In our history it is clear that never have they come cheap and often they have come late, but always, in the end, they come in flood, and always in the end, the decision is ours.

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It goes from the Precursors to the Forerunners to the Covenant to the Flood, and by the end, you should have a bit of a clearer picture about the grand story of the series.

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By the second half of the year, the company expects storage end-market revenues to recover to pre-flood levels.

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His hand slips only toward the end, where the sense of melodrama, rising like a flood, brims over into the ludicrous.

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If it does, a flood of litigation could bring the vaccine renaissance to a swift end.

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An outline proposal for the extended flood defence scheme was due to be drawn up by the end of the year, Sheffield Chamber of Commerce confirmed.

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But Mr Flood says he thinks the tipping point will happen "at the back end of this year".

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They spawn at the end of the dry season, so that the coming floods can carry the fry to the flood-plain.

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Social media are adding to the flood: the number of messages on Twitter will exceed 500m per day by the end of 2012.

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Oxfordshire County Council's deputy leader Rodney Rose said although this emergency was coming to an end, the authority would not be collecting its stock of sandbags until it was sure the flood risk had reduced further.

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