shuts down mid-afternoon before the sun comes down behind the mountains west of the airport.

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  • One late afternoon as the sun turned golden yellow and the Pastor fixed the roof of the shelter, a man walked up to us and stood beside me.

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  • Ethan Knecht, a 27 year old teacher who lives in Brooklyn, soaked up the sun Thursday afternoon while sipping a sugarless black cherry seltzer.

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  • At Sun Devil in Tempe the aluminum benches on the west side broiled in the sun all afternoon as temperatures hit 115 degrees Fahrenheit.

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  • Everton, keenly aware of the opportunity offered by Liverpool's defeat at Manchester City on Saturday, started brightly on a sun-lit afternoon.

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  • Duluth officials focused much of their time Saturday, a drizzly day with a bit of sun in the afternoon, along the soaked St.

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  • Reserve your afternoon for sightseeing, when the sun can become relentless on the beach anyway.

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  • Even as the sun came out Friday afternoon, the wind continued and was especially a factor on the 18th, playing dead into the breeze.

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  • On a sun-splashed Saturday afternoon at West Point, the Yankees revived an old tradition, traveling up the Hudson River to play Army, something they hadn't done since 1976.

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  • When I arrived late on a sun-drenched Friday afternoon in June, the place was a hub of inactivity: I met a foursome whose ambitions for the evening extended to gin-and-tonics taken in Adirondack chairs on the patio, and two other guests who were wrapping up a few hours of quiet fishing from the dock.

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  • Sun has scheduled a conference call for tomorrow afternoon, and investors expect company officials to issue a gloomy forecast for the next few quarters.

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  • After an afternoon of riding through prickly pear cacti in the strong Southwestern sun, your reward is a relaxing cowboy cookout during a lovely sunset.

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