But this may have to change as unemployment becomes a more permanent feature of the landscape.

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Ermine Farms Ltd said it was looking to improve the sustainability and long-term financial viability of its business and did not think proposal represented a prominent or visually intrusive feature on the landscape.

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She said the discussions revealed an enthusiasm among those involved for the predators to be a feature of the Scottish landscape.

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Flying in, the train line is the only feature on an empty orange landscape.

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The biggest new feature in the chaotically volcanic landscape of mobile handsets is of course the smartphone, with Android and iOS now defining the experience for hundreds of millions of users around the world.

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Admittedly, London's dwindling fleet of old-fashioned double-decker red Routemaster buses, like the black taxis and old red telephone boxes, are a distinctive and attractive feature of the city's landscape.

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Rivers, rapids and waterfalls are another natural feature of the nation's natural landscape that can be tapped as a source for hydro-electricity plants.

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Making his first narrative feature outside Iran, the writer-director Abbas Kiarostami embraces the sensuous beauties of the Tuscan landscape and the freedom to show a man and a woman openly flirting, quarrelling, and possibly going to bed together.

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An exciting feature of the iSP245 Mo'Beats Speaker Stand is its cradle design, which allows for either landscape or portrait viewing while accommodating most cases.

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