The plan, Patton said, is to drill 15 holes in the pit, twinning holes already dug.

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And they routed their escape via holes they dug, using spoons, in the walls of their cells.

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Holes will be dug along the shoreline at Dalgety Bay to help find where the radioactivity is buried and the size of the problem.

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One-hundred-and-two holes have been dug so far and 1, 100 measurements have been made of ice thickness, snow density and other features - data deemed vital by scientists evaluating the future of the Arctic sea-ice.

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She got fresh air from some of the 27 air holes that rescuers had dug in the rubble.

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Waterholes and fence post holes need to be dug out, as do the foreign thorn bushes that can blind cheetahs.

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He said he had identified holes and road surface cracks mainly where service companies had dug up roads to fix or lay pipes and cabling.

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"Everything is going a little bit better than anticipated, " Laurence Golborne told CNN about the three holes -- dubbed Plan A, Plan B, and Plan C -- being dug in an effort to open a passageway to safety for the men.

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