• Further into this space, wide, bleached-wood steps lead to a flat platform level that can be topped with cushions and used as beds.

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  • It had urged all industrial countries to reduce their greenhouse gases by a flat 15% from their 1990 level by 2010.

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  • The school was built into a down-slope, so the recess yard in front of the school was a flat pad of concrete below street level.

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  • Fresh from constructing a sea-level canal through the flat Egyptian sand, de Lesseps was determined, without having set foot in Panama and after only the vaguest of topographical studies, that his project through the mountainous central American isthmus would also be a sea-level canal, requiring no locks to cope with changes in altitude.

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  • The flat-bottom boat balanced precariously just barely above water level, a skilled rower standing and pushing gondola-style from the back.

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  • The lower level is outfitted with a 50-inch flat-screen television, a wine fridge and a glass light-up bar.

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  • Sugar output during the 2013-14 marketing year will likely remain flat or fall only marginally from this year's level, thanks to improved output in Uttar Pradesh, the country's second-largest producing state, he said.

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  • It's a row of three seats that can be converted to a futon-like arrangement the armrests can be stowed and solid footrests can be pulled up to the level of the seat, to create a flat cushion that fills the row.

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  • Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude described the level of charity giving and volunteering as having "flat-lined" in the past decade.

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  • After recovering to the 3500 level by mid 2009, the SSE has been flat to trending downward, closing at 2808 on December 31, 2010.

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  • We folded the passenger seat completely flat (it will recline to an airplane sleeper-seat level of recumbence) and, after removing both bike tires (these fit neatly in the front trunk), we were able to gingerly pass an adult-size racing bike into the cockpit.

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  • In America this is close to its lowest level in 24 years but the housing market is still flat as a chapati.

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  • "When you get to the top of the wall there is a straight drop, a small flat bit and a slope bringing the ground back to the same level, " he said.

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  • Stocks like Caterpillar and Alcoa were mostly flat on the news, as the Dow moved up above its closing level yesterday, gaining 0.6% to 11, 968.

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  • Crude oil imports fell to their lowest level in almost two years in August, and consumption growth was flat on the year.

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  • Back home, they had to deal with an utterly flat landscape laced by rivers and canals much of it below sea level, reclaimed by dikes forever loomed over by dark gray clouds, damp mists, and rain or snow.

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  • The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations reported that their food price index averaged 232 points in April, flat from March and 2.6% below its all-time high February level of 237.2.

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  • Japan's Nikkei Stock Average traded nearly flat, ending down 0.1% at 8160.01, its lowest closing level in nearly 32 months.

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  • Warrington struck within five minutes of the restart to draw level, with former Great Britain centre Paul Johnson beating three defenders, including a flat-footed Jon Wilkin, for a fine solo try.

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  • "The level of housing transaction is well under half the level it was back in 2007 and 2008, so, really we have seen a flat-lining period, " McGrath said.

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  • Mr. Megna disputed this, saying that the level of state debt to be issued over the next five years is expected to remain essentially flat, and that the budget doesn't increase the state's debt load, with total debt as a percentage of personal income expected to decline to 4.6% from 5.5% over the next five years.

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