Your basic "yard sale" is an emptying out of an overflowing garage or basement.

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"The town is emptying out, " a Timbuktu resident told Amnesty.

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Eastlands was emptying out by the time City launched a late rally, Adebayor almost latching on to a Silva pass and Fabianski tipping Boateng's drive over the bar.

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Apparently there was an air bubble somewhere in their fuel system that was turning this rather simple routine into an all-day affair of filling up and emptying out jerry cans.

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Caleta was drying up and emptying out until a coalition of Chilean environmental groups, Canadian researchers and international funding agencies decided to make use of the town's most valuable asset: Chamanchaca, a low-lying cloud that passes over the place almost every night.

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One time, my mother was emptying out a load of laundry into the washing machine, and she heard this strange noise and looked and saw that my father had taken the clarinet apart piece by piece and hid it in the dirty laundry.

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They pile the lobbying pressure on with warnings that incentives for investment need to keep coming, and under time pressure, if ageing equipment is to be used to squeeze more out of emptying reservoirs.

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