• Most people see them in flower arrangements, but here it's the size of a small palm tree.

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  • Clothed in sheepskin throws with bells around their waists and sporting distinctive hats embellished with sprigs of evergreen, two to more than thirty ringers swagger in groups behind a guide carrying a small evergreen tree.

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  • Morinda citrifolia is a small, hardy tree that grows in sandy areas along tropical coasts (French Polynesia and Hawaii).

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  • In 1940, Hutton arrived in Hollywood, then a relatively small orange-tree-scented town, and signed a contract with Paramount the following year.

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  • And one of the most telling questions came from a small business owner who runs a tree care firm.

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  • The theoretical component of the course included training in how to set up and run a small business, in this case tree nurseries.

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  • She sang the role of Jasmine in Disney's Aladdin and couldn't resist acquiring a small cache of merchandising (mugs, tree ornaments and the like) when the feature was released.

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  • He said the injuries were likely caused by Goldman flailing around while under attack, striking tree branches and stumps in the small, partly enclosed area where he died.

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  • Tree planting may appear to be a small gesture, but will actually improve the lives of thousands of Londoners.

    BBC: Johnson pledges 10,000 new trees

  • Anyone who saw a blue Vauxhall Vectra parked in a small lay-by across the road from Cherry Tree Cottage on Sunday, is also urged to come forward.

    BBC: East Ashling death: Victim named as Debbie Levey

  • People were also being asked to come forward if they saw a blue Vauxhall Vectra parked in a small lay-by across the road from Cherry Tree Cottage on Sunday.

    BBC: Selsey man held after East Ashling woman's body found

  • For many Turks, unease about the government began to boil over on Tuesday at a small sit-in protesting the destruction of the tree-lined Gezi park to make way for a redevelopment of an Ottoman barracks and shopping mall.

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  • Pollen particles are "so small, even if you're not sitting under a tree or anything, you're going to get large amounts of pollen that could be blown from miles away, " Mr. Robinson said.

    WSJ: Sniff, Sneeze, Blow, Wipe, Repeat

  • Henry stands and watches helplessly as the small fire he has birthed flows like brilliant liquid over the tree stump's ragged edges and into the dead grass and pine needles that carpet the barren slope from the water's edge to the lip of the woods.

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  • The highlight is the Haka Pei, in which male islanders (wearing only small loin cloths) toboggan down the Maunga Pui volcano on banana tree trunks.

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  • Dr Hume said the team had also found thousands of leaves, wood, pollen, tree and shrub seeds including the famous dodo tree (Tambalacoque), plus a large number of small land snails and insect parts.

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  • We lived in the second-floor flat of a small two-and-a-half-family house on a tree-lined street of frame wooden houses with redbrick stoops, each stoop topped with a gable roof and fronted by a tiny yard boxed in with a low-cut hedge.

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  • The residences at Sengokuyama occupy the bottom half of the 47-story building, giving residents a view of the 5-acre grounds, which include a garden specially designed to attract small indigenous birds such as woodpeckers and thrushes, as well as a tree-shaded plaza.

    WSJ: Pampered in Tokyo

  • Plants in this family, which include the rubber tree, castor oil plant and the cassava shrub, are typified by small blossoms, the researchers comment.

    BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Family found for gigantic flowers

  • Chairman William Isaac called the expanded insurance cap a "meaningless ornament on the tree, " in part because it's too limited to help many small businesses.

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  • This small forest enclave is also home to hundreds of plant species, some of which, like the kyami tree(ph), are facing extinction in the Caribbean.

    NPR: Fighting Gangs to Save a Port-au-Prince Forest

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