Fiordland's forests are predominantly made up of beech trees, whose tiny, regular leaves dot the canopy with small, delicate brushstrokes.

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Newark is one of the small cities that dot Ney's sprawling district, characterized by farms and coalmines.

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In place of the Android Menu button, a small three-dot icon appears in all apps and this opens the menu.

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The tourists come for the unpolluted beaches or to soak up rural life at one of the small resorts that dot the coastline.

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Thin streams of white smoke fall out of the clear sky onto pastoral farmland, where small fires then dot the landscape and create smoke that blankets the area.

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Most crops in the region are sown and harvested by hand, including the small plots that dot the gravity-challenging mountain sides, and farm machinery is a rare sight, with villagers using donkeys, oxen and bulls to plough the crops.

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Workers are more open to starting a small business in the dot-com era, Challenger said.

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During his two years of research, Kardashian followed the trail of milk from the small pastoral farms that dot the countryside around his Vermont home to the industrial dairy cattle plants of the Midwest, and 12, 000 years back in time to the dawn of dairy farming.

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But, at the same time, a company with web sales is likely to reach more customers, including the dot.com start-ups that would be too small to justify a sales call even if the salesman had heard of them.

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Silicon Valley continues to lay off workers by the small city's worth, while up in San Francisco the dot-coms have evaporated.

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