Restrictions which have long separated domestic and international calls have gone.

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He stood like that for a long time, separated from a live concert by two screens.

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East of the River Adur, the downs run in three long plateaux, separated by stream and river valleys.

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Moreover, most genes are split up into segments, known as exons, that are separated by long stretches of meaningless drivel.

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At the University of the Philippines, the psychology department has begun studying the social impact of having so many families separated for so long.

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As long as aircraft are imprecisely tracked over the ocean, as they are now, they need to be separated by up to 100 nautical miles.

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Among the long list of agreements made during the summit are expanded economic cooperation and a proposed exchange of video letters between families separated by the divided Korean peninsula.

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