Restoration section leader Barbara Walford repairs old banners and alter pieces.

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With the renovations and repairs starting at Old Trafford and the arrival of Matt Busby as manager, the club began to excel.

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Afghan engineers are able to carry out repairs on their old American Humvees, but outside the workshop there are more than 100 idle vehicles, waiting for spare parts.

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We've got a couple of trillion dollars' worth of infrastructure repairs just on our old infrastructure, our existing infrastructure -- our roads, our bridges.

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Mr. Dawes started iBroke with an old Volvo, performing repairs at customers' businesses and homes.

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The 18-year-old did the running repairs himself with a paintbrush to change the offending McILrory on his otherwise impressive Great Britain and Ireland bag.

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Mr Blythin said the 130-year-old weir last underwent repairs in 1934.

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At the same time, much of our infrastructure, including our water infrastructure, is decades old and in need of costly repairs.

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The work involves screening off sections of the bridge before old paintwork is removed and any repairs carried out on the bare steel.

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In hopes that the new facility was imminent, repairs and other work at Futenma remained undone and many of its 50-year-old-plus facilities show their age.

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