In the UK, meanwhile, in addition to massive savings on the slimmed down military, the government had also found its coffers swollen by the proceeds of the North Sea oil boom.

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The summer sports jacket he wore, a grubby beige with swollen pockets, also looked too big for him, and hung loosely on his shoulders.

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The liquidators also claim that the payments justify their swollen pay packets.

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The programme also shows the early effects of pregnancy on the mother's body: painful, swollen breasts and nausea.

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Also in Chapeltown, a 14-year-old boy had to be pulled from a swollen river in Chapeltown area of Sheffield.

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It also was brutal at times, as evidenced by the cut on Alvarado's forehead and his swollen face.

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