If you keep your algae in ponds the rays do not always strike them at the best angle and the algae sometimes shade one another if they are growing densely.

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And lungworts (Pulmonaria), one of the first shade-loving perennials to return each spring, have white polka dots covering their spiky green leaves.

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As Dr Goldacre points out, if one drug is even a shade more effective than its competitors, then thousands of people prescribed the inferior ones are dying needlessly every year for want of a bit of simple research.

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With sixty sheep to one boy and all the tree shade he could want, my grandfather taught himself to read that first summer.

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Having sliced over the slips for four the ball before, Smith followed a wide one and Flintoff held on a shade akwardly at second slip.

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The One Million Trees initiative will help five coffee co-operatives grow shade trees to protect crops and establish tree nurseries.

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Bracken has played in 11 one-day internationals already and has proved economic, costing a shade over four runs an over.

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But other research suggests that seeing color can be something like tasting foods -- a pleasant flavor for one person may be too bitter or salty for another, just like a single shade of yellow could be seen as pretty or putrid by different people.

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In the shade under the Number 13 bus stop (the road is off-limits to vehicles on Sundays) one hears more Ilonggo, spoken on Panay island.

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