Heavy rain fall over the past three days has affected many areas of north Wales and the River Clywedog is reported to be swollen.
This even goes for government debt, which you might have expected to benefit, given that the state's coffers stand to be swollen by all the tax money that Yukos and other big Russian oil companies will be forced to pay.
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Mozart's body was said to be so swollen in his dying days that he could not even turn over in bed.
Characteristically, the lesion may be very swollen, marked edema.
Also in Chapeltown, a 14-year-old boy had to be pulled from a swollen river in Chapeltown area of Sheffield.
The rise of big-box retailers, be they discounters or swollen supermarkets and drugstores, has given store chains the heft to bypass wholesalers.
In the last decades, competition for water has increased sharply as demands to satisfy the various needs of a growing population have swollen, while the resource appears to be scarcer in many areas.
For instance, in the past several years, scientists have come to understand that a particular gene signature--a pattern of genes that are turned on and off--can be a powerful contributor to the disease Lupus, which causes swollen joints, fevers and rashes.
In North Yorkshire, a canoeist, believed to be in his 30s, has died after he was pulled from the swollen Arkle Beck, near Reeth.
It seemed to be covered in brilliant white laundry but as it trundled past me I saw a grossly swollen head sticking out of the bed sheets.
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The nightmare prospect is that Turkey's farmers, about 45% of the nation, with no more state subsidies to keep them afloat, will flock to the cities, whose swollen shanty-towns are already a fertile breeding-ground for extremists, be they Islamists, Kurds or others.
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Catherine Nakielny of the Farmers' Union of Wales animal health and welfare committee chairman said farmers needed to be on the lookout for any unusually high animal abortion cases or congenital abnormalities - deformed lambs, swollen heads or weak lambs.
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