The long winters must be getting to the boys and girls in Espoo.

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In the long winters and cool summers wood would have grown slowly and evenly, creating a lot of stiffness.

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The Soviets supplied the equipment and the forests, in rough terrain where during the long winters the temperature dives far below zero.

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The long winters would drive me stark-raving mad.

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Stunted by wind, frozen earth and long winters, the forest has grown considerably slower than Astana itself.

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It was the only Aspen hotel to survive long pre-ski-resort winters, silver booms and busts, the Depression, and wars.

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Like Greece, Spain has been developed as a playground for northern Europeans who relieved their long winters and cloudy summers with cheap flights to the Costas, sun, booze and golf.

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The time when journalists dust down their old predictions about long, hot summers and winters of discontent.

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Bolstered by increasing soil moisture, longer growing seasons, warmer winters, and the fertilizing effects of more atmospheric carbon dioxide, crop production continues its long and impressive run of ever-increasing yields as global temperatures warm.

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In a TV interview I saw not long ago, Cheech Marin spoke about how he lived near Jonathan Winters and would always see him in the supermarket.

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