The plan was for a 12-foot-high concrete barrier stretching three miles.

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We watched one sitting on the high riverbank, stretching its legs and wandering along the curve of the river, before slumping down in a preferable place further along.

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That type of dynamic stretching such as high knee jogs, walking lunges can help move your muscles through different ranges of motions.

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He courageously pursues the instincts of his imagination, whatever the cost may be and in this case the cost is high, since a tale stretching over thirty years needs a fierce narrative push that he cannot really muster.

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Stretching 134 feet long and 55 feet high and weighing 52 tons, the scoreboard is the largest high-definition video display in the world, delivering crisp instant replays and ad messages plus game timing, player stats and, of course, animation to whip the home crowd into a frenzy.

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This is the longest glacier in the Himalayas, stretching around 25km from its beginnings on the high slopes of Cho Oyu.

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From a high vantage point, there are infinite views of treetops and thick bush stretching over deep valleys, intersected with sheer slabs of flat-topped, saffron-coloured cliffs fringed with green.

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At a meeting chaired by Russian President Putin, Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov and high-level railroad officials in early April, the construction of a railroad stretching from the banks of Russia's Lena River to the Bering Strait was discussed at length, adding further evidence that Moscow sees the BST project as not only feasible, but inevitable.

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