• The body of a man found in bushes at a car park at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary is believed to have lain there for two days.

    BBC: Edinburgh Royal Infirmary Pic: Lisa Summers

  • The origin of the road's regal name is said to stem back to a league of kings who advanced this way to wage war with the wicked Cities of the Plains -- the Old Testament cities of Sodom and Gomorrah -- which are thought to have lain along the Dead Sea.

    BBC: Travelling the slow route to Petra

  • Due to the length of time James Fenton's body had lain undetected, a post mortem examination was unable to establish how he died.

    BBC: Police disciplined over James Fenton investigation

  • No nurse had been in for hours, and the last to come in had lain down upon the clover-covered floor and giggled obtrusively until some thoughtful faerie had put an egg in her mouth to shut her up.

    NEWYORKER: A Tiny Feast

  • Thatcher's coffin had lain overnight at a chapel at the Palace of Westminster and was taken by hearse to the Church of St.

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  • Middlesbrough's Labour MP Andy McDonald said his mother had lain on a hospital trolley for five hours at the same hospital waiting for admission to a ward.

    BBC: James Cook Hospital

  • China's thirst for industry and irrigation has combined with climate change to drain the aquifers, some of which hold fossil water that has lain undisturbed for millennia.

    ECONOMIST: Bursting cities, bust infrastructure

  • But the challenge has always lain with the first half of Lincoln's phrase--that is, how to stoke that genius through a system that both rewards the inventor with a temporary business monopoly and protects the competition that lies at the heart of the free-market system.

    FORBES: The smother of invention

  • Finally, a new Slovak government will have to consider the country's constitution - especially the role of the presidency, which has lain vacant since March.

    BBC: News | Europe | Co-operation key to long-term success

  • In 1998, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory physicists Max Sherman and Lain Walker tested a variety of sealing materials on sheet metal ducting, then heated and cooled the ducts to simulate the aging process.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • As a child I had spent my evenings at home doing schoolwork, or trying to get a picture on the black and white TV, as a teenager I'd lain in my room fiddling with my yellow transistor radio, waiting for my favourite tunes.

    NPR: 'Ancestor Stones:' Life and War in Sierra Leone

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